Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2008
From The Eponymous Pickle
UPS Remarks on Supply Chains
Global Supply Chains are not ready for challenging times. Many large companies have models of their supply chains. You would assume that it is just a matter of plugging in new numbers to recompute their plans. In general though…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking for Too Much Information
It is not only about privacy, it seems that consumes are making some interesting, even logical choices about risk and economics. In ECommerce Times:" ... According to a recent survey from Jupiter Research, sharing personal information…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Business Intelligence Terms
In the BeyeNetwork Colin White looks at the various implications of the business intelligence terms: Data, Analysis and Visualization. He covers a number of variant views depending on the perspective of the writer. He uses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Views of Business Intelligence
Continuing my review of alternative views of Business Intelligence, an article by Dave Wells: The Changing Face of Business Intelligence. " ... industry has strayed from its original vision and how it is now changing to recover…
From insideHPC
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Lab’s latest Cray supercomputer installation was recently completed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Tree Rings
Junk Charts shows a particularly bizarre misuse of data visualization design by Starbucks. Seems the visual designers would not use something as simple as a bar or line chart. Keep it simple remains the best advice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Desktop
In Tech Review:People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But enabling computers to grasp these same concepts has been the subject…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My (short) activity report for 2008
I heard on radio today that the Christmas break should be used to review the past year, and decide where you want to go. Good idea! What did I do?
I published the Lemur Bitmap Index C++ Library.
I published lbimproved, a C…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My low-tech research tools
I carry a pocketbook and a pen everywhere. At night, my pocketbook is by my bed. All creative workers should carry notebooks. Organizing and collecting ideas are different tasks. My pocketbook is strictly for collection. Every…
From insideHPC
Merry
John, Michael, all the gang at Tabor, and I want to thank you for the tremendous reception you’ve given us this year. Your comments, emails, and hearty hello’s at SC mean so much to us. In a very real way, your interactions with…
From insideHPC
Cilk++ Goes
Ilya Mirman posted an interesting note on the CilkArts blog this morning.
From insideHPC
Sun revs shared visualization
From Sun’s HPC Watercooler: Sun’s Shared Visualization software lets organizations share centralized compute and graphics resources. Applications can run in the machine room on a shared server with graphics acceleration, but…
From insideHPC
Multicoreinfo.com posts its
Multicoreinfo.com posts its 10 best posts of 2008 We started MulticoreInfo.com at the end of April 2008 and published more than 1350 posts linking to useful resources of multicore related information. Among those, we believe…
From insideHPC
Waiting for the bat signal: the economy and the future of
Doug Eadline posted the results of his Linux Magazine poll, “How has the recent economic events effected your HPC budget plans for 2009?” on the 16th, but somehow I didn’t see it until now. Here is what he found (out of 42 votes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft's Meal Planning Tool
Have downloaded and played with Kraft's Mobile Food Assistant application. Delivers some seven thousand recipes, a smart shopping list and recipe box. A bit slow and unstable so far, but I expect it to evolve. Nice if youMore…
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 23
OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptopsWell, will be soon. Interesting development though, and a sound one for Netbooks (assuming that's what this is about) where fundamentally people don't care what the OS is as long as it's stable…
From insideHPC
As HPC
I’m curious to know what mechanisms you use for professional development as HPC’ers. Which conferences are especially useful? Do you belong to a professional society that is helpful in your career (ACM, IEEE Computer, etc), either…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antikythera Mechanism Modeled
I was introduced to this archaeological puzzle as an undergraduate. Now its model has led to more mysteries.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where do presidents and prime ministers go to school?
In his most recent essay, After the credentials, Paul Graham tells us that in South Korea where “college entrance exams determine 70 to 80 percent of a person’s future.” Fortunately, the Americans know better: “Where you go…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decrease in Comparison Site Visits
StorefrontBackTalk reports that there has been a sharp decrease in price comparison site visits, despite the economy. The post and comment show how complex the overall system is and how problematical gathering these numbers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LibraryThing Runs a uClassify Contest
Always interesting LibraryThing is running a contest using free online uClassify to classify text. I mentioned uClassify a short time ago and used it to classify my blog posts.
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 22
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Business Intelligence Tools
CW reports that Forrester has released a report that managers believe they have too many BI tools in house. Although I have not read the full report yet, I agree with the basic claim. In my own experience, where I was heavily…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Women at the Brazil National Database Conference
Another small
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science Certification
We can all agree that it is essential that computer science teachers have adequate preparation and professional development to teach computer science successfully. We can probably also agree that there is currently a crisis in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Bike Parking in Japan
An interesting 'robotic' bike parking system in Tokyo. I agree with one of the commenters on traveling in Tokyo, I rarely had a perspective of where I was in the city, traveling mainly in the underground or in a taxi. Why so…
From insideHPC
Computing research challenges for the 21st
Peter Lee and Ed Lazowska posted at the CCC’s blog last week on an initiative they have going to collect short idea pieces on the future of computing research from the industry’s best and brightest Well, the response has been…
From insideHPC
HPCwire: Top 10 hits and misses in
One of the things I learned during the time that I was blogging for InfoWorld was that web readers love lists. I just wasn’t very good at writing them. But HPCwire’s Michael Feldman is, and he has a list of the top 10 hits and…
From insideHPC
900 million processor-hours awarded in 2009 DOE INCITE
Last week the United States Department of Energy announced their sixth annual round of large HPC allocation awards
From insideHPC
U of Houston Installs New Sun
The University of Houston Research Computing Center [RCC] in collaboration with the Texas Learning and Computation Center [TLC2] recently purchased and installed a new cluster decorated with Sun logos.