Communications of the ACM
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March 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Runners Home Delivery
Brought to my attention via a door nob hanger: The Grocery Runners. A third party company that delivers grocery items from Kroger markets. Kroger recently started self pickup tests of grocery orders in the area, this is a potential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog and the Future of the Supermarket
A nicely done article in Epicurious on technology and the supermarket. Also speculation about what form the market will take in the future. Proud to say that we experimented with all the ideas presented there in our innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Interactive Graphs in R
In DSC: A good example of interactive use of R. The package has an amazing number of alternatives. Just a matter of learning some of the options and details.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
David Johnson: 1945-2016
David just passed away David Johnson was a computer theorist who worked on many things, with special emphasis on the care and treatment of hard computational problems. Ken and I are sad today to hear that David just passed away…
From Schneier on Security
Plagiarism in Crossword Puzzles
Yet another fraud discovered through data analysis....
From insideHPC
Slidecast: How to Make MPI Awesome – MPI Sessions
In this slidecast, Jeff Squyres from Cisco Systems presents: How to make MPI Awesome - MPI Sessions. "As a proposal for future versions of the MPI Standard, MPI Sessions could become a powerful tool tool to improve system resiliency…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Create a Trusted Hub to Engage
Not unknown. Have to do it well. In Adage: " ... L'Oreal Creates Unbranded Content Hub to Woo Beauty Fans ... Beauty Site Called Fab Even Covers Rival Brands ... ".
From insideHPC
Paving the Way for Theta and Aurora
"One of the ALCF’s primary tasks is to help prepare key applications for two advanced supercomputers. One is the 8.5-petaflops Theta system based on the upcoming Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor, code-named Knights Landing (KNL) and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Possibilities for the Amazon Echo
The NYT talks about the Amazon Echo. " ... This time it may be different. A bit more than a year after its release, the Echo has morphed from a gimmicky experiment into a device that brims with profound possibility. The longer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearing the Fog in Neuroscience
Clearing the Fog on NeuroscienceElissa MosesCEO, Ipsos Neuro and Behavioral Science CenterAs an advocate and practitioner of applied neuroscience, I want to address some misunderstandings of what consumer neuroscience is and,…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominate for NSA Best Cybersecurity Paper Competition
The National Security Agency is seeking nominations for its Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. The 4th competition is open for nominations until March 31st, 2016 for any peer reviewed paper published in 2015…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Group Chat
A little while back was invited to a Slack conversation. I was initially impressed by the easy of interaction. But as the conversation evolved it started to degrade into disorganization. So perhaps it only works because starting…
From insideHPC
Rich Graham Presents: The Exascale Architecture
Rich Graham presented this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Exascale levels of computing pose many system- and application- level computational challenges. Mellanox Technologies, Inc. as a provider of end-to-end communication…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Juniper Networks Partner for Next-gen Datacenter Infrastructure
"Lenovo is on a mission to become the market leader in datacenter solutions," said Gerry Smith, Lenovo executive vice president and chief operating officer, PC and Enterprise Business Group. "We will continue to invest in the…
From My Biased Coin
David Johnson
I was sad to learn that David Johnson passed away. David was a leader in the theoretical computer science community for decades, both in his research and in his dedicated service to the community. He is a role model, and should…
From Computational Complexity
David Johnson (1945-2016)
From insideHPC
Empowering Cloud Utilization with Cloud Bursting
Cloud computing has become a strong alternative to in house data centers for a large percentage of all enterprise needs. Most enterprises are adopting some form of could computing, with some estimates that as high as 90 % are…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Ukraine's Power Grid
This is an excellent article on the December hack of Ukraine's power grid....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Not To Be Boring
Every morning while I eat breakfast I view a few things on the Internet. Dilbert is one of them. Sometimes I find things that apply to teachers as well as managers.
I thought I was doing so well as I created my wonderful PowerPoints…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for the IOT
From IOTCentral: Predictions from a number of players for 2016. Some insightful thoughts. By David Oro.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Nonlinear Career Path
I've had a really nonlinear career path. One step forward, two step sideways, new goal, start it all again...
My interest in computers started at a young age. I was lucky that my dad, a government worker, was able to bring home…From updated sporadically at best
Women's Voices: A Reading List
While I have mixed feelings about celebrating the fact that women are often so underappreciated we need to set aside a day for honoring women, I'll use International Women's Day as an excuse to put together a partial list of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Sloan on Work Behind Analytics Success
Beyond the Hype The Hard Work Behind Analytics SuccessWhy competitive advantage from analytics is declining and what to do about it(Full paper Requires registration, available for limited time) Includes, among other examples,…
From insideHPC
IBM Opens First Cloud Datacenter in South Africa
Today IBM that it is opening a new Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new cloud center is the result of a close collaboration with Gijima and Vodacom and is designed to support cloud adoption and customer demand…
From Schneier on Security
Pirates Hack into Shipping Company's Database
A group of pirates -- the real kind -- determined which cargo to steal by hacking into a shipping company's database. Here's the report....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking advertising
In MediaDailyNews: ... Amazon is about to change how companies and agencies allocate global media budgets. That is a side effect of its move to build a different type of global logistics and delivery model that will rival Federal…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 7
Senate Committees hold hearings on the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2017. This week is a designated district work period for the House. Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Field Hearing: Commercializing on Innovation: Reauthorizing…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on DMCA Section 1201
USACM submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office for its study on the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the permanent and temporary exemptions allowing lawful circumvention of technological…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Moshe Vardi
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 2:00pm EST by Dr. Moshe Y. Vardi titled…
From insideHPC
Video: Ubercloud Workloads & Marketplace
"UberCloud specializes in running HPC workloads on a broad spectrum of infrastructures, anywhere from national centers to public Cloud services. This session will be review of the learnings of UberCloud Experiments performed …