Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
Colleague Louis Killeffer reports on the" .... 6th Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. As in every preceding year, the scope and scale of this year’s honorees’ ambitions and achievements are breathtakingAnd if that sounds…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Integrates Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage
Today Diablo Technologies announced that its Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture has been integrated into the latest edition of Lenovo’s X6 server solutions. The news comes on the heels of Diablo winning a series of legal…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
End of year thoughts
Its that time of year for end-of-year projects, crazy state testing schedules (in Ohio at least) and other random activities. As an end-of-year project, many of us assign open ended projects so our students can demonstrate their…
From insideHPC
Video: The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER
"ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s with CAPI support tightly integrates with the POWER CPU at the local bus level and provides faster access between the POWER CPU and the network device. We will discuss the latest interconnect advancements…
From insideHPC
Gartner Recognizes CoolIT Systems in New Datacenter Report
Today CoolIT Systems announced that it has been named as one of four "Cool Vendors in Data Center Management, Power and Cooling" in a new analyst report by Gartner. As part of an annual series, the report offers insight on a …
From insideHPC
New ANSYS Enterprise Cloud Scales Simulation
Today ANSYS announced that the company is making its flagship engineering simulation software available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services. The new ANSYS Enterprise Cloud running on AWS enables customers to scale their simulation…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CAREER Program in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI)
The following is a letter to the community from Sushil K. Prasad in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)…
From insideHPC
SC15 Seeking Nominations for Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards
The SC15 conference is now seeking nominations for the Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards. The submission deadline is Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
The post SC15 Seeking Nominations for Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards appeared first…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking further back at Origins of AI
In the CACM: Looking yet further back at the history of AI. My father worked on the Norden at Sperry in WWII. I particularly note some of the connections between sensors and analytics and cognitive AI. It started with linking…
From Schneier on Security
Stealing a Billion
It helps if you own the banks: The report said Shor and his associates worked together in 2012 to buy a controlling stake in three Moldovan banks and then gradually increased the banks' liquidity through a series of complex transactions…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Old people are not very sharp, are they?
Depression, obesity, stress, sleep deprivation and age affect negatively your brain. However, as I have previously argued, the commonly reported decline in intellectual productivity with age is not so simple as it was once thought…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement and Models
Just now In the Edge: Popper Versus BaconA Conversation With Peter Coveney intro by John BrockmanPeople have to go around measuring things. There's no escape from that for most of that type of work. There's a deep relationship…
From Apophenia
Are We Training Our Students to be Robots?
Excited about the possibility that he would project his creativity onto paper, I handed my 1-year-old son a crayon. He tried to eat it. I held his hand to show him how to draw, and he broke the crayon in half. I went to open…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Holograms
In CWorld: The advance mentioned below is important: ... Holograms have been part of the business and science community's toolset for some time but Microsoft is highlighting just how advanced they have become lately. .... …
From BLOG@CACM
A Taste of CHI Interactivity in Seoul
Observations from CHI 2015, the first SIGCHI annual conference held in Asia.
From Schneier on Security
Online Dating Scams
Interesting research: We identified three types of scams happening on Jiayuan. The first one involves advertising of escort services or illicit goods, and is very similar to traditional spam. The other two are far more interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Relatedness of Knowledge Graphs
Interesting and technical talk on how research labs are using Map-Reduce to examine the closeness of terms in text. Looks at the efficiency of doing this for very large examples of knowledge bases. Creates a measure of relatedness…
From insideHPC
NAG Library adds New Algorithms for Application Developers
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released their latest NAG Library including over 80 new mathematical and statistical algorithms.
The post NAG Library adds New Algorithms for Application Developers appeared first on…From BLOG@CACM
Learning About Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel and distributed computing are now in the core CS curriculum, and every CS program should be teaching their students about it. How can CS educators learn about it?
From insideHPC
Video: OpenACC for Fortran Programmers
"Learn how to program NVIDIA GPUs using Fortran with OpenACC directives. The first half of this presentation will introduce OpenACC to new GPU and OpenACC programmers, providing the basic material necessary to start successfully…
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Morphological Analysis for the Wicked
Just received, points to excellent resources and examples of morphological, or 'structural' analysis. This should see much more application, consider applying it before detailed quant data is acquired for a complex problem. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things to Surge Productivity
Had not thought of the connection directly, but a reasonable idea, and information technology has done that. Efficiency, and disrupting innovation? An economist's view. " ... The view from Harvard's Michael Porter, an economist…
From insideHPC
Video: Soft RoCE Drivers
Soft-RoCE is the software implementation of the RoCE standard and compatible with any standard Ethernet networks.
The post Video: Soft RoCE Drivers appeared first on insideHPC.
From Computational Complexity
The Virtuous Cycle
Last week we have a celebration of the new CS graduates at Georgia Tech where each graduating student says what their plans are for next year. Other than the few going to grad school, they all have great jobs but the difference…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nepal: CRICIS Computing is Needed
The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Faculty Fellow for Innovation in High-Impact Learning Experiences at Texas A&M University. The Nepal earthquake…
From insideHPC
Video: Docker, Monitoring, and SLURM Dashboards
"Based on a containerized HPC environment this talk shows of a state-of-the-art stack including performance monitoring, log event handling and GraphDB based inventory to provide insights into what is going on within a SLURM cluster…
From Writing
A Guide to Hiring for your Startup
On April 30, 2015, I gave a talk called "A Guide to Hiring for your Startup", where I discussed what to look for in a candidates, where to find them, how to interview them, and how to make an offer they can't refuse. This talk…
From Schneier on Security
Another Example of Cell Phone Metadata Forensic Surveillance
Matthew Cole explains how the Italian police figured out how the CIA kidnapped Abu Omar in Milan. Interesting use of cell phone metadata, showing how valuable it is for intelligence purposes. See also this example....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning with Structure and Interpretation
A dozen years ago we were using neural nets to capture aspects of consumer behavior and interpret the results to apply to marketing decisions. Not what is today called 'Deep Learning', but uses the same some of the same math…
From insideHPC
Video: NVM Burst Buffers
"The Cray XC series DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology delivers a balanced and cohesive system architecture from compute to storage. It allocates storage dynamically in either private (dedicated) or shared modes…