Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2015
From insideHPC
Bare Metal to Application Ready in Less Than a Day
There is big push for decreasing the complexity in setting up and managing HPC clusters in the data center. This IBM Webinar, “Bare Metal To Application Ready is Less Than a Day” provides excellent tips for preparing and managing…
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Near Misses on Risk Decision-Making
This is interesting research: "How Near-Miss Events Amplify or Attenuate Risky Decision Making," Catherine H. Tinsley, Robin L. Dillon, and Matthew A. Cronin. In the aftermath of many natural and man-made disasters, people often…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Strengthening E-Commerce
In The NY Times: Registration. Interesting comparisions and numbers between Amazon and Wal-Mart. " ... Walmart, Lagging in Online Sales, Is Strengthening E-Commerce ... In the world of brick and mortar, Walmart is a titan…
From Putting People First
Alice Rawsthorn on the pros and cons of new digital interface design
Alice Rawsthorn asks why the aesthetics of something so pervasive [as digital user interfaces], the design of which is deeply sophisticated in other respects, are often underwhelming. Developing a definitive design aesthetic …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Transparency Ad Targeting
See EvryThng: The Internet of Things Smart Products PlatformEVRYTHNG is the award-winning IoT cloud platform that connects any consumer product to the Web and manages real-time data to drive applications. Smart products don’t…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in the Digital Age Webinar
Colleague Suna Polat points me to a free seminar she will be part of. Link to register.CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Innovation in the Digital AgeFree educational webinar, focused on how to make innovation a systemic capability…
From Computational Complexity
The city where the book publishers resides is Funkytown!
A while back when I got back the galleys for a paper the publisher wanted to know the complete postal address of one of the co-authors and also the city where the publisher of a book in he bibliography was printed. The publisher…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Minor Insights Are Useful
Some examples of small insights that help Cropped from src1, src2 Julia Chuzhoy and Chandra Chekuri are experts on approximation algorithms: both upper and lower bounds. Each is also interested in graph theory as it applies to…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Law and Surveillance Studies
Interesting paper by Julie Cohen: Abstract: The dialogue between law and Surveillance Studies has been complicated by a mutual misrecognition that is both theoretical and temperamental. Legal scholars are inclined to consider…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Doubles Down on Neuro
Roger Dooley in Forbes. Precisely the phrase I thought of when I read of Nielsen's acquisition of Innerscope Research. At first surprised, since more recent results have led to less credibility in neuromarketing methods. But…
From insideHPC
Video: First Galaxies and Quasars in the BlueTides Simulation
"BlueTides has successfully used essentially the entire set of XE6 nodes on the Blue Waters. It follows the evolution of 0.7 trillion particles in a large volume of the universe (600 co-moving Mpc on a side) over the first billion…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
“Hello, World!”
A simple phrase known to perhaps every computer science teacher and student today. Two words that can say so much. Translated across many languages (human and computer), the phrase is a universal starter when learning something…
From insideHPC
Interview: Workshop on Euro/Latin American HPC Collaboration Coming to ISC 2015
The ISC 2015 conference will feature a day-long workshop on European/Latin American HPC Collaboration. To learn more, we caught up with workshop organizer Dr. Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández from the Universidad Industrial de …
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlueSpring Visual SharePoint Search
Have previously known BlueSpring as a BPM vendor. Have been informed of their capabilities of visual search of SharePoint data. I remember that search process for analytics data being painful. This is built on the Zakta visual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak Without Speaking: SmartStones Delivers Prose
Startup Smartstones has come up with a means to associate a gesture with snippets of prose. More here. " .... We just released our gesture-to-speech app, Smartstones :prose, and we'd love to know what you think of it. :prose…
From insideHPC
Why Hardware is Leaving Software Behind
In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be open source and why engineers are not using parallel programs.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Higher Performance Computing and a New Paradigm
Via Doug McDavid,Big data spawns a new scientific paradigm. From Pacific Northwest Labs, which we worked with on text analytics visualization.PresentationHigh Performance Computing for Data Intensive Science by John R. JohnsonComputational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Shopping Booming
In Retailwire: More on the emergence of digital grocery shopping. Delivery versus pickup remains a challenge.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on Submission Dates
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community describing the change to NSF CISE core…
From insideHPC
Hero Performance is about the Applications
During last month’s PRACE Days in Dublin – where I enjoyed talks on improvements in codes and methods in areas as diverse as CFD, RTM in geophysics, and in genomics – I saw once again that “hero” performance improvements happen…
From Schneier on Security
Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers
Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been demonstrated to be a powerful…
From insideHPC
Video Preview of the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council discuss the competitors in the upcoming ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. Located on the exhibit floor at ISC 2015, the competition…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 8 June 2015
Final exam week at my school. Friday will be the last day for teachers. Assuming I get my grading done by then it will be summer time. I lot to do around the house before I head down to Philadelphia for ISTE. I’m figuring out…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Search of Value of the Internet of Things
I am continuing to look at valuation of data as an asset and its valuation. This Forbes article by Joe McKendrick looks at another angle, how can we value the internet of things? Those same components will be creating the data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Marketing Breakthroughs
In Adage: Perhaps obvious, but worth thinking about. Prompted by recent conversations which started with 'Does this work?' " ... .... Best Practices: How to Harness the Chaos of Experimentation for Marketing Breakthroughs…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recipes for Control: If This Then That: IFTTT
Brought to my attention: IFTTT. If this then That. With connection to Amazon Echo. What is IFTTT?IFTTT gives you creative control over the products and apps you love. PhilipsTurn on or off your lights with a tap .... If IWhat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Pets
Emergence of Robotic pets. Remember well the Tamagotchi craze, examined it for possible tie ins. See the tag below. Are we heading back that way with new robotic capabilities?Scores of children spent the mid-1990s raising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things
Good overview article.Analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things ...Our increasingly connected world, combined with low-cost sensors and distributed intelligence, will have a transformative impact on industry, producing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Many Eyes to Shut Down
We examined this method when it first emerged. A kind of crowd sourcing visualization. It was never used internally because it did not allow for making the results secure. But it was useful for showing examples of data visualization…
From insideHPC
Call for Posters: New York Scientific Data Summit
"This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by…