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 The Eponymous Pickle
Growing Your Own Indoor Air
" ... A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements and findings this week and next from Cracow.A new book by …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attention Trust
Attention Trust. I was reminded of this organization in my recent reading of Stephen Baker's The Numerati. They let you manage the value of your personal data.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Computer Science?
I used to say that high school students should take computer science because it helps them be better problem solvers and critical thinkers. I'd go on to say that what they learn in computer science will serve them well no matter…
From insideHPC
UT-Battelle Lands $10million
The Department of Energy has announced the details of last year’s annual program evaluation of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory management contractor team of the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute.
From insideHPC
Wozniak joins
A reader (hi, Paul!) pointed us to this article in the NY Times about where the Woz is hanging his hat these days Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to…
From insideHPC
Who will fardels
Chris Willard writes at HPCwire’s blog about the aging of HPC A long-standing concern in HPC is the graying of the industry. That is, new people are not coming in at the skilled positions as older ones retire. (In the sports…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisiRule Expert Systems Package
I wrote about LPA recently and my own experience with using expert systems for enterprise improvement. Another way to think about this is a form of business process management (BPM) that can provide more detailed and higher leverage…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-02-05 [del.icio.us]
- Robert Sosinski » Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
Robert Sosinski
From The Eponymous PickleWolfram Mathematica Home Edition
Mathematica is a great package. I used it extensively in the enterprise. Yet it has always been too expensive for the typical home user. Now they have released a home edition for $295. Still high for home use. I can understand…
From The Eponymous PickleReports from Neuroconnections
From the Neuroconnections conference. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements and findings this week and next from Cracow.Flemming HansenCopenhagen…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMUSACM Makes E-Government Recommendations
With the explosion of user-created content on the web, it is clear that the Federal government should take advantage of this trend by adopting policies that promote the reuse of government data. To help achieve this goal, USACM…
From insideHPCSGI announces Q2, posts
SGI announced its fiscal results today for the quarter ending December 26, 2008. Revenue was down, and losses were up compare to the preceding quarter Revenue for the second quarter was $82.8 million, compared to $92.8 million…
From Daniel Lemire's BlogSkip the Ph.D., go straight to research
Satpalparmar got bad grades from an unknown university. He wants to become a researcher. And he asks me for advice. I got good grades and a Ph.D. from one of the best universities in Canada, so who am I to give advice? Nevertheless…
From Putting People FirstService thinking
The UK service design consultancy live|work has published an excellent manifesto on service thinking: “We have identified three key service imperatives that must be considered if we are to create great services that make things…
From insideHPCAndrew
Our friend Andrew Jones has published his latest HPC-centric piece for ZDnet/UK.
From The Eponymous PickleSearch at Kimberly-Clark
Short overview. Enterprise search is an interesting problem. In part because few enterprise documents are linked the way Web posts are. So the prioritization methods will not work as well.Case Study: Kimberly-ClarkKimberly…
From insideHPCU of Toronto to Build IBM
The University of Toronto and IBM are expected to announce plans to build the fastest supercomputer in Canada.
From insideHPCOSC Expanding Glenn
The state of Ohio’s controller board recently approved a request from the Ohio Supercomputing Center [OSC] totaling $4 million.
From Putting People FirstDavid Orban on the spime innovations and its dilemmas
David Orban, founder & chief evangelist of WideTag, Inc. (OpenSpime) and advisor to the newly announced Singularity University, recently spoke at TechnoArk in Switzerland. His summary: When you set out to make into reality something…
From Putting People FirstRCA Design Interactions
Matt Jones writes about a short project he worked on last November with the students on the Design Interactions course at the RCA in collaboration with Vodafone’s User Experience group. The brief was deliberately wide and intended…
From Putting People FirstIDEO
On April 1, IDEO founder David Kelley will be awarded the Edison Achievement Award by the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for his
From Springenwerk BlogA Weekend of OpenSocial at Google in Mountain View
I got an email this week from Max Marmer, on of the co-organizers for the weekend apps event this February 20-22 at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Since I've written about OpenSocial before, he asked me to tell my readers (read…
From The Eponymous PickleOn-Line Graphical Facilitation
Friend David Sibbet describes work he is doing to demonstrate the state of using visualization to run online meetings at upcoming VizThink meeting. Will be a " ... Demonstration and exploration of how to guide Visual Planning…
From The Eponymous PickleText to Speech
A nice demonstration of unconstrained English text-to-Speech from IBM Labs. I gave it the classic 'ice cream' example and it was not quite able to speak it differently from 'I Scream'. Still a nice job overall, the voice was…
From insideHPCGPU-HMMER
My pal Joe at Scalable Informatics (during the day, and scalability.org during the late nights he keeps) sent me an email with news of an NVIDIA CUDA extension of MPI-HMMER, a scalable platform for “protein homology analysis”…
From Computer Science Teachers AssociationGreat K-12 Outreach Videos Now Available
In the two years, CSTA has launched a number of programs to help college and university faculty and staff in their K-12 outreach efforts. One of the most successful of these project was the CSTA/SIGCSE Roadshow Workshop and CSTA…
From The Eponymous PickleGoogle Latitude
Google Latitude will let you see where your friends are on Google Maps. Newly launched, soon to be available for IPhone.
From The Eponymous PickleFinding a Job
From Guy Kawasaki's blog: Ten Ways to Use Linkedin to Find a Job. Mostly common sense, but worth a read if you are in the market.
From insideHPCBook review: Principles of Parallel
In case you don’t read the sidebar (you really should, you know), I’ve written a review of Calvin Lin and Larry Snyder’s relatively new book, “Principles of Parallel Programming” (we’ve never met, but he looks so happy in his…