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 Phys.org Technology News
Obama administration gives specifications for smart gun tech
The Obama administration is announcing baseline specifications for smart-gun technology.
From insideHPC
Video: Announcing the New Intel® HPC Orchestrator Software
In this video from SC16, Figen Ulgen from Intel and Maurizio Davini from the IT Center University of Pisa describe the newly announced Intel® HPC Orchestrator software. "With Intel® HPC Orchestrator, based on the OpenHPC system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification as Tactic
Has started to come up more often as a tactic to deliver results. A long followed approach. Make sure you have the values and the culture of the participants right. In Retailwire:
Gamification reaches the next level
by Guest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Extraction
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others,
This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series tomorrow, Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT). Our presenter is Laura Chiticariu…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its Not Always About Quick Wins
It used to be an old saying that you should look for quick wins, so that the analytics team could establish itself. Yes, not a bad idea, but better yet look for wins along the way to consistent value, and creating an organization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Process for Analytics Modeling
I Posted in the Wiki for my Columbia Class:
Business Process Modeling ... Franz Dill
I have often mentioned business process modeling (BPM) in my case study comments. It is often useful to understand how the business works. .
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From Mostafa Dehghani
Telling how to narrow it down: Effect of Browsing Path Recommendation on Exploratory Search
Our paper "Telling how to narrow it down: Effect of Browsing Path Recommendation on Exploratory Search", with Glorianna Jagfeld, Hosein Azarbonyad, Alex Olieman, Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, has been accepted as a short paper at…
From insideHPC
RAID Inc. & SwiftStack Deliver HPC Object Storage at Scale
Today RAID Inc announced a strategic go to market partnership with SwiftStack, the leader in object storage for the enterprise. This officially ratified partnership augments the RAID Inc. portfolio of technical computing and
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From insideHPC
Video: Seagate Launches ClusterStor 300N Platform at SC16
"Maximizing value of data in the kinds of extraordinary environments represented by supercomputing is all about being able to handle extreme, unpredictable storage bandwidth and capacity needs at scale,” said Ken Claffey, vice…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hello Cloud 2017
I’m telling my students about this. Looks like it will be educational even if money is not enough of an incentive.
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Cloud…From insideHPC
IDC Announces HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
The HPC Innovation Excellence Award recognizes noteworthy achievements by users of high performance computing technologies. The program's main goals are to showcase return on investment (ROI) and scientific success stories involving…
From insideHPC
K-Computer Leads Graph 500 List of World’s Fastest Supercomputers
The K-Computer in Japan continues to top the Graph 500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The latest list was released today at SC16 in Salt Lake City. "The Graph 500 measures performance against three kernels: search…
From Schneier on Security
Mass Spectrometry for Surveillance
Yet another way to collect personal data on people without their knowledge or consent: "Lifestyle chemistries from phones for individual profiling": Abstract: Imagine a scenario where personal belongings such as pens, keys, phones…
From insideHPC
Machine Learning and HPC Converge at NERSC
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Prabhat from NERSC describes how high performance computing techniques are being used to scale Machine Learning to over 100,000 compute cores. "Using TB-sized datasets from…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Advances in Cloud, Software and Systems at SC16
Today Dell EMC announced new HPC cloud offerings, software, systems and customer success, continuing its focus on democratizing HPC for enterprises of all sizes, optimizing HPC technology innovations and advancing the HPC community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What AI can and Cannot Do Today
Useful thoughts by a practitioner. Which gets you back to the term AI again. It is still a considerable overreach. Augmenting, improving, extending, replacing and assisting our work is still the best view today. Which is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Lorrie Cranor
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 10:00AM ET by Dr. Lorrie Cranor titled…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On metadata
I remember a time, before the Web, when you would look for relevant academic papers by reading large books with tiny fonts that would list all relevant work in a given area published in a given year. Of course, you could have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Gives birth to Yumi?
At Indiegogo: Unclear how much different this is than the Echo, or Google Home Except that it includes embedded screen and camera and video calling. This allows applications like surveillance and video calling. shows how people…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Smart and Autonomous Systems Program
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Smart and Autonomous Systems (S&AS) program focuses on Intelligent Physical Systems (IPS) that are cognizant, taskable, reflective, ethical, and knowledge-rich. The full proposal deadline…
From Putting People First
[Book] Sensemaking
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Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg Hachette Books March 2017, 256 pages Inspired by his work with companies like Ford and Coca-Cola, Madsbjerg’s Sensemaking is a provocative…
From Putting People First
Free “Guide to Service Blueprinting” by Adaptive Path/Capital One Design
A Guide to Service Blueprinting Nick Remis and the Adaptive Path Team at Capital One Adaptive Path November 2016, 52 pages As the focus of customer experience becomes more important, having a good picture of how your service
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From insideHPC
HPCG Performance List Released at SC16
"This is the sixth list produced for the emerging benchmark designed to complement the traditional High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark used as the official metric for ranking the TOP500 systems. The first HPCG list was
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From The Eponymous Pickle
A Learning Analytical Organization
I wrote for my Columbia Course:
A Learning organization is one of the fundamental lessons of this course. Our world is changing quickly, so our methods and implementations must adapt. Business focus, competition, business process…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Can Chatbots Replace Customer Service Reps?
Chatbots may be good at cosumer-focused tasks, but the verdict is still out are not whether a chatbot can completely replace human assistants.
The post Can Chatbots Replace Customer Service Reps? appeared first on BLOG@UBIQUITY…From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Showcases HPC Liquid Cooling at SC16
"We have assembled a comprehensive display of technology and OEM solutions to address all liquid cooling requirements in the global HPC market,” said CoolIT Systems CEO and CTO Geoff Lyon. “Our partnership with STULZ provides…
From insideHPC
BeeGFS Updates with built-in Metadata High-Availability
Today ThinkParQ announced the immediate availability of BeeGFS version 6.0. As the first release in a new versioning scheme, release 6.0 is the direct successor of the 2015.03 release series, which was in fact the 5th BeeGFS
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From insideHPC
Watch the Tuesday Livestream from Nvidia Booth at SC16
Couldn't make it SC16? Tune in right here on insideHPC to watch all the Nvidia Theater talks this week. "Come join NVIDIA at SC16 to learn how AI supercomputing is breaking open a world of limitless possibilities. This is an
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From Schneier on Security
Election Security
It's over. The voting went smoothly. As of the time of writing, there are no serious fraud allegations, nor credible evidence that anyone hacked the voting rolls or voting machines. And most important, the results are not in…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Introduces a New Line of GPU Accelerated Servers for Deep Learning at SC16
Today One Stop Systems announced two new deep learning appliances that leverage the NVIDIA NVLink. One Stop Systems’ deep learning appliances are designed for augmented performance in machine learning and deep learning applications…