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 Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2015
In the fall we list theory jobs, in the spring we see who got them. Like last year, I created a fully editable Google Spreadsheet to crowd source who is going where. Ground rules: I set up separate sheets for faculty, industry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Practical Advances
A little late, but a good podcast on the topic:Roger Dooley writes, introducting their podcast:" ... In the past, Elissa Moses was Chief Research Officer with the early neuromarketing pioneer Emsense and has held several key…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Seeking Ad Fraud
In Adage. A visit to a Google site that is devoted to identifying Ad Fraud. All this has evolved quite a bit. Been attacked a few times myself. Now the attackers are very sophisticated. Ad fraud has received relatively…
From My Biased Coin
What makes a well-attended conference? (STOC 2017 Discussion)
I've always been impressed how the SIGCOMM conference accepts a very small number of papers, but many hundreds of people attend the conference. (This is true for some other conferences as well; SIGCOMM is just he one I happen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SPSS as an Enhancement to R
It was just pointed out to me that SPSS can be linked to R. Had known this but not the details. Worth a closer look. Upcoming Webinar on May 26 on the topic. Points out a number of limitations of R and why its useful to connect…
From insideHPC
Bright OpenStack Distribution Manages Private Clouds
Today Bright Computing announced Bright OpenStack, a fully integrated software stack for deployment, management, and maintenance of private clouds.
The post Bright OpenStack Distribution Manages Private Clouds appeared firstinsideHPC…From insideHPC
Video: A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Analyzing Patient Tumours
In this video from WestGrid in Canada, Dr. Yussanne Ma from the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre describes how high performance computing supports her research group's work, highlighting a recent project where a bioinformatics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Testing Buy Button
In Retailwire: Is this the ultimate challenge for retail? Everyone searches. So making the buy as easy as possible is powerful. Embedded discussion is useful." ... In what is being seen as a potential challenge to Amazon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample R Packages for Input, Wrangling, Visuals
A nice survey by Sharon Machlis, it is always good to have examples of things you know you need to do, in a language that is relatively new to you. This is a start. From here you can go wherever you want: Great R packages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyper Personalization
Interesting startup direction ... Reminds me of case based reasoning approaches ....Analytics passed a major milestone on the road to ubiquity last week with the launch of new capabilities that extend the reach of data-driven…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate
From the HBR in 2011, and I may have posted this before, but found it again looking for innovation examples. Worth repeating. Mentioning now VA guru Bob McDonald. Just a few months ago I was approached by the VA concerning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Data During Programming for Useful for Retail
Establishment of a database of eye movement during programming tasks. Why not do the same thing during other common tasks, like online or physical shopping? The same could be done for physical retail shopping as well. Then…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Exploring New Frontiers in Cyber-Physical Systems
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two five-year, center-scale awards to advance the frontier in cyber-physical systems (CPS). With these two new projects totaling $8.75 million, NSF has now invested more than $250…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 18
Monday, May 18, 2015 Senate Floor: H.R.1314, “Legislative vehicle for Trade Promotion Authority” Tuesday, May 19, 2015 House Floor: H.R. 874 – American Super Computing Leadership Act House Floor: H.R. 1162 – Science Prize Competitions…
From Schneier on Security
United Airlines Offers Frequent Flier Miles for Finding Security Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities on the website only, not in airport security or in the avionics....
From insideHPC
Podcast: Cray’s Steve Scott on Programming for the Next Decade
"Our computing systems continue to evolve, providing significant challenges to the programming teams managing large, long-lived projects. Issues include rapidly increasing on-node parallelism, varying forms of heterogeneity, …
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: May Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.
The post HPC People on the Move: May Edition appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Video: Accelerating OpenPOWER Using NVM Express SSDs and CAPI
"We present results for a platform consisting of an NVM Express SSD, a CAPI accelerator card and a software stack running on a Power8 system. We show how the threading of the Power8 CPU can be used to move data from the SSD to…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 May 2015
Last week I made my travel arrangements for the Annual CSTA Conference. Less than two months away and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll also be at ISTE this June. Not as much CS stuff there but a lot of edtech stuff that…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Shapes of Computations
Or rather, what can the shapes of proofs tell us about them? April CACM source Juris Hartmanis did much to lay the landscape of computational complexity beginning in the 1960s. His seminal paper with Richard Stearns, “On the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Model Innovation
Not the same thing as BPM, which I prefer because it deals with business specifics. But in reading this, BMI could be a good place to start. Perhaps linked to structural (Morphological) models of a business. Lots to choose…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Academy: Cognitive Computing
IBM MOOC: Cognitive Computing -- Question Answering Technologies behind IBM WatsonTrailer" ... We have designed a massive open online course (MOOC) on the question answering technologies behind IBM’s original Watson Jeopardy!…
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling OpenACC Performance Analysis
Learn how OpenACC runtimes also exposes performance-related information revealing where your OpenACC applications are wasting clock cycles. The talk will show that profilers can connect with OpenACC applications to record how…
From insideHPC
ISC to Showcase Women in HPC
With a BoF session and a special workshop on Women in HPC, the issue of gender diversity will be front and center at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt. "Improving diversity in the workforce is generally recognized as essential…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coming soon – 2015 Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference
With the Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference coming up in July there are a few things we thought you should know now that we’ve sprung into spring and we’re less than two months away: – Several workshops…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Primer on the Internet of Things
Infographic on the topic with a number of links with added information. Very good, but sometimes unnecessary graphics. IOT hype seems to be taking over from Big Data Hype. Both important, I maintain.
From BLOG@CACM
Greetings from Marrakech, Host of the 2015 ACM-ICPC World Finals
A report from the 39th Annual IBM-Sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals.
From Putting People First
We are ignoring the new machine age at our peril
In 2009, W Brian Arthur published a remarkable book, The Nature of Technology, in which he formulated a coherent theory of what technology is, how it evolves and how it spurs innovation and industry. Technology, he argued, “builds…
From Putting People First
Design thinking without deep analysis is reckless. A more balanced approach is needed.
Larry Keeley, co-founder of innovation firm Doblin which is now a unit of Deloitte Consulting LLP, says that too often advocates of “design” regard it as an elixir that can somehow transform conservative companies into creative…
From Putting People First
[Book] Anthropologist explores the many faces of Anonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman Verso Publishers November 2014 Hardback, 464 pages Abstract Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise…