Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2016
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Supercomputing Frontiers 2017 in Singapore
The Supercomputing Frontiers 2017 conference in Singapore has issued its Call for Papers. As Singapore’s annual international HPC conference, Supercomputing Frontiers provides a platform for thought leaders from both academia…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Powers Deep Learning for Healthcare at SC16
In this video from SC16, Abdul Hamid Al Halabi from Nvidia describes how the company is accelerating Deep Learning for Healthcare. "From Electronic Health Records (EHR) to wearables, every year the flood of heterogeneous healthcare…
From insideHPC
German Scientists Win Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for 2017
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announced that Professor Dr. Britta Nestler of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has been awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2017 from Germany’s Deutsche…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Medical Device Security 101 Conference
Researchers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Trustworthy Health & Wellness project (THaW) will demonstrate transition to practice at the Medical Device Security 101 Conference January 15-17, 2017 at Disney’s Yacht &…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases Versatile HPC Solutions at SC16
In this video from SC16, Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company's broad range of HPC solutions. “Innovation is at the core of Supermicro product development and benefits the HPC community with first-to-market integration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big and Analytic Problems at Procter & Gamble
Correspondent Gib Bassett looks at the Big Data and analytics environment at my former employer P&G, where we spent much time trying to solve wicked problems. It had a long history of doing that well, since the 60s at least.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Lab on Wheels
Saw some interesting proposals about altering the way drug research could be done recently, so this is particularly interesting.
A Drug Laboratory on Wheels By Joe Dysart
The portable drug lab could decentralize the way drugs…
From ACM on Huffington Post
Wanting It Bad Enough Won't Make It Work: Why Adding Backdoors and Weakening Encryption Threatens the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptive Theory of Innovation
The “Jobs to be Done” Theory of Innovation
Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Transformations Work
Just covered this in my Columbia course, where it was about getting analytics change to work. Here a much less technical and more organizational view, but still very useful. In McKinsey: Transformation with a capital T Michael…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embodied Cognition with Project Intu
Mentioned in today's CSIG talk, furthering the discussion.
“Embodied Cognition with Project Intu” by Grady Booch
Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and IBM’s Chief Scientist for Watson/M, presented “Embodied Cognition with Project Intu” as…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Magnus and the Turkey Grinder
With part II of our “When Data Serves Turkey” post source—note similarity to this Magnus Carlsen last week retained his title of World Chess Champion. His match against challenger Sergey Karjakin had finished 6–6 after twelve…
From Computational Complexity
Fixing the Academic Job Market
Last month I posted about the craziness of the computer science academic job market due mainly to the decentralized nature of our field. Here are some ideas of what we can do better. I've stolen some of these ideas from other…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, October 31- November 3, 2016 in…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Where Deep Learning Is Going Next
In this Nvidia podcast, Bryan Catanzaro from Baidu describes how machines with Deep Learning capabilities are now better at recognizing objects in images than humans. “AI gets better and better until it kind of disappears into…
From Phys.org Technology News
Navy's futuristic-looking USS Zumwalt arriving in homeport
The Navy's most technologically advanced destroyer is arriving at its homeport after dealing with some glitches along the way.
From Schneier on Security
New NSA Stories
Le Monde and the Intercept are reporting about NSA spying in Africa, and NSA spying on in-flight mobile phone calls -- both from the Snowden documents....
From insideHPC
The SGI Data Management Framework for Personalized Medicine
SGI’s Data Management Framework (DMF) software - when used within personalized medicine applications – provides a large-scale, storage virtualization and tiered data management platform specifically engineered to administer the…
From insideHPC
Matthias Troyer from Microsoft to Speak on Quantum Computing at PASC17
Today the PASC17 Conference announced that Matthias Troyer from Microsoft Research will give this year’s public lecture on the topic “Towards Quantum High Performance Computing.” The event will take place June 26-28 in Lugano…
From insideHPC
Oakforest-PACS: Overview of the Fastest Supercomputer in Japan
Prof. Taisuke Boku from the University of Tsukuba & JCAHPC presented this talk at the DDN User Group at SC16. "Thanks to DDN’s IME Burst Buffer, researchers using Oakforest-PACS at the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zara Designing Fashion with Speed
Recently had some interesting exposure to aparrel and fashion analytical and design process. In particular about linking design to efficient spply chain. See this piece from Retailwire:
Zara succeeds with speed by George…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Infrastructure Architecture
Crowdsourcing infrastructure Data. Impressive. But a big security issue here?
Infrastructure data for everyone
05.12.2016, Research news
How much electricity flows through the grid? When and where? Where are the bottlenecks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soft Robotics
A first in a completely soft robot. With likely biomedical applications. In Technology Review. " ... Meet the World’s First Completely Soft Robot ... Researchers use an ingenious design to make a soft robot that moves on…
From insideHPC
Optimizing Your Code for Big Data
Libraries that are tuned to the underlying hardware architecture can increase performance tremendously. Higher level libraries such at the Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel DAAL) can assist the developer with highly…
From Phys.org Technology News
Nissan Juke uses onboard cameras to set world-first 'blind' J-turn record
The record-breaking Nissan Juke has done it again. This time the popular compact crossover has established the world's first 'blind' J-turn record with the driver using only the car's Intelligent Around View Monitor (AVM) on-board…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Players Advance Machine Learning Tools
Microsoft updates R Server with machine learning capabilities by Moke Wheatley in SiliconAngle.
From Phys.org Technology News
Expedition eyes sunken mini sub on Pearl Harbor anniversary
Federal archaeologists and scientists used a remotely operated vehicle Wednesday to document the condition of a mini submarine used in the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where are we Headed on the IOT
In Computerworld: A good non-technical view of the state of the internet of things. " ... The IoT: Where we are, and where we're heading ... Evolution or revolution, we’re on a journey that will surely affect…everything ...…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Researchers on what to Expect in 2017 and 2027
The following is a guest blog post from CCC Executive Council Member, Ben Zorn, a Principal Researcher and co-manager of the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond Washington. In 2006 Jeannette…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s Your Elf Name–A Programming Project
I love string manipulation projects. Maybe because I have always been more of a word person than a math person. Who knows why. I see them every where. For example this time of your one sees a lot of images like this one shared…