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 insideHPC
Colfax Receives Intel HPC Partner Of The Year Award
Today Colfax International announced that the company is the recipient of the HPC Technical Computing Platform Partner Of The Year Award. The award ceremony took place on May 5, 2015 at the Intel Solutions Summit in Dallas.
The…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Agile for Service Innovation
Continued conversations with Dan Greening of SenexRex. In particular about the use of Agile for services innovation. See in particular recent posts in their blog.
From insideHPC
Announcing AWS Educate: a Free Resource for Cloud Learning
With more and more enterprises moving to the cloud, there is a growing demand for developers, information technology professionals, and forward-thinking business leaders with demonstrated knowledge of cloud computing. To meet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use Cases for an Internet of Many Things
Initial post in the Cisco Blog that looks at use cases for IOT. An excellent start to address things like applications, security and standards. What Cisco calls the Internet of Everything (IOE) is also called the Industrial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Eye Tracking to VR Headsets
In CWorld: Makes sense to link the two. It means that we can accurately understand how people's eyes move in given contexts. Now virtually constructed. It also allows experiments with those contexts to be rapidly produced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Swans and Big Data
In TeraData Mag: Good piece that looks at the inevitability of these events, and how Data can still help. Leads to the suggestion that predictive analytics will allow us to be prepared for classes of Black Swans. Segmenting…
From Schneier on Security
Spy Dust
Used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War: A defecting agent revealed that powder containing both luminol and a substance called nitrophenyl pentadien (NPPD) had been applied to doorknobs, the floor mats of cars, and other…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brainlike AI Circuits
In CWorld: My contention is still that we do not know enough about the operation of the brain for this to be AI. Neural nets, which only roughly mimic the brain, have turned out to be very useful for selective problems, like…
From insideHPC
UPC and OpenSHMEM PGAS Models on GPU Clusters
"Learn about extensions that enable efficient use of Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Models like OpenSHMEM and UPC on supercomputing clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. PGAS models are gaining attention for providing shared memory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Hilltop Coke Ad
I am a bit of an advertising and marketing history buff. Met a few Mad Men era people while working at the world's largest marketer. One told me that the series was not too far from sixties reality. Also am old enough tothe…
From BLOG@CACM
Day Two at the ACM-ICPC World Finals
A look at the second day of the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Morocco.
From BLOG@CACM
The ACM-ICPC World Finals: How to Watch and Engage from Home
A guide to following the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest from afar.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Skin Biophysics Surgical Simulator: A Computing Research in Action Showcase
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is releasing its fifth segment in the Computing Research in Action Series. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are engaging in a very exciting interdisciplinary activity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Update its Cardboard VR
This experiment showed how very simple Virtual Reality (VR) could be be delivered very cheaply and simply, even with a cardboard device. The approach works, demonstrates the idea well, but lacks a number of needed capabilities…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Eighth Graders Think About Women and Computer Science
On the last day of the 2015 edition of my week-long mini-course (Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!), I held a discussion about women in computer science. Below is a transcription of the notes I made on the white board…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitally Connected Grocer
In Progressive Grocer: Fairly obvious points, now how do we respond? " ... Defining the 'Connected' Consumer .... Grocery industry being pushed into the future by digital technologies ... " " .... Technological change in…
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Builds 32 Teraflop “Buddy” Supercomputer
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced that the University of Central Oklahoma’s Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC) has selected the company to build their next supercomputer.…
From insideHPC
Two More Steps Towards Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has taken a step closer with two recent announcements demonstrating methods for error correction in addition to a new scalable design for quantum circuits based on a lattice structure.
The post Two More Steps…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Putting the evil academic publishers in perspective
Academic publishing is a bit of a perverted business. Let us recap what should be well known: professors write papers for free while publishers take the papers and resell them to universities for a large profit. I do hope to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal 3D Printing Skin
In BBC Tech:French cosmetics firm L'Oreal is teaming up with bio-engineering start-up Organovo to 3D-print human skin. ... It said the printed skin would be used in product tests.Organovo has already made headlines with claims…
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Precision 3D Printers
I have looked at several 3D printers now, mostly on the consumer end, and their precision was poor. Now new printer examples are emerging, with higher precision, and cost. Precision also usually cuts speed, limiting some applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps Emerging to Get Car Data
In Technology Review: " ... Courting App Makers to Unlock Your Car’s Powerful Data Trove Startups like Automatic are trying to interest developers in gadgets that plug into your car, hoping to power a new wave of mobile apps…
From Schneier on Security
More on Chris Roberts and Avionics Security
Last month ago I blogged aboutsecurity researcher Chris Roberts being detained by the FBI after tweeting about avionics security while on a United flight: But to me, the fascinating part of this story is that a computer was monitoring…
From insideHPC
HPC Appliance Computing Goes Virtual
Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance goes fully into the cloud with an Amazon-hosted option that lets users get started with HPC in just minutes.
The post HPC Appliance Computing Goes Virtual appeared first on insideHPC…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
A technical look, by David Barber, A free online version. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber is an ebook that is designed for final-year undergraduates and master’s students with limited background in linear…
From insideHPC
Barcelona Team to Build ARM Cluster at ISC Student Cluster Competition
A team of six undergraduate students from Barcelona School of Informatics involved in the Mont-Blanc project have been selected to take part in the 4th HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition.
The post Barcelona Team to Build ARM…From insideHPC
Thinkmate Offers Free Xeon Phis with Your Server
We don't normally report on pricing, but a free Intel Xeon Phi from ThinkMate sure sounds like a great deal. "Now through June, Thinkmate is installing Intel Xeon Phi 5110P Coprocessors (a $2,500 value each) for Free with any…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning at Scale
"We present a state-of-the-art image recognition system, Deep Image, developed using end-to-end deep learning. The key components are a custom-built supercomputer dedicated to deep learning, a highly optimized parallel algorithm…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Expanding Computing Education–Are We Forgetting Rural Schools
One big announcement last week was College Board and Code.org announc[ing] an alliance to improve diversity in computer science. The plan is to partner with the 35 largest school districts in the US. Now to some 35 school districts…
From Writing
A productive development environment with Docker on OS X
In this post, I'm going to explain why the way most programmers install, configure, and manage software in development, testing, and production environments is a complete nightmare. After that, I'm going to show you a better…