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 The Noisy Channel
The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search clique that Wednesday evening. As I’m helping get the HCIR ‘09 workshop…
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the ACM that caught my attention: “Database and Information-Retrieval…
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the ACM that caught my attention: “Database and Information-Retrieval…
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the ACM that caught my attention: “Database and Information-Retrieval…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The primary and secondary benefits of e-networking
Social networking tools such as blogs, microblogs (Twitter), and Facebook, extend your communication abilities. The immediate benefits are threefold:
Increased broadcast capacity: you can now reach 200, 500 or 1000 people daily…From insideHPC
Compete for access to the world
The DOE has recently announced its call for proposals for those seeking time on select supercomputers through the INCITE program. From the DOE HPC page For the seventh consecutive year, the Innovative and Novel Computational…
From insideHPC
MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with
NVIDIA is offering a seminar today at 1 eastern (US) time that covers MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with Jacket from AccelerEyes: Get 10x-50x speed-ups in MATLAB life science applications by using the Jacket CUDA-plugin for GPU…
From insideHPC
Sun tries to move past questions left by abandoned IBM
An article in NetworkWorld Middle East features comments by Sun’s hardware chief John Fowler aimed at getting in front of questions that potential buyers have about investing in Sun after recent talks with IBM shut down. The…
From insideHPC
New VP, new business for
Cray has been in the process of formalizing a new line of business for at least a couple of months. Its “custom engineering” business will help customers with specialized requirements get access to Cray’s engineering bench to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindsets and Models and Risk
From Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking Risk Management: Why the Mindset Matters More Than the Model. Good piece on how to think about new architectures of risk. In the past large companies cranked out the financial models and"…
From Wild WebMink
Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments
Why is it so hard to get governments (especially local government) to use open source software? Here are some ideas discussed during my keynote today in Oslo at GoOpen 2009 for practical steps various people, from citizens to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dan Ariely on Buggy Moral Code
Dan Ariely author of Predictably Irrational in a Februry TED video talk on Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes). He covers some of this same example in his book but it is also interesting to listen to. I previously…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shortcomings of the Pie Chart
In Seedmagazine: Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century? Well I am not sure I think that PC's are always the best way to visually…
From insideHPC
Platform opens cloud innovation center in
This week Platform Computing announced a new innovation center around its cloud software and services in Singapore Platform Computing, the leader in grid and cloud computing software, today announced plans to open a Cloud Innovation…
From insideHPC
Argonne takes more steps to manage energy
I talked to Pete Beckman of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility back in December about a really simple, but interesting, idea that he had implemented to save energy in the ALCF Argonne National Labs is part of the Department…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating in Emergent Markets
Tata and Unilever in emerging marketings, from Andrea Meyers' Working Knowledge. " ... How you get a product to market may be as important as what you get to market... "
From Putting People First
Gathering User Ideas
Nokia’s IdeasProject website is intriguing. A content focused platform focused on high level discourse, it contains interviews with thought leaders in communications technology and disruptive ideas, and get’s updated on a nearly…
From insideHPC
Cooling your datacenter with outside air, and what
Found at Enterprise IT Planet’s Green IT news weekly roundup, two items of interest to us HPC types According to a survey by IDC, 68 percent of IT executives rated energy efficiency as
From BLOG@CACM
Hello, Computer
Reflections on the present and future of speech-based interfaces.
From insideHPC
Intel announces Q1, reports
A quickie from Intel, announcing Q1 results: Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $7.1 billion, operating income of $670 million, net income of $647 million and earnings per share (EPS) of 11 cents. This…
From Putting People First
Organic interfaces workshop at CHI 2009
Carla Diana reports on Core77 at length about the highly conceptual CHI presentation/panel “Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials and Programmable Reality“, where heavy hitters presented their…
From The Noisy Channel
DeWitt and Stonebraker vs. MapReduce, Round 2
A few months ago, database titans David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker wrote
From insideHPC
Sun launches new HPC
At Sun’s Partner Summit on Tuesday the company announced a slew of new products for HPC. The head of Sun’s HPC sales organization, Marc Hamilton, hits some performance points in a light post that you can read here, and Sun’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Recent Social Media Efforts
P&G's Dave Knox posts about their recent Tide 'Loads of Hope' Social media effort: "... it looks like some have thought we were
From Putting People First
Data as seductive material
Matt Jones (of Dopplr) gave a talk recently on seduction at the Sensing and Sensuality conference at the Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. It’s all about seductive data visualisation. But as per usual, impossible to summarise…
From Putting People First
UCL London is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology
UCL (which is the abbreviation for “University College London” although you have to look at the site’s footer to find out) is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology. And it seems serious stuff. Digital technologies have become…
From The Noisy Channel
The SEO War On Terror
I try to keep this blog apolitical, but this is just too funny and sureally on-topic to pass up. According to The Register, the British Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) “plans to train government-approved groups…
From The Noisy Channel
The SEO War On Terror
I try to keep this blog apolitical, but this is just too funny and sureally on-topic to pass up. According to The Register, the British Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) “plans to train government-approved groups…
From insideHPC
Lustre Releases New Community
The folks within the Lustre group at Sun have announced the release of a new community site.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Death of Consumer Segmentation?
Insightful piece. Though really more about rethinking the idea of consumer segmentation and how it plays out in consumer decision-making. Makes the point that many of us knew, classic segmentation is a simplification for easy…