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 Schneier on Security
Malcolm Gladwell on Competing Security Models
In this essay/review of a book on UK intelligence officer and Soviet spy Kim Philby, Malcolm Gladwell makes this interesting observation: Here we have two very different security models. The Philby-era model erred on the side…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Keynotes and Inspirations at Foundations of Digital Games 2015
I had a great time at this year's Foundations of Digital Games, but it was the talks and the hallway track with narrative folks that really left me inspired. In this post I'll summarize the first three keynotes and some inspiration…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Invites Participation in a New Cybersecurity Multistakeholder Process on Vulnerability Research Disclosure
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) invites businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate in a new cybersecurity multistakeholder process on vulnerability research disclosure. The…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Why We Don’t Know Know-How
In pursuit of scientific understanding, too often we forget our level of know-how is far more important than our know-what.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering Brand Building in the Third Decade of Digital
Today at: Mastering Brand Building in the Third Decade of DigitalSee the ongoing Signal PG (Procter & Gamble) conference tweeted at #SignalPGMore to follow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Globalization and Manufacturing Location Clusters
Not unexpected, Location and proximity can still matter. Perhaps less with the emergence of 3D printing?Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing ClusterIn today's global markets, companies have many choices to procure…
From insideHPC
MVAPICH User Group Returns to Ohio Aug. 19-21
The MVAPICH team has posted their agenda for the 3rd annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting. Sponsored by Mellanox and the Ohio Supercomputer Center, MUG will take place August 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The post MVAPICHinsideHPC…From insideHPC
Why Purdue Has Been with Student Cluster Competitions from the Start
In this video, Purdue's Dr. Gerry McCartney talks with Dan Olds about the University's participation in the Student Cluster Competitions. "We want to make this commitment to our students. They enjoy it. We enjoy having them represent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Human Sketch Recognition
Also an application we considered, could you get an AI to recognize human created sketches, say in notes about a meeting, or from consumers giving impressions of your new products in use contexts? Here a system excelling in…
From insideHPC
ISC 2015 Breaks Attendance Record
ISC 2015 concluded its 30th meeting last week in Germany, drawing a record 2,846 attendees from 56 countries. In total 153 organizations took part in the conference exhibition.
The post ISC 2015 Breaks Attendance Record appeared…From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategies for Reaching the Chinese Consumer
In the HBR:" ... Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But they should not simply sit…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Teams with Asetek for Cool-Central Primergy Systems
Last week at ISC 2015, Fujitsu rolled out new Primergy systems using the company's Cool-Central Liquid Cooling Solution. Based on Asetek technology, Cool-Central reduces cooling costs by up to 50 percent.
The post Fujitsu Teams…From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Employees and Customer Experience
In CWorld: " ... Improve outcomes by connecting the employee and customer experience ... " Absolutely, but what if your employees are several steps away from the customer? A classic situation in CPG products and retail. Mobile…
From insideHPC
Video: Pathscale Compilers Power Cavium ThunderX Processor
The EKOPath compiler for High Performance Computing supports advanced loop optimizations, SIMD vectorization and many-core support. This release of EKOPath includes optimizations specifically for the ThunderX microarchitecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking your Location Over Time
We could have used this for a plant maintenance application that required documenting location, issues and changes. Thinking of other related applications.Tracking location and images on a map." .... Have you ever wanted aWhich…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alberto Apostolico, 1948–2015
Our condolences on the loss of a colleague Cropped from TCS journal source Alberto Apostolico was a Professor in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. He passed away on Monday after a long battle with cancer. Today Ken and I…
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Book Theft in the Middle Ages
Interesting article....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Invites Participation in a New Multistakeholder Process on Drones
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) invites businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate in a new multistakeholder process on drone privacy, transparency, and accountability. The…
From insideHPC
Eurotech QPACE2 Supercomputer Ranks 379 on TOP500
Last week at ISC 2015, Eurotech announced that the company has completed the installation of a new supercomputer prototype at the University of Regensburg. With 15,872 compute cores, the QPACE2 supercomputer is ranked #370 on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A&P is Gone
One of the oldest and once largest US grocery store chains, with origins as far back as 1859, founded in NYC, is in the final parts of bankruptcy. Apparently the grand name of A&P: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company,"…
From Putting People First
How ethnographic research helped transform a US paint company
Almost all business leaders now acknowledge that they would love to engage in the deep learning that long-term customer observation can foster, but in practice such endeavors are methodically undermined in the fast paced corporate…
From Putting People First
The student experience and the future of the library
Libraries have moved from being the location for search, access and advice to playing a much smaller role within a much larger information landscape, writes a researcher of JISC, the UK charity that champion the use of digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Aster Videos on Advanced Analytics
Links to all videos by John Thurma to document Teradata Aster analytics,. Useful for training in this space. He writes: " ... Please see the following list of videos that I have created to document some of Asters 120+ Analytic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Supply and Demand
In the summer issue of SloanMIT: This requires membership or sign up registration for the full article.Integrating Supply and Demand" ... At many companies, sales generation activities have become disconnected from the operational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stolen Data Phones Home
In CSOonline: " ... Digital ‘watermarking’ won’t prevent your data from being stolen, but it can let you find out about it much more quickly than the average of seven months it takes organizations to discover a breach ... " …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Charleston Teach Meet Day Two
Today was the second day of a creative mini conference of educators. You can read about Charleston Teach Meet Day One here. We started off today a little differently. Doug Bergman showed off one of the Kinect games that one of…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Department of Commerce Seeks Public Comments on Proposed Export Definitions Relevant to Cloud and Other Digital Services
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to definitions in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The proposed rules contain a new provision relevant…
From Computational Complexity
Hartley Rogers, Author of the first Textbook on Recursion Theory, passes away
Hartley Rogers Jr passed away on July 17, 2015 (last week Friday as I write this).He was 89 and passed peacefully.For our community Rogers is probably best known for his textbook on Recursion Theory which I discuss below. Hehere…
From insideHPC
Cycle Computing Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today Cycle Computing announced its participation in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Through its membership, Cycle Computing will enable enterprise users with big compute problems to fully leverage the advantages of cloud…
From insideHPC
EXTOLL Rolls Out TOURMALETT Network Chip at ISC 2015
Last week at ISC 2015, EXTOLL from Germany introduced its TOURMALET 100G network chip and PCIe Board.
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