Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnichannel Delivery Costs in Retail
Thoughts on costs of omnichannel delivery in retail. In RetailWire:" ... Buried by the high cost of fulfilling online orders across multiple channels, only 16 percent of companies can fulfill omnichannel demand profitably today…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Your Writing
Writing Secrets from Hollywood, by Eric Barker. Nicely done. Simple, straightforward ideas.
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindMeld Platform
I see there have been a number of updates on the MindMeld Platform. " .... The Voice Revolution has Arrived A new generation of voice driven applications is now possible for the first time ... Recent AI Breakthroughs have…
From insideHPC
Dynamically Downscaling Climate Models
Jim Collins writes that a research team from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago is using the Mira supercomputer to investigate the effectiveness of dynamically downscaled climate models.
The post Dynamically…From insideHPC
Video: RDMA Container Support
In this video from the 2015 OFS Workshop, Liran Liss from Mellanox presents: RDMA Container Support.
The post Video: RDMA Container Support appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contract Analytics
Recent post in Prism Legal. Seems a natural text analytics application, with the potential to link to trend analysis and structured data from a number of legal contexts. " ... IBM Watson for Contract Analytics at Legal OnRamp…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Quotient, Enterpise, Culture
A tough aspect of making the digital enterprise functional.In McKinsey: " ... Raising your Digital QuotientFollowing the leader is a dangerous game. It’s better to focus on building an organization and culture that can realize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Cooking Book: Creativity?
I note that this book is now available, on order, I am a cook and was a Beta user and found the system useful, but not necessarily better than using one of the many recipe systems out there. It does provide an interestingCognitive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindness is Contagious
Steve Omohundro on the Kindness is Contagious meme in film and articles. This was recommended to me some time ago, but I had not followed up on what Steve mentions. Seen relatively little of this lately. Good place to go:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID and the Internet of Things
In SCDigest: Service models. Things become services: " .... Until IoT, consumers typically purchases devices, such as say a garage door opener. That physical opener in effect operates in standalone mode and requires direct…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing in the Air with Gestures
In FastCoDesign: Gesture control is an interesting idea. It was brought up in the movie 'Minority Report' as a means to control screens, choices and data. But in reality it still requires training to make sure you do not…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Supercomputing Global Flood Maps
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how the KatRisk startup is using GPUs on the Titan supercomputer to calculate global flood maps. "KatRisk develops event-based probabilistic models to quantify portfolio aggregate…
From insideHPC
Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Gains Momentum
Today Mellanox announced the growing industry-wide adoption of its end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions.
The post Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Gains Momentum appeared first on insideHPC.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You Don’t Know What You Are Teaching Your Students
From time to time teachers need a reminder of what they are teaching. Oh not just “we teach students not subjects.” That is certainly true but what is also true is that we teach students more than just subject. What they learn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI Community will Soon be Alive
Been examining the Power BI system from Microsoft in Beta. A free for now and easy to use dashboard data visualization site. Nicely done, not a Tableau or Spotfire as yet, but useful for many applications. Now shortly…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: My Little Cephalopod
A cute series of knitted plushies. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Snarkiness of Google AI
Is humor usefully creative? How do we utilize it when it is used in creative interactions between human and machines? Google's examination of the idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning's Promise
Steve Hamm on the promise of Deep Learning. Good, non-technical overview. See some of my other posts on this tag that include short presentations on the topic. Steve Hamm also has a good book on Smart Machines and Cognitive…
From Schneier on Security
High-tech Cheating on Exams
India is cracking down on people who use technology to cheat on exams: Candidates have been told to wear light clothes with half-sleeves, and shirts that do not have big buttons. They cannot wear earrings and carry calculators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Business Leaders need to Understand Neuroscience
Good piece. If they further understand how to use, and not use it effectively. It is still in a hype phase that needs to be considered.Mosongo MoukwaDirector of Technology at PolyOneIf you have recently attended an executive…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2015 White House Conference on Aging
The 2015 White House Conference on Aging is Monday, July 13th from 10:00AM- 5:00 PM ET. The White House has held a Conference on Aging each decade since the 1960s to identify and advance actions to improve the quality of life…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Simple techniques to improve your health in 2015
We do not have nanobots yet to repair our arteries and neurons. This will come, but we might have to wait to 2050 or later. We do have stem cells, the next best thing, and they are commonly used to fight cancer and improve your…
From insideHPC
CEA Teams With Atos to Develop Exaflop Supercomputer
Today Atos announced a contract with the CEA French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission develop a 25 Petaflop supercomputer. Called Tera1000, the new supercomputer will serve as a prototype for a follow-on exascale…
From insideHPC
David Keyes and Jen Frechet on how Shaheen II Supercomputer will Drive Research
In this video, Professors Jean Frechet and David Keyes describe their vision for KAUST's new Shaheen II Cray XC40 supercomputer. "The initial configuration of Shaheen II will feature nearly 200,000 x86 processor cores. At initial…
From Schneier on Security
Organizational Doxing
Recently, WikiLeaks began publishing over half a million previously secret cables and other documents from the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia. It's a huge trove, and already reporters are writing stories about the highly secretive…
From insideHPC
A New Direction in HPC System Fabric: Intel’s Omni-Path Architecture
In this special guest feature, John Kirkley writes that Intel is using its new Omni-Path Architecture as a foundation for supercomputing systems that will scale to 200 Petaflops and beyond.
The post A New Direction in HPC System…From insideHPC
Geoff Lyon from CoolIT Systems up for Entrepreneur Of The Year
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company’s CEO & CTO, Geoff Lyon, has been selected as a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Award 2015 in the Prairies region.
The post Geoff Lyon from CoolIT Systems…From insideHPC
Asetek to Showcase Liquid Cooling at ISC 2015
Today Asetek announced plans to showcase its RackCDU warm water liquid cooling solutions at the ISC 2015 conference July 12–16 in Frankfurt.
The post Asetek to Showcase Liquid Cooling at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.
…From insideHPC
Mellanox EDR IB to Power 1.8 Petaflop Jureca System at Jülich
Today Mellanox announced that the Jülich Supercomputing Centre has selected the company's EDR 100Gb/s solution to accelerate its new large-scale supercomputer. Called JURECA, the new 1.8 Petaflop system will be developed T-Platforms…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST- Public Meeting July 14th
The next public President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) meeting will be this Tuesday, July 14, 2015 from 9:00 AM -12:00 PM ET at the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington…