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 Phys.org Technology News
FBI's DNA profiles to include more data, making them even more powerful at solving cases
As the new year approaches, forensic labs across the country are gearing up for a big change in the way they generate DNA profiles, the genetic fingerprints so useful in solving crimes and identifying the remains of missing persons…
From insideHPC
ARM Acquires Allinea Software
"Writing and deploying software that exploits the ever increasing computing power of clusters and supercomputers is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast, and run right, and that's exactly what our suite of tools is designed…
From Computational Complexity
Freedom of Speech
Bill and I have always strongly believed in the principle of freedom of speech, guaranteed to us by the constitution of the United States. The government block speech only in extreme circumstances, fraud, libel, threats to people…
From Schneier on Security
Giving Up on PGP
Filippo Valsorda wrote an exellent essay on why he's giving up on PGP. I have long believed PGP to be more trouble than it is worth. It's hard to use correctly, and easy to get wrong. More generally, e-mail is inherently difficult…
From Schneier on Security
Impressive Social Engineering Display
In this impressive lc7scxvKQOo">social-engineering display, a hacker convinces a cell phone tech-support person to change an account password without being verified in any way....
From Phys.org Technology News
Lower cost of LEDs reduce profitability for manufacturing landscape
Although residential and commercial industries are widely adopting energy-efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs), the drop in LED prices is driving away manufacturers because of decreased profitability, dramatically dislocating…
From insideHPC
ANSYS Software Now Available on Rescale HPC Cloud
“Customers love the flexibility that our turn-key solution and pay-as-you-go hardware give them, and we are excited to be extending that flexibility to ANSYS software users. Agile resources will help our mutual customers utilize…
From insideHPC
Lustre 2.9.0 Available for Download
Today OpenSFS announced that the Lustre 2.9.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for download.
The post Lustre 2.9.0 Available for Download appeared first on insideHPC.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to build robust systems
Millions of little things go wrong in your body every minute. Your brain processes the data in a noisy manner. Even trained mathematicians can’t think logically most of the time. In our economy, most companies fail within a decade…
From insideHPC
IDC Names DDN a Global Leader in Object Storage
"DDN leads the market in large-scale object-based storage with individual customer installations of more than 500+ billion objects in production,” said Kurt Kuckein, director of product management, DDN. “DDN’s high-performance…
From insideHPC
Fast Networking for Next Generation Systems
"The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is an example of a networking system that has been designed for the Exascale era. There are many features that will enable this massive scaling of compute resources. Features and functionality…
From Phys.org Technology News
Malawi drone test centre to help with healthcare, disasters
Malawi on Thursday launched Africa's first drone-testing corridor as developing countries explore how drones could be used during humanitarian crises such as floods, or to deliver blood for HIV tests.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Report Recommends Research Agenda for Effective Science Communication
The following is a press release from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine about a recent report that recommends a new research agenda for effective science communication. A new report from the National…
From insideHPC
Special Report on Top Trends in HPC Networking
This is the first article in a series on high performance networking and computing. This series is focused on today's top trends in HPC networking. It also highlights available high performance interconnect technologies and how…
From Phys.org Technology News
Tackling the ethical challenges of big data
An authority on social data, Susan Etlinger argues we need to apply critical thinking and exercise caution as we enter the age of "data ubiquity."
From Phys.org Technology News
Advances in transport infrastructure technology are quickly changing the landscape
Sydney's transport system, long troubled by disjointed connections between bus, rail and ferry, should now be focused on delivering customised journeys that combine the modes rather than making users choose between them.
From Schneier on Security
My Priorities for the Next Four Years
Like many, I was surprised and shocked by the election of Donald Trump as president. I believe his ideas, temperament, and inexperience represent a grave threat to our country and world. Suddenly, all the things I had planned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom on the End of Global Brands
Interesting read. Read the whole post in Linkedin:
The End of Global Brands
by Martin Lindstrom | Dec 14, 2016
" ... If you were among those kids who had Kellogg’s cornflakes on the breakfast table, drank a Coke from time to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Understanding the 3D World
In Technology Review.
AI Begins to Understand the 3-D World by Will Knight
Research on artificial intelligence moves from 2-D to 3-D representations of the world—work that could lead to big advances in robotics and automated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bridging Disparate Data Sources
Not always the case, but good to be ready for. Especially when significant metadata is involved.
Big Data: The Key is Bridging Disparate Data Sources
Isidre Royo May 11, 2016
People say Big Data is the difference between driving…
From updated sporadically at best
What Professors Can Do About the Collaboration Problem
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the "collaboration problem" that sparked a significant amount of discussion among my colleagues in academic computer science, in large part because many people had observed the sameBen…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Vision: A Micro Location Aware Services
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Abdeltawab Hendawi from the University of Virginia. Hendawi along with his coauthors John Stankovic from the University of Virginia, Mohamed Khalefa from the University of Alexandria…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Put an Assistant in Every Hotel Room
This is first great marketing, position a voice driven assistant as an inexpensive luxury item for consumers. And then:
Depending on the hotel, add skills that are relevant to the local context:
When is the next show? Where…
From insideHPC
MEGWARE Steps Up as BeeGFS Platinum Partner
“MEGWARE is building high quality BeeGFS turn-key solutions already since the first days of its release back in 2009. Over the years, we have seen an outstanding level of customer satisfaction and systems that regularly exceeded…
From insideHPC
Sunita Chandrasekaran Honored for Excellence in HPC
Congratulations go out to Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Delaware, who has won the 2016 IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance
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From insideHPC
ISC 2017 and PASC17 Conferences Scheduled Back-to-Back
Today the ISC 2017 and the PASC17 announced that these two key events in the European HPC ecosystem have been scheduled back to back in June. "ISC 2017, which will be held from June 18 to 22 in Frankfurt, Germany, is expected…
From insideHPC
DDN Opens Synergy Innovations Lab for HPC
Today DDN announced that it has partnered with Synergy Solutions Management to offer organizations access to a first-of-its-kind facility in North America where users can plan, design and test video surveillance and high performance…
From insideHPC
Infinicortex and the Renaissance in Polish Supercomputing
"Over the past two years, InfiniCortex has clearly demonstrated that IB can perform over trans-continental distances, exploiting this technology to create a “Galaxy of Supercomputers,” a worldwide IB network spanning sites across…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Employee Handbook
Like the idea of adding organizational expertise to any kind of complex 'manual' of rules, guides and regulations. Reminds me of the tax code and internal corporate handbooks. Have dealt with many that were decidedly not intelligent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging Sensor Innovation
Ideaconnection sends a request. If you have packaging experience, take a look at the idea below. I don't have the time to participate. An IOT connection? Much more detail at the link.
Packaging Sensors for Shelf Stable Products…