Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2009
From insideHPC
Webinar on using Jacket and GPUs to speed up
NVIDIA is hosting a Tesla GPU Computing Webinar on Thursday, February 5 at 2:00pm EST. Melissa sent me an email with the details, which I paste in below for your convenience Attendees will learn about GPU computing, NVIDIA CUDA…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.1 (February 2, 2009)
CONTENTS
[1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Economic Stimulus to include Science and Technology [3] Net Neutrality Connected to Broadband Stimulus [4] ACM Urges Obama to Include Computer Science As A Core Component of Science and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Superbowl Ad Analysis
Roger Dooley on Neuromarketing analysis of Superbowl advertisements..
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proactive Merchandising
It is an old idea to connect sensors to advertisements and make them respond to people. As simple as motion sensors; my local 'Jungle Jims' has a huge Campbell's soup can hung from the ceiling that talks to you when you approach…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Integrates 2.0
IBM using Twitter and a further case study and short slide show on corporate culture and social media. After connecting with them for several years have been impressed by how well they have integrated these capabilities.
From Putting People First
New report: Mobile phones as media platforms in the global south
African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors. Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends