Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neosensory
What company intends to create new senses for the Umwelt using the principle of sensory substitution via a sonic vest? Neosensory See tags below for more.
From XRDS
ICDM 2015 Recap
This week I had the honor of attending and presenting at ICDM. The conference was hosted in Atlantic City, NJ, at Bally’s Hotel and Casino on the boardwalk. It was certainly an interesting choice for an academic conference venue…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Jagan Sankaranarayanan and Shashi Shekhar. Jagan is the Department Head of the Data Management Group at NEC Labs America, Cupertino, CA and Shashi is the McKnight Distinguished…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Believes Data Science will become Tailored, Automated.
More on the topic of automating data science. Utilizing cognitive and AI advisory functions that are intelligent. Agree, but there will continue to be need for more tailored and exploratory expertise. See tag below for many…
From Computational Complexity
A Silly String Theorem
First a note on a serious theorem: Babai has posted a video (mp4, 1h 40 m, 653MB) of his first talk on his Graph Isomorphism algorithm. I was giving a talk on the Kleene star operator (don't ask) and came across this cute little…
From insideHPC
Penguin Implements Emerson Network Power’s DC Power System
Today Penguin Computing announced that Emerson Network Power is supplying the uniquely-engineered DC power system for Penguin Computing’s Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) series. Emerson Network Power is the world’s leading provider…
From insideHPC
Dell Shows Strategic Focus on HPC at SC15
Today Dell unveiled sweeping advancements to its industry-leading high performance computing portfolio. These advances include innovative new systems designed to simplify mainstream adoption of HPC and data analytics in research…
From insideHPC
Inspur Unveils I9000 Blade System at SC15
Today Inspur Group announced the launch of the Inspur I9000 Blade System at SC15. The world's leading modular product in converged architecture can converge multiple computing solutions in a single chassis, including high-density…
From insideHPC
Society of HPC Professionals to Focus on Cybersecurity at December Conference
The Society of HPC Professionals will focus its 2015 Annual Technical Meeting on the applications of HPC technology to protect against cyberthreats. The one-day ‘HPC in Cybersecurity’ meeting will be held Wednesday, December …
From insideHPC
Financial Services and Low Latency with Intel Xeon Phi
"With high frequency trading becoming so important, the overall system performance, starting with the acquisition of the data from various markets through to the buy or sell decision relies on low latency between various parts…
From Schneier on Security
RFID-Shielded, Ultra-Strong Duffel Bags
They're for carrying cash through dangerous territory: SDR Traveller caters to people who, for one reason or another, need to haul huge amounts of cash money through dangerous territory. The bags are made from a super strong,…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding For More Than an Hour
Aman Yadav from Michigan State University made this great image from the popular meme. I love it because for me it is so very true. I code for fun these days. Oh sure a lot of what I code is for use in class as a demo or a prototype…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Based Trend App
In Datanami: An app for the holidays that tracks consumer trends. " ... The app seeks to create another consumer use case for the Watson cognitive technology platform that leverages natural language processing and machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulation and Liability of Cognitive Machines
" ... Our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series call this week, on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:30 am ET (7:30 am PT). Our presenter on Thursday is Erin Burke, Assistant Dean & Director of Pre-Law AdvisingFordham…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Technical History Online Promotes Understanding
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) now has an online history section. What I like about IEEE is that they often cover the intersection of computing and other technological progress. So many of can…
From Schneier on Security
Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption
That is, no encryption at all. The Intercept has the story: "Yet news emerging from Paris -- as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January -- suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applying IOT to Agriculture
In CWorld: Not a new thing. But the ability to integrate streams of real time data from agriculture is of interest. And integrating it with external weather data leverages it further.
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Reports Live from SC15
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their thoughts from SC15 in Austin. Henry is impressed by the increasing presence of FPGAs on the show floor. Dan is really impressed with Allinea Performance Reports profiling …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Data Streams
Good straightforward piece from the SAS Institute. You may have to register.Understanding Data Streams in IoTThe large array of connected devices, often referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), is delivering an array of…
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Debuts Omni-Path at SC15
In this video from SC15, Barry Davis from Intel describes the ecosystem for the newly launched Intel Omni-Path fabric and Scalable System Framework. "Intel OPA delivers the performance for tomorrow’s high performance computing…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases HDCA with 16 AMD FirePro S9170 GPUs at SC15
Today One Stop Systems showcased its High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) with AMD FirePro S9170 GPUs at SC15. The HDCA, with sixteen AMD FirePro S9170 GPUs, provides up to 84 Tflops of peak single precision and 512GB of GPU…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Can Draw
Short TED style talk on drawing. We experimented with using graphical recording methods for documentation. Here is another example how basic techniques can get you started. It takes only a little bit of practice.
From insideHPC
HPE Shows Momentum in HPC
Today at SC15, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that more than a third of the HPC market is leveraging HPE Compute platforms. Among the organizations using HPE solutions are The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Texas Advanced…
From Schneier on Security
Ads Surreptitiously Using Sound to Communicate Across Devices
This is creepy and disturbing: Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person's online behavior across a range of devices, including…
From insideHPC
E4 Ships ARM HPC Servers with Cavium ThunderX
Today Italy's E4 Computer Engineering announced public availability and deployment of Cavium ThunderX-based ARKA servers. Customers can place orders today for one-socket and two-socket ARKA platforms in multiple chassis configurations…
From insideHPC
PICA8 Drives High-Speed SDN AT SC15
Today Pica8 announced that the California Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and SURFnet will be demonstrating Pica8-powered Inventec 100G Ethernet solutions at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas.
The post PICA8…From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Looks to Cavium ThunderX for ARM HPC Servers
Today Penguin Computing announced first customer shipments of its Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) server based on Cavium’s 48 core ARMv8 based ThunderX workload optimized processors. Tundra ES Valkre servers are now available for public…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creative Coding Through Games and Apps
I've been looking into this lately. It looks like an interesting first course for a lot of schools.
Creative Coding Through Games and Apps is a first-semester course to introduce programming in the early secondary grades. …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Contests for Computer Science Students and Grants for Teachers
Earth | Microsoft Imagine Cup https://www.imaginecup.com/Earth via @MSFTimagine An Imagine Cup coding competition for students between 6 and 18 years old from Microsoft. Do you know students who are interested in creating ancongressionalappchallenge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Parent Purchases from Behavior
In Retailwire: EBay predicts parents' purchases EBay Advertising U.K. has launched a predictive targeting tool for identifying and segmenting "parent" shoppers. The launch is part of a larger push to use online behavior toLeveraging…