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 Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Mapinfo
Used the package Mapinfo several times in the enterprise. Including the construction of front ends for optimization packages for the supply chain. The world of geographical information systems has changed considerably in the…
From insideHPC
Calit2 at UCSD Teams with
Darkstrand has announced a recent collaborative agreement with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Calit2] at the University of California, San Diego.
From insideHPC
JAIST Puts Cray XT5 Into
Cray announced today that the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [JAIST] has put the country’s first XT5 supercomputer into production.
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search eBook
Ron Miller, Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine and Editor at FierceContentManagement, just released a free eBook on enterprise search: I’m pleased to announce my new eBook: Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search. I created…
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search eBook
Ron Miller, Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine and Editor at FierceContentManagement, just released a free eBook on enterprise search: I’m pleased to announce my new eBook: Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search. I created…
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search eBook
Ron Miller, Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine and Editor at FierceContentManagement, just released a free eBook on enterprise search: I’m pleased to announce my new eBook: Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search. I created…
From insideHPC
Leak in supercomputer building forces replacement of $4M in
Late last week Indystar.com reported that a steam leak in a building being built to house Indiana University’s supercomputers forced the replacement of $4.2M in support gear According to IU architect Bob Meadows He says repairs…
From insideHPC
German Windows-HPC user group
I love posts like these. Christian Terboven recaps the second meeting of the German Windows-HPC user group at his blog. The Second Meeting of the German Windows-UPC User Group took place on March 30th and 31st in Dresden with…
From insideHPC
Software simplifies proteomics research on Amazon
News posted at HPCwire late last week of a new software package that simplifies the task of using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud for proteomics research Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering…
From insideHPC
Cisco buys scheduling, application performance management software
Timothy Prickett Morgan reported at The Register late last week that Cisco has announced plans to purchase Tidal Software for $105M. Tidal Software, a privately held maker of job scheduling, application performance management…
From Springenwerk Blog
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Ear Sound Biometrics
Positive identification by ear sound biometics. Had heard of this proposed in 2007 when it was first funded and now it has made some progress.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Hand-Scanning Groceries
Another piece on the Scan It! system from Modiv Media. Article is interesting because it discusses actual shopper reactions to the in-aisle scanning idea. It confirms some of our own innovation center tests. There are shoppers…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Communication Skills for Computer Science Students
Becoming an effective problem solver is an important skill for our students to master. And, just as important is developing strong interpersonal skills. Our students must be able to communicate effectively with human beings …
From The Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris Anderson, Dave Winer, Jason Calcanis, Jeff Jarvis, Mark Cuban, Mike…
From The Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris Anderson, Dave Winer, Jason Calcanis, Jeff Jarvis, Mark Cuban, Mike…
From The Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris Anderson, Dave Winer, Jason Calcanis, Jeff Jarvis, Mark Cuban, Mike…
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the inevitable fallibility of algorithmic models. Perhaps my stance…
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the inevitable fallibility of algorithmic models. Perhaps my stance…
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the inevitable fallibility of algorithmic models. Perhaps my stance…
From insideHPC
A visual timeline of the rise and sale of
Inspired by the text timeline that Siliconvalley.com (a publication of the Mercury News) put out on 01 April, I’ve created a graphical timeline of the rise and sale of SGI. I started with some of the events that they put in,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pharmaceutical Compliance
Compliance in pharma is about determining if people take their medications according to schedule. Efforts like the 'smart' medicine cabinet have been demonstrated for a long time as solutions. Demonstrated the idea in innovation…
From insideHPC
CilkArts: The Voodoo that You
Matteo Frigo of CilkArts has posted a very detailed account of why certain idiosyncrasies exist in the Cilk language constructs as well as its C++ parent. For those not in the know, CilkArts distributes a commercially supported…
From insideHPC
University of Michigan Scores a
The University of Michigan Center for Arrythmia Research is has announced their use of a SiCortex machine dedicated to the study of heart arrhythmia.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Logistics
Good overview of what Unilever is doing in logistics, in Consumer Goods Technology. Nothing very surpirsing here, covers their work with BravoSolution. " ... The goal: Identify ways to maintain service levels while driving cost…
From insideHPC
Addison Snell remembers
Addison Snell, now of Tabor Research, but once of SGI, remembers his time at SGI and offers his view of what went wrong: Do you know what the saddest part is of Rackable
From insideHPC
Mathematica
My latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Mathematica takes on parallelism” I discuss last November’s announcement of Mathematica 7, and how it bakes parallelism and high performance computing in from the ground up. Also up,…
From insideHPC
Yahoo! brings in four universities into cloud research
The Yahoo! M45 project (also part of the Open Cirrus cloud effort funded by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel and hosted at facilities around the world) just took a pretty big step forward. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have been using…
From Wild WebMink
The "yes I was on the web over Easter" link selection
Statebook Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that are directly a problem, it's their aggregation and triangulation…
From insideHPC
IBM stream computing prototype achieves big performance boost for TD
In March of last year I began writing about an IBM research effort to develop a new hardware and software architecture for ingesting and analysing large scale streams of data in real time; what they call stream computing (here…