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 The Eponymous Pickle
Sports Analytics not Always a Slam Dunk
In our Columbia course we have been using sports analytics as a disruptive example of the analytics technology. Movies like 'Moneyball' imply it is fail safe, but of course it is not. For my students and further reference to…
From insideHPC
Top 10 Things to Love About HPC and the SC Conference
"We go to the show for the technology, the engineering, the science, and the math. It’s HPCMatters and STEM. The vendors are showcasing their technology and the science their technology has enabled. The research exhibits are
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From insideHPC
Fireside Chat: Dr. Eng Lim Goh on New Trends in HPC Energy Efficiency & Deep Learning
In this video from SC16, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE/SGI discusses new trends in HPC Energy Efficiency and Deep Learning. "SGI's leadership in data analytics derives from deep expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) and over…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Data Warehousing
This came up in a recent course I gave. What are the implications of better and more intelligent data availability? Better process decisions based on data. In DSC. " ... To Thrive in the Age of the Customers – Businesses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Disrupting Enterprises and the C-Suite
Why is clear, but how and the implications are still unclear. What are the all the dimensions of disruption. What will the clearest use cases be? Likely increasingly valuable and engaging assistants.
AI, Cognitive Computing
IDC…
From updated sporadically at best
A Post-Election Email Exchange on Academia and Politics
Since Tuesday, I've been thinking about what we could be doing better--in terms of encouraging civil participation, in terms of satisfying the needs of the people who did participate in the last election. I don't yet have fully…
From Putting People First
The time of user empathy
Forbes Product Member, Alec Pomnichowski, describes the parallels between architecture and product development thinking. He asks product-types to be considerate and thoughtful about the ways in which users experience products…
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing Rolls Out New Reporting & Analytics Tool
"Adaptive Computing is driving up our customers’ productivity by helping them gain true insight into how their resources are being used, how to handle future capacity planning, and the service levels they are delivering to their…
From insideHPC
Podcast: How Cycle Computing is Riding the Wave of HPC in the Cloud
In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing provides an update on the world of HPC in the Cloud. After that, he describes how the company is augmenting its software capabilities so that more users can take advantage of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Shelf Analytics
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Aberdeen Study: The Power of Real-Time Analytics on the Shelves
This study, produced by Aberdeen Group, highlights the impact of real-time analytics. See why top performing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Advertising
An area we looked at when it seemed like virtual worlds would become common. Augmentation can have an ad floating in front of us wherever we are. In AdAge:
Virtual Advertising: Uncharted Legal Waters By Jim Gatto.
As augmented…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 3D-Printed Underwater Autonomous "Squid"
Pretty neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Phys.org Technology News
Computer outage briefly grounds flights on several airlines
Airlines are dealing with another computer outage that is disrupting flight schedules heading into the weekend.
From insideHPC
Five Reasons Why you Want to Try OpenACC Starting with “Its Free!”
OpenACC is a directive based programming model that gives C/C++ and Fortran programmers the ability to write parallel programs simply by augmenting their code with pragmas. Pragmas are advisory messages that expose optimization…
From Phys.org Technology News
$12.9B, 4.5 acres: Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier
The Navy refers to its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, as "4.5 acres of sovereign U.S. territory." The $12.9 billion warship—the first of the Navy's next generation of aircraft carriers—is in the final stages…
From Schneier on Security
Automatically Identifying Government Secrets
Interesting research: "Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets," by Renato Rocha Souza, Flavio Codeco Coelho, Rohan Shah, and Matthew Connelly. Abstract: Whether officials can be trusted to protect national security…
From insideHPC
Tencent Cloud Breaks World Record for Data Sorting with IBM & Mellanox
"Real-time-analytics and Big Data environments are extremely demanding and the network is critical in linking together the extra high performance IBM POWER based servers and Tencent Cloud’s massive amounts of data,”said Amir
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking About Cooperation
What the implications between people, machines, assistants? Can we include a cooperative ethic inside an assistant?
The Cost of Cooperating
A Conversation With David Rand ...
Why is it that we care about other people? Why do
DAVID…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Update – November 2016
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Computer Security – ACM Europe Policy Committee members attended the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Vienna, Austria on October 24-28. Algorithms – The ACM U.S. Public…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Everywhere
In DSC: More on the proliferation of open source and nearly free advanced machine learning technologies.
From insideHPC
Offloading vs. Onloading: The Case of CPU Utilization
One of the primary conversations these days in the field of networking is whether it is better to onload network functions onto the CPU or better to offload these functions to the interconnect hardware. "Onloading interconnect…
From insideHPC
DK Panda Team Launches High-Performance Deep Learning Project
Deep learning is one of the hottest topics at SC16. Now, DK Panda and his team at Ohio State University have announced an exciting new High-Performance Deep Learning project that aims to bring HPC technologies to the DL field…
From insideHPC
BSC Releases COMPSs Version 2.0 at SC16
This version of COMPSs, available from today, updates the result of the team’s work in the last years on the provision of a set of tools that helps developers to program and execute their applications efficiently on distributed…
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Reinvents Itself with a Focus on Lustre Users
Today OpenSFS, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of the Lustre file system, announced organizational changes to give its users—the researchers and scientists who use Lustre every day—more of a say in how OpenSFS…
From insideHPC
Appentra Solutions will be part of SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase
Today Appentra Solutions announced that the company will participate in the Emerging Technologies Showcase at SC16. As an HPC startup, Appentra was selected for its Parallware technology, an LLVM-based software technology that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Look at Google Home Assistant
As part of my long running look at virtual assistants, started to look at Google Home, in comparison to Amazon Echo for smart home applications. Compared to my nearly two year to date view of the Echo.
Excerpt of my notes:
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Standards and Organizations
An examination of and links to standards and related IOT groups. Many I have not seen. Via IOT Central, a good group to join.
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Announces $48 Million to Establish Four Exascale Co-Design Centers
Today the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced that it has selected four co-design centers as part of a 4 year, $48 million funding award. The first year is funded at $12 million, and is to
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From Schneier on Security
Fooling Facial Recognition Systems
This is some interesting research. You can fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses printed with elements of other peoples' faces. Mahmood Sharif, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Michael K. Reiter, "Accessorize to…
From Putting People First
The cognitive psychologist’s view of UX design
Psychologist and cognitive scientist Dr. Susan Weinschenk explains how her science informs UX design. Weinschenk takes research and knowledge about the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation and extrapolates ten UX …