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
Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?
In DataNami:First we had IBM Watson Analytics, then Microsoft launched Azure Machine Learning. With last week’s launch of Amazon Machine Learning, the e-commerce giant is the latest tech giant to attempt to democratize the development…
From Schneier on Security
Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
Encrypting your Windows hard drives is trivially easy; choosing which program to use is annoyingly difficult. I still use Windows -- yes, I know, don't even start -- and have intimate experience with this issue. Historically,…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Federal Employee Hack
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent hack of U.S. government employee data. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, including military records and veterans’…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 June 2015
First Monday of summer break for me and I sure do have a lot to do. Just none of it school related. I’ve got some good links to share. Some CSTA news for starters. And some fun stuff at the bottom of the post. Enjoy.
Dr. Mark…From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Omni-Channel
In Retailwire: More on retailers and omni channel via the cloud.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia more Secure?
In Engadget: It has been suggested that you could understand what a company was doing by tracking what they searched for in a public place like the Wikipedia. Now they are default encrypting that traffic, making it more difficult…
From insideHPC
PETRONAS Procures SGI ICE X for Seismic Imaging
Today SGI announced that PETRONAS in Malaysia has procured an SGI ICE X system to accelerate its research and development in subsurface imaging.
The post PETRONAS Procures SGI ICE X for Seismic Imaging appeared first on insideHPC…From Computational Complexity
First issue of SIGACT news where I wasn't the editor. But...
I posted at some earlier time that I was resigning from the editorship of SIGACT NEWS book review column, and handing the reins over to Fred Green (who is older than me, so `handing over the reins' might not be quite right).…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Pushing Spark for Big Data
IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream In the WSJ: IBM ... has thrown its weight behind Spark, an increasingly popular tool that is used to analyze large amounts of data in real time. Spark opens up…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Tools and Software
Open source has been a long time interest of mine, both for enterprise needs and personally. Just reviewed some of my links to open source software and methods and decided to pass them along. Here is the tag link for open source…
From insideHPC
Video: Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale
"Algorithmic adaptations are required to use anticipated exascale hardware near its potential, since the code base has been engineered to squeeze out flops. Instead, algorithms must now squeeze out synchronizations, memory, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Dwarfing Big Data
In Gartner: Internet of Things will dwarf big data. Since the IOT will be a major source of data, this is not much of a big difference. Some of the statements about what the IOT is are too restrictive. Customers and crowds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waze as Panopticon
In the New Yorker. Google subsidiary, social driving App Waze is sharing its data with Los Angeles. Data driving and pattern improvement and intelligence. How is this like Bentham's Panopticon? What are the implications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Data Visualization Tools
A survey of open source data visualization tools, most of which I have never yet heard of.
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Education and Training Specialist at OSC
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking an Education and Training Specialist in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Education and Training Specialist at OSC appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creativity and Productivity in Smart Service Systems
Talk by Jim Spohrer Director, Global University Programs at IBM" Boosting the creativity and productivity of people in smart service systems" (CSIG) The Naples Forum on Service - Naples, Italy, Wed June 10th, 2015
Talk at the…From insideHPC
Bright OpenStack Integrates with Ceph
Today Bright Computing announced that its OpenStack management software integrates with Ceph to provide OpenStack with highly available and self-healing storage backend for volumes and objects.
The post Bright OpenStack Integrates…From Schneier on Security
Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest: I want a movie-plot threat that shows the evils of encryption. (For those who don't know, a movie-plot threat is a scary-threat story that would make a great movie…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Geoffrey Hinton on the Rise of Deep Learning
"In Deep Learning what we do is try to minimize the amount of hand engineering and get the neural nets to learn, more or less, everything. Instead of programing computers to do particular tasks, you program the computer to know…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Data Science Apprenticeship
Live and ready, just updated, DSC's online apprenticeship. Have scanned their work and it seems to be well done. Impressed by the work that DSC has done providing information about data science topics in general. Worth a look…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Kroger Online Ordering
In Cincinnati Enquirer: " ... Clicks to ease trips at Liberty Township Kroger ... Some long-time Kroger's customers say clicks beat old-fashioned shopping trips and they are eager for the supermarket's expanded online shopping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Leadership Mind Maps
The Bigger Plate site has a broad library of mind maps, both complete and in useful template form. Most recently a set of business leadership mind maps, I will take a further look. ( Apparently now requires their mind mapping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying the Shopper
Via Retailwire: Retailers increasing ability to ID the shopper. The discussion comments at the link are also interesting. " .... If you have a smartphone in five years, there's a really good chance stores are going to know…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Waves of Digital
In Adage: Interesting perspective ... The world is moving quickly, so understanding what may be next is useful. Digital's Third Wave Is Coming: Don't Miss the RideFour Big Opportunities for Agencies and Brands in the Nextby…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fixing Your Process
In the APQC Blog, fixing the process. But even more important, do you understand it, and are you ready to fix it?
From Putting People First
[Book] Designing Connected Products
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Designing Connected Products: UX for the Consumer Internet of Things By Claire Rowland, Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Ann Light, Alfred Lui O’Reilly Media, May 2015 726 pages [Amazon link] Abstract Networked thermostats…
From Putting People First
Examining the proliferation of magical narratives in technology
There has been a lot of talk about magic lately in critical, cultural and technological spaces; what it does, who it is for, and who are the ones to control or enact it. As a way of unpacking a few elements of this thinking, …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate and Lower the Cost of “Innovation?
In CIMdata's Linkedin Group: My former colleague writes.CIMdata's Dr. Suna Polat asks the question, Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate and Lower the Cost of “Innovation?”I experienced a strategic “innovation…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dancing Zombie Squid
How dead squid is made to dance when soy sauce is poured on it. 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
Uh Oh -- Robots Are Getting Good with Samurai Swords
It's Iaido, not sword fighting, but still. Of course, the two didn't battle each other, but competed in Iaido tests like cutting mats and flowers in various cross-sectional directions. A highlight was when the robot horizontally…