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 Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-02-11 [del.icio.us]
- RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - RailsLab Scaling Rails screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack and supported by New Relic
From Wild WebMink
The Third Wave on Video
While I was in Australia I recorded this video with the essence of my talk about the third wave of free and open source software and the adoption-led trend and the freedom to leave, and the way it's Stallman's four freedoms that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Processing Subliminal Messages
Roger Dooley posts on the processing of subliminal messages by the brain. Based on a 2007 University College London Study. It is known that the brain reacts to things we are not conscious of. When does that lead to actual…
From insideHPC
Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive
Well, it looks like someone at the EE Times hit the publish button a few hours early, since they refer to a press release for tomorrow in the present tense. But if you’re up late reading about HPC news on this website, you my…
From insideHPC
Using virtualization to make many servers look like one
ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim has an article today at the Virtualization Journal extolling the benefits of using server virtualization to aggregate many servers into one, rather than the usual one into many approach used…
From insideHPC
Timelapse installation of Ireland
Last week SGI posted a release about the installation of a 2,500 core Altix ICE in Ireland last November. The system peaks at 25 TFLOPS, and made it to slot 117 on the most recent Top500. Installed in November at the Irish Centre…
From insideHPC
Concurrent Thinking updates cluster
UK-based Concurrent Thinking announced this week the release of the latest version of their cluster appliances. From the release …these bring unprecedented simplicity to the process of installing and managing HPC clusters for…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009
Since the beginning of January, Leadership Cohort members have been instrumental in establishing new local chapters for the Southern New Jersey Shore and Houston.
Several members of the Leadership Cohort participated in the …From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding
Late last night Congress released the first high-level details on the final agreement for the American Recovery and Reinvestment package. (For background, this legislation is essentially a massive funding plan intended to help…
From Putting People First
Seismic shift in Internet age mass
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites
An interesting article. Has some good points. One thing I did not agree with was that a company should suggest that its employees publicly blog and Tweet, as opposed to setting up a company blog. No problem with employees…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphone Location or Spying?
Google Latitude has brought it up again ... more on cell phone location.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Sim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Australia
The last years of secondary school are important for thinking about what careers students can consider. Declining number of females studying computing at tertiary level indicates that many girls may just not be aware of the opportunities…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academic applied research is
While pure theory is wasteful, bringing applied research to academia is equally wasteful! Applied research seeks to produce applied results. These results are good or bad depending on their real-world application. But in…
From insideHPC
Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper
Cray announced its financial results for both Q4 and its fiscal year ended December 31. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31.3 million), or ($0.96) per share. The results include a $54.5 million…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Newspapers
Nick Carr examines the future of newspapers: Smaller, tighter, hybrids, micropayments or just mostly gone?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Update on CCC Robotics
The CCC-sponsored
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Releases Q4
NVIDIA has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of FY2009.
From BLOG@CACM
Compute For America
The United States certainly needs more and better computing educators, but that alone may not be enough to turn around declining enrollments in computing.
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things and mobile devices
Ajit Jaokar, founder of futuretext, just wrote a somewhat technical article on his blog where he discusses the basic ideas and significance of the Internet of Things, especially in the context of its integration with mobile phones…
From Putting People First
Book: The Language of Things
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (June 1, 2009) Hardcover: 224 pages Description What is it that persuades us to camp outside Apple stores to be…
From Putting People First
Becoming a customer experience-driven business
Peter Merholz, founding partner and president of Adaptive Path, now writes the “Experience Matters” column for the revamped HarvardBusiness.org where he tries “to articulate the things that matter to us, to folks who know little…
From Putting People First
Designing people-centred policy: how can user centred design help public services?
Nick Marsh of Engine Service Design contemplates how user-centred design can help public services. How do we enable patients with chronic conditions to take care of themselves better? How do we include partners from other sectors…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-02-10 [del.icio.us]
Rails versus Django · SuperJared.com I attempted to gather my thoughts into some elaborate explanation, delving into the subtleties and intricacies surrounding the question. However, upon reflection my response is a simple one…
From insideHPC
Details on Intel
Pointer from Multicoreinfo.com to an article at Ars Technica providing a peek at some of the details of Intel’s forthcoming 8-core chip At an ISSCC session Monday, Intel went into new detail on its forthcoming 8-core, 16-thread…
From insideHPC
SGI strikes
SGI doesn’t coordinate with me, of course, but I can’t help but consider the timing of their most recent press release in the context of the RNA Networks announcement last week. This release is titled “SGI Altix Touts Large Global…
From insideHPC
DARPA
The CRA Policy Blog posts news that Anthony Tether, head of DARPA during the second President Bush’s administration, is resigning on the 20th of this month. He began service in June of 2001 Dr. Tony Tether, the longest-tenured…
From insideHPC
HPCwire on SGI
Have you found yourself asking, “What the heck is non-GAAP and why does SGI report it?” Ask no more, friends. Instead, click on over to HPCwire and read the article I wrote after interviewing SGI’s CFO last Thursday following…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: The Public Domain
Just finished on a long flight: James Boyle's: The Public Domain, Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Available for buying, reading or downloading online free. This was also an interesting test for me. I downloaded the free'Farmers…
From insideHPC
NASA Ames Director Named Best of
The Director of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California has been named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year.