Communications of the ACM
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April 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moore's Law is 50
In Recode. Been reading about Moore's law for many years. Now over 50 years old, it maps how " ... the number-crunching capacity of our computers and the number of transistors on silicon chips double roughly every two years…
From insideHPC
Video: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Robert Triendl from DDN presents: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows.
The post Video: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows appeared first…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Robo Hotels, Robo Behavior
In the CACM: Update on the use of robotics in hotels globally. Have yet to see it personally. A challenge we discussed: " ... One of the challenges is building systems that people perceive as friendly. "The behavior component…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Analytical Web Services
This was mentioned previously, AWS makes anaytical services available in new and powerful, and scalable ways. Much more detail at the link:" .... The science of Machine Learning (often abbreviated as ML) provides the mathematical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ferrari Augmented Reality POS
Good example via Metaio: Expanding showroom experience. " ... Ferrari Australia commissioned developer ZSPACE to create an awesome showroom companion that overlays cinematic 3D animations right onto the vehicles themselves.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience Design
Doing Design effectively, and efficiently:Experience design gives you the competitive edge ...The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Andy Budd on the rising value of design, the bright future of agencies, and designers on the brink. .…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and Industrial Internet
Based on my own interactions with them. thought GE was aligned with industrial internet standards for some time, but now more: " ... The Industrial Internet lets machines communicate over the Internet with their makers. They…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Architecture for Expertise Delivery
FORR: A Cognitive Architecture for Expertise, by Susan EpsteinCity University of New York (CUNY). Major support by the NSFAttended this presentation today. Very nicely done, especially how it examined the broad architecture…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Ideas!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is delighted to announce a new feature on our website! Great Innovative Ideas are a way to showcase the exciting new research and ideas generated by the computing community. Once a month…
From insideHPC
Appy Now: ISC High Performance Conference Needs Student Volunteers
The ISC High Performance Conference is seeking Student Volunteers. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The post Appy Now: ISC High Performance Conference Needs Student Volunteers appeared first on insideHPC…From insideHPC
NCDS Takes Action on Big Data
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Stan Ahalt from the National Consortium for Data Science discusses how and why the organization came into being.
The post NCDS Takes Action on Big Data appeared first…From insideHPC
RSC PetaStream Powers Russian Academy of Sciences
Today RSC Group announced the installation of a MVS-10P MP Petastream supercomputer at the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JSCC RAS). As is the first project in the Commonwealth of Independent States…
From insideHPC
Fault Trees
As datasets and simulations continue to increase in size and complexity, interactivity with the data should be maintained. It is important to understand how SIMD parallelism can be used when evaluating large fault tree expressions…
From insideHPC
Video: Defending the Planet with Lustre
"Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Magic Lab
Always interested in the concept of innovation spaces. Here is another, see tags below for more about our use of them.I am the Director of the Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab (The Magic Lab). It has unique transdisciplinary…
From Computational Complexity
PH Infinite Under a Random Oracle
Benjamin Rossman, Rocco Servedio and Li-Yang Tan show new circuit lower bounds that imply, among other things, that the polynomial-time hierarchy is infinite relative to a random oracle. What does that mean, and why is it important…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes It is How You Look At It
A couple of days ago I saw an interesting program on the Small Basic blog. The featured program was one that let a beginner write a turtle graphics program. I liked the image it drew but frankly I found the code not as clear…
From Schneier on Security
How Many Vulnerabilities Are there in Software?
Dan Geer proposes some techniques for answering this question....
From insideHPC
Video: Seagate Lustre Update
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Peter Bojanic from Seagate presents: Seagate Lustre Update. "Seagate powers four of the five 1 TB/sec filesystems in the world today."
The post Video: Seagate Lustre Update appeared first…From Putting People First
Putting technology in its place
Kentaro Toyama is a former Microsoft Research Executive and now an associate professor at the University of Michigan. Toyama calls himself “a recovering technoholic”—someone who once was “addicted to a technological way of solving…
From Putting People First
Essay Collection: Designing Democracy
Designing Democracy: How designers are changing democratic spaces and processes An inquiry by the UK Design Commission March 2015 Abstract Featuring essays from leading designers, MPs and policymakers, ‘Designing Democracy’ asks…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Kinds of Continuity
Congratulations to John Nash and Louis Nirenberg on the 2015 Abel Prize Combined from src1, src2. John Nash and Louis Nirenberg have jointly won the 2015 Abel Prize for their work on partial differential equations (PDEs). They…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: A Cognitive Architecture for Expertise
Expertise architecture, a favorite topic.Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series,Every Thursday 10:30 AM ET, tomorrow 4/16/2015 FORR: A Cognitive Architecture for Expertise, by Susan EpsteinCity University of New York…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Leaders in the Enterprise
Enterprise Gamification is selling a report on:Leaders & Visionaries Rankings of Gamification PlatformsWe wanted to share some details from our first Gamification Industry Report that compared and ranked twelve gamification platforms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter in India: Real time, Mobile First
In K@W: Podcast and transcript." ... Twitter has changed the advertising world, a development that company vice president Shailesh Rao describes as a positive-sum game for traditional and social media. .... Shailesh Rao, vice…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The CSTA Nominations and Elections Committee
By: Deborah Seehorn and Dave Reed The primary purpose of the CSTA Nominations and Elections Committee is to oversee and maintain the nominations and elections process. The primary functions of the committee are listed below.Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surge of Local Search
In Search Engine Watch: Searching 'near me' has surged considerably since 2011. Searching is increasingly an automatic reaction to information needs anywhere. And consumers want the intelligence to include all sensor and…
From insideHPC
OLCF Moves Forward on Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer
Today the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced a significant step forward in the delivery of Summit, the next-generation supercomputer IBM will deliver in 2017 to greatly advance the nation's energy and science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schank's XTOL Experiential Learning
A mention of Roger Schank, AI pioneer, founder of the 'AI Boom' company Cognitive Systems, who I recall was critical of our AI work in the 80s. His work in AI scripting was fundamental. He later did research for Andersen Consulting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiding Corporate Data
The broad idea is being seen in a number of places. This addresses the 'lost laptop' problem, where corporate data could be compromised. A Way to Hide Corporate Data from HackersA system that keeps data on corporate computers…