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
Clouds, virtualization, and all
Sun’s HPC Watercooler points today to a webcast created by Jonathan Eunice (Illuminata) and Dan Olds (Gabriel Consulting) called “Cloud, virtualization, and All That.” I haven’t watched it, but intend to when I get back to my…
From The Noisy Channel
Google News Cluster Timelines
Just saw a post from Alex Chitu
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lite Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: LiteBI. A form of simplified business intelligence as a service. Also their blog. Taking a look now, would be interesting to see how this would compare to open source solutions like Pentaho. Has anyone…
From insideHPC
Intel
At IDF in Beijing Intel’s Pat Geslinger announced today that Ct will show up in a new parallel programming product scheduled to be in beta later this year Intel developed Ct with a singular vision: to provide programmers with…
From insideHPC
SDSC
Found at HPCwire today The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego announced today that its director, Fran Berman, will be leaving to accept the position of Vice President of Research…
From insideHPC
Sun comments on HPC sales team growth in face of
On Monday I commented on a post on Marc Hamilton’s blog in which he outlined a reorganization in the HPC sales organization to focus on that area as a growth activity. From Marc’s post Now we
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enriched Loyalty Card
From RetailWire. A new idea. A loyalty card with some additional benefits, such as low price guarantee if the price decreases within 7 days. Still is not about loyalty specific to a consumer, but rather about lower price.…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Its official: the standard programming language for multidimensional databases is MDX
Julian Hyde just announced that Oracle will support MDX: they were the last vendor to resist this Microsoft technology.
From insideHPC
Google Data Center
Alongside last week’s release of details on their proprietary data center technology, Google has released a video tour of a large data center example.
From insideHPC
Using HPC to visualize cultural
The High Performance Computing Program established jointly by the DOE and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the first recipients of grants of supercomputing time meant to explore the applications of…
From insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has announced its focus areas (PDF) for the summer conference In addition to world-renowned keynote speakers, ISC
From Putting People First
Sun Dial, a mobile application to alert muslims to prayer
Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it’s only natural that many of them will be using their gadgets to help them…
From Putting People First
Service design as the design of activity systems
Jeff Howard draws attention to a recent service design paper by Daniela Sangiorgi of Lancaster University: “Dr. Daniela Sangiorgi’s 2008 presentation from ISDN3 just came across my radar. It’s on Service Design as the Design…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-04-07 [del.icio.us]
- Deliberately Insecure Web Applications For Learning Web App Security (WebGoat, BadStore, Hacme, SecuriBench, WebMaven) Irongeek's Information Security site with tutorials, articles and other information.
From Putting People First
Keynote at CHI by Nokia Research
ACM reports that “a top researcher for Nokia Design [addressed] the need for effective cross-culture design research when developing informed and inspired designs for future mobile technologies. Jan Chipchase, who studies how…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Queue Now Online
ACM Queue magazine has now moved online. It features a number of articles and blogs on emergent technologies and issues of software engineering.
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things Googley and I’ve taken on the un-Googley task of championing…
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things Googley and I’ve taken on the un-Googley task of championing…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Broad-based Cybersecurity Bill Introduced
Senator Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) introduced last week a bill that would increase the role of the federal government in cybersecurity. S. 773 (text not yet available on THOMAS), in its present form, would mark a significant…
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC on October 23, 2009! You’ll recognize…
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC on October 23, 2009! You’ll recognize…
From The Noisy Channel
Great Blogging Tips from SEOmoz
I know that a number of you here are bloggers and trying to earn greater visibility for your blogs. I suggest you check out the “21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post” at the SEOmoz blog. It’s great advice that you…
From insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has issued a call for birds of a feather sessions (PDF) ISC
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Scratch Day
May 16, 2009 is Scratch day! This is an international celebration of Scratch, a software environment designed to help students create, learn, and program. Developed by the MIT Media Lab, students ages 8 and over can use Scratch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anniversary of Internet Rules
In the NYT: How the Internet Got its Rules. Forty years ago. It should be noted that this is about the Internet, not the Web, which took another twenty years to emerge. I used the Darpanet outgrowth of the Internet in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Home Automation Applications
A list of home automation applications for the IPhone. Companies that are providing them. Again an example of what I would like, a one device world. Standards are still an issue as you might expect.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers
We are preparing a special issue for the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression. True in all the previous methods you could be brief .…
From insideHPC
Sun
Forbes has an interesting video detailing a few of the high points in Sun’s technological history.
From insideHPC
NITRD testimony before House S&T
Melissa Norr at the CRA Policy Blog gives an excellent overview of yesterday’s testimony before the House S&T committee on the NITRD Act of 2009 (which hasn’t been introduced yet but is expected soon). The CRA’s Peter Lee, Deborah…