Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2016
From insideHPC
Computational Biologist Klaus Schulten passes away
Klaus Schulten, professor of physics and Beckman Institute faculty member for nearly 25 years, has died after an illness. Klaus Schulten was a frequent speaker at the SC conference series as well GTC and many others. "I enjoyed…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New Program to Support Institutes for Theoretical Foundations of Data Science
The following is a guest blog post by Tracy Kimbrel, Program Director, in Computing and Communication Foundations and Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate…
From insideHPC
Interview: John Gustafson on Technology Disruption and the StartupHPC Workshop
John Gustafson from A*Star will keynote the third annual StartupHPC Workshop on Nov 14 in Salt Lake City with a talk on Technology Disruption. Known to many in the HPC community as the father of Gustafson’s Law, John Gustafson…
From insideHPC
SGI Awarded $27M Systems Contract with ARL
Today, SGI announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has selected SGI ICE XA for two of its Army Research Laboratory Defense Supercomputing Resource Center systems. The upgrades are part of a technology insertion…
From BLOG@CACM
Is Academia Guilty of Intellectual Colonization of Practice?
Researchers should not treat practitioners as mere objects of their studies or simple sources of data, but work towards creating research partnerships with practitioners.
From insideHPC
Cray CS6400 Supercomputer Coming to Baylor University
Today Cray announced that Baylor University has selected a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer, further demonstrating its commitment to transformative research. The Cray system will serve as the primary high performance computing…
From insideHPC
DDN to Demonstrate Latest HPC Technology at SC16
Today DDN announced plans to showcase innovations in HPC leadership at SC16 in Salt Lake City. DDN will feature and demonstrate new advancements in flash for HPC, Lustre* parallel file system performance and security, and open…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Good, Non technical piece in the CACM. By Sarah Underwood
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 59 No. 11, Pages 15-17
" ... Blockchain Technology has attracted attention as the basis of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but its capabilities…
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Completes Acquisition of SGI
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it has completed its acquisition of SGI, a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, for $7.75 per share in cash. “This deal combines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Analytics to Core Business Model
Well done, having followed this the beginning of the career, I agree. We tried to make it in to a 'competency', but it always seemed that too few people wanted to engage with the training. Better deal with it terms of 'decision…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Measuring Pen
Once had a job where I had to do lots of measurements, and this would have been great. Still in progress.
Smart pen measures the dimensions of virtually any object
The Instrumments 01 sends depth, height and length right to your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Rating Everyone
A plan to organize Chinese society by rating everyone. In the CACM: " ... Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More G Suite
Note also the integration with Slack. Putting together workplace capabilities. Thinking lists. Competing with Microsoft
Google is turning spreadsheets, documents and presentations into to-do lists
Action Items help remind people…
From insideHPC
Fuel Your Insight with Intel Multiple SC16 Engagement Opportunities
SC16 is just around the corner and there so much to explore. On suggestion is to visit with Intel learn how you can power your breakthrough innovations and discoveries with Intel Scalable System Framework. Read on for a list
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From Putting People First
New report on service design impact in public sector
In this free report (pdf, 109 pages), the Service Design Network – in collaboration with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency – has identified five different areas in the public sector that are relevant for service design: policy…
From Schneier on Security
Card Game Based on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Interesting....
From Mostafa Dehghani
Poison Pills and Antidots: Inoculating Relevance Feedback
"Poison Pills and Antidots: Inoculating Relevance Feedback", an article published in Amsterdam Science Magazine as one of the cool contributions of our CIKM2016 paper. We also have a extended abstract describing this part, accepted…