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
Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn
How old is Saturn? Researchers are using Sandia's Z machine to find out.
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From insideHPC
Video: 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus Supercomputer Comes to Cyfronet
In this video, officials from Cyfronet describe Prometheus, a new HP Apollo 8000 supercomputer with 1.68 Petaflops of peak performance.
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Microsoft's Hololens to Orbit
In CWorld: Good to see the space station to be used as a sandbox for this kind of application. Complexity, mobile, wearable, hands free and knowledge intensive. Should learn from this experience.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Car with Gesture Control
In Wired: Until we take the big step to autonomous driving, You do wonder where all the user interface technology will go. Here a high end BMW adds gesture control to voice. Still not used to generally flapping my hands for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Gamification Taps into What Makes Us Human
An interview in K@W. In the midst of reading this book. Quite a goal, which I agree is difficult." ... In their new book The Gamification Toolkit: Dynamics Mechanics, and Components for the Win, Wharton legal studies and business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source, In Memory Computing
A trend? " ... Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database. ... Opening up the code could give enterprise customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Brightens Black Box of R&D
In McKinsey: Very true, but how do you apply the analytics to understand what you are seeing?Brightening the black box of R&DAn all-in-one, one-for-all formula to determine R&D’s productivity can help companies see how wellThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Description of Blog and Work
I have been running a public blog since I was at Procter & Gamble in 2000. It covers advanced digital innovation topics. Often what we were experimenting with, but also a what we were tracking to understand and explore along…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory and Innovation
In Cisco Blog: On game theory and innovation. Had never thought of this quite this way. Innovation is an industry, though managing it well can be difficult.
From The Eponymous Pickle
There is a need for Not Google Glass
There is a market for hands free applications, with easy to wear, inobtrusive ways to view. We tested applications. So the 'failure' of Google Glass may teach us something about what works and what does not, here an example…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Aster
An overvew of Teradata Aster and their community. We visited Aster at a trip to Stanford in around 2010, before their acquisition by Teradata. A number of integrated products and solutions. I am now revisiting. Installed Aster…
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing the Human Brain at Jülich
In this video, Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre describes how Jülich is creating a 3D model of the human brain. "Jülich Supercomputing Centre, one of the largest research center in Germany, uses Lenovo…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies
Open Systems Technologies in New York City is seeking an HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI no Tableau yet
A friend is continuing to take a closer look at Microsoft's Power BI, and I am following. A means for doing simple data visualization starting with Excel tables. Good impressions so far, continuing to evolve. Worth a look,…
From Putting People First
Designing for behavior as the critical path for patient engagement
Forget about features, design behaviors. Tying strategic behavior design to engagement outcomes will lead to more pratical and digitally relevant solutions, writes behavioral scientist Steph Habif in a conversation piece on the…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Classic Gary Larson Squid Cartoon
I have always liked this one. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Other GCHQ News from Snowden
There are two other Snowden stories this week about GCHQ: one about its hacking practices, and the other about its propaganda and psychology research. The second is particularly disturbing: While some of the unit's activities…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The case for techno-optimism
I define techno-optimism as the belief that technology makes us healthier, richer and smarter at an accelerated rate. Anyone working in information technology cannot help but to be a bit techno-optimist. My wife’s latest Samsung…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Nurse, Professional Assistant
More from expectlabs.com, Professional assistants.MindMeld & Sense.ly Launch Breakthrough "Virtual Nurse" SolutionThis week, MindMeld is thrilled to announce our partnership with the technology company Sense.ly and the launch…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 26
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Notable items from this week include new benchmarks for 100GB Ethernet, the Open MPI roadmap, and Docker containers.
The post HPC News…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on WordNet
A short piece on the origins of the semantic ontology called Wordnet. Remarkable and free resource to pull help you pull apart aspects of natural language. We used it as a knowledge base for a tag analysis application.
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing Exoplanets
Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years. It is the first full 3-D model of a debris disk where …
From insideHPC
Mellanox Benchmarks Ceph on 100Gb Ethernet
Today Mellanox announced a set of 100Gb/s network storage performance benchmark results for Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage.
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…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Expands Echo Ecosystem
In ZDNet: " ... Amazon throws in $100 million, developer tools to open Echo's Alexa ecosystem ... The technology behind Amazon's Echo is being opened up to developers and third party hardware vendors as the e-commerce giantVia…
From insideHPC
Time to Unite Exascale and Big Data
In this video, Dan Reed from the University of Iowa describes the era of Exascale Computing and Big Data. In a recent paper co-authored with Jack Dongarra, Reed makes an impassioned plea for hardware and software integration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Data Lakes
Via Michael Thompson ...Data Lakes in Health care."Intel recently showcased a Semantic Data Lake for healthcare at HIMSS 2015, the largest healthcare IT conference in the US. This data lake is built in collaboration between Franz…
From Schneier on Security
NSA and GCHQ Attacked Antivirus Companies
On Monday, the Intercept published a new story from the Snowden documents: The spy agencies have reverse engineered software products, sometimes under questionable legal authority, and monitored web and email traffic in order…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics: Full Potential
An infographic on the full potential of Watson Analytics,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networking Intelligently
Networking Intelligently in an Over-connected WorldErica Dhawan discusses her new book and what she and coauthor Saj-nicole Joni call “the power of connectional intelligence.” ... '
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
We Say Branches And You Say Choices
You like tomato and I like tomahto Oded Green, Marat Dukhan, and Richard Vuduc are researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology—my home institution. They recently presented a paper at the Federated Conference titled, “Branch…