Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber and Behavioral Economics
Fascinating piece about behavioral economics. Behavioral economics seems to be OK when everyone agrees that it is good and fair, by their definition. Back to the nudge, with some basic guidelines: Nudge me only for clearly…
From BLOG@CACM
Cyber Insecurity and Cyber Libertarianism
Here we are, 70 years into the computer age and we still do not seem to know how to build secure information systems. And yet, our community marches forward with no special sense of urgency.
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for PASC17 Conference in Lugano
Registration is now open for the PASC17 conference, which takes place the week after ISC in Lugano, Switzerland. "The PASC17 Conference is pleased to announce that a preliminary program is available online and that registration…
From Schneier on Security
New C++ Secure Coding Standard
Carnegie Mellon University has released a comprehensive list of C++ secure-coding best practices....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Closer Look at Facebook M
Technology Review takes a close and an insightful look at the Facebook M assistant. Long awaited and in broad test. Though I am not a fan of Facebook in general. I like the idea that new assistants, and 'skills' written…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face to Face Better than an EMail
Not sure of the 34x difference, quite a bit of context involved. But some motivation as to why face to face is better.
A Face-to-Face Request Is 34 Times More Successful than an Email
Vanessa K. Bohns in the HBR ....
From Schneier on Security
2017 Security Protocols Workshop
Ross Anderson liveblogged the presentations....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Awards Early Career Researchers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate‘s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program has awarded 156 early career engineering faculty with at least $500,000 for their plan to make advances in engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Document Processing
Today's call was of interest, and showed how complex document understanding can be:
" ... Today ... Our speaker was Sridhar Iyengar, IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, who will be presenting "Semantic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Guidelines
Not exactly standards, and more details would be very useful.
New guidelines point to an augmented future
Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble and Caterpillar joined 62 other organizations to create hardware and software guidelines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond, to a VR Facemask
Reading emotions was one of our early efforts to understand consumer interactions with products. This seems to take it beyond that. For what applications? In the Verge:
This VR face mask can read your emotions by Adi Robertson…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for LUG 2017 in Bloomington
The OpenSFS Lustre community has posted the Agenda for their upcoming LUG 2017 conference. The event takes place May 30 – June 2 in Bloomington, Indiana. The Lustre User Group (LUG) conference is the industry’s primary venue
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From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: The Exascale Era
In this video from Switzerland HPC Conference, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a panel discussion on Exascale Computing. "The Exascale Computing Project in the USA is tasked with developing a set of advanced supercomputers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Amex, Building AI Past and Present
Tom Davenport mentioned some of our past AI work at P&G in his recent HBR article. Below an introductory excerpt, much more detail at the link. While considerable improvements have been made in available technology since then…
From Computational Complexity
Alice and Bob and Pat and Vanna
"The only useful thing computer science has given us is Alice and Bob" - A physicist at a 1999 quantum computing workshopAlice and Bob, great holders of secrets, seemed to pop into every cryptography talk and now you see…
From Schneier on Security
Attack vs. Defense in Nation-State Cyber Operations
I regularly say that, on the Internet, attack is easier than defense. There are a bunch of reasons for this, but primarily it's 1) the complexity of modern networked computer systems and 2) the attacker's ability to choose the…
From insideHPC
A Fresh Look at HPC from Huawei Enterprise
"High performance computing is rapidly finding new uses in many applications and businesses, enabling the creation of disruptive products and services. Huawei, a global leader in information and communication technologies, brings…
From Putting People First
How Silicon Valley is (ab)using behavioral science and nudging
In an extensive review of The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, the book by Michael Lewis on the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Tamsin Shaw provides a deeper criticism of the field of behavioral…
From insideHPC
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier Turns Raw Profiling Data Into Performance Insights
Discovering where the performance bottlenecks are and knowing what to do about it can be a mysterious and complex art, needing some very sophisticated performance analysis tools for success. That’s where Intel® VTune™ Amplifier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of AI and Machine Learning in Industry
From O'Reilly: Some intriguing examples.
Free: AI and Machine Learning in Industry
In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industry: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners, you'll hear from Michael Osborne on coming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing Needs Digital Ready Infrastructure
In the Cisco Blog. Makes sense. Note the mention of VR, which led me to this in a search for practical examples.
Why Do Factories Need a Digital-Ready Infrastructure? by Nada MacKinney
Digital transformation, digital business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating a Happy Workplace
Podcast: On creating a happy workplace. In Knowledge@Wharton. A study done with firefighters. Perhaps an unusual context to map against the typical office? Or perhaps not.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality in Merchandising
In Retailwire, with a discussion.
Will virtual reality transform in-store merchandising?
hrough a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current article from the monthly e-zine, CPGmatters.
Virtual
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Structured Problem Solving
And taking it beyond to business process models? Not commonly done well enough to define the structure.
In Sloan Review:
Saving Money Through Structured Problem-Solving
Research Feature March 21, 2017 Reading Time: 6 min
Nelson…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Webinar Series hosts “Open Science” by Dr. Brian Nosek,…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Slow Finish Fast
Looking through student code today brought this quote to mind.
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain Students are always in a hurry to write the code for programming projects. …From Blog@Ubiquity
The end of ICE is near – or not?
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has reigned supreme for over 100 years, but prognosticators are predicting its demise over the next few decades – or NOT, depending on your data analytics. Like all technologies, sooner or…
From insideHPC
dCUDA: Distributed GPU Computing with Hardware Overlap
"Over the last decade, CUDA and the underlying GPU hardware architecture have continuously gained popularity in various high-performance computing application domains such as climate modeling, computational chemistry, or machine…
From insideHPC
Spectra BlackPearl Gets Globus Client Certification
Today Spectra Logic announced that Globus has completed client certification for its Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage System. BlackPearl allows customers in university, high performance computing (HPC) and research organizations…
From Schneier on Security
Research on Tech-Support Scams
Interesting paper: "Dial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams": Abstract: In technical support scams, cybercriminals attempt to convince users that their machines are infected with malware and are in…