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 Putting People First
Behavioural Insights applied to policy – European Report 2016
Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy: Overview across 32 European Countries Publications Office of the European Union February 2016 56 pages The Report covers a wealth of policy applications either implicitly or explicitly …
From insideHPC
FORTISSIMO 2 Call for Proposals: HPC-Cloud-based Application Experiments
Today, the Fortissimo 2 consortium of 38 partners has announced the launch of its first Open Call for Proposals. The project is funding a set of experiments (sub-projects) to extend and demonstrate the business potential of an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scatter Plots for Big Data and Scagnostics
The simplest form of data visualization. Scatter plots. Sounds obvious, but understanding how people react to many, many variable problems can be important. Note the term Scagnostics: or Scatterplot Diagnostics. Not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Design in the Self Drive era
Always interested in the difference between very specific infrastructure design and how it evolves based on use and need. Here an example where cities may need to evolve very quickly. In the Verge.
From Computational Complexity
What is a `previous publication'?
Here are the guidelines about submission to STOC 2015 with regard to submitting a prior published paper. I assume that most of the Theory Conferences have a similar policy. Prior and Simultaneous Submissions: The conference…
From Schneier on Security
Decrypting an iPhone for the FBI
Earlier this week, a federal magistrate ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple will fight this order in court. The policy implications are complicated. The…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 February 2016
It’s likely to be quite on this blog this week. My school in on February vacation. I was pretty busy getting a lot of things done last week so I could enjoy this week. I only brought a little grading home to do. We’ll see if …
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Coins on a Chessboard
A 35-year-old puzzle with extras DeLong Lecture Series source Maxim Kontsevich has established deep connections between algebraic geometry and mechanisms of physics. He won a Fields medal in 1998 for “contributions to four problems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
2 Dimensional Drone Camera (With Laser) or Cat Discipline Robotics
How about remote warehouse inventory checking? Security? Recalls an idea we had long ago.In Engadget: " ... Then this is where things get really weird, LG caught everyone by surprise by announcing "Rolling Bot" a Sphereo-style…
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research to Discuss Hyperscale Trends at Stanford HPC Conference
There is still significant influence between HPC and hyperscale, in both directions, most notably in the areas of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence, where research at some of the top hyperscale companies leads the…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Mystery of Old Faithful
Over at Science Node, Lance Farrell writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputer resources to solve the mysteries of the Old Faithful geyser. “If you look at the distribution of supervolcanoes globally, you'll find something…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Smart TVs as Hubs
Makes sense. TV as a hub? Historically TVs have long durability? Is that still the case? Its intelligence in the cloud? With what other standards? In CNet: Samsung to add new Smart TVs to its Internet of Things platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Machine Learning Algorithms
Nicely done examples with R and Python code. by Sunil Ray. Does not cover the fundamental statistical considerations that determine the correctness or application of patterns you find, but is still operationally useful. So…
From updated sporadically at best
On Wearing Clothes
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From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Principal HPC Enterprise Architect at Leidos
The Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of Leidos is seeking a talented Principal HPC Enterprise Architect in our Job of the Week. "Successful Candidate will serves as the lead HPC technologist and subject matter expert (SME)…
From insideHPC
Pople HPC Cluster to Power Research at University of Western Australia
Researchers are using the new Pople HPC cluster to study gravitational waves at the University of Western Australia. "Pople places the Faculty of Science in a unique position for supporting advanced research across all areas …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive TED and IBM XPrize
Details at the link. I would like to see some less obvious applications of cognitive. Beyond just clever search, Creativity. Innovation. Deeper learning. Interaction with buried enterprise data, linking that to publicThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Analytics and Insights
In McKinsey: The benefits match those of earlier technology cycles, but companies must scale up their data-analytics skills to reap the gains. ... " . Scaling skills yes, but also targeting to real business problems and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Management
The APQC collection of documents on knowledge management. See also Ken Hayman's short piece on the subject, Reexamining. How in particular does AI connect to this?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinode Graph Analytics Examples
Correspondent Andrew Pitts sends along some examples using his startup Polinode. Much more at the link. He is doing lots in the HR analysis area, But the approach is widely applicable." .... This is a network summarisingThe…
From Putting People First
We are hopelessly hooked (to digital devices)
In his review of four recent books (see below), Jacob Weisberg explores in the New York Review of Books what it means to shift overnight from a society in which people walk down the street looking around to one in which people…
From Putting People First
New Australian government website focused on user needs to go live by end of year
A new government website for Australia, focused around citizens’ needs rather than government structures, could be launched by the end of the year, Paul Shetler, chief executive of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO)…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Up Close and Personal with a Giant Squid
Fascinating story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make AI more Human
In MIT Technology Review: " ... Marcus has a very different perspective from many of the computer scientists and mathematicians now at the forefront of artificial intelligence. He has spent decades studying the way the humanIs…
From insideHPC
Video: Scientific Computing in the Amazon SPOT Market
In this video from the HPC in the Cloud Educational Series, Brendan Bouffler, part of Global Scientific Computing at Amazon Web Services discusses how leveraging the SPOT market options with the Amazon cloud offering can offer…
From insideHPC
Researcher Awarded Robertson Medal for Work on Artificial Intelligence
A computer science researcher from the University of the Strathclyde in Scotland, UK, has gained recognition for his PhD research into artificial intelligence. "My research looks into ways to enable computers to figure out something…
From insideHPC
Video: Highlights from the 2016 HiPEAC Conference
In this video, researchers describe highlights from the 2016 HiPEAC conference in Prague.
The post Video: Highlights from the 2016 HiPEAC Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Experience is also about Data
Some very good points here. User experience is often lacking. Because of both content (data) and context. Context can now also include cognitive/intelligent interaction. Getting that kind of interaction right is also…
From Putting People First
Making the business case for user experience
In the ‘age of the customer’, IT leaders should be paying particular attention to the growing business case for UX testing and research, writes Chloe Green in Information Age. She writes: Numerous studies have found that every…
From insideHPC
AweSim Project at OSC to Advance Welding Simulation with HPC4Mfg
Today the AweSim program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center announced it has been selected to develop one of 10 national industry projects under the DOE High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program.
The post AweSim…