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 CSDiary
A Stimulus for Science
President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 today, a move that is critically important for computing research. Indeed, this economic stimulus bill is absolutely critical for science, providing…
From Putting People First
In Defense of Readers
Mandy Brown, creative director at W. W. Norton & Company, wrote a nice story on A List Apart about understanding the needs of readers in web design. Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Case for 4D Immersive Holographic Spaces
Ruzena Bajcsy (University of California, Berkeley) and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) have provided the following argument for the development of broadband information-rich immersive interfaces,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notes on Analytics 101
Alison Bolen, SASCom editor in chief, has some good notes on the Analytics 101 webcast, which I menaged to miss due to other engagments.
From CSDiary
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Two Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professors, Ryan O’Donnell and Luis von Ahn, have been awarded 2009 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. Three CMU CS alumni also won fellowships. They are Shuchi Chawla (a Ph.D. alumnus…
From insideHPC
Appro Announces Green Blade
Appro has announced their latest edition of blade server products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Money with your Blog
Social Tech guru Paul Gillin writes about how to make money with your blog.
From insideHPC
Penguin Announces Mellanox BridgeX
Penguin Computing today announced availability of Mellanox’s BridgeX series of multi-protocol gateway systems on their Application-Ready HPC cluster solutions. Penguin Computing has a long standing relationship with Mellanox…
From insideHPC
ING Renault F1 Team Partners with
The ING Renault Formula1 Team has announced a partnership with APC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking About Metering
About a week ago the NYTimes had an article on Google's Power Meter Project. Jim Stogdill has a good followup article on O'Reilly Radar where he looks into more of the underlying details. He makes the point that setting up a…
From insideHPC
Butte is Open for
Officials at the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center have announced that their new IBM supercomputer is ready for business. The new Butte, Montana supercomputing center was built to spur economic development in the region and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
2008 Neuromarketing Podcasts
Professor Gemma Calvert of Neurosense, sends along a link to the podcast videos from the 2008 Neuromarketing event held in Warwick last September. Prof Gemma Calvert, WMG (Organiser)Robin Wight, WCRS, The Engine GroupProf Richard…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Blogging is part of my day job
I decided to copy Daniel Tunkelang’s idea and maintain a list of some people who read my blog. This is not meant to be an ego-boosting or name-dropping project. My goal is to prove that blogging is a serious business. Blogging…
From Putting People First
From the WIMP to the map interface
“Cellphones have changed how we communicate with others, and now they are changing how we think about information,” argues John Markoff of the New York Times. “With the dominance of the cellphone, a new metaphor is emerging…
From Putting People First
Rethinking banking for the twenty-first century
MIT Media Lab has set up a Center for Future Banking. I guess they have some work to do. “Researchers at the Center for Future Banking, in collaboration with Bank of America, will explore how emerging technologies and insights…
From CSDiary
Time to Re-engage with DARPA
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about DARPA itself in the post-Tether era? Randy Katz and I gave some…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Applauds Increased Investment in Research
Today President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation provides billions in funding intended to spur economic growth. A significant portion of the funding is dedicated to research…
From insideHPC
Universities challenged to power down for the
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is organizing a challenge to encourage universities to “make a dent in pollution by powering down campus computers.” One winning university will be selected internationally based on the…
From insideHPC
Bull reports 2008 results, posts
European HPC maker Bull reported its fiscal 2008 results on Friday, and probably popped a cork or two in the process. Revenues up, EBIT up, cash on hand up, and they made a profit
Increase in consolidated revenues of 1.4%, which…From Computer Science Teachers Association
How the CSTA Elections Work
It is election time for the CSTA Board of Directors. This year, the K-8 representative, two 9-12 representatives, the school district representative, the college faculty representative, and the at-large representative need to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Fate of Expertise after Wikipedia
Thoughtful article in Episteme on Wikipedia. Very good points about the differences of what mass collaboration produces vs that comes from typical editorial collaboration. I am not sure what this ultimately means, or whatarticles…
From Putting People First
Jeffrey Sachs on the transformational power of mobile devices in Africa
Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, was interviewed on allAfrica on how mobile devices could…
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup from the weekend 14-15 February
What a CEO SHOULD Be Fascinating insight into JAL's CEO reveals an attitude all too lacking in western leadership - what in wartime is called "leading from the front" (and not just appearing at the front while making out like…
From Putting People First
Yochai Benkler on
Yochai Benkler, who is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, was interviewed on Ideas Project, the Nokia site that explores “where…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grove Virtual Learning Center
David Sibbet writes that Grove has established a virtual learning center in Second Life. The site includes descriptions and pictures. I can remember visiting IBM's Almaden's virtual learning center a few years ago. An attempt…
From insideHPC
Rackable announces Q4, posts loss for Q and
Rackable announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2008 on Friday, and it wasn’t good GAAP net loss per share from continuing operations was ($0.61) for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to GAAP net income per share of $0.16 in…
From insideHPC
Terabit per second Ethernet may be
From Ars Technica Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables. The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light…
From insideHPC
ClearSpeed CEO resigns, company on hard
From a story at ElectronicsWeekly.com comes news that Tom Beese, the now former CEO of accelerator company ClearSpeed, has hit the bricks. Two weeks ago the company announced its intention not to remain a quoted company. This…
From insideHPC
Penguin Releases Scyld Clusterware
From Penguin last week Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its high performance computing (HPC) cluster management solution Scyld Clusterware 5.2. This release makes the classic…
From insideHPC
US stimulus final makes investments in science,
From a press release issued by CRA Members of the computing research community today praised Congress for passing an economic stimulus package that includes substantial investments in the nation’s science and engineering enterprise…