Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Burberry Using IOT
Wooing millennial shoppers with Internet of things." ... As an early adopter of IoT and connected digital technologies Burberry has successfully blended both physical and website in its Regent Street flagship store. The store…
From The Eponymous Pickle
May-June 2016 Issue of Analytics Magazine
Informs May/June issue of Analytics Magazine focuses on getting the most out of big data & analytics with both mankind and machines.Lead StoryFulfilling the Promise of Analytics Strategy, leadership and consumption: The keysBy…
From insideHPC
IBM Makes HPC Easier
IBM has introduced a new way for organizations of all sizes to buy and acquire a full HPC management suite including a community edition for those just starting out. The new IBM Platform LSF Suites are packages that include more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarket of the Future: Coop Italia
Akin to our own smart retail laboratory work. Much more in the tabs below. Quite a bit of detail and video: This is from Microsoft:The supermarket of the future: Designing for humans, Written by,Susanna RayBack to the future…
From insideHPC
Superfacility – How New Workflows in the DOE Office of Science are Changing Storage Requirements
Katie Antypas from NERSC presented this talk at the 2016 MSST conference. Katie is the Project Lead for the NERSC-8 system procurement, a project to deploy NERSC's next generation supercomputer in mid-2016. The system, named …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Helen Nissenbaum
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 2:00pm EDT by Dr. Helen Nissenbaum titled…
From Computational Complexity
Open Questions
Through the years I've mentioned a few of my favorite open problems in computational complexity on this blog that have perplexed me through the years. Let me mention a few of them again in case they inspire some of the new generation…
From insideHPC
Peta-Exa-Zetta: Robert Wisniewski and the Growth of Compute Power
While much noise is being made about the race to exascale, building productive supercomputers really comes down to people and ingenuity. In this special guest feature, Donna Loveland profiles supercomputer architect Robert Wisniewski…
From insideHPC
Basics For Coprocessors
"The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is an example of a many core system that can greatly increase the performance of an application when used correctly. Simply taking a serial application and expecting tremendous performance gains…
From insideHPC
Local or Cloud HPC?
Cloud computing has become another tool for the HPC practitioner. For some organizations, the ability of cloud computing to shift costs from capital to operating expenses is very attractive. Because all cloud solutions require…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Cloud Machine Learning in the Mainstream
In Techexplore:" .... The move is all about taking Cloud Machine Learning mainstream, "giving data scientists and developers a way to build a new class of intelligent applications," according to a post from Fausto Ibarra, director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Pushes Data and Decision Making
In the WSJ, make require registration. I particularly like that this includes decision making, not just raw data science. I have now seen too many examples of big data producing non useful results. It is the point of itWharton…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Data in Novel Ways: Data as Asset, Risk.
Risks and rewards. In O'Reilly. A favorite topic, but there needs to be a better way to do this, its often so messy that people abandon the process. This also relates to the idea of data valuation, which should be expanded…
From Schneier on Security
Own a Pair of Clipper Chips
The AT&T TSD was an early 1990s telephone encryption device. It was digital. Voice quality was okay. And it was the device that contained the infamous Clipper Chip, the U.S. government's first attempt to put a back door into…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlockChain for Industry
A transformative change when when you look at this as a ledger: Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Assistant Called Viv
In TheVerge: Siri's creators will unveil their new AI bot on Monday By Jacob Kastrenakes " .... Viv is essentially meant to be Siri, but good. It's an AI assistant that you speak to, but the difference here is that Viv is supposed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Train Your Brain to Think About the Future
We all do this, but how well? Here looking at it early.Train Your Brain to Think About the Future by Katie KingWhat fraction of your time is spent thinking about the future, and how far out do you think? Last month, this question…
From Schneier on Security
$7 Million Social Media Privacy Mistake
Forbes estimates that football player Laremy Tunsil lost $7 million in salary because of an ill-advised personal video made public....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data Government Funding Opportunities
Check out these big data funding opportunities from four different federal agencies. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) – BD2K is a trans-NIH initiative established to enable biomedical research…
From BLOG@CACM
Using Other STEM Disciplines to Predict Future Computing Education
A recent AAAS Symposium on STEM Education provides the opportunity to compare computing education to other STEM education.
From insideHPC
New Report Charts Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
A newly released report commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines priorities and associated trade-offs for advanced computing investments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Gives Access to its Quantum Computer
I like the idea you can try it yourself from the article at the link. Now, digital, but non binary computing. Is it clear this is the future of computing? To the right, a peek into their QC lab.IBM opens its quantum computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring the Wiring of the Mind
Further exploring the wiring of the mind. Its not only the wring, but also the 'software', apparently not of the kind we typically deal with. In Newsweek.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Search for a Better Battery
I am no longer in the battery business, but always thought that portable energy was important. Where is portable and conveniently store able energy going? Here in IEEE Spectrum.
From Phys.org Technology News
European aviation agency sets up drone collision task force
The European Aviation Safety Agency is setting up a task force to examine the risk of collisions between drones and aircraft.
From insideHPC
Ron Perrott to Receive ACM Distinguished Service Award
Today ACM announced that Ron Perrott, an international leader in the development and promotion of parallel computing, will receive ACM’s prestigious Distinguished Service Award. The goal of ACM’s Awards and Recognition Program…
From insideHPC
GCS in Germany Allocates Record Number of Core Hours for Research
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany has allocated a record 1,648 million core hours of computing time to 21 scientifically outstanding national research projects as part of its Call for Large-Scale Projects. …
From insideHPC
Kick the Tires on Quantum Computing with the IBM Cloud
In its latest move to build a practical quantum computer, IBM Research for the first time ever is making quantum computing available in the cloud to anyone interested in hands-on access to the company’s advanced experimental …
From insideHPC
Video: A Journey to a Holistic for Data-intensive Workflows at CSIRO
In this video from the 2016 MSST Conference, Ian Corner from CSIRO in Australia presents: A Journey to a Holistic for Data-intensive Workflows. "At CSIRO, we are Australia's national science organization and one of the largest…
From Phys.org Technology News
How to hide secret messages using fizzy drinks
Next time you see someone spilling a drink in a bar, you could actually be witnessing a spy secretly decoding an encrypted message. This might sound like something from a Bond movie. But a team from Israel has used some rather…