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 insideHPC
Video: “What is Supercomputing?”
In this video from ASC16, students compete in the final round of the Asia Student Cluster Challenge. "Some 175 teams from universities in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania participated in ASC16. Of…
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER for HPC Workshop Coming to ISC 2016
Editor’s Note: The OpenPOWER European Summit has been officially postponed until later in 2016, but don’t miss the International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC on June 23 at ISC 2016. The OpenPOWER Foundation was established …
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Central Biweekly Digest
With coverage of a recent conference. Interesting articles. Am a member and actively following. " ... We went to IoT World last week in Santa Clara, California, where over 150 vendors and 10,000 attendees were there showing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Corporations Predicted
I remember making a presentation in the late 1980s that implied we would soon have portions of our enterprise running autonomously. The term "lights out" manufacturing facilities was mentioned. Now predictions In TechCrunch…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing LHC Experiments with Titan
University of Texas at Arlington physicists are preparing the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee to support the analysis of data generated from the quadrillions of proton collisions expected…
From insideHPC
HPC Advisory Council Announces 4th Annual RDMA Programming Competition
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced its Fourth Annual RDMA Programming Competition in China. Designed to support undergraduate curriculum and talent development, this unique hands-on competition furthers students study, …
From Putting People First
Experientia white paper: “Conducting clinical trials is about working with patients”
Patient-centricity is one of the defining issues facing clinical trials in the pharma industry. The past few years have seen a growing awareness by pharmaceutical companies of the importance of patient-centricity – but they have…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer-Aided Personalized Education Report
The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Computer-Aided Personalized Education has released their workshop report. The workshop, held in November 2015, brought together over 50 researchers…
From insideHPC
ISC High Performance Announces Conference Chairs for 2017
Today the ISC Group announced the appointment of Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra of University of Tennessee, USA, as the program chairman for ISC 2017. This appointment underlines the international dimension of this conference. "I am…
From Phys.org Technology News
EgyptAir MS804: search and rescue at sea is never easy
The disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804, presumed lost over the eastern Mediterranean on a flight between Paris and Cairo with all 66 on board, is the latest passenger aircraft to go missing. The loss of Malaysia Airlines…
From Schneier on Security
State of Online Tracking
Really interesting research: "Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis," by Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan: Abstract: We present the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking conducted…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 June 2016
It’s getting to be the end of the school year. I know teachers who are finished already and others who finish up this week. I have about three weeks to go. Trying to keep up the energy level at this time of year can be tough …
From updated sporadically at best
"We run things, things don't run we"
Yesterday was Porchfest, an annual event where local musicians perform on their porches all around Somerville, MA. My friend Stefan Anderson, who performs as the solo act Stefan Banderson, performed his cover of Miley Cyrus's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Condensed Guide to Data Science
Nicely done introduction by Vincent Granville of DSC, links to many useful resources. Good list, condensed, but still lots there, and considerable variability in technical depth, Which if you discuss computing languages, is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Cameras for All
Do Police Body Cameras Really Work?Sometimes police body cameras accomplish their intended purpose, but other times they backfire. And nobody knows why .... By Barak ArielA considerable IEEE analysis piece on the use of body…
From insideHPC
CIPRES Offers Gateway to Supercomputing Life Sciences
In this special guest feature, Lance Farrell from Science Node writes that CIPRES is a web-based gateway that allows researchers to easily explore evolutionary relationships between species using NSF supercomputers. "In the six…
From insideHPC
Exascale Architecture Trends and Implications for Programming Systems
John Shalf presented this talk at EASC2016 in Stockholm. "This talk will describe the challenges of programming future computing systems. It will then provide some highlights from the search for durable programming abstractions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Behind Viv
In Medium. A system that writes its own code. Though what exactly that means is unclear to me. Not classic machine learning. My first question is always, to what specific goals and in whatcontext? Examining" ... Viv uses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales People Embracing Silence
In Customerthink. More silence anyway. Words still need to get across but listening is primary to understand which ones. " ..... They say you have two ears and one mouth for a reason, but why is it so difficult for many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti Drone
Not unexpected. Reminds me of a number of anti RFID blocking methods that were sold, but not widely. Privacy here is more physical. In ArsTechnica: Dronebuster will let you point and shoot command hacks at pesky drones…
From insideHPC
Video: The Vital Importance of HPC to U.S. Competitiveness and National Security
In this video, ITIF hosts a hearing on the The Vital Importance of High-Performance Computing to U.S. Competitiveness and National Security. Their recently published report urges U.S. policymakers to take decisive steps to ensure…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Computing Facilitator at OSC
Ohio State University is seeking a Research Computing Facilitator in our Job of the Week. "The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) provides high-performance computing (HPC) services for Ohio’s university researchers and industrial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Intelligence on Toys
In RFIDJournal. Disney Research Explores Ways to Add RFID Intelligence to Robots, ToysWalt Disney Co.'s lab network, together with scientists from MIT, the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon, has developed systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail: Mortar vs Digital
In Retailwire: "The best retailers will strike the balance between brick-and-mortar and digital. Some are already doing it.", Shep HykenChief Amazement Officer, Shepard
From updated sporadically at best
A Recent Exchange on Money and Time
Below is a recent exchange with my friend Rob Ochshorn, who often writes emails instead of blog posts to work out his thoughts. Here I am borrowing not only his technique, but also his thoughts, on a topic I have recently begun…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Expansion Plans
In the Cincinnati Enquirer " .... Kroger's big $4 billion expansion plan ... " Kroger has big expansion plans in 2016.How big?Enough to build both the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati and the Great American Tower at Queen City…
From Phys.org Technology News
3-D candy-maker billed as world's first arrives in New York
Now there's yet another market for 3-D printer-enthusiasts: candy.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Kite
Video. Plus an octopus kite, with another squid kite in the background. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Declares an AI Spring
Words from Google's AI chief. Driven by machine learning and specific advances in language and image understanding at Google. Cognitive knowledge interaction by Watson. Retail voice channels by Amazon. And others. And also…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Public Information Secret
A way to recover and enforce privacy McNealy bio source Scott McNealy, when he was the CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously said nearly 15 years ago, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” Today I want to talk about how to…