Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complete Guide to Twitter Analytics
Instructive piece. Was just asked to look at the analytics of twitter as an engagement, and thus an advertising medium. Is it too ephemeral to be useful? 52 pages via Simply Measured. You can turn on your Twitter analytics…
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post by Thomas Zeume on App of Ramsey Thy to Dyn Desc Comp.
Guest Post by Thomas Zeume on Lower Bounds for Dynamic Descriptive Complexity (A result that uses Ramsey Theory!) In a previous blog post Bill mentioned his hobby to collect theorems that apply Ramsey theory. I will present…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curating Personalization through E-commerce
An interesting approach I had not considered. In Progressive Grocer.How grocers can customize and curate through e-commerce E-commerce is a good place for grocers to start to boost customization and curation efforts, according…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOM is Gone
I see that the tech innovation blog GigaOM has shut down for lack of funds. Too, bad, they were often quoted here. Had excellent content. But hard to monetize without becoming all infomercials. . Readers are still out there…
From insideHPC
The insideHPC Guide to HPC in Life Sciences
The term next generation sequencing (NGS) is really a misnomer. NGS implies a single methodology, but the fact is that over the past 10 to 15 years there have been multiple generations and the end is nowhere in sight. Technological…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Big Data Analytics in the Big Leagues
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at Big Data Analytics in sports. According to recent reports, at least one team in Major League Baseball is using a Cray Urika system in a bid to gain competitive advantage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synchronicity and Decision Making
Synchronicity by Hassine Saidane Which I had not heard described before. A technical and academic view, but intriguing." ... In a previous article I argued that in order to ensure the highest performance, decision makersMost…
From insideHPC
IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next
IEEE has launched something it calls Rebooting Computing (RC), "an initiative that proposes to rethink the computer through a holistic look that addresses all aspects of computing." Through exponential performance scaling, the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Watch And ResearchKit
RetailWire on the Apple Watch. I watched part of the announcement. I am not particularly interested in a watch that replaces or even augments some of the functionality of my smart phone. Another device to deal with. Was struck…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On rote memorization and antiquated skills
When I write that we should focus on teaching useful skills, and avoid rote memorization… I get far more opposition than I expect. To my surprise, there is an abundant supply of teachers and parents openly supporting rote memorization…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: New IBTA Volume 1 Specification Release
In this slidecast, Bill Lee and Rupert Dance from the InfiniBand Trade Association describe the new IBTA Volume 1 Specification Release. "The new release defines new capabilities that will enable computer systems to keep up with…
From insideHPC
PNNL Simulations Point to Accelerating Climate Change
"An analysis of changes to the climate that occur over several decades suggests that these changes are happening faster than historical levels and are starting to speed up. The Earth is now entering a period of changing climate…
From Schneier on Security
Geotagging Twitter Users by Mining Their Social Graphs
New research: Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization," by Ryan Compton, David Jurgens, and David Allen. Abstract: Geographically annotated social media is extremely valuable for modern…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
YouthSpark Challenge for Change
Microsoft runs all sorts of competitions. Recently I read about the YouthSpark Challenge for Change. Since it is no open to 13 to 17 year olds (aka high school students) I thought I would post information about it here.
YouthSpark…
From Putting People First
Empathy makes you only more egocentric
In a battery of experiments, Imperial College’s Johannes Hattula and his coresearchers Walter Herzog, Darren Dahl, and Sven Reinecke interviewed marketing managers about their personal preferences for a selected product or service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fridge Caught Sending Spam
From CNetFridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack ... In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet of Things has been used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spam emails...... "
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 9
The Senate is scheduled to vote this week on the nominations of Michelle Lee to be the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Daniel Marti as the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. March 11 Hearing:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Successful with Private Labels
Branding private label at Kroger has been very successful, What are the dimensional characteristics of such a label to make it most powerful? The data must exist. In FoodBusinessNews:" ... Kroger's Simple Truth and Simple…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The mathematics we teach our kids…
Math education has made progress compared to my school days in specific areas. For example, I am really happy that statistics and probabilities are fully integrated with how we teach mathematics today. I cannot remember learning…
From insideHPC
Geoff Lyon Elected Chair of Green Grid Liquid Cooling Work Group
The Green Grid Liquid Cooling Work Group has elected Geoff Lyon as Chairman. Lyon is CEO/CTO at CoolIT Systems, the world leader in Direct Contact Liquid Cooling.
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supermicro Tunes up with New Intel Xeon D-1500
In this Chip Chat podcast, John Nguyen from Supermicro discusses the new "System on a Chip" Intel Xeon Processor D-1500 and how Supermicro is integrating this new solution into their products.
From Schneier on Security
Identifying When Someone is Operating a Computer Remotely
Here's an interesting technique to detect Remote Access Trojans, or RATS: differences in how local and remote users use the keyboard and mouse: By using biometric analysis tools, we are able to analyze cognitive traits such as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple ResearchKit
Watched Apple's announcement of Researchkit today, and the inclusion of a number of diagnostic and research supporting Apps. To be made available Open Source. Impressive announcement, will be looking more deeply. Will follow…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Releases OpenOptics MSA Specifications for Open Compute Project
Today Mellanox and RANOVUS, today announced that the OpenOptics MSA is contributing the developed wavelength specifications to the Open Compute Project (OCP).
From insideHPC
Izmir Institute of Technology Manages HPC with Bright Computing
Today Bright Computing announced that Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE) is using the company's software to manage its HPC infrastructure.
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Software Defined Infrastructure for HPC
"Imagine an entire IT infrastructure controlled not by hands and hardware, but by software. One in which application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Data Visualizations in R
It is instructive, especially for those with professional coding experience, to see a complete example of code in another language that does something that is clearly defined. Visualizations are a good example. You want to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Case Worker Cognitive Assistant
CUNY Students Envision a Watson Social Case Worker Cognitive Assistant for NYC. Reported in the Cognitive Systems Institute group site. More at the link.
From Schneier on Security
Attack Attribution and Cyber Conflict
The vigorous debate after the Sony Pictures breach pitted the Obama administration against many of us in the cybersecurity community who didn't buy Washington's claim that North Korea was the culprit. What's both amazing -- and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Internship, PIF, and other Fellowship Opportunities
Check out these upcoming internship and fellowship opportunities for students. White House OSTP Internship- Deadline: Sunday, March 15th The Office of Science and Technology Policy is currently accepting applications for its…