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 The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes and Counterfeiting
In Retailwire: Using QR codes to eliminate counterfeit goods. We examined a number of watermarking methods.
From Schneier on Security
Fun NSA Surveillance Quizzes
Okay, maybe not so fun. Quiz 1: "Just How Kafkaesque is the Court that Oversees NSA Spying?" Quiz 2: "Can You Tell the Difference Between Bush and Obama on the Patriot Act?" It's been fourteen hours since a few provisions of…
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: June Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. The spotlight is on HP this week, as Dr. Stephen Wheat has joined the company in Houston.
The post HPC People on the Move: June Edition…From insideHPC
Video: Porting Scientific Apps to GPUs with OpenACC
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Saber Feki from KAUST and Ahmed Al-Jarro from Fujitsu Labs in Europe present: Experiences in Porting Scientific Applications to GPUs Using OpenACC.
The post Video: Porting Scientific…From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Gaze Direction with Machine Learning
In Technology Review:Virtual Eyes Train Deep Learning Algorithm to Recognize Gaze DirectionGaze estimation is a classic problem of machine vision, which can now be solved by one computer training another.Eye contact is one of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple HomeKit
Coming in June.Apple unveiled HomeKit nearly a year ago, at the Worldwide Developers Conference last June. The idea was that Apple could turn the iPhone or iPad into a command system for the myriad smart-home devices like thermostats…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smell Scape of a City
We did quite a bit of work in understanding how smell could be used in retail. One approach was to establish a formal smellscape of a space. It has been done with entire cities before, see the tag below, now advances in that…
From insideHPC
New Whitepaper: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction for Xeon Phi
Colfax Research has published a new whitepaper entitled: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction. As part 1 of a 3-part educational series, the paper authored by Ryo Asai and Andrey Vladimirov focuses on optimization of applications…
From insideHPC
CIARA to Cool High Frequency Servers with Asetek
Today Asetek announced that it has been selected by CIARA, a leading supplier of enterprise servers, storage and services, to liquid cool its High Frequency server line. Based on customer expectations, Asetek expects the business…
From Schneier on Security
US Also Tried Stuxnet Against North Korea
According to a Reuters article, the US military tried to launch Stuxnet against North Korea in addition to Iran: According to one U.S. intelligence source, Stuxnet's developers produced a related virus that would be activated…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 June 2015
Two more weeks of school for me. Our seniors graduate this weekend and then we have final exams for everyone else. The year has flown by. Soon I’ll be into summer mode. ISTE first and CSTA later in July. I hope to learn a lot…
From Putting People First
Exploring the ‘next nature’ that people and technology are creating
The Next Nature website sets out to radically shift our notion of nature: Our image of nature as static, balanced and harmonic is naive and up for reconsideration. Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed…