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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Government Needs Computer Scientists
In this month’s Communications of the ACM magazine, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Thomas Kalil and former OSTP Assistant Director for Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems Vijay Kumar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Machine Learning Jargon
Pointer to a reasonable background overview of machine learning that aims to look at origin of topics and jargon less explanations. Via Alice Zheng in O'Reilly. These kinds of resources are always useful to base explanation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics Obsolete in a Big Data World?
Interesting thoughts. I say that you will still need the statistics to back up the results that you come up with. Especially if there is even a hint of a compliance or regulatory issue. Any testing of the resulting model Piece…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Experience at Foundations of Digital Games 2015
During the last full week of June, I took a wonderful trip to Pacific Grove, California for Foundations of Digital Games 2015. (You might recall that last year's conference was on a cruise ship.) I didn't end up presentingnotes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Look at IOT Security
An overview of the dangers and direction of privacy on the Internet of Things.
From The Eponymous Pickle
People Analytics
Looking at what people analytics cannot capture. In the HBR, " ... the latest fad in human resources, using big data analytics and personality test scores to predict who is best for a given job – so-called “XQ.”Of course…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing Humanoid Robotics
Why do robots have to be humanoid? Look somewhat like humans. Androids, they are also called. To make us more comfortable with their planned presence among us? Or is this a bow to biomimicry, suggesting that androids are the…
From insideHPC
Mont-Blanc Tests HPC Software Stack E4 ThunderX Server
Researchers from the Mont-Blanc report they have successfully tested an E4 Computer Engineering server platform based on the 64bit Cavium ThunderX ARMv8 chip. The aim of the test was to prove the portability of the Mont-Blanc…
From insideHPC
Video: Highlights of Day 3 at ISC 2015
In this video, attendees discuss highlights from Day 3 of the ISC 2015 conference, including the conference's industry track, exhibit floor, and vendor parties. The program includes short interviews with Ed Seidel from NCSA, …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Shopping at SF Lab
Always interested in innovation center ideas. Here a look at at the Westfield Malls experimental startups labs. See also my extensive writing on innovation centers and their value at the tags below.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let the Patients Search
This was brought up in a conversation with a doctor. Of course it requires caution, but it does by itself create more engagement. It is also inevitable. If further came to mind, should a patient, or their doctor, be able…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask the Right Questions for Data Value
Often the key thing to do. Its the kernel of many kinds of expertise. Know the questions, in rough order of importance. Know where to invest your time in answering them. Get the right people or resources to contribute. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploratory Analysis with Excel
As the piece says, still common in even very sophisticated organizations. Data and metadata is often stored and, edited, monitored and analyzed in Excel.
From insideHPC
Pleiades Supercomputer Moves Up the Ranks with Haswell
NASA reports that it's newly upgraded Pleiades supercomputer ranks number 11 on the July 2015 TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers. And while the LINPACK computing power of Pleiades jumped nearly 21 percent, its ranking…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Developer for Deep Learning Startup
A leading Artificial Intelligence Technology Startup is seeking an HPC Systems Developer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Developer for Deep Learning Startup appeared first on insideHPC.
From Putting People First
Why does Tinder work? A biological anthropologist explains…
Users of the dating app assess potential partners in much the same way as neanderthals did, according to anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University. “Tinder is nothing new,” says Fisher…
From Putting People First
LSE anthropologist: microcredit only adds to poverty
Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, argues anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics: What’s so fascinating about the microfinance…
From Putting People First
An anthropologist on the Photoshop team
Almost two years ago, the Photoshop team pivoted to focus its energies and resources on design features and workflows. To be successful, the team needed to understand trends in design and tools, as well as develop connections…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Grand Challenge in IOT
CISCO INNOVATION GRAND CHALLENGE Calling all IoT Trailblazers!$250,000 in awards to jumpstart your venture!The ChallengeAre you building an industry-disrupting or innovative digital solution leveraging the Internet of Things?…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Annual Conference 2015–Looking Back
The 2015 Annual CSTA Conference is in the books now. Over 350 people attended in Grapevine TX for 14 three-hour workshops and 24 concurrent sessions. There was also a tour and reception of the University of Texas Dallas, a code…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Tone Analyzer
In CW: Helping you write. Or at least helping with the tone of the writing. Not the syntax or semantics. Tone is one kind of meta semantic. Nice idea, some examples of how this would work is at the post" ... Now in experimental…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Thinking with Computers
All use of computing is collaborative. With the computer. It is advisory, learning, question and answer, rule following, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive. It is fitting all of those elements together at the right level…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Giving Birth
I may have posted this short video before, but if I did, I can't find it. It's four years old, but still pretty to watch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Amazon Prime Day
A look at the success of Amazon Prime Day. Good statistics and thoughts. Amazon says it was very successful. Evan Schuman points to the usual scuttlebut on Twitter that is negative. Notably a number of negative hashtags.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Your Cognitive Technology
Tom Davenport on building cognitive technologies." ... Most organizations that are exploring cognitive technologies—smart machines that automate aspects of decision-making processes—are just putting a toe in the water. They’re…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Often Should Prices be Changed Online?
HBR article on the frequency of price changes. " ... Today’s technologies allow digital businesses (as well as a growing roster of traditional companies) to change prices frequently, even minute-by-minute in real time if they…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Going beyond our limitations
The nerds online are (slightly) panicking: it looks like Moore’s law is coming to an end. Moore’s law is the observation that microprocessors roughly double in power every two years. The actual statement of the law, decades ago…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spam Decreasing
At a twelve year low as we learn to detect it better, but Malware continues to rise and is harder to detect.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principal Component Analysis
What is Multivariate Analysis? Part II: Principal Component Analysis | bicorner.com by Jeffrey Strickland.Part of a well done series on multivariate analysis. This latest part on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Nicely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emojis Creating Data
New kind of data to mine. This was brought up in internal work. Leverge what the consumer provides.There's Data in Those Emojis -- and Marketers Want to Mine ThemWhy Brands and Agencies Want to Interpret Pizza Slice Smiley…