Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sleep Apps by J&J
An area we examined as well, long before the era of mobile Apps. In Adage: " ... How J&J Research Led From Bath-Time to a Mobile Sleep App -- and More Products in Carts ... Global Campaign Includes Original Lullabies ... "
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 22
The House Appropriations Committee is holding 26 budget and oversight hearings this week. All open hearings will be webcast. Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Hearing: ESSA Implementation in States and School Districts: Perspectives…
From BLOG@CACM
California's Internet Voting Initiatives
The vast majority of computer and network security experts agree that there is currently no way to adequately secure an online public election.
From Schneier on Security
Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance
Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search," PNAS, Jan 2016: Abstract: Motivated by tensions between data privacy…
From insideHPC
Exascale Architectures: Evolution or Revolution?
In this special guest feature, Earl Joseph from IDC describes his SC15 panel where four HPC luminaries discussed, disputed, and divined the path to exascale computing. "As the panel wound to a close, participants agreed on one…
From Writing
Splitting Up a Codebase into Microservices and Artifacts
I did a Q&A on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog on techniques for splitting up a codebase: Splitting Up a Codebase into Microservices and Artifacts
From insideHPC
AI Expert Gill Pratt from Toyota to Keynote GPU Technology Conference
Today Nvidia announced Gill Pratt, one of the world’s leading figures in artificial intelligence will deliver a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley on April 7. Pratt joined Toyota last year from the U.S…
From Schneier on Security
The Ads vs. Ad Blockers Arms Race
For the past month or so, Forbes has been blocking browsers with ad blockers. Today, I tried to access a Wired article and the site blocked me for the same reason. I see this as another battle in this continuing arms race, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clareo
Chatted with some of these folks recently, interesting group ..." ... At Clareo our mission is to help businesses adapt and grow.We help leaders adapt their businesses and create new ways to grow in rapidly changing markets.We…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting More Girls in Computer Science is Easy
It seems like one “silver bullet” after another keeps popping up to solve the computer science diversity problem. Today’s solution was drones. Yes, drones. Gary Stager blogged about The Secret Key to Girls and Computer Science…
From insideHPC
IBM Cleversafe Brings Object-Based Storage Services to the Cloud
“One of the biggest challenges enterprises face today is the massive growth of data, fueled by cloud, mobile, IoT, analytics, social media, cognitive and other technologies organizations eagerly employ to transform their business…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Completes Acquisition of EZchip
"As our largest ever acquisition, we are confident the integrated teams of EZchip and Mellanox can deliver future value to our shareholders,” said Eyal Waldman, President and CEO of Mellanox. “We look forward to working together…
From insideHPC
DDN Announces New Patents in Object Storage
Today DDN announced it has been awarded additional patents for its groundbreaking WOS Object Storage software. DDN’s WOS enables organizations to deploy highly reliable, massively scalable and cost-efficient storage repositories…
From insideHPC
Interview: Victor Eijkhout on an Integrative Model for Parallelism
The Integrative Model for Parallelism at TACC is a new development in parallel programming. It allows for high level expression of parallel algorithms, giving efficient execution in multiple parallelism modes. We caught up with…
From insideHPC
BeeGFS Parallel File System Goes Open Source
Today ThinkParQ announced that the complete BeeGFS parallel file system is now available as open source. Developed specifically for performance-critical environments, the BeeGFS parallel file system was developed with a strong…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Swift for the Enterprise
In CWorld: What appears to be be a plus for Apple in the enterprise. " ... IBM calls the move a “key next step in IBM and Apple’s shared journey to help enterprises advance their mobile strategy with innovative app design, analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruption in the Auto Industry
Good overview in McKinsey." ... Technology-driven trends will revolutionize how industry players respond to changing consumer behavior, develop partnerships, and drive transformational change.Today’s economies are dramatically…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dimensions of Strategy
Too little considered, how do you actually do strategy?Are You A Six Dimensional Strategist?by Amrita Bhattacharyya In a recent post ‘For Business At Warp Speed, Is Customer Strategy The Only Strategy?’, (Link) we touched upon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Feature Selection
A favorite topic of mine, and I believe the most important introductory aspect of analytic modeling.Here in DSC. It is very important to get feature selection right. Both in what you include, and what you leave out. InIn…
From Schneier on Security
Practical TEMPEST Attack
Four researchers have demonstrated a TEMPEST attack against a laptop, recovering its keys by listening to its electrical emanations. The cost for the attack hardware was about $3,000. News article: To test the hack, the researchers…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in gilbc DNS
It's a really bad one....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC White Paper- Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Convergence of Data and Computing Task Force, led by CCC Council Members Vasant G. Honavar from Pennsylvania State University, Mark D. Hill from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Katherine…
From insideHPC
Obama Proposes to Increase NIST Budget
The US Department of Commerce has released details of the President’s budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2017 – proposing to increase spending on HPC and future computing technologies…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t beat them, make them irrelevant
Back in the early 2000s, I was a given an expert report that outlined the future of computing. Regarding software, the report foresaw the absolute and uncontested dominance of Microsoft operating systems. Back then Apple wasContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why you Need Predictive Analytics Today
Nicely done piece about the need for predictive analytics. IBM sponsored. By PredictionImpact. You may need to register. Good statistics and thoughts. I like that fact that this is NOT about big data or machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doug Engelbart on Human Augmentation
Was pointed via this piece in CSI. Fascinating piece I was reminded of. Doug Engelbart on a framework for human augmentation. We looked at this, but could not translate it into reality. Can it be done now? More on'…
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to the Euroserver for Green Computing
"EUROSERVER is an ambitious and holistic project aimed to arm Europe with leading technology for conquering the new markets of cloud computing. Data-centers form the central brains and store for the Information Society The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of the Futurist in Retail
On the role of the futurist in retail and grocery. A role I played in the innovation center when we looked for new ideas to test.
From insideHPC
Florida Atlantic University Selects Bright Cluster Manager for HPC
Today Florida Atlantic University (FAU) announced that it is using Bright Cluster Manager software for its HPC cluster. The 56-node cluster is used for teaching Hadoop Map Reduce, bioinformatics research and other modeling and…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the Case of the Encrypted iPhone
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Apple's fight against a court order to decrypt an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. "The Radio Free HPC is split as to what should happen next, but it seems likely…