Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Destruction and the Notificator
Not sure I would bet on Google being soon upended by a new challenger. Yet this piece makes some interesting historical comparisons. Things also do change rapidly on the web. I don't think that Twitter, in anything close to…
From insideHPC
SC09 Call for
The Supercomputing 2009 call for tutorials was released on Friday.
From Putting People First
When everyone
Randall Stross is a New York Times staff writer, who expands on the issue of privacy in an era of social networking — a topic which has also been addressed pointedly and extremely eloquently by Bill Thompson last week at the…
From Putting People First
Share my ride
The New York Times Magazine on the service design concept behind car sharing: “Car sharing, is a pay-per-use system, which has the effect of significantly altering driving behavior. Evidence suggests that sharers drive from a…
From Wild WebMink
Weekend Link Roundup, Sunday March 8th
B-Live Share and Groove Armada Clever viral marketing campaign rewards you with free music if you recruit your friends to Bacardi's marketing site. Yes, that link is indeed trying to recruit you, but at least you get a free Groove…
From Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone
Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the USA. That means we're in for a freaky month of people missingthe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Think Map
Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information..." . Some of the examples have the design getting in the way…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cable Targeting
Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeted Media
More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper convenience but have obvious use for directly engaging shoppers…
From insideHPC
Building multicore and cloud ready
Found at Multicoreinfo.com, a pointer to the first in a two-part series on designs principles that will lead to multicore- and cloud-ready applications Multicore processing power and cloud computing are two of the most exciting…
From insideHPC
Intel invests in new HPC center in
This week Intel chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel is beginning a 5 year collaboration in France for the construction of a new academic research facility focused on HPC The HPC lab initiative marks the start of a 5-year…
From insideHPC
I actually like that better than “green computing” — it’s sounds less like hype and more like someone is actuallly doing something. The someone in this case is Oak Ridge. HPCwire ran a feature this week highlighting the steps…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA reveals plan to develop own x86
From a recent blog post by Michael Feldman at HPCwire “I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we’ve done with Tegra,” said Hara [Michael Hara, senior VP of investor relations]…
From insideHPC
Science in the FY09
Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has a detailed summary on science funding in the budget omnibus including funding for the agencies that traditionally pour big bucks in supercomputing in the United States. The bill…
From insideHPC
New Japanese plasma simulator in
Found at Cheer HPC, news that alongside the new Earth Simulator 2, Japan has put another super into operation. This one is a 77 TFLOPS Hitachi SR16000 system for plasma simulation at the National Institute of Plasma Science in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Start an Evolution
Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be able to add physical extensions to itself we will have to startAlso…
From BLOG@CACM
Computers For Public Schools
It's been a while since several Latin countries decided to start programs to deliver computers and to connect all public schools to the Internet providing access to technological resources to children through several initiatives…
From BLOG@CACM
Open Source in Latin America -Venezuela I
An introduction to open source and its applications in South America.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamics of Being Sorry
From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about that' too often in talks. The piece gives a number of examples…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eponymous Numbers
Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not always successfully. So Pittsburgh is named after William Pitt.…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification
More than likely you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't feel passionately that computer science is an essential discipline in our high schools. Certainly, every article I read about the importance of teaching our students…
From Putting People First
Nokia
Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors. It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile technology offers as well as best practices from around the world…
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup on March 6
Mozilla and CyberMentors "The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the web. If you're in the UK and hate bullies, make sure you take aFree…
From Putting People First
The user experience of money: how interaction design can help
Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money: For anyone designing for consumer finance
From Apophenia
I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the day in which cell phones are viable on planes. Or when VOIP isn't…
From Putting People First
Microsoft Research's 'Technology for Emerging Markets' group
The Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in emerging-market countries, including those who are increasingly consuming computing technologies and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Announces Intelligence Effort
I was a long time user of Wolfram's Mathematica in the enterprise. I also read parts of his epic book: A New Kind of Science. Which is now online in its entirety. Neither of these two sources, though remarkable, are very friendly…
From insideHPC
Cray and virtualization provider ScaleMP hook
From Cray’s website this morning, news that Cray is partnering with ScaleMP to use virtualization technology to bring shared memory to the company’s CX1 deskside super Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What if?
Ken Karakotsios has a new post in his simulation blog called What if?. There he outlines the nature of models and simulation in a non-technical way. Over the years I have found this much misunderstood by both management and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Exposes a TeraByte
Article on Amazon's public data sets, worth taking a look:" ... Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business…