Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2016
From insideHPC
Video: Data Storage Infrastructure at University of Queensland
"Data Science and Information Systems researchers at UQ are tackling the challenges of big data, real-time analytics, data modeling and smart information use. The cutting-edge solutions developed at UQ will lead to user empowerment…
From insideHPC
Nostrum BioDiscovery to Apply Supercomputing for Drug Development
Today the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center unveiled Nostrum BioDiscovery, a new biotech company that applies computational simulation to help new drugs and biotech molecules to reach…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- Cryptocurrencies: the ideas behind the hype
The next WATCH talk, called Cryptocurrencies: the ideas behind the hype is Thursday, July 21st, from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter will be Arvind Narayanan, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads a research…
From Phys.org Technology News
Does music sound better on vinyl records than on CDs?
Vinyl is back, no doubt about it. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring, although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry's revenues: about 2 percent in 2014. Is this growth because, as some respected…
From insideHPC
The Liquid Cooling Revolution Continues for HPC with CoolIT Systems
In this video, CoolIT Systems CEO & CTO, Geoff Lyon, reveals details on the company’s next generation liquid cooling solutions for HPC, Cloud and Enterprise markets during ISC HPC 2016 in Frankfurt. Discussion highlights include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Machine Learning Driving AI?
Always thought ML was part of AI. In Datanami: An interesting distinguishing point is made" .... The authors quotes Jaime Carbonell, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, as noting” “Machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free eBook: 23 Reasons to Get Excited About Data
Below, links to a free eBook that covers a number of practical and exciting applications of data analytics. Nicely done, selected from our collegial group on the use of Watson Analytics. More and link here.By Forsyth Alexander…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Better Ways to Produce Gamma Rays
In this podcast, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin discuss how they are using TACC supercomputers to find a new way to make controlled beams of gamma rays. "The simulations done on the Stampede and Lonestar systems…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 July 2016
Yes I’m late with this week’s interesting links. In my defense I have been extremely busy the last four or five days. Last Thursday and Friday were the CSTA Board meetings. Saturday was helping to set up for the CSTA conference…
From Schneier on Security
Report on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
I have written before on the vulnerabilities equities process (VEP): the system by which the US government decides whether to disclose and fix a computer vulnerability or keep it secret and use it offensively. Ari Schwartz and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Museum Foundation
Of interest, on design museums. In a sense some of our innovation spaces were aimed at showing evolving design. So interested in the concept." ... Hope you are having a great week. This week’s presenter for the ISSIP Service…
From insideHPC
Call for Lustre Presentations: LAD’16 in Paris
The LAD'16 conference has issued its Call for Presentations. Hosted jointly by CEA, EOFS, and OpenSFS, the Lustre Administrator & Developer Conference will take place Sept. 20-21 in Paris.
The post Call for Lustre Presentations…From insideHPC
Video: Deploying OpenStack Solutions with Bright Computing & Transtec
In this video from the Transtec booth at ISC 2016, Peotr Wachowicz from Bright Computing shows how the company's cluster management software enables customers to configure and monitor OpenStack systems. "Bright Cluster Manager…
From insideHPC
Register Now for HPC Workflow Workshops
Registration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10 at multiple institutions across the country. Sponsored by the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, this workshop will provide an overview…
From insideHPC
Successful Implementations That Demand Flexible HPC
Organizations that implement high-performance computing (HPC) technologies have a wide range of requirements. From small manufacturing suppliers to national research institutions, using significant computing technologies is critical…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Wide-Field Ethnography: Studying Software Engineering in 2025 and Beyond
The following Great Innovative Idea is from David Socha from the University of Washington Bothell. Socha and his colleagues, Robin Adams (Purdue University), Kelly Franznick (Blink UX), Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Information Systems
In VRFocus: On the obvious connections of virtual reality to Building information Models (BIM). Had examined this some years ago in firefighting and first respondent systems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Ships
Creating robotic ships. Rolls Royce experiments with augmented reality to control and deploy the idea. Implications for efficient future supply chains.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bot Functionality in Skype Conversation
MS appears to be serious in augmenting conversations through new levels of intelligence. Still primitive, but the direction is interesting ... Ultimately adding intelligent actors to group conversations. In CWorld: ' ... Want…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Connectivity, IOT and Innovation
Innovation in the Age of Hyper-ConnectivityAndreas Mai, Director Smart Connected Vehicles at Cisco SystemsAn interview
From Schneier on Security
Anonymization and the Law
Interesting paper: "Anonymization and Risk," by Ira S. Rubinstein and Woodrow Hartzog: Abstract: Perfect anonymization of data sets has failed. But the process of protecting data subjects in shared information remains integral…
From Putting People First
[Book] LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation
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LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation Edited by Mariana Amatullo, with Bryan Boyer, Liz Danzico and Andrew Shea Published by Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design July 2016, 360 pages The professional…
From Phys.org Technology News
Israel ultra-Orthodox women go hi-tech
Bright and airy, the workspace at Comax is much like other Israeli hi-tech firms, except that a rabbi has carefully vetted its design to allow ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to work there.
From Computational Complexity
An infinite hat problem and later a point
Problem: There are an infinite number of people. They are labelled 1,2,3,... (I am not a number, I am a free man!) There is the Master who I call The Master. The Master will, at the same time, put a hat on each persons head…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The World Turned Upside Down
Some CS reflections for our 700th post MacArthur Fellowship source Lin-Manuel Miranda is both the composer and lyricist of the phenomenal Broadway musical Hamilton. A segment of Act I covers the friendship between Alexander Hamilton…
From insideHPC
STFC in the UK Opens New Technology Center
Businesses in the north west of the UK are being helped to develop new products faster and more cheaply. The advanced engineering technology centre was officially opened today at the Science and Technology Facility’s Council’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Transformation Playbook
Recently brought to my attention and a good read. The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age (Columbia Business School Publishing) Apr 5, 2016by David L. Rogers Non technical. Relatively…
From insideHPC
Video: A Computational Future for Science Education
"This talk will describe one new effort to embed best practices for reproducible scientific computing into traditional university curriculum. In particular, a set of open source, liberally licensed, IPython (now Jupyter) notebooks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need to Lead in Data and Analytics
From McKinsey: In a new survey, executives say senior-leader involvement and the right organizational structure are critical factors in how successful a company’s analytics efforts are, even more important than its technical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Lessons from Lego
Have followed Lego fpr motivating innovation for years, but never saw it used internally. Whats the barrier? Culture? Seen as too trite?Lessons from Lego: Low risk innovation tools for everyone! by Evan ShellshearLEGO has…