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
Unilever and Click Fraud
In Mediapost: " ... It's one thing for researchers and journalists to band around click-fraud statistics, and quite another for Unilever's CMO to come out with the startling statement that he believes that nearly one-third --…
From insideHPC
IBM Improves Solar Forecasts with Machine Learning
Today IBM Research announced that solar and wind forecasts produced using machine learning and other cognitive computing technologies are proving to be as much as 30 percent more accurate than ones created using conventional …
From insideHPC
Video: How Univa Helps Shared Mission-critical and High-performance Datacenters
"Univa is a workload optimization company. Our core product, Grid Engine software, creates a single virtual high throughput, high performance and hyper-scale compute pool out of distributed data center resources. Our customers…
From insideHPC
Argonne Names Distinguished Fellows for 2015
Argonne National Laboratory has named Barry Smith, Charles Macal and Branko Ruscic as its 2015 Distinguished Fellows.
The post Argonne Names Distinguished Fellows for 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.
From Schneier on Security
Using Secure Chat
Micah Lee has a good tutorial on installing and using secure chat. To recap: We have installed Orbot and connected to the Tor network on Android, and we have installed ChatSecure and created an anonymous secret identity Jabber…
From Putting People First
Using collective intelligence to solve complex societal issues
Acclaimed anthropologist Stefana Broadbent leads a new “Collective Intelligence” unit at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, that is “looking at ways to support the emergence of Collective Intelligence to solve complex societal…
From insideHPC
CEA Taps Bull Atos for Next Step Towards Exascale
Atos, the multinational digital services company, has signed a contract with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, the CEA, to supply Tera1000, a 25 Petaflop Bull supercomputer intended as a forerunner…
From insideHPC
Video: Highlights of Day 2 at ISC 2015
In this video, attendees discuss highlights from Day 2 of the ISC 2015 conference, including the conference's industry track, exhibit floor, and vendor parties. The program begins with short interview with IDC's Earl Joseph, …
From Putting People First
Interview with Amy Parnell, Director of UX at LinkedIn
SocialTimes recently chatted with Amy Parnell, the director of user experience at LinkedIn, to learn more about what goes into a redesign (or a slight tweak). What kind of research goes into design changes on LinkedIn, especially…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Privacy Enabling Design Workshop Report
The Privacy by Design four workshop series is well underway. With two workshops completed and two to come, the community engagement is high and the interest is continuing to grow. The first workshop, State of Research and Practice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification, Jobs and Cognition
I gave a talk today to IBM's CSI Group, on "Gamification and Cognitive Systems; Opportunities for Enhancing and Defining Jobs" ... Slides and recording linked to below:" ... Thank you so much for presenting today. Your talk…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Tests Direct Retail
First Amazon Prime, then Google adds the buy button, then Wal-Mart copies Prime, now in Adage, Facebook wants to add another retail buy route from their very crowded place. " ... Facebook Wants Retailers to Set Up Shop on Its…
From Schneier on Security
ProxyHam Canceled
The ProxyHam project (and associated Def Con talk) has been canceled under mysterious circumstances. No one seems to know anything, and conspiracy theories abound....
From Computational Complexity
Microsoft Faculty Summit
Last week I participated in my first Microsoft Faculty Summit, an annual soiree where Microsoft brings about a hundred faculty to Redmond to see the latest in Microsoft Research. I love these kinds of meetings because I enjoy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Answers from your Big Data
In Datanami: A set of useful questions to consider, especially with regard to sources like IOT, where more and faster will become common.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Manufacturing
Via O'Reilly IOT Newsletter:Etsy recently conducted a study on manufacturing and independent creative businesses. The maker movement provides an excellent growth opportunity for existing manufacturers and many successful creative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Closer to Dominating Physical Retail
Deloitte: Digital moving closer to dominating physical retail Digital interactions are expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores by the end of 2015, or $2.2 trillion, according to Deloitte Digital's…
From insideHPC
Coprocessor File System Support
To get maximum performance from the Intel Xeon Phi, applications may have to be re-thought to take advantage of the SIMD architecture.
The post Coprocessor File System Support appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Video: Looking Back at Day 1 at ISC 2015
In this video, attendees discuss Day 1 of the ISC 2015 conference. "Commemorating 30 years of conference journey, ISC High Performance will present you with another power-packed and memorable HPC conference and exhibition in …
From insideHPC
Altair Renews OEM Agreement with Altair
Today Altair announced that SGI has renewed its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement naming PBS Professional as SGI’s workload manager and job scheduler with global support provided by Altair.
The post Altair Renews…From insideHPC
Eurotech Delivers Booster to DEEP Project
Today Eurotech announced the installation of the DEEP “Booster”, a tightly coupled cluster of manycore coprocessors, at Jülich Supercomputing Centre.
The post Eurotech Delivers Booster to DEEP Project appeared first on insideHPC…From insideHPC
Notre Dame Accelerates Cancer Research with GPUs
Notre Dame scientists are working to develop personalized cancer vaccine therapies with the help of computational modeling.
The post Notre Dame Accelerates Cancer Research with GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.
From Blog@Ubiquity
The Facebook Method of Dealing With Complexity
Computer systems used to be weak, so we had to make their world simple and standardized. They now can handle almost endless complexity—but we still need to understand how to make the world simple, so we don’t risk burdening the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for community input and participation: NSF GENI sustainment, governance, and future network research cyberinfrastructure
The following blog post is from Mark Berman, the GENI Project Director. Submissions invited by August 24, 2015. Over the next two years, the NSF’s Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project will transition from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Beacons: Eddystone
More movement towards proximity and location engagement methods. Apparently more Open Source as well.Google Rolls Out Its Version of Beacon TechnologyEddystone Is Meant to Compete With Apple's iBeaconGoogle is stepping up efforts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Use on Path to Purchase
Analysis of recent survey.Consumers Increasingly Embrace Tech on Path to PurchaseBlackhawk Engagement shopper survey illustrates how .... As consumers increasingly use technology such as smartphones, laptops and personal computers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Standards
In Ars Technica: " ... Just how “open” is the future of PC virtual reality? Examining the debate over standards, SDKs, and cross-platform headset development. ... "
From insideHPC
DDN’s Alex Bouzari Presents: Enabling Scientific Discoveries and Exascale Initiatives
DDN CEO Alex Bouzari presented this talk at ISC 2015. "For over 15 years, DDN has relentlessly focused on delivering innovation to enable HPC globally. As the reigning HPC Storage Leader, DDN is once again the storage solution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seductive Infosphere
Thoughtful HBR piece on data, information, algorithm, and who controls it all. Caution is always worthwhile. Yes, it is a kind of seduction to have all this so immediately available, and tailored for our use and influence.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inspect Your Data
True, and for very important data you should have the expert in or owner of the data make sure it, or any derivative of the data, is correct. In ClickZ:" ... Something as small as a single missing or broken tag can result in…