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
Consistent Experiences across Devices
Important goal. Not too often the case. " ... Walgreens' responsive website is part of the retailer's digital strategy that allows it to offer shoppers a consistent transition between desktop computers and mobile devices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote on Euro Data Laws
Evernote CEO comments on euro data laws. Complexity of regional regulations continues to add complexity to a data rich world.
From insideHPC
Video: Data Storage Infrastructure at Cyfronet
"Cyfronet recently celebrated the launch of Poland’s fastest supercomputer. As the world’s largest deployment of the HP Apollo 8000 platform, the 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus system is powered by 41,472 Intel Haswell cores, 216 Terabytes…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
This is an interesting article that looks at Hacking Team's purchasing of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities from a variety of sources: Hacking Team's relationships with 0day vendors date back to 2009 when they were still transitioning…
From insideHPC
BlueBEAR HPC Service Supports Proton Therapy Research
Researchers at the University of Lincoln in the U.K. are using the BlueBEAR HPC service to simulate the use of protons for CT imaging. Generally reliant on X-rays to image the body’s composition and healthy tissue location before…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 July 2015
The really part of this week was in Charleston SC for a great mini conference. I blogged about it earlier in the week. The rest of the week was catching up around the house since I’ve spent so much time away the last couple of…
From Putting People First
New qualitative research on video consumption by UK youth
TV viewing (live, playback and Broadcaster VOD services) dominates the video viewing of all ages; however 16-24s have a more varied video diet, with TV accounting for two thirds of their total video viewing compared to the UK…
From Putting People First
Breaking Free from The Lean Startup religion: The Service Designer Manifesto
Breaking Free from The Lean Startup religion: The Service Designer Manifesto by Tenny Pinheiro Eise Books July 21, 2015 – 52 pages Free on Kindle Abstract Our civilization is facing complex, systemic and scary wicked problems…
From Putting People First
Nudging to fix the world
Last week the UK media were suddenly abuzz on how behavioural insights can help government decisions and actions by being able to nudge behaviour in a favourable direction. Apparently it has become a cure-all and is now even …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telling Good Data from Bad
From Forbes. Hardly complete, but a reasonable starting point. Which can be mostly summarized as: Understand your sources, ask for certification when available, ask the right questions, (which often depend on the specific…
From insideHPC
OpenMPCon Lists Abstracts and Tutorials
Today OpenMPCon Developer Conference has published their list of abstracts of papers and tutorials.
The post OpenMPCon Lists Abstracts and Tutorials appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Numascale Powers Big Data Analytics with Transtec
"At ISC 2015, Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Attentive Analytics
In a lunch time conversation last week the concept of an 'attentive' system emerged. You can make many systems, analytic or otherwise, alert people to conditions that are happening or trending. Further it is also useful to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel is Fixing the Cloud
In CWorld: " ... Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the software is complex and takes too long to deploy. ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Content Analytics Re-Emerges
This was an approach we called 'Content Analytics' a long time ago, when the data we analyzed came from big spools of tape. I had thought the term had gone away, to be replaced by 'Bigger' things. So was glad to see this piece…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Pluto and the Nature of Seeing
What does it mean to see in a technological world? A Wired look at visual sensors, using the Pluto flyby as an example. At what, when and how are we seeing things?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Data Repository
In the Chronicle: An example of clearly sourced dark data" .... Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are leading an effort to create a one-stop shop for data sets that would otherwise be lost to theThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon as an Internet of Things Superpower
In the Motley Fool: Very good piece on a number of Amazon IOT dimensions I am currently following. In particular I am looking forward to trying the Amazon Dash Button idea, which essentially attaches a buy button to the 'things'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data about China
Was involved in the early examination of available data about China, driving retail models. See Simulex and Agent Models tag.In Clickz:The way data is collected, shared and used by marketers in China is still evolving, as agencies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating A Marketing Persona
Market equity in a persona, simplified. " ... The foundation of marketing is the process of identifying, meeting, and satisfying customer wants and needs. In order to meet their needs you must have a true understanding of your…
From insideHPC
Tsinghua in China Makes $23 billion Bid for Micron
In what could be one of the biggest acquisitions of a US company by a Chinese firm, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made an bid to acquire US semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology for $23 billion.
The post Tsinghua…From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Product Manager at Intel
Intel is seeking an HPC Software Product Manager in our Job of the Week.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone an Expert Friend. Past and Future
Has been very interesting to be part of this evolution over the years.Jim Spohrer of CSIG writes. The Future of Phone-a-Friend (Discussion) The evolution of "Phone-a-Friend/Expert" is explored in twenty year time steps fromThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Job Loss Through SmartPhone Data
With the use of a Bayesian model. Via O'ReillyCan mobile phone data predict economic change?This paper describes a structural break model to correctly detect the date of a mass layoff; a Bayesian classification model to identify…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Math onto the Real World
My entire career has been about applying math to real world problems. This Quanta article in Wired tracks the dilemma. It remains to be a hard thing to do. Even worse, the majority of people, including some very smart decision…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeep Hack Causes 1.4 Million Vehicle Recall
Overview of the Crysler recall. Amazing and frightening look at the future of transportation. Crysler knew of the possibility long before the hack was demonstrated. The digital complexity of the modern vehicle is here already…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How a Squid Changes Color
The California market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens, can manipulate its color in a variety of ways: Reflectins are aptly-named proteins unique to the light-sensing tissue of cephalopods like squid. Their skin contains specialized…
From insideHPC
Allinea Training Coming to XSEDE15 Conference
Training on Allinea Software will be a featured segment at the XSEDE15 conference in St. Louis next week. The event is designed to help scientists and developers make more efficient use of their time and system allocations.
The…From BLOG@CACM
What It's Like to Win the Turing Award
Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and recipient of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
From insideHPC
Inova Powers Genomics with SGI
Today SGI announced that Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) has selected the company's supercomputing solutions to enable researchers to obtain insights from its premier genomic databases. With the ability to diagnose…