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 The Eponymous Pickle
Opinions about the Amazon Echo
What Engadget readers think about the Amazon Echo. Have recently been looking at systems that engage the shopper in the home. Most recently Amazon Dash has been in the news. Of course mobile lets us connect anywhere. But…
From insideHPC
Video: Rapid I/O Update
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Rick O'Connor from Rapid I/O presents: Rapid I/O Update.
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From insideHPC
The Future of Cars and Computers On Deck at ISC High Performance
The application of HPC in the automotive industry will be featured at this year’s ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt. Both location and date have changed this year – previous conferences have been held most recently…
From insideHPC
Fast Matrix Multiply with OpenMP
Solving many scientific and technical applications rely on matrix multiplies somewhere in the algorithm and thus the computer code.
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From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Recent Trends of Chipmaker Consolidation
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting industry developments from the past week. Samsung is reportedly looking at buying AMD, Intel may acquire Altera, and Micron has snapped up Convey Computer.
The…From insideHPC
Video: Addressing Challenges of Data-Intensive Research
"Building on 20+ years of experience in High Performance Computing, as well as more than a decade of involvement in open science developments (open data and e-infrastructures), ICM views Data Sciences as strategic direction for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Programming in Health Care
The OBAIS department at the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, invites you to attend the following research seminar.Date & Time: Friday, April 10, 2015, 1:30 PM Location : UC Carl H. Lindner Hall, Room 219…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frustration with Retail Loyalty Apps
Look at and statistics about how people are frustrated with Apps in retail. Examples obvious:While a slow checkout line, an awkward return process or a snarky sales associate can play havoc with consumer loyalty, a poor app…
From BLOG@CACM
Budget Beowulf Clusters
At SIGCSE 2015, five CS educators brought and live-demo'd the low-cost Beowulf clusters they had built for teaching parallel and distributed computing.
From Schneier on Security
Real-Life Remailers in the Warsaw Pact Nations
Interesting story....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Posts Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs Program to spur the development of new Big Data partnerships among government, university, and industry
The following is a guest blog post by Alejandro Suarez, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow working in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Last Friday, the…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Vote Now! -- 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election
My ballot, or rather the coded link to the online voting system, for the 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election showed up in my email inbox this morning. So I voted. I urge all CSTA members to look for their ballot, check your…
From Putting People First
The future of loneliness
As we moved our lives online, the internet promised an end to isolation. But can we find real intimacy amid shifting identities and permanent surveillance? A long read by Olivia Laing explores this blurring between individuals…
From Putting People First
Podcast interview with ethnographer Tricia Wang
In this week’s Radar Podcast episode, O’Reilly’s Roger Magoulas chatted with Tricia Wang, a global tech ethnographer and co-founder of PL Data, about how qualitative and quantitative data need to work together, reframing “data…
From Putting People First
The user experience of the car
John Edson explains why the future of cars is about experience versus ownership. Three major shifts, he says, will move the car from a depreciating asset that every family owns to a mesh of hardware, software, and services that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Learning Assessment
From colleague in the knowledge management domain:Brian MoonChief Technology Office, Perigean Technologies LLCSero! is a learning assessment platform that uses Concept Maps to assess higher order thinking skills. Sero! willLearn…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyberlearning Webinar- The Science of Learning, Technology, Big Data, and Transformation in Education
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 9, at 11:00 AM ET on The Science of Learning, Technology, Big Data, and Transformation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for Your Cognitive Future
Am a longtime follower and practical pracitioner of what we used to call AI. Now it is called cognitive computing. A smarter, gentler, better integrated and more focused means to communicate with, and augment the intelligence…
From Schneier on Security
Ugly Mail: Gmail Extension to Expose E-mail Tracking
Nice idea, but I would like it to work for other browsers and other e-mail programs....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Dash as the Future of Shopping
Have received a number of queries on the Amazon Dash buy button since mentioning it yesterday, Lots of interest in the dynamics and data involved. Are there too many products in the home to be reordered in this way? Is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Resource Cheat Sheets
Rstudio provides a number of templates for doing analytics, visualization and data science. These kinds of 'Cheat sheets', can be useful for the beginner and the experienced practitioner. The whole set of technologies, sciences…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do Digital Shoppers Shop?
In Retailwire: Has an obvious solution that we did lots of. Use it, watch people using it, test alternatives quantitatively. Do all that often, before you stop designing." ... The hard part with digital is that there areEither…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Struggle with Data Quality
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIOs and Digital Strategy
From Forrester: " ... In fact, CIOs with experience in marketing and/or business-unit leadership — especially eBusiness — are well equipped to lead the future digital transformation journey in many companies. They understand…
From insideHPC
Removing Bottlenecks in Next Generation Sequencing
This is the 4th installment of a 6 article series on the trends and technologies impacting the application of HPC in Life Sciences. Here we explore how companies like SGI and Intel address computational and storage problemsThe…
From insideHPC
Bill Blake of D-Wave & Cray Passes Away
We are sad to report that Bill Blake passed away on March 31 after suffering from a heart attack. While many of you will remember Bill from his work as CTO of Cray, Mr. Blake was most recently head of R&D at D-Wave Systems.
The…From insideHPC
Registration Opens for ISC High Performance
Registration is now open for the ISC High Performance Conference. Formerly known as ISC'15, the conference takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The post Registration Opens for ISC High Performance appeared first on insideHPC…From BLOG@CACM
Providing On-Line CS Teacher Education, Designed For Teachers
Announcing a research-based resource for helping high school teachers to learn Python and CS Principles
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
National Telecommunications and Information Administration Seeks Comment on Multistakeholder Process for Drones
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a Request for Comments on a multistakeholder process for commercial and private use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The goal of the process…
From insideHPC
SiYB is a Supercomputer in your Browser
Jeff Squyres writes that the new “Supercomputer in your browser” (SiYB) project is designed to bring the rich High Performance Computing ecosystem to the world’s most popular software: web browsers.
The post SiYB is a Supercomputer…