Communications of the ACM
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March 2016
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Encounters with HCI pioneers: a personal photo journal
The following is a guest blog post by Beth Mynatt, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair and professor of Interactive Computing and the executive director of Georgia Tech‘s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Moments for Online Purchasing
Good think with Google piece. More statistics about key micro moments.30% of all online purchases now occur on Mobile Phones.Mobile Retail Apps and Sites: Designing a Better Experience for Shoppers ... In a booming e-commerce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on the Digital Company
Talk by John Chambers of Cisco: How significant is the digital era? It’s the biggest technology transition in history, according to Cisco’s executive chairman—and requires a proportional response from companies. ... "
From The Noisy Channel
Technology Can Help Us Collaborate
In my previous post, I argued that collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily — a technical challenge.
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for PRACE Ada Lovelace HPC Award
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace HPC Award. The new award recognizes woman who are making an outstanding contributions to HPC in Europe.
The post Nominations Open for PRACE Ada Lovelace HPC Award appeared first…From insideHPC
Industry Shifts to Open Infrastructure as OpenPOWER Foundation Gains Momentum
Calista Redmond from IBM presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach…
From insideHPC
Techila & Google Bringing on-demand HPC to Every Desk
"The Techila user experience available in Google Cloud Launcher revolutionizes simulation and analysis. Techila’s patented end-to-end solution integrates the scalable power of Google Cloud Platform seamlessly into popular tools…
From Putting People First
Ford’s quest to remake itself into a master of UX
Ford, bastion of the old-school American economy, is now trying to recast itself as a company built around user experience. It’s finally trying to see its cars through the customer’s eyes. It’s designing for them. Ford used to…
From Schneier on Security
Brennan Center Report on NSA Overseas Spying and Executive Order 12333
The Brennan Center has released a report on EO 12333, the executive order that regulates the NSA's overseas surveillance. Much of what the NSA does here is secret and, even though the EO is designed for foreign surveillance,…
From insideHPC
Learn the Latest Cognitive and Big Data Tools at the Hartree Hack
The STFC Hartree Centre in the UK will host a Hackathon for coders, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and start-ups in May. The event will take place May 18-20 at the Hartree Centre in Cheshire. In partnership with IBM Watson…
From insideHPC
Video: Welcome to HPC in Switzerland
Michele de Lorenzi from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference. "Founded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and provides…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 March 2016
It’s Spring! And as I work on this Sunday afternoon I am wondering if we will have enough snow to cancel school tomorrow. I’m thinking we will not but it’s still fun to think about. Computers have make weather forecasting a lot…
From Computational Complexity
Hillary Putnam passed away on March 13
Hillary Putnam passed away on March 13, 2016. Some of the obits say he was a philosopher, mathematician, logician, and computer scientist. He is probably best known to readers of this blog for his work on Hilbert's 10 problem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pluto and its Moons Influence our World of Data
This blog isn't about astronomy, but it is my background, and just this week, new papers and remarkable images regarding Pluto and its Moons. We can now see so far away and manage such huge amounts of data. Reapplying these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Analytics Driving Grocery
Interesting view of Grocery and Big Data. The complexity of grocery and its data, driving the utilization of the aisle.Consumer buying behavior: How grocery stores can tap big data to meet shopper demandby Barbara ThauIt's no…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capital One is on the Echo
Music, Shopping lists, Trivia. Simple Games. All entertainment interactions. But now Capital One is on the Amazon Echo. Quite an interesting uptick on the seriousness of the voice channel. Yes, I would be worried about the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Data Preparation
Watson linking to Cognos. And note too the link to data preparation, often a messy issue.New! Self-service Data Preparation Tool for Watson Analytics and Cognos AnalyticsWith Datawatch Monarch for IBM Analytics, you get easy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need a Smart Home Air Freshener?
Brought to my attention. Note the ability to link to smart home hub. How much consumer interest will there be? Novelty vs value? Another leveraging of Febreze.P&G's Sci-Fi Air Freshener Makes Your House Smell Smartby …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Machine Unlearning
In the CACM: " ... Researchers at Lehigh and Columbia University have developed a machine-learning method that involves making such systems forget the data's "lineage" so they can remove the data and undo its effects and allow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of Selling to the C-Suite
C Suite as most receptive audience. Saw this in a number of examples, even within the big and bloated enterprise. Less cultural flap and interference. xpectation of value was understood, Need for disruptive change. Harder…
From insideHPC
Henry Newman on Why Workloads Matter More Than IOPS
Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Henry Newman looks at why we should focus on how much work gets done rather than specifications as disk drives and SSDs get faster and faster. This is not a new rant for Henry, and in fact the…
From insideHPC
Video: Cray Powers More Accurate Forecasts at ECMWF
In this video, Al Roker from the Today Show looks at how Cray XC30 supercomputers give ECMWF more accurate forecasts than we get here in America. ECMWF uses advanced computer modeling techniques to analyze observations and predict…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Capital
A topic I did a study on a few years ago and reported on here as 'Data assets'. A favorite issue that asks the questions: How can I predict the value of a data asset under given and changing contexts? A Bayesian model of this…
From insideHPC
HPC4Mfg Seek New Proposals from Industry
A new DOE program designed to spur the use of high-performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing is now seeking a second round of proposals from industry to compete for approximately $3 million in new funding. “We …
From insideHPC
GCS Centres Successfully Complete Extreme Scaling Workshops
Results are now in from Extreme Scaling Workshops held recently at the Gauss Centres for Supercomputing in Germany. With 20 participating teams, the workshops were designed to improve the computational efficiency of applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acellerators and Incubators for Corporate Transformation.
Stefan Lindegaard ... Author, speaker, advisor on corporate transformation, (open) innovation management and the people side of innovation ...Accelerators and Incubators for Corporate Transformation: Coca-Cola, Cisco and MetLife…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Ballet: Eliminating Traffic Lights with Car Sensors
A somewhat exciting and scary idea out of MIT:As vehicles become more wirelessly connected, communicating with each other and the infrastructure around them, traffic lights may become an unnecessary impediment in getting from…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Review Period Open for First Full Draft of the K-12 CS Framework
Writing the K12 Computer Science Framework is an ongoing effort by a writing team of several dozen computer science educators with review and advise from many more. A month or so ago the first, but incomplete, draft was reviewed…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Braised Squid With Harissa and Olives
Recommended recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What will Make Future Computing more Powerful?
As Moore's law slows, what will drive new capabilities in computing? Lots of things. Quantum computing, new form of parallelism, more accessible data, AI to use cognitive methods. And more. A decisive move from hardware…