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
Contrasting how Japan and Europe Promote the Use of HPC
Europe and Japan have come to the same conclusion; HPC resources must be shared and not monopolized by the individual owners of the computer systems themselves. And both have set up bodies to coordinate that process of sharing…
From insideHPC
Satoshi Matsuoka to Chair ISC 2016 Conference Program
Today ISC Events announced that Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology will be the program chairman for ISC 2016. "As the program chair, Dr. Matsuoka will be actively involved in leading the ISC program team…
From Schneier on Security
Research on The Trade-off Between Free Services and Personal Data
New report: "The Tradeoff Fallacy: How marketers are misrepresenting American consumers and opening them up to exploitation." New Annenberg survey results indicate that marketers are misrepresenting a large majority of Americans…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Security Via Surrender
A new approach to protecting data and identity Cropped from src1, src2 David Sanger and Julie Davis are reporters for the paper of record—the New York Times. Their recent article starts: WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on…
From Computational Complexity
STOC Business Meeting
This week I'm at the Federated Computing Research Conference in Portland, a collection of many mostly ACM conferences. Last night was the STOC business meeting. The meeting had beer but the beer had no alcohol. Not an auspicious…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Blogging and Meeting CS Greats at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum "offers a select group of young researchers in mathematics and computer science the extraordinary chance to meet the preeminent scientists of their field for one week of cross-generational, scientific…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Testimony on “The IRS Data Breach: Steps to Protect Americans’ Personal Information” to Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
On June 2, our new CCC Council member starting July 1st, Kevin Fu (Associate Professor, Sloan Research Fellow Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan) was one…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics of Stars and Giant Exoplanets
Over at the NASA Ames Research Center, Michelle Moyer writes that the agency is using supercomputer simulations to explore the interior dynamics of stars and giant exoplanets.
The post Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics ofinsideHPC…From insideHPC
Video: Mont-Blanc Prototype One Step Closer to Exascale
"Early in February, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) successfully deployed the Mont-Blanc prototype. After three years of intensive research effort, the team installed a two-rack prototype which is now available to the Mont…
From insideHPC
SGI Broadens HPC Solutions with Red Hat OEM Agreement
Today SGI announced the signing of an OEM agreement with Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This agreement enables SGI’s world-class service organization to provide support of Red Hat Enterprise…
From insideHPC
HPC in medical applications
Medical applications like CT (computed tomography) scanning and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) require quick, accurate results from processing complex algorithms. So reducing the compute time required is a primary challenge…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Vint Cerf Interviews U.S. CTO Megan Smith
ACM Past President Vint Cerf interviewed U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith for this month’s Communications of the ACM magazine. She spoke on key policy objectives, the need to increase the number of students in STEM fields…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Signs Letter to President Obama Urging Wide Adoption of Encryption Technology
USACM signed a letter to President Obama from a variety of civil society organizations urging him to pursue public policies that encourage the wide adoption of strong encryption technology. The letter is responsive to public…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focusing in the World of Digital Assistants
Until now you have been able to pick and choose in the world of Apps, hardware and services to help do your job. The typical challenge has been between Google and Apple. Google Now and Siri for asking questions, searching and…
From Schneier on Security
Peter Swire on the USA FREEDOM Act
Peter Swire, law professor and one of the members of the President's review group on the NSA, writes about intelligence reform and the USA FREEDOM Act....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Key to the Connected Home
How very true, Even in small tests we did the complexity rose quickly. I am now testing several home systems. Design exists at the high level aesthetic level, and at the detailed standards level. Good thoughtful challenge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nash and Business Strategy
In K@W: John Nash lives on in business strategy. A Podcast:" ... Nash’s body of work in game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences along with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He became…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Incentivizing Knowledge Sharing
A long time challenge. Blogs like this were an early example of feeding wikimedia sharing devices in the enterprise. Gamification methods were also examined. Standards and ontologies were developed. In APQC.
From insideHPC
ISC 2015 Interview: Programming Models on the Road to Exascale
ISC 2015 will host a number of sessions on Exascale computing next month in Frankfurt. In what looks to be one of the highlights of the conference, Bill Gropp, Georg Hager, and Paul Kelly will discuss Programming Models on the…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First?
I hate posts that pretend to answer the question Which Programming Language Should I Learn First? So regardless of the title of this post I’m not going to answer the question. Well not exactly. One problem with most such posts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Opens Paris AI Center
In TechCrunch: Facebook: More than just identifying faces, using information in social to create a number of alternative models and link them to engagement and value. AI is back.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps Warn When a Store Will Close
When navigating to a place we would like to have enough information to use that place before we spend the effort to get there. What is more important than knowing a place is open for business when we arrive? In essence augmented…
From My Biased Coin
SoCG Proceedings
The 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry has its proceedings available online here.I point this out because the SoCG proceedings were managed by LIPIcs, the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.Schloss…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15
House Floor Possible consideration of trade legislation. See below for Tuesday’s scheduled floor action. Monday, June 15, 2015 Hearing: Commercial Cyber Espionage and Barriers to Digital Trade in China U.S.-China Economic and…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect
The FCC’s Open Internet Order became effective on June 12. The Order imposes new bright-line net neutrality rules that prohibit broadband providers from blocking, throttling, and prioritizing paid “fast lanes.” The rules apply…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Renews Consumer Advisory Committee
The renewed FCC Consumer Advisory Committee held its first public meeting on June 12. The Committee is comprised of 37 appointed representatives from industry, academia, consumer organizations, disability organizations, and regulatory…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House- The Week of Making
*The White House has kicked off the National Week of Making, which lasts from June 12 to June 18. The event includes announcements and progress updates on the President’s call to action to create a “Nation of Makers.” America…
From insideHPC
GPU Accelerated Quantum Chemistry: A New Method
"The ability to accurately and efficiently study the absorption spectra of large chemical systems necessitates the development of new algorithms and the use of different architectures. We have developed a highly parallelizable…
From insideHPC
Chelsio Adds Support for GPUDirect RDMA
Today Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 iWARP RDMA over Ethernet adapters now fully support NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology.
The post Chelsio Adds Support for GPUDirect RDMA appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
ISC 2015 Recognizes Research in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing
Today the ISC 2015 conference announced the winners of its annual awards, recognizing excellence in the development of energy-efficient supercomputers.
The post ISC 2015 Recognizes Research in Energy-Efficient SupercomputinginsideHPC…