Communications of the ACM
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December 2015
From Putting People First
Public Service Design guide
Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor), Alain Denis, Koen Peters, Kristel Van Ael and Helga Willems Published…
From Putting People First
Public Service Design guide
Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor), Alain Denis, Koen Peters, Kristel Van Ael and Helga Willems Published…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Predictive Analytics
Kroger and predictive merchandising. Kroger's Improved Analytic Capabilities Powers Merchandising Decisions ...." ... One key area where the in-house analytics team is being leveraged is in analyzing consumer behavior and predicting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Technology for Services
Some innovative wearable technology examples for customer service. " .... The capabilities of wearables are just beginning to emerge for retail, enterprise, and consumers. While their sales are not expected to compete with…
From Schneier on Security
Terrifying Technologies
I've written about the difference between risk perception and risk reality. I thought about that when reading this list of Americans' top technology fears: Cyberterrorism Corporate tracking of personal information Government…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google says D-Wave Works
Recall the controversial claims of D-Wave in doing quantum computing for NASA and Google. Also, that we had a minor interaction with them regarding test problems. Now is the tide turning in their direction? ' ... “We found that…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the CCC needs truly visionary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Unstructured Data
A look at the value of unstructured data. Worth a read. Text is structured because cognitive beings created it. But has structure that is driven by a number of influencing factors, that should have useful value. Good read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Destiny is Mobile
In K@W:" ... The rise of mobile is accelerating faster than ever imagined. In many places in the world it is the only option to access the web. One big result is a leveling of the playing field for brand-advertisers large and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS Education Week 2015 is in Full Swing!
Happy Birthday, Grace Hopper! Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week), the annual program designed to engage students of all ages in computer science is here! Each year we recognize CS Ed Week around the birthday of U.S.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Assistants Helping with Business Strategy
Via Jim Spohrer:How might cognitive assistants help with business strategy?" .... Dario Gil is a leading technologist and executive at IBM Research. As Director of Symbiotic Cognitive Systems, he leads a strategy focused on the…
From insideHPC
Video: Diving into Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework Plans
"In July, Intel announced plans for the HPC Scalable System Framework - a design foundation enabling wide range of highly workload-optimized solutions. This talk will delve into aspects of the framework and highlight the relationship…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s Exporter of the Year
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company has been named 2015 Exporter of the Year by the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group (JWE) in Calgary.
The post CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s…From insideHPC
Dell Panel on the Convergence of HPC, Big Data, and Cloud
"Modeling and simulation have been the primary usage of high performance computing (HPC). But the world is changing. We now see the need for rapid, accurate insights from large amounts of data. To accomplish this, HPC technology…
From insideHPC
PSC’s Bridges Supercomputer Brings HPC to a New Class of Users
The democratization of HPC got a major boost last year with the announcement of an NSF award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The $9.65 million grant for the development of Bridges, a new supercomputer designed to serve…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Showcases Switch-IB 2 on the Road to Exascale at SC15
In this video from SC15, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes the company's new Switch-IB 2, the new generation of its InfiniBand switch optimized for High-Performance Computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers, capable…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Technology Changed How I Read
This week I have been reading an old-fashioned paper book. (The Martian – outstanding read) For the last two years most of my reading has been on my Kindle. I love my Kindle. I didn’t realize quite how much it changed things …
From XRDS
Comments about The 16th International Conference Interacción 2015
On sept 22, 2015, the Interaccion 2015 International Conference of HCI came to the Universitat Politecnica of Catalonia on Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona, Spain). Overview More than 150 professionals, researchers and students…
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manage Integrates with Dell PowerEdge Servers for HPC Environments
Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software, version 7.1, is now integrated with Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration enables systems administrators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of the Buy Button
In Adage: Increased use of the 'buy button'. Impulse like buying online ... " ... While Smaller Retailers Jump on New Tech, Bigger Players Take Wait-and-See Approach ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical Significance at Play
In Insight@Kellogg. What would the frequentists say then, Kenneth? .... Blinded by Statistical Significance ... Putting too much stock in an arbitrary threshold may lead to bad decisions. ... Based on the research of Blakeley…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering AI Breakthroughs
Bloomberg on a breakthrough year in AI. Good description, though considerable value was produced during the last wave. And it remains to be seen how well this wave will ultimately pay out to great generated expectations.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2015 ACM Fellows Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has released their annual list of ACM Fellows. The 2015 ACM Fellows list recognizes 42 ACM members for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
DHS Invites Nominations for Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is accepting nominations for the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Appointees will serve a three-year term and are not compensated. DHS anticipates appointing 17 people…
From insideHPC
Video: SDVis Overview & OpenSWR – A Scalable High Performance Software Rasterizer for SCIVIS
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Jim Jeffers from Intel presents an SDVis Overview. After that, Bruce Cherniak from Intel presents: OpenSWR: Fast SW Rendering within MESA. "This session has two …
From insideHPC
Virtual HPC Clusters Power Cancer Research at eMedLab
A partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions called eMedLab is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system to support the efforts of hundreds of researchers studying cancers…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 7
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 House Floor: H.R. 3578, DHS Science and Technology Reform and Improvement Act of 2015 The bill would strengthen the role of the Directorate of Science and Technology, establish a new Fellows Program,…
From insideHPC
GCS Awards 1358 Million Computing Core Hours to Research Projects
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Germany announced awards from the 14th Call for Large-Scale Projects. GCS says it achieved new All-Time Highs in various categories with 1358 million awarded core hours of compute …
From insideHPC
DDN Steps Up with All-New HPC Storage Systems at SC15
"At SC15, DDN announced the new DDN SFA14K and SFA14KE high performance hybrid storage platforms. As the new flagship product in DDN’s most established product line, the DDN SFA14K provides customers with a simple route to take…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Information Cartography
In the CACM: 'Metro maps' of information and its use in narratives. Video. A means to understand use architectures? Fascinating, but I need to see it with real examples." .... Several methods have sought to summarize andWe…