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
Recycling Online Content
This came up recently as I searched for years-old mention of technology in email posts. Some good thoughts on the process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Needs Consumer Trust
In Supermarket NewsCPG execs: Consumer trust is key industry value, challengeBuilding consumer trust is a core value for more than 60% of business leaders in the global consumer packaged goods market, and almost a third expect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Survey Results
A very common need. But how do you do a simple thing? It turns out you do it simply and cleanly. It is too common to try to add too many things, make too many points. Good example.
From Schneier on Security
Clever System of Secure Distributed Computation
This is really clever: Enigma's technique -- what cryptographers call "secure multiparty computation" -- works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin's decentralized network architecture: It encrypts data by splitting…
From insideHPC
VSC-3 Cluster Achieves 1.02 mPUE Rating with Green Revolution Cooling
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that VSC-3 Vienna Scientific Cluster has achieved a mechanical Power Utilization Effectiveness (mPUE) rating 1.02, making it one of the most efficient data center facilities in the world…
From XRDS
Summer at XRDS: Issue on “Computational Biology” a comprehensive preview!
I am very pleased to introduce the June issue for XRDS on computational biology. I had the privilege to work as Issue Editor for this issue alongside Guest Editor Cristina Pop, who recently received her Ph.D. from Stanford University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Grocery Automat
An ATM-style, robotic grocery store could be coming Des Moines, Iowa, might be the first market to test a standalone grocery store that is a cross between "an ATM and a very large vending machine," using a robotic system called…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zapaday: A Calendar Store
Interesting concept, calendar as a forward looking event monitor. I worked with Recorded Future, which had some similar intent, but is more analytical. Some calendar subscriptions are free, some quite expensive. Like to see…
From Schneier on Security
Details of the NSA's XKEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's XKEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive. So much to digest. Please post anything interesting you notice…
From insideHPC
New OpenPOWER Acceleration Center Opens in France
Today IBM announced the establishment of a new POWER Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France. Launched in collaboration with Nvidia and Mellanox, the new center will advance the development of data-intensive research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Products
In CGT: A natural outgrowth of the Internet of things. New kinds of connections and opportunities. . " ... To help IT and non IT leaders in manufacturing justify investment in connected products for after-sales service transformation…
From Putting People First
Getting citizens involved in protecting fragile energy environments
A new project funded under the FP7 European Commission framework is getting citizens involved in testing new tools for reducing energy consumption during peak loads, in the hope that its pilot program will set the new state of…
From BLOG@CACM
SF Reading For Computer Scientists: Summer 2015
Summer reading recommendations for computer scientists, courtesy of the SIGCSE 2015 Using Science Fiction in CS Courses BOF.
From insideHPC
AMD and Dell Power Bioinformatics at University of Warsaw
Today AMD unveiled innovation in heterogeneous HPC at the Centre of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw. In a new cluster deployment called Orion, the Next Generation Sequencing Centre in Warsaw is powering bioinformatics…
From insideHPC
Intel Shakes up Leadership
Today Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a series of leadership and organizational changes in a message to employees.
The post Intel Shakes up Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Integrating an Intel Xeon Phi Cluster
At the National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint venture by the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a joint team set out to learn how to integrate the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor into…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities and their Data
A look at the new Smart City, and its implications. In the CACM." ... The flood of information could also create new challenges, according to Pete Beckman, director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne…
From BLOG@CACM
The Ethics of Cyberwar
Under what conditions should one engage in cyberwar? How should such a conflict be waged?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supporting Cooperative Research
In the CACM: Cooperative research always makes me think of our local Zakta effort. Social and visual. Worth taking a close look at as it continues to evolve.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Better Loyalty Programs
Have noted that loyalty programs in general are looking very stale these days. Nothing new or very engaging.In K@W: Consumers today often belong to a host of retailer ‘loyalty programs,’ earning redeemable points when theyThis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Data Preparation Tools
Better tools, likely that includes cognitive and context knowledge capabilities are needed. Also paying more attention to metadata needs: In O'Reilly:Why data preparation frameworks rely on human-in-the-loop systemsThe O'Reilly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Apps as Car Keys
A natural solution. Encrypted signals from smartphones acting as passes into all sorts of systems. In the NYT. Though the physical key will not be completely replaced, its battery does not fail.
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye SIGACT and CRA
Tuesday I served my last day on two organizations, the ACM SIGACT Executive Committee and the CRA Board of Directors. I spent ten years on the SIGACT (Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory) EC, four years…
From insideHPC
Nallatech Rolls Out 510T FPGA Accelerator
Today Nallatech announced the 510T FPGA co-processor. Designed to deliver ultimate performance per watt for compute-intensive datacenter applications, the 510T is a GPU-sized 16-lane PCIe 3.0 card featuring two of Altera’s new…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on #ISTE2015 Wednesday–Exhibit Hall
There are all sorts of interesting people working the various exhibit hall booths at ISTE and other conference. There are as I see it several groups or types.
Sales/Marketing People
Some are all about closing the sale. Not …From Putting People First
Wells Fargo bank uses ethnographic research to design a better customer experience
During a Speaker Spotlight Q&A at Forrester’s CXNYC 2015 conference for customer experience professionals, Mark McCormick, Wells Fargo’s Head of Wholesale User Experience, talked about how past customer experiences shape consumer…
From Putting People First
Interview with HTC’s head designer on experience design
Drew Bamford is the person responsible for making the ITC’s experience design – how the company’s devices feel and work like ‘HTC phones’ rather than just another Android handset. HTC’s head designer’s purvue is focused on the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Internet Reference Architecture
via the Industrial Internet ConsortiumIndustrial Internet Reference ArchitectureThank You For Your Interest In The Industrial Internet Reference Architecture Technical Paper.This technical document will help your organization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cooling Your Clothing
In IEEE Spectrum. High Tech Material Will Make Clothes Cool So You Don't Need AC Although developing more power-efficient air conditioners and building greener homes and offices can help cut energy costs and reduce pollution…
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 Release Coming to ISC 2015
Today Bright Computing announced it will be releasing Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC at the ISC 2015 conference. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The post Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 Release…