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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 March 2015
Last week was SIGCSE in Kansas City. From all reports it was a great conference. I wasn’t there but I followed as close as I could via Twitter. The twitter stream was active with lots of links, pictures and interesting comments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Azure Machine Learning Examination
Taking a closer look for a client at the MS Azure offerings. Mentioned here previously, as with most methods of these type, the introductory free and startup pricing is attractive on the Cloud. Reactions? See their blog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Observatory of the Brain
Stepping into the Digital Brain Library, the Google Earth of neuroscience. Part open science, part art project, Ars meets the future of open access brains. ... 'An Observatory of the brain' ... Not yet a library of digital…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for Open Fabrics Workshop, March 15-18 in Monterey
The OpenFabrics Alliance has published the agenda for their Developers' Workshop in Monterey, CA. Beginning with a March March 15 keynote by Katie Antipas from NERSC, the agenda will center around three major themes: Applications…
From insideHPC
Housing Registration Opens for SC15 in Austin
The SC15 housing site is now open through October. "Get your reservations in early! Hotels are looking to be a bit more expensive than we've seen at past conferences and the places with reasonable rates will go fast."
From BLOG@CACM
And That's a Wrap: SIGCSE 2015 Ends
The third and final day of the 46th annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education concluded with more technical information and a very informative closing keynote.
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Innovation Insight
An interesting, but fairly thin, infographic on how GE does innovation. Worth a look. Have always been impressed by how GE innovates.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Editing DNA?
In Technology Review: An exploration of today's capabilities. The ethics are vast. Engineering the Perfect Baby ... Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nausea and Virtual Reality
Although I am more prone to nausea than most in situations like sea sickness, my own experiences with virtual reality have not had me experience it there. In the NYT, looking for a way to address the problem. It will be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths and Mistakes in Research
Informative piece in O'Reilly. Good examples given. I can think of examples of these occurring even in a quite sophisticated company. " ... I can’t tell you how often I hear things from engineers like, “Oh, we don’t have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Innovation Moving to Asia?
Innovation moves east." ... This is also the first time that a Chinese company, Huawei, has made the list. Huawei is a company in the telecommunications sector. One reason for China’s absence in previous lists could be that,The…
From Geeking with Greg
Data Maven from Crunchzilla: A light introduction to statistics
Crunchzilla just launched Data Maven! Data Maven from Crunchzilla is a light introduction to statistics and data analysis. For too many teens and adults, if they think about statistics at all, they think it's boring, tedious,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning to Solve General Programming Problems
Peter Norvig of Google talks " ... keynotes on using machine learning techniques to solve more general software problems, helping both the advanced programmer and the novice .... ". Fascinating thought.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Assurance: Seamless Customer Experience
In K@W: A term and approach I had not heard of, but it does make sense," ... digital technologies envelop all spheres of business operations, the need for assurance of near-flawless performance in user experience and security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin and Twitter Contribute Machine Learning Libraries
In Infoq: Linkedin and Twitter contribute machine learning libraries. " ... Twitter’s engineering group, known for various contributions to open source from streaming MapReduce to front-end framework Bootstrap recently announced…
From insideHPC
Podcast: TACC Scientists and Geeks to Unite at SXSW
In this South by Southwest podcast, Maytal Dahan from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes an upcoming meet up: Science and Tech Meet Up: Scientists and Geeks Unite!
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects 2015
The Hot Interconnects 2015 Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place Aug. 26-28 in Santa Clara.
From BLOG@CACM
SIGCSE Day 2 Highlights
Reporting on the second day of the 46th annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. An entertaining keynote and the most popular topics of the symposium so far are discussed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Attribution
Former colleague Damon Ragusa on marketing complexity. In Linkedin:" ... A growing chorus of articles recently have extolled the virtues of various attribution models and derides the notion of the last click model. You’ve read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Repository
A Cognitive computing, cognitive systems, other applications knowledge repository, Considerable information I am just starting to explore. Via Jim Spohrer
From Putting People First
Why most customer experience efforts fail
It is no secret among Customer Experience (CX) professionals that most CX efforts fall flat. Forrester found that only 25% of CX professionals say their companies’ CX programs actually improve customer experience, and Avaya recently…
From Putting People First
[Book] Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday by Christine Hine Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 The internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon, but instead an unremarkable way…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan's LINE: Social Media with Personality
A Japanese colleague pointed this out to me. In FastCompany. Creative idea. Its a kind of digital/analog idea. Its making value of emojis. Does that work outside of Japan?" ... In Japan, the mobile messaging app LINE is…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Biodegradable Thermoplastic Inspired by Squid Teeth
There's a new 3D-printable biodegradable thermoplastic: Pennsylvania State University researchers have synthesized a biodegradable thermoplastic that can be used for molding, extrusion, 3D printing, as an adhesive, or a coating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
All Machine Learning Models have Flaws
Interesting view of alternative models to find models that describe data. And that all models have flaws. This is a technical view, that is probably not very useful to the decision maker thinking about alternatives. Useful…
From Schneier on Security
Data and Goliath's Big Idea
Data and Goliath is a book about surveillance, both government and corporate. It's an exploration in three parts: what's happening, why it matters, and what to do about it. This is a big and important issue, and one that I've…
From BLOG@CACM
SIGCSE Day 1 Is in the Books
It was a successful start to the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) in Kansas City, MO.
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOC Hype Fading?
In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Too early to tell, I believe. Perhaps regressing to its hype curve. Like many advanced technology ideas, it may be best currently seen as augmenting traditional education.
From insideHPC
Video: The Future of the Intel Mic Architecture
In this video, Intel's James Reinders and Vadim Karpusenko from Colfax International discuss the future of parallel programming and Intel MIC architecture products.
From Schneier on Security
FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK" -- "Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys" -- that can break the encryption of many websites. Basically, some sites' implementations of secure sockets layer technology, or SSL…