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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking applicants for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences. The Data Curation Fellowships will provide recent Ph.D.s with professional…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Board of Directors Election Call for Applications/Nominations
It's time for elections or at least nominations for positions on the Computer Science Teachers Association board of directors. I'm in my third year on the board (and not up for reelection) so I have some ideas about what is involved…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A VC Perspective for AI
Everyone has been now been alerted to the re-emergence of AI. But everyone still wants to know: What are the needs in our or our clients context that can now be effectively solved by AI solutions, and what resources will beNathan…
From insideHPC
Video: Job Launching – Keeping Pace with Expanding Complexities
Bill Nitzberg from Altair presented this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15. "Everyone benefits from faster, more resilient infrastructure - the small, the medium, and the really big. This talk will cover how…
From insideHPC
New Allinea 6.0 HPC Developer Tools Suite
Today Allinea released version 6.0 of their HPC development tools suite Allinea Forge and Performance Reports. Building on their commitment to serving the scientific HPC community, Allinea demonstrated the new features at SC15…
From Putting People First
‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics
‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics Benjamin G. Voyer, London School of Economics Article (Accepted version) (2015) British Journal of Healthcare Management, 21 (3). pp. 130-135 Since the creation…
From Putting People First
‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics
‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics Benjamin G. Voyer, London School of Economics Article (Accepted version) (2015) British Journal of Healthcare Management, 21 (3). pp. 130-135 Since the creation…
From Schneier on Security
DOS Attack Against Los Angeles Schools
Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles closed all of its schools -- over 1,000 schools -- because of a bomb threat. It was a hoax. LA officials defended the move, with that city's police chief dismissing the criticism as "irresponsible…
From Putting People First
Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their health and well-being, writes Becky Slack in an article in the…
From Putting People First
Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their health and well-being, writes Becky Slack in an article in the…
From insideHPC
Lessons Learned from the CHPC Student Cluster Competition
In this video from the CHPC National Meeting in South Africa, participants in the Student Cluster Competition discuss what they learned in their race to build the fastest HPC cluster. "The students received a unique opportunity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson IOT Research Center formed by IBM
A good direction to go with applications of Watson. Considerable opportunity here.IBM Bets on Watson With Global Research Center in GermanyThe Internet of Things division will play a key role in driving revenue and profit within…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyer Decisions Not Journeys
I liked Journeys better, but ...In CustomerThink:" ... When marketing and sales leaders often think about how buyers make decisions, they are viewed through a prism of buyers making rational and process-driven decisions. Leading…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Programming Lab
I see that Wolfram has started this Beta. Famously they created AI advisory system Wolfram Alpha, now part of Siri. Start for free .... Nicely done." ... .Knowledge-Based Programming .... Designed for the new generation of…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: 2016 Open Fabrics Workshop
The 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop has issued its Call for Participation. The event takes place April 4-8, 2016 in Monterey, California. The Workshop is the premier event for collaboration between OpenFabrics Software (OFS) producers…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Big, Big Computer Science Gender Gap
Check out the recording from Edsurge on Air, “How the Other Half Learns to Code” https://soundcloud.com/edsurge/episode-40-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-computer-science-edtech-recap-1121 Hear interviews with students, teachers…
From insideHPC
Podcast: XSEDE Powers Search for How the Earth was Formed
In this NICS podcast, Scott Gibson discusses how the Earth was formed with Wladimir Lyra, an assistant professor at California State University at Northridge, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Lyra is using XSEDE supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware
Today IBM's Cleversafe announced its software defined/hardware aware storage approach to enable organizations with massive-scale data demands to easily take advantage of software defined storage (SDS) with a solution that integrates…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Amazing technologies from the year 2015…
I cannot predict the future, but I can look at the recent past. What happened in 2015 as far as technology is concerned? Many things happened that, had I predicted them in January 2015, people would have thought I was slightly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of Storytelling
Beyond blogging, hypertext links, technology. How has this changed storytelling? From my viewpoint it has made it easier to digress, but not much different. When first introduced to hypertext, before the Web, I remember…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
10 Women in Networking/Communications that you Should Know
Networking Networking Women (N2 Women), a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking research fields, has just released their inaugural list of “10 women in networking/communications that…
From insideHPC
Using OpenStack to Manage a Data Analytics HPC Cluster at PSC
"This talk will discuss the plans to use OpenStack to manage and automate dynamically changing an environment to provide users a highly re-configurable software environment with access to a large number of operating systems and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Others Preferences
In HBS. A classic element of market research. Consider the analytic implications. This is a Meta study: Abstract: " ... Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storybooks and Data
Linking expert storybooks to data. Storytelling. It comes to mind that one way you could do an advisory system is to match to the 'right' storybook. Some kind of clustering or best fit. It then becomes what we called a 'casewhat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Microsoft Supports a Future with Countless Devices
In the NYT. " .... Technology now allows for lots of powerful, compelling computing devices in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Just about everyone in the industry believes the smartphone will remain the dominant computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speed in Mobile Experience
In ThinkwithGoogle: Google is continuing to provide some interesting snippets of data from their research about how people shop. Here another about how quickly people make decisions on mobile. These could feed some useful…
From insideHPC
Enterprise HPC Storage System
In many HPC environments, the storage system is an afterthought. While the main focus is on the CPU’s the selection and implementation of the storage hardware and software is critical to an efficient and productive overall HPC…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: XSEDE16 Conference in Miami
The XSEDE16 conference has issued its Call for Participation. With a conference theme of Diversity, Big Data, Science at Scale: Enabling the Next-Generation of Science and Technology, the conference takes place July 17-21, 2016…
From Schneier on Security
Attack Against DNS Root Servers
Has anyone been following the attack against the DNS root servers two weeks ago? Details. I can't precisely explain why, but this feels like someone testing an attack capability. For defense: it's long past time to implement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Algebra of Data
Had not heard of this, or yet understand it. But most data you mine in realistic domains does not have exact values, so isn't this more about data fuzzy logic? Skeptical about what is claimed here. " ... The Algebra of Data…