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 The Eponymous Pickle
Set Diversity Optimization
A topic not often distinctly mentioned, but it is an element of many problems. Should get more attention. In Open Data Science. Contains a number of good business examples. A broad definition of decision success. Might…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surfing Urban Winds
In IEEE Spectrum: Drones that can learn to surf the urban winds? Brings to mind thoughts of hawks and pigeons.
From Phys.org Technology News
Tesla driver killed while using Autopilot loved fast cars
Joshua Brown, the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, had an adventurous streak with a "need for speed" but also was a brilliant innovator and beloved neighbor, say those who knew the Navy veteran…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empirical Creativity
Imagination Man ...Scott Barry Kaufman has been called “the leading empirical creativity researcher of his generation.” Now he wants to use the tools he’s developed to unleash the “quiet potential” of vulnerable people—including…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Ink Cocktails
Here's a Corpse Reviver #2 variant with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cooperation of Humans and AI
A key element of neear future tech. How do we work with AI? Will it be able to solve 'societal' issues? Or is that something we have to do ourselves?The Partnership of the FutureMicrosoft’s CEO explores how humans andSatya…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Wants Linkedin's Algorithms?
What is more important for Microsoft, the data from its huge member base, or the algorithms that Linkedin has developed to utilize that data? Have never noticed anything particularly magic in Linkedin systems. Except for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being a Change Agent via Analytics
Like the simplicity angle ....How to be a change agent using analytics By Lisa BodellWhat does it mean to be a change agent in business today? When I spoke to the audience at IBM Vision 2016 in May 2016, the theme was from the…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Client Service Specialist at Ohio State
Ohio State University is seeking a Client Service Specialist in our Job of the Week. "The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides high-performance computing (HPC) services for Ohio’s university researchers and industrial clients. …
From insideHPC
LLNL Dedicates New Supercomputer Facility
Today officials from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and government representatives today dedicated a new supercomputing facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The $9.8 …
From insideHPC
Funding Cut for Bull Supercomputer Fighting Zika in Brazil
Rodrigo Viga Gaier writes that scientists in Brazil will have to do without an ally in the race to combat the Zika virus. The Santos Dumont supercomputer has been partially switched off in Rio de Janeiro due to government spending…
From insideHPC
Dell & OpenHPC at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Onur Celebioglu from Dell describes how the company is working with the OpenHPC Community to ease the deployment of high performance computing solutions. “Community investment in open source frameworks…
From insideHPC
NCAR Awards 42 Million Core Hours on Yellowstone Supercomputer
The Wyoming-NCAR Allocations Panel evaluated a record-high nine requests,” says Bryan Shader, UW’s special assistant to the vice president for research and economic development, and professor of mathematics. “The projects were…
From insideHPC
RSC Tornado with Intel Xeon Phi Sports 528 Teraflops Per Cabinet
Today the RSC Group out of Russia announced a new generation of high-performance scalable and energy-efficient RSC Tornado solution with direct liquid cooling based on the newest multi-core Intel Xeon Phi processor (previously…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The new Computing Community Consortium (CCC) leadership, Elizabeth Mynatt and Mark Hill will assume their roles as Chair and Vice Chair respectively for two-years, while Greg…
From Schneier on Security
Anti-Paparazzi Scarf
It reflects light....