Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2015
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quantum Two-Finger Exercise
More mileage than expected from a little example Cropped from World Science Festival source Sean Carroll is a cosmologist in the Department of Physics at Caltech. He also maintains a blog, “Preposterous Universe,” and writes…
From Writing
What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?
My answer on Quora to What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goal: Cognitive Assistants for all Jobs
Via Jim Spohrer, how can you join into the task? I have joined in.Cognitive Systems Institute Group (CSIG)'s mission is cognitive assistants for all occupations:What is CSIG? Getting started developing cognitive assistants…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Selling More Beauty Brands
Quite a big sell off. In BizJournals: " ... Cincinnati-based P&G (NYSE: PG) sent sale documents to potential bidders for its Wella haircare unit along with cosmetics brands and its fragrance business, according to a Bloomberg…
From insideHPC
SGI Solutions for Next Generation Sequencing
The SGI UV system allows computational biologists to take a different, far more effective approach to dealing with the huge data sets generated by contemporary Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and analytic applications.
The post…From The Eponymous Pickle
NineSigma and Open Source Innovation
Listened in on a talk from NineSigma. Slides. Had been a while since I have connected with them. I like their direction:" ... Dr. Mehran Mehregany founded NineSigma in 2000 on the premise that industry needed an effective means…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking and Implementing Small
This reminds me of the work of E. F. Schumacher, read it in University, rarely mentioned these days it seems. I like the reminder in this presentation. " ... Kevlin Henney re-assesses and reasserts the importance of thinking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Data Sciences and Decisions
I have mentioned many times, that analytics needs to be closely connected to the decision making being addressed. This is best done by having a business decision maker closely connected with the project. On call, we liked to…
From insideHPC
Optimizing Chilled Water Systems at ORNL
Staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are evaluating how supercomputers can be cooled more efficiently.
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From Schneier on Security
Lone-Wolf Terrorism
The Southern Poverty Law Center warns of the rise of lone-wolf terrorism. From a security perspective, lone wolves are much harder to prevent because there is no conspiracy to detect. The long-term trend away from violence planned…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Was life better in the 1970s?
People from my generation often complain that their parents were better off. They are often quick to dismiss the Internet and smart phones as irrelevant to their well-being. Were they better off? Though it has recently peaked…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WATCH Talk- Inside Anonymous
The next WATCH Talk, called Inside Anonymous, is Tuesday, April 8, 12:00-1:00PM EST. The presenter is Gabriella (Biella) Coleman, the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Small Computers
In the CACM: Smaller than a grain of rice. Possibilities for injection into many places in the internet of things. " ... Computers used to consume whole rooms, but now one computer can fit on the edge of a nickel. At just…
From insideHPC
Celebrating Two Years of Blue Waters Supercomputing at NCSA
This week NCSA celebrated two years of Blue Waters supercomputing in an event convened by U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. The powerful Cray supercomputer is used by scientists and engineers across the country to tackle challenging research…
From insideHPC
Video: Workload Driven Memory Registration
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Parav Pandit from Emulex presents: Workload Driven Memory Registration.
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From insideHPC
Slidecast: Bridging HPC and Big Data Analytics with Software Defined Storage
"IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM General Parallel File System or GPFS, also formerly known as code name Elastic Storage). IBM Spectrum Scale provides…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Management at Boeing links to Behavior
Its about behaviors, not tools. How often that is so true. You need to know the behavior (decisions) before you choose your tools. In the APQC blog by Lauren Trees. " ... APQC recently spoke to Jyoti Patel, knowledge management…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC on the Silence of the Google
Google’s investment in artificial intelligence does more than just create better search results; it allows Google’s engineers to make constant algorithm changes right under our noses.
The post Radio Free HPC on the Silence ofinsideHPC…From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Beyond the Probable, to the Possible
Good piece. Much innovation does not do what is suggested. It drives towards the possible in an uncertain world. How can executives manage this? I see a place for more predictive analytics methods, with a strong look at"…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Average v Beautiful
In AdAge: Newest episode in Unilever Dove's real beauty Ad campaign sets up a very simple experiment. Sets up two doors heading to the same location in a city setting, in many countries. One marked Beautiful, the other…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New IT Roles Produce a Slew of New Job Titles
In case you missed this CIO.com article in March, I thought I would share it here. The topic is a good one for discussion with students who might not see themselves as software engineers or computer scientists. The article discusses…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Invites Comments on Challenges in Protecting Consumer Data
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites the public to comment on a draft report from the Feb. 12, 2015, Executive Technical Workshop on Improving Cybersecurity and Consumer Privacy. The workshop, a collaboration…
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Enhances BlackPearl Deep Storage
Today Spectra Logic announced updates and enhancements to its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway that allow data to move seamlessly into deep tape storage in a new and more efficient way.
The post Spectra Logic Enhances BlackPearl…From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Estate and Augmented Reality
An obvious application. Has been tried a great deal. But it still needs something sensory beyond simple 3D viewing. What kind of sensory augmentation could make this happen? Notes from a recent conference on disruptive technologies…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Spring Research Update
It's been a while since I last did a research update. With spring (sort of) arriving, there's no better time to reflect on a winter's worth of hard work.
From insideHPC
Video: eScience Training and Education in Sweden
"This talk will give an overview of training and graduate education initiatives in Sweden in the eScience and high performance computing areas and show why these are important but also different. Lessons learned from giving courses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on the Rise of People Analytics
Good McKinsey piece on a space we spent much time on, HR analytics. Hardly completely new technique. Was done long before 'Big Data', using Operations research analytics and simulation methods. With a strong emphasis on"…
From Putting People First
[Book] Practical Empathy
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Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work by Indi Young Rosenfeld Media, 2015 Synopsis Conventional product development focuses on the solution. Empathy is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you …
From insideHPC
LUG 2015 Starts Next Week with Fresh Lustre 2.7 Release
Today OpenSFS announced the release of Lustre 2.7, the latest version of the popular open source parallel file system. With continuing development funded by OpenSFS, Lustre 2.7 is now available for download with new featuresThe…
From insideHPC
Nimbix Cloud Case Study Coming to HPC User Forum
Dr. Mustafa Kara will underscore the value that HPC powered by Nimbix’s JARVICE platform brings to big data compute jobs such as CFD.
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