Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2015
From insideHPC
Four Reasons that Software Development is in the HPC Driving Seat for 2016
Sponsored Post Hardware and the Top 500 ranking always grabs effort and headlines in HPC, but for a sometimes pyrrhic victory of raw power over utility. It has often been at the expense of training, tools and code development…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
PBS KIDS ScratchJr.
Scratch Jr and PBS are both well known entities in education for younger children. It’s probably not surprising that the two have partnered up . Just in time for CS Education Week PBS announced its first coding app called PBS…
From Schneier on Security
How Israel Regulates Encryption
Interesting essay about how Israel regulates encryption: ...the Israeli encryption control mechanisms operate without directly legislating any form of encryption-key depositories, built-in back or front door access points, or…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Why it Pays to Upgrade Your Home Network
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it pays to upgrade your home networking gear.
The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Why it Pays to Upgrade Your Home Network appeared first on insideHPC.
From Writing
Shit Google Voice Says
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called Shit Recruiters Say, where I shared some of the funniest and most ridiculous recruiter messages I had seen. Today, I’m going to share another collection of funny and ridiculous messages…
From Writing
Shit Google Voice Says
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called Shit Recruiters Say, where I shared some of the funniest and most ridiculous recruiter messages I had seen. Today, I’m going to share another collection of funny and ridiculous messages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining the Wikipedia for Influential World Universities
In Technology Review: Interesting way to look at existing data. An alternative approach to ranking. The subject attracts, how accurate depends on the goal of the method.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Gamble and Value
Good overview ... Fundamental idea is good, but how is it best inserted into cultures and values?In Knowledge@Wharton:Would you invest in a motivational program for your employees that has a success rate of only 60% or 70%, and…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Permutation Problems With Strings
From “Parsons Puzzles” to Babai’s breakthrough, and more? NZ silver fern source: Robin Ducker (CC) Dale Parsons and Patricia Haden, of Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, wrote a seminal paper on a genre of programming puzzles…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are we really testing an anti-aging pill? And what does it mean?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a clinical trial for “an anti-aging pill”. The pill is simply metformin. Metformin is a cheap drug that is safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes, an old-age disease…
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Forms Strategic Partnership with The Alan Turing Institute
In this video from SC15, Patrick Wolfe from the Alan Turing Institute and Karl Solchenbach from Intel describe a strategic partnership to deliver a research program focussed on HPC and data analytics. Created to promote the development…
From insideHPC
Interview: New DiscoverHPC Directory Puts All-Things-HPC in One Place
As the reach of high performance computing continues to expand, so does the worldwide HPC community. In such a fast-growing ecosystem, how do you find the right HPC resources to match your needs? Enter DiscoverHPC.com, a new …
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13
Join ACM in celebrating Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) during December 7-13. ACM, as a partner of Code.org, invites you to host an Hour of Code in your community and give students an opportunity to gain the computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix, Analytics and What You Watch
In FutureStartup: Correspondent Bill Franks chief scientist at Teradata, talks about his analytics experiences with Netflix. Further thoughts: " ... Teradata’s Franks said that if it wanted to, Netflix could almost be a stand…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Showcases OCP Platforms for HPC at SC15
“CTS-1 shows how the Open Compute and Open Rack design elements can be applied to high-performance computing and deliver similar benefits as its original development for Internet companies,” said Philip Pokorny, Chief Technology…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Science Seminar- Making Sense of Found Data
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another talk in their Data Science Seminar Series from danah boyd on Making Sense of Found Data. The talk will be on Thursday…
From insideHPC
HPC Helps Drive Climate Change Modeling
Because of the complexity involved, the length of the simulation period, and the amounts of data generated, weather prediction and climate modeling on a global basis requires some of the most powerful computers in the world. …
From insideHPC
University of Toronto Wins Research Grant to Compute the Cure
The University of Toronto is the official winner of Nvidia’s Compute the Cure initiative for 2015. Compute the Cure is a strategic philanthropic initiative of the Nvidia Foundation that aims to advance the fight against cancer…
From Computational Complexity
crank math and crank people
In the same week I got email claming: 1) Babai had shown that GI is in quasipoly time. 2) Opeyemi Enoch, a Nigerian Mathematician, solved the Riemann hypothesis. I believe Babai's claim since (a) he's worked on the problem…
From insideHPC
IBM Ramps Up Apache Spark at SC15
"What we're previewing here today is a capability to have an overarching software, resource scheduler and workflow manager that takes all of these disparate sources and unifies them into a single view, making hundreds or thousands…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morphological Modeling
Tom Ritchey sends along an article about structural systems modeling. Technical. See previous writing about this in the tags below. As an alternative to quantitative analytics. Continuing to cover.Principles of Cross-Consistency…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classifying Images with TemsorFlow
From the Google research blog. A non technical post on how to use their now open source Tensorflow capability for image classification. Instructive as to capabilities. Links to simple tutorials there. I see my former colleague…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Angle Examines the Analytics Market
Including mention of the Cortana BI and lead management release:In Silicon Angle: With chief marketing officers expected to outstrip the technology spending of their peers in the IT department by the 2017, it shouldn’t come as…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominate a White House Computer Science Education Champion of Change
The White House is accepting nominations of teachers, students, parents, and business leaders for recognition as White House Champions of Change in Computer Science Education. Nominations are due by December 18. Preference will…
From Schneier on Security
Forced Authorization Attacks Against Chip-and-Pin Credit Card Terminals
Clever: The way forced authorisation fraud works is that the retailer sets up the terminal for a transaction by inserting the customer's card and entering the amount, then hands the terminal over to the customer so they can type…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 December 2015
The calendar years is coming to a close. I have 10 days of school (including today) until my school’s Christmas break. I’m looking forward to it. I hope to find some time to play with my new Raspberry Pis. I have a link about…
From Putting People First
Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Burning issues of our hot planet’. The main purpose of the …
From Putting People First
Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Burning issues of our hot planet’. The main purpose of the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Capabilities for Online Merchants
Interesting to see Watson derived capabilities being used for merchandising and marketing data insights. " ... IBM ... today announced new commerce capabilities that help online merchants easily gain the insights needed to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling with Data
An increasingly discussed topic. Here a site devoted to the topic. Is it marketing or is it the presentation of data that allows it to be best used to present the patterns it contains? Science or marketing?