Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2016
From Schneier on Security
I'm a Wall Street Journal Acrostic Answer
A quote from Data and Goliath is the answer to a Wall Street Journal acrostic. It's not the same as being a New York Times crossword puzzle answer, but it's close....
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Development Engineer at MSC Software
MSC Software in Newport Beach, California is seeking an HPC Development Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The Development Engineer – HPC Scientist will create innovative parallel methods and implementations, primarily focused…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT
In the HBR. The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. This means that IT departments are being pulled out of their traditional “gate keeper” role ofWhile…
From Schneier on Security
Companies Handing Source Code Over to Governments
ZDNet has an article on US government pressure on software companies to hand over copies of their source code. There's no details because no one is talking on the record, but I also believe that this is happening. When asked,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtually Observing your IOT Environment
I remember a similar VR application suggested: Observing behind the walls of a building (based on blueprints) in order to do maintenance planning and operations. . Now add the ability to understand the flow of data involved…
From insideHPC
Thomas Sterling Weighs in on the OpenHPC Community
Over at the OpenHPC Blog, Thomas Sterling from Indiana University describes why the Crest Project has joined the OpenHPC Community: "We want to make a specific contribution. By associating ourselves with an emergent framework…
From insideHPC
Video: Implementing Rack Scale Architectures with Open Hardware Designs
In this video from the Open Server Summit, Dolly Wu from Inspur presents: Implementing Rack Scale Architectures with Open Hardware Designs. "There are several major rackscale open hardware platforms currently available, including…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Future World of Robots
Nature looks at a future world of 2040 where everyone has a helper robot. " .... Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine. by Declan Butler …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coding Tips for Speeding up Python
Technical in CWorld: This came up in a recent effort. Python is an interpreted language, thus slower than codes like C or Java. But there are ways to improve the comparison. Though today we have much faster machines, we are…
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at EasyBuild Installation Framework
"EasyBuild, a software build and installation framework, can be used to automatically install software and generate environment modules. By using a hierarchical module naming scheme to offer environment modules to users in a …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbia Master of Science in Applied Analytics
Via Kaiser Fung" ... We have a bunch of classes in the "leadership, management, andcommunications" area, listed here:http://ce.columbia.edu/applied-analytics/master-of-science-in-applied-analytics/courses ... " A conversation…
From insideHPC
IBTA Plugfest Expands EDR InfiniBand & RoCE Ecosystem
IBTA’s world-class compliance and interoperability program ensures the dependability of the evolving InfiniBand specification, which in turn broadens industry adoption and user confidence,” said Rupert Dance, co-chair of the …
From insideHPC
Video: Lessons Learned on the Road to Tundra ES Hardware
Phil Pokorny from Penguin Computing presented this talk at the Open Compute Project Summit. "Tundra ES delivers the advantages of Open Computing in a single, cost-optimized, high-performance architecture. Organizations can integrate…
From insideHPC
Nimbix & Bitfusion Deliver Affordable High Performance GPU Resources in the Cloud
Today Nimbix and Bitfusion rolled out a new combined solution to offer more choices to application developers looking for high performance GPU accelerators on an on-demand basis. The Nimbix Cloud, powered by JARVICE, now integrates…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Federal Highway Administration Driving Study Webinar
Join the Federal Highway Administration for the first in a series of webinars on Tuesday April 5th from 1:00PM-2:30PM (ET) on their program SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) Pooled Fund, which will conduct ground breaking…
From insideHPC
Rescale Cloud Speeds Manor Racing Trackside Simulation
Manor Racing will use Rescale’s cloud high performance computing platform to enable trackside simulation on a whole new scale for the team. Working in tandem with Manor Racing’s existing race strategy simulation software, the…
From updated sporadically at best
What The Bachelor Teaches Us About Choosing a PhD Advisor
This post was an experiment in simultaneous co-writing with Claire Le Goues, fellow CMU Computer Science professor, fellow undergraduate alumna of advisor Greg Morrisett from the time he was at Harvard University, and fellow-…
From Schneier on Security
New NIST Encryption Guidelines
NIST has published a draft of their new standard for encryption use: "NIST Special Publication 800-175B, Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic Mechanisms." In it, the Escrowed Encryption…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
A trick of language and echoing Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun before I began the blog—there must be some connection. Today I want to share…
From insideHPC
Modernizing Code with the Intel Vectorization Advisor
Threading plus vectorization together can increase the performance of an application more than one technique or the other. Threading and vectorizing an application are two techniques that are known to increase the performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lucid and Cyc for Pattern Recognition
Description of Lucid, which combines pattern recognition and learned AI using Cyc,The Next Step Artificial Intelligence Has Been Waiting ForOver 800 AIs can crunch your data. Only one can understand it. ... No way shown thattheir…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Advance of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
In CACM: Video and text. Useful from both a statement of problems and approaches." .... Indeed, new tools and new techniques—particularly open source technologies such as Google's word2vec neural text processing tool—combined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Anthropology
In Innovation Excellence: As I recall we had one corporate anthropologist. Don't know if that still the case. What is that and what is it meant to produce? An overview.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Futurist Blog
I recently read James Altucher's Medium post: Three Trends for the next 50 Years, which I liked, that made me revisit his futurist blog. More that just about what will happen, but also what to do about it. Worth a read.
From Computational Complexity
The Value of Shapley
Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley passed away Saturday. We best know Shapley for his stable matching algorithm with David Gale. Nicole Immorlica guest posted on stable matching shortly after Gale's passing in 2008. I'd like to talk…
From Putting People First
Let’s See What We Can Do: Designing Agency
In a Medium essay that we missed during the Christmas break, Dr Dan Lockton asks how we can invert ‘design for behaviour change’ and apply it from below, enabling people to understand, act within, and change the behaviour of …
From Putting People First
GOV.AU is a ‘mental model’ of government
Leisa Reichelt, Head of Service Design of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office, explains how the research for the GOV.AU prototype showed that people are struggling to interact with government – because they have no mental…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quietly Supersonic
Remember seeing the Concorde over London a number of times, and then over West Chester Ohio for the last time. Would be nice to see the capability again. Quietly too. Why not?Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
InHalio Just Launched
" ... We have been in development on this for the last four years…therefor heads down and nose to the grind stone and all that…as you know. .... 5th Screen Digital, Inc. just launched the new website today which reflects our…
From insideHPC
Video: How New Cray Supercomputers at NOAA will Improve Forecasting
"This significant investment in our operational supercomputers equips us to handle the tidal wave of data that new observing platforms will generate and allows us to push our science and operations into exciting new territory…