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 Putting People First
Nudging to improve public policy, health care and our relationship with technology
On Nudging In Public Policy By Alon M. August, University of Redlands (USA) April 6, 2015 This thesis examines nudging, a technique aimed at making individuals act, choose, and behave in the ways deemed rational by policy makers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goggle Technologies for VR
Brought to my attention Goggle Tech looking at hardware and software. VR possibilities are continuing to expand. Some interesting examples at the link." ... Goggle Tech Inc. is a subsidiary of Go4D Technolgy Corp. We have aOur…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freeman Dyson Interview
Interview in the NYTimes, ".... The physicist, mathematician and author, most recently, of “Dreams of Earth and Sky” says the best books he knows about mathematics and physics are nearly a hundred years old. ... " . A favorite…
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre HSM in the Cloud
"The combination of the ephemeral nature of the cloud and directly addressable archives such as S3 suggest novel methods for using the Lustre HSM interface. Persistent data sets in the cloud need to be managed independently from…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Linux HPC Engineer at TEKsystems
Teksystems LogoTEKsystems is seeking a Linux HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Linux HPC Engineer at TEKsystems appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Damaging Effects of Envy
My former manager Bob Herbold on the damaging effects of envy.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization Tells the Focused Story of Data
In CIO Insight: Perhaps obvious, but it is a very useful way to show the usefulness and value of your data. Also to do this in some standardized way, so you can quickly understand how your data relates to your business, your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Agility through Culture
Have been involved in a company with a strong and sometimes difficult culture for years. Worth understanding, In InfoQ:" .... Culture plays an important role in organizational change. Successful agile adoption tends to depend…
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Automobile License Plate
Replacing the classic license place with an RFID tag. An early idea that is getting new interest. Visual and RF tagging will probably be combined. Article.
From insideHPC
ISC Cloud & Big Data Keynote to Focus on IT Transformation at DZ Bank
Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference announced that Dr. Jan Vitt from DZ Bank will keynote their event in September.
The post ISC Cloud & Big Data Keynote to Focus on IT Transformation at DZ Bank appeared first on insideHPC…From insideHPC
Video: Preparing the Cray XC40 for Shipment to KAUST
Today's large-scale compute clusters take a lot of preparation for shipping. "Logistics planning for the KAUST shipment started months in advance, and it took 12 Cray personnel almost five days to prepare and pack the system.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Androids in Retail
Short Retailwire discussion piece on the use of androids (human-like robots or interactive images) for interactions in retail. Recall our deep diving Mr Clean effort, link below. How well do we trust images and interactions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Marketing Context with 6 Ws
Rules for thinking about how to communicate. Contextual market planning. The 6 Ws. Who-what-when-where-how-why. I never took a journalism class. Now I often read many articles these days that do not provide all the basic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thumbnail Trackpad
Have not seen a new idea on the pointer space for some time. in CWorld:" ... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a tiny wireless trackpad that can be worn on a thumbnail.Called NailO, the prototype…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Tic Tac Toe
The other day I created some teams (3 to 4 students per team) and asked them to create a program to play tic tac toe – a human player against the computer. I have asked students to create a human vs. human version of tic tac …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streetlights Watch Residents
Not a new thing, ten years ago was approached by a company that was planning similar, multi functional devices. We are in a surveillance society.
From Writing
The Competent Programmer
In literature, The Competent (Wo)man is a character who exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge. The idea is similar to a Polymath or a Renaissance (Wo)man, and captured beautifully in this quote by Robert A.…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Hoodie
This is neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft PowerBI
Walter Riker points me to the Microsoft PowerBI site. Free trial. Which adds data visualization and dash boards to many MS and other data sources. "Power BI works for your role ... Reduce risk and increase rewards - unlock…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Strategic Focus
In Forbes Future of CIO:Will Innovation Enhance or Distract you from Strategic Focus?Someone obviously needs to innovate otherwise the world will come to a standstill. Innovation is the light every organization is pursuing,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google, Apple Fight for Car Dashboard
In the NYT, Registration may be required. Another screen is in play for communications and consumer engagement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
HBS launches HBX, Learns Online Collaboration
What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration From HBXIn June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative. At the time, the norm, increasingly, in many online courses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk About Fast Data
Upcoming ONline Talk via ACM: April 30, 2015 11:30 AM ET Register. ... The Fast Data Challenge and Picking the Right Database: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit AllInteracting with fast data, data that is in motion, is a fundamentally…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2015
The following guest blog post is from Tho Nguyen, AAAS Fellow in Computer Systems Research in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Today marks the end…
From insideHPC
Key Benefits of SGI UV 2000 Architecture for Life Sciences
The SGI UV system is uniquely suited for bioinformatics and genomics by providing the computational capabilities and global shared memory architecture needed for even the most demanding sequencing and analytic tasks, including…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: James Reinders to Keynote OpenMPCon 2015
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board today announced the Call for Submissions for OpenMPCon 2015, its annual gathering focused on the practical application of the OpenMP API. The event takes place Sept. 28-30 in Aachen, Germany…
From insideHPC
Video: Shared File Performance in Lustre – Challenges and Solutions
"Large scale HPC IO is usually done either with a file per process or to a single shared file. Single shared file IO does not scale well in Lustre compared to file per process. This presentation from Cray's Patrick Farrell will…
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move – April Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton brings us the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.
The post HPC People on the Move – April Edition appeared first on insideHPC.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Self Taught Coders and Ugly Code
I love this cartoon from xkcd. Of course some self taught programmers write really nice looking code. And some formally taught programmers write ugly code. The message I take away from this is that learning how to write clear…
From Schneier on Security
The No-Fly List and Due Process
The Congressional Research Service has released a report on the no-fly list and current litigation that it violates due process....