Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From insideHPC
Mentoring workshop for students seeking careers in high performance
NCSA is announcing a mentoring workshop to be held alongside their upcoming accelerator symposium A FREE mentoring workshop for undergraduate and graduate students on Careers in High Performance Systems (CHiPS) will be held July…
From insideHPC
There is a right way, and a wrong way, to
Dan Reed reposted an essay on his blog that recently appeared at the CACM blog in which he talks about the shortcuts (my word, not his) we took to get to petascale, and his hope that we take a longer view on the way to exascale…
From insideHPC
Nehalem memory cheat
Doug at ClusterMonkey pointed us to a Nehalem memory cheat sheet put together for Dell’s technology wiki by Jeff Layton. The writeup looks like a pretty complete summary of the various options for configuring memory on a Nehalem…
From Putting People First
Thinking about the future of news
The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from today’s stories):
From insideHPC
WRF Goes Version
The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration Curves
Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected. My only issue with this is the kind and quality of connections…
From insideHPC
NCAR-Wyoming: Full Steam
After nearly a year’s delay, the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s proposed supercomputing facility project in Cheyenne, Wyoming is moving forward.
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something actually happens beyond the war of words. Still, I recently…
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something actually happens beyond the war of words. Still, I recently…
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something actually happens beyond the war of words. Still, I recently…
From Apophenia
Does money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
Following a conference about qualitative methods, the National Science Foundation issued a report that provided "general guidance for developing qualitative research projects" and "recommendations for designing, evaluating, and…
From Apophenia
discussion of "impact" at the CHI conference
Yesterday, I attended the CHI conference (an ACM conference for those studying and working in the area of human-computer interaction). I had the privilege of speaking on a panel discussing the paper entitled "Scientometric Analysis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza Data Liberator
On the Data Liberator campaign from Netezza.
From BLOG@CACM
When Petascale Is Just Too Slow
Evolution or revolution, it’s the persistent question. Can we build reliable esascale systems from extrapolations of current technology or will new approaches be required? There is no definitive answer, as almost any approach…
From Wild WebMink
Lump of Links for April 11
The JRE Class White List - Google App Engine Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade. That includes being sure as a developer that all core classes are present…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper Uses 2D Barcode
New use of 2-D Barcodes in newspapers. A good idea. Newspapers have included URLs for a long time now, though I have also seen a reluctance to provide them this since it takes you away from the paper and leaves you on the Internet…
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops, it does feature a few who do it right, and I’m proud that two of…
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops, it does feature a few who do it right, and I’m proud that two of…
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops, it does feature a few who do it right, and I’m proud that two of…
From Putting People First
LIFT France and I Realize Italy
Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers, and activists who are inventing radically new ways to innovate…
From Putting People First
Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development
Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in Maputo, Mozambique. The workshop set out to understand the specific…
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb outing Magpie clients in his…
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb outing Magpie clients in his…
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb outing Magpie clients in his…
From Putting People First
IT viewed through a moral prism
An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester
From Wild WebMink
Faith Restored in TripIt But Not In BusinessWeek
I couldn't decide where to write about this though, since the two stories span two blogs, so it's over on my personal blog.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
e-Learning people: my top four
For a prospective Ph.D. student, I prepared a list of the 4 people I follow in e-Learning. (This list is not meant to represent the most important people. It is just my personal list. It is in no particular order.)
David Wiley…From The Noisy Channel
Reference vs. Referral
I just read an interesting “guessay” by designer Joshua Porter entitled “The Slow Erosion of Google Search“–which in turn cites an insightful essay by Brynn Evans, “Why social search won
From The Noisy Channel
Reference vs. Referral
I just read an interesting “guessay” by designer Joshua Porter entitled “The Slow Erosion of Google Search“–which in turn cites an insightful essay by Brynn Evans, “Why social search won
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nearly One Billion Apps Sold
Apple has 'sold' nearly a billion IPhone applications. Impressive, though many were for free..