Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2016
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking a Retail Internet of Things
In Retailwire: Some good thoughts and comments about the retail IOT. When we first started to examine the transparency of an RFID driven internet of things, we had very similar thoughts. Now add how analytics will be used,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Free NYC Wifi?
In the Washpo. Really far beyond just providing easy and free communications between people and services. I am reminded of the early case of free Wifi in airports, which competed with pay services that had already been established…
From insideHPC
LANL Looks to Scality RING Storage for Trinity Supercomputer
Today Scality announced the production deployment of the Scality RING to power Los Alamo National Laboratory’s Trinity supercomputer, projected to be one of the world’s fastest. Trinity, part of the NNSA Advanced Simulation and…
From insideHPC
Interview: Cavium to Move ARM Forward for HPC at ISC 2016
"Cavium ThunderX has significant differentiation in the 64-bit ARM market as Cavium is the first ARMv8 vendor to deliver dual socket support with full ARMv8.1 implementation and significant advantage in CPU cores with 48 cores…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Smart are Smart Machines?
In MIT Sloan: Well put, we need to link cognitive abilities to the specifics of business need.The number of sophisticated cognitive technologies that might be capable of cutting into the need for human labor is expanding rapidly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Talk: On Services Research
(Later today ... I will update this by tomorrow)" ... This week’s presenter for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series is Niels Feldmann from Karlsruhe Service Research Institute. As we heard from Professor Prof Dr…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imprecision in Computing
In the CACM: Decrease precision. For Saving energy apparently. How is this making anything better? The amount of energy involved seems minimal. Yet understanding precision is important in large and complex problems is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford and the Smart Home
Somewhat unexpected, but car makers linking to the Smart Home. The further integration between car and home. Major automakers are driving full speed into the smart home marketplace, as Ford announces future plans to integrate…
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Forensics to Detect Distraction
The company Cellebrite is developing a portable forensics device that would determine if a smartphone user was using the phone at a particular time. The idea is to test phones of drivers after accidents: Under the first-of-its…
From insideHPC
HPC Market Update and IDC’s Top Growth Areas for 2016 and Beyond
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Earl Joseph from IDC presents: 2016 IDC HPC Market Update. "The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common…
From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Announces Award-Winning Research Papers
Today ISC 2016 announced the awards-winning research papers for the PRACE ISC Award and the Gauss Award.
The post ISC 2016 Announces Award-Winning Research Papers appeared first on insideHPC.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Vintage Computer Festival — five events this year!
If you’re looking for novel ways of inspiring students, then consider giving them some hands-on exposure to the past at a Vintage Computer Festival event. Vintage Computer Festivals are a series of family-friendly events celebrating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Reco Engine with a Graph Database
Building a recommendation Engine ... Powering recommendations with a Graph Database. I like the idea of decision process starting with a visualization. " You May also like …" ... Product recommendations help businesses maximize…
From insideHPC
Atos Rolls Out Bull sequana “The World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer”
"Atos is one out of three or four worldwide players having the expertise and know-how to build supercomputers today – and the only one in Europe. It is a source of pride for our company and provides a unique competitive advantage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neglecting Business Process Models
In CIO: Agree, based on my observations, there is less business process modeling (BPM) being done today. Fewer people even know what it is. This is based on the assumption that you can find some results, some patterns, with…
From insideHPC
Get Some Big Lunch at the Big Data & HPC Events coming to Portland & Seattle
If you are in the Northwest and you happen to like surf and turf, have I got a deal for you! Dell is hosting a series of Big Data lunch events in Seattle and Portland at the end of April. On April 26, Dell brings the event to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Narrative illusions
Our brain contains lots of neurons and can do great things. I can read, write and speak fluently in two languages made of tens of thousands of words. Millions of human beings can do that, and much more. But our brains have also…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases New GPU SuperServer at GTC 2016
In this video from the 2016 GPU Technology Conference, Jason Pai from Supermicro describes the new 1028GQ-TRT SuperServer. With support for up to four Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs, the 1U superserver offers extreme compute density in…
From insideHPC
Discover why GPUs are driving the future of HPC
According to the latest Intersect360 Research site census data, of the 50 most popular application packages mentioned by HPC users, 34 have offer GPU support, including 9 of the top 10. As is evident from the number of GPU-accelerated…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K 12 Computer Science Framework Stakeholders Convening
Most people don’t associate either rain or computer science with Las Vegas Nevada but the last few days have seen plenty of both. In fact they tell me Las Vegas had as much rain this past weekend as they normally get in a year…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson, Big Data and Genomics
More emphasis on health applications. " ... IBM Watson takes analytics prowess overseas: Supercomputer to work on big data and genomics in Italy .... Computing giant to invest up to $150M to create European Center of Excellence…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Lottery Machines
Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he could predict the winning numbers. For several years, Eddie Tipton…
From Putting People First
The latest on innovation in Energy Efficient Buildings: annual round-up of EU Commission projects
Every year, the Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) Public Private Partnership (PPP) publishes the EeB PPP project review – a round-up of energy-efficiency projects that have been co-funded by two European Commission schemes. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing and the Supply Chain
In Gartner: Obviously very dependent on form and assembly needs of the products involved. But will become increasingly in play as the technologies evolve.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Employee Behavior and Attitude
In McKinsey: Leaders must consider new ways to change the attitudes and behavior of employees." ... The psychological contract that traditionally bound employees to their employers has been fraying. Many of today’s workers, having…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rulex: Modeling for Rule Based Decision Making
Had spent some time looking at rule based approaches to doing predictive decisions. Brought to my attention: Rulex: " ... Understand, Forecast, Decide.New generation advanced analytics tools for proactive decision makers. .…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Economics of Disruption
Digital strategy: Understanding the economics of disruptionResponding to digital disruption isn’t about creating a list of digitization priorities; it’s about identifying where you are vulnerable and where you can create value…
From insideHPC
SHAPE Selects Eight Innovative HPC Projects for Access to PRACE Supercomputer
Today the SME HPC Adoption Program in Europe announced the winners from its recent Call for Proposals. SHAPE is a pan-European program supported by PRACE which aims to raise awareness and provide European SMEs with the expertise…
From insideHPC
Video: GPUltima System Delivers a Petaflop in a Rack
gpultimaIn this video from the 2016 GPU Technology Conference, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the GPUltima system at the GPU Technology Conference. The GPUltima is a single 19" rack comprised of 8 OSS High Density…