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 Putting People First
What Matters at McKinsey
Consulting firm McKinsey has just launched a new website, called What Matters, that is an extensive collection of essays and interviews with opinion formers around the world. The content is categorized into ten big topics: Biotechnology…
From Putting People First
Designing the democratic
Jamie Owen, a visual information specialist for a training arm of the USA Department of Veterans Affairs argues on Boxes and Arrows that thinking outside of our own cultural influences can strengthen our design decisions. “The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurofocus Expands
Nielsen funded Neurofocus has announced its purchase of European based Neuroco to form what is likely the largest company that is applying Neuromarketing concepts. More and link to press release.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skittles Data Mining
Data mining the Skittles social media experiment by Manya Mayes, SAS text mining strategist. Not a lot of results yet, indicates more to come. Good pointers about how to do this. The blog: The Text Frontier, is worth following…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Pi Day Challenge
As head of CSTA's Professional Development Committee, I received the following message, which I thought might be of interest to many of you:
My name is Matthew Plummer. I teach math at Hanover High School, in Hanover, MA.
…From insideHPC
Australia says world
An article featured in The Western Australian yesterday outlines the region’s hopes for winning the Square Kilometre Array deepspace telescope bid, and getting the computer that goes along with it The backers of the $3 billion…
From insideHPC
YouTube video: cloud computing a disruptive
Found via AMDOpteron on Twitter (follow insideHPC), a YouTube video from the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco with brief on camera thoughts from IDC, AMD, and Red Hat folks on cloud computing. For more related articles…
From insideHPC
Even supercomputers not yet close to the raw power of human
Scientific American has a blog post this week about the IEEE’s 125th anniversary event. During the event one of the scientists present commented on his DARPA-funded research to reverse-engineer the brain’s computational abilities…
From insideHPC
Benmarking for HPC: focus on the whole
Short post on one of the Intel blogs about benchmarking in HPC, and the need to focus (or refocus, as the author frames it) on total application performance Want to improve application performance by 10x or 100x? Few HPC customers…
From Springenwerk Blog
FOWA Dublin 2009 Recap
I think there are 2 letters to sum up this event: OK. Content-wise, it was between OK and great. The organization of the event was terrible, though: The venue was too tight and crowded, the registration consisted of being pushed…
From insideHPC
New HPC platform aimed at financial
Kuberre Systems announced a new HPC platform today aimed primarily at the financial services industry. The platform, called HANSA, bundles hardware and software into a package aimed at ease of use for the financial industry HANSA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony TV Includes a Scanner
Storefrontbacktalk posts about a new Sony TV's remote which can act as a touchless RFID scanner. Nice idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide T-Shirts for Disaster Relief
Buy a T shirt in the Loads of Hope program and provide proceeds for disaster relief and advertise the idea. The idea is going viral and seems to be working. I know some people may see this as a kind of advertising ploy. Yet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Universal Access to Knowledge?
See In O'Reilly Radar, by Linda Stone, about the recent settlement between Google and publishers regarding the scanning of books. There now appears to be some concern that by paying for the scanning of books and the subsequent…
From Wild WebMink
Wednesday links on March 11
From insideHPC
Data Center World Day 1 links
Data Center Knowledge’s Rich Miller just posted a links roundup from day one of AFCOM’s Data Center World conference, with pointers to coverage and press releases from the conference. The roundup includes this piece Five Bold…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Growing a Computer Science Requirement
Japan has taken the bold step of recognizing a need for all high school graduates to have a formal computing course and has modified the high school graduation requirements to include a computing requirement.
Effective in 2003…From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Based Reasoning in Tough Economy
Register and Info here:Tomorrow at 10AM EDT: " ... IDC's Dan Vesset will present market research showing that increased analytic orientation leads to improved organizational performance. In the current economic environment even…
From insideHPC
ScaleMP announces vSMP Foundation
ScaleMP announced a new version of vSMP today ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, is announcing version 2.0 of its flagship vSMP Foundation software. This new release offers significantly…
From Putting People First
Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta
Jennifer Bove, a former Interaction-Ivrea student, sent me a link to a case study on a gestural entertainment center that she and a team at Kicker Studio developed for camera maker Canesta: Canesta, Inc. is the inventor of revolutionary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Gets Results from Social Networks
Short piece on Best Buy and Social Networks: " ... the intent of the developers was to create a network that could help flatten the organization, promoting the exchange of ideas among employees at all levels, including clerks…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are your research papers telling original stories?
Life is multidimensional. Research papers should be multidimensional too! We should ask several interesting questions. We should give several nuanced answers. We should expect more from the reviewers and the readers! Yet, in …
From insideHPC
IBM
From The Register again, news of IBM’s new 8 Gb Fibre Channel solution, based on QLogic’s daughter card IBM is making the rounds this week talking up a new 8 Gb Fibre Channel daughter cards for its BladeCenter blade servers,…
From insideHPC
Sun launches SSD solution for
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes at The Register on Sun’s launch of an enterprise SSD product for its midrange servers The company has already put SSDs in its “Amber Road” storage arrays, launched last November as the not-so-tersely…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA throws in cash, support to encourage new companies to build on its
Michael Feldman at HPCwire has written a feature on NVIDIA’s GPU Ventures Program, a new program designed to spur innovation in the marketplace of CPU-enabled products by supporting new companies with money, sales, and distribution…
From insideHPC
Pervasive launches new data-intensive computing
Pervasive just launched the first new product based on its DataRush data processing engine, about which I’ve written for HPCwire. The full release is posted at HPCwire “The massively parallel-processing horsepower of the Pervasive…
From insideHPC
HPC adoption conference
Found at HPCwire, news that research think tank RTI International is sponsoring a conference that addresses the business and innovation that need to be addressed by organizations considering the adoption of HPC for their business…
From insideHPC
I’m always iffy about the possessive on words that end in “s”. Anyway, Sun’s Ruud van der Pas read a recent blog post over at Cilk Arts comparying that company’s parallel development platform and OpenMP, and found fault Certain…
From insideHPC
NCSA funded to build community of science education
This is a cool idea, and I’m glad that someone is being funded to do this. Found at NCSA’s web site
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) recently received $599,965 from the National Science Foundation to…From insideHPC
New HPC-related
Found at ClusterMonkey: If you are interested in HPC Podcasts head on over to Research Computing and Engineering (RCE-Cast). Research Computing and Engineering targets topics relevant to the High Performance Computing (HPC) and…