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 Putting People First
The opportunities for wearables in the healthcare space
Daniel Gomez Seidel and Masuma Henry of Artefact have posted a nice write-up on recent developments and opportunities for wearables in the healthcare space. The post contains various interesting cases and points at some of the…
From Putting People First
Nesta report and case studies on people-centred smart cities
For smart cities to reach their full potential, they need to focus on the citizens living in them, not just technology, write researchers Tom Saunders and Peter Baeck of Nesta, the UK innovation charity Traditionally, smart cities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Elastic Cognitive Computing
" ... Schahram Dusdar gave a very interesting presentation today on "Elastic Cognitive Computing" as part of our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series. Please continue the conversation here with Schahram, who's published…
From insideHPC
SGI Ships 2.65 Petaflop ICE XA Supercomputer to ISSP in Japan
Today SGI announced its latest win at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the University of Tokyo. Scheduled to start operation on July 1 of this year, the 2.65 Petaflop SGI ICE XA supercomputer will be used by material…
From insideHPC
CloudFlow & UberCloud to Bring Cloud Services to Engineers
Today the EU-funded CloudFlow project announced a new collaboration with the UberCloud in the areas of community, technology and joint marketing.
The post CloudFlow & UberCloud to Bring Cloud Services to Engineers appeared first…From Computational Complexity
FCRC Complexity
On Wednesday at FCRC, the Complexity, STOC and EC (Economics and Computation) conferences all have sessions, a smorgasbord of talks, but tough decisions on what session to attend. Here's one you might have misses, the EC paper…
From insideHPC
Podcast: TACC Supercomputers Power Cancer Discovery
In this podcast, Karen Vasquez and Albino Bacolla of the University of Texas at Austin describe how TACC supercomputers have helped scientists find a surprising link between cross-shaped pieces of DNA and human cancer.
The post…From insideHPC
Computing With MPI in Heterogeneous Environments
Designating the appropriate provider for large MPI applications is critical to taking advantage of all of the compute power available. "A modern HPC system with multiple host cpus and multiple coprocessors such as the Intel Xeon…
From insideHPC
HPC on Windows – Does It Still Make Sense?
Could there still be a place for Windows in HPC environments? To find out, we caught up with Jan Wender from German IT service provider science+computing, who will deliver a talk on this topic at the ISC High Performance conference…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Appoints Robert Schnabel as New CEO
ACM today issued the following press release announcing the new CEO. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Robert (“Bobby”) Schnabel executive director and CEO effective November 1, 2015. Schnabel joins ACM…
From insideHPC
DTU Denmark Chills Computerome with CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced it has successfully deployed its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The installation addresses DTU…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Appoints New CEO
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has named Robert (“Bobby”) Schnabel executive director and CEO effective November 1, 2015. Schnabel joins ACM after eight years as professor and dean of the School of Informatics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Myers-Briggs
In the enterprise we used Myers-Briggs personality testing. It was always cautioned that the method was not precise, and at best allowed us to understand that there were definable differences between people. Adjustments in…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Spectrum: World’s First 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
Today Mellanox announced the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Open Ethernet-based, non-blocking switch. Spectrum, the next generation of its Open Ethernet-based switch IC, overcomes current data center challenges by providing…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Brave New Data World at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
I recently told you about my upcoming trip to Germany for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. One of the exciting events during the forum is a discussion on a selected "hot topic." This year's hot topic is big data. Because events…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Experience
In Datafloq: How to Improve Customer Experience by Quantifying Multichannel Issues?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Visualization
In the WSJ Blog: Security professionals and visualization tools.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Unilever Foundry
Startup innovation Space. Recently mentioned in the funding of Glimr. " ... Collaborate, Experiment, Pioneer.At Unilever Foundry we are on a mission to collaborate with innovators to make sustainable living commonplace whether…
From insideHPC
Announcing Univa Short Jobs for Financial Services
Today Univa announced Univa Short Jobs for financial services. As an add-on for Univa Grid Engine, Univa Short Jobs provides the financial services industry a framework to run massive quantities of low latency tasks inside a …
From Schneier on Security
Counterfeit Social Media Accounts
Interesting article on the inner workings of a Facebook account farm, with commentary on fake social media accounts in general....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
PRESS RELEASE: ACM, CSTA Announce New Award to Recognize US High School Students in Computing
Gordon Bell and David Cutler Establish $1 Million Endowment to Fund Award NEW YORK, June 17, 2015– ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and CSTA, the Computer Science Teachers Association, today announced a new award…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in a Consumer Society
Today's ISSIP talk:" ... This week’s presenters for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series are Drs. Peder Inge Furseth and Richard Cuthbertson. They will present “Innovation in a consumer society and The Service Innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difference between Watson and Watson Analytics
So what is the difference? It is considerable, but how can I make it most useful when we combine the two?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Merck and Innovation
3 ways Merck is shaking up its innovation programs'... Like most pharmaceutical companies, Merck has struggled in recent years with regulatory pressures and new technologies. To stay competitive, the firm is seeking to implement…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Drug Pumps
When you connect hospital drug pumps to the Internet, they're hackable -- only surprising people who aren't paying attention. Rios says when he first told Hospira a year ago that hackers could update the firmware on its pumps…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing
Gordon Bell and David Cutler are two of the big names in computing. Both dis amazing things at Digital Equipment and went on to do more good things at Microsoft/Microsoft Research. They have decided to endow a prize for graduating…
From insideHPC
IDC Breakfast Briefing Coming to ISC 2015
The annual IDC Breakfast Briefing is returning to the ISC 2015 conference next month. The meeting takes place at 8:30am on July 14 in the Panorama 3 room at the Frankfurt Messe.
The post IDC Breakfast Briefing Coming to ISC 2015…From insideHPC
Industrial Computational Breakthroughs on Blue Waters
"Blue Waters can tackle a very wide range of challenging tasks, not only from science, but also from engineering demonstrating the feasibility of efficiently solving extreme size real world multi-physics problems on the peta-scale…
From insideHPC
Tiny Titan Supercomputer Debuts at Oak Ridge Museum
The "Tiny Titan" parallel computer has become interactive display at the American Museum of Science and Energy at Oak Ridge. Constructed last year at ORNL, Tiny Titan is a nine-node scale-model of Titan designed to make it easier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chomsky and non speaking AI
Of interest, my comments will follow later today.