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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
The “Tire Tracks” Diagram Corrected and Humanized by National Academy Workshop Report
The following blog post is by CCC Vice Chair and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill. I write about a recent Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), an operating unit within the National Academies…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Now Shipping Intel Xeon Phi Systems with Omni-Path
"With our latest innovations incorporating Intel Xeon Phi processors in a performance and density optimized Twin architecture and 100Gbps OPA switch for high bandwidth connectivity, our customers can accelerate their applications…
From Phys.org Technology News
Atlantic flights disrupted by Iceland air traffic glitch
Iceland's airport authority says the country briefly closed its airspace to flights because of a technical problem at its air traffic control center.
From insideHPC
Video: Matching the Speed of SGI UV with Multi-rail LNet for Lustre
Olaf Weber from SGI presented this talk at LUG 2016. "In collaboration with Intel, SGI set about creating support for multiple network connections to the Lustre filesystem, with multi-rail support. With Intel Omni-Path and EDR…
From insideHPC
The Industrialization of Deep Learning – Intro
Deep learning is a method of creating artificial intelligence systems that combine computer-based multi-layer neural networks with intensive training techniques and large data sets to enable analysis and predictive decision making…
From insideHPC
FlyElephant 2.0 Improves HPC Collaboration Features
Today the FlyElephant team announced the release of the FlyElephant 2.0 platform for High Performance Computing. Versioin 2.0 enhancements include: internal expert community, collaboration on projects, public tasks, Docker and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defending the Power Grid
Further applications to other kinds of monitored networks, IOT applications. Detecting Cybersecurity Threats by Taking the Grid's Pulse By Peter Fairley: " .. DARPA teams are building grid defenses using phasor measurement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of 3D Printing
Good forward looking article in CACM on the future of consumer 3D printing. " ... Bill Decker, chairman of the Association of 3D Printing, agrees the consumer market for 3D printers is largely untapped, although he noted, "Best…
From Phys.org Technology News
Researchers create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts
Idaho State University researchers are working with Grand Teton National Park and various tribes to better document about 50 Native American artifacts from the park's David T. Vernon Collection and create digital 3-D visualizations…
From Schneier on Security
The NSA and "Intelligence Legalism"
Interesting law journal paper: "Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency's Civil Liberties Gap," by Margo Schlanger: Abstract: This paper examines the National Security Agency, its compliance with legal constraints…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predix Opening to Development
GE Opening Development. " ... General Electric has more than a century of industrial experience, but its five-year-old GE Digital division hopes to leverage outside expertise in its IoT mission. This week the company is hosting…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Collecting and Grading Programming Projects
No one like grading. Well no one I know. But as teachers it is an essential part of what we do. Grading programs can be a real pain to do though. Do you run every program? Well you probably better. Do you read all of the code…
From Phys.org Technology News
Businesses can't afford to ignore the human element of IT, study says
Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study co-authored by a researcher at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
From insideHPC
Seeking Bids for Helix Nebula Science Cloud
This week, the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) launched a €5.3 million tender for the establishment of a European hybrid cloud platform. The purpose of the platform is to support the deployment of high-performance computing…
From Schneier on Security
Russian Hack of the DNC
Amazingly enough, the preponderance of the evidence points to Russia as the source of the DNC leak. I was going to summarize the evidence, but Thomas Rid did a great job here. Much of that is based on June's forensic analysis…
From insideHPC
Video: Breogan Supercomputer Brings High Speed Trading to Mexico
In this CCTV video, Alberto Alonso describes his new supercomputer, Breogan, that has the ability to modernize Mexico's antiquated stock market.
Since it was launched in February, the Breogan computer has generated $475,000 for…From insideHPC
NERSC to Host Data Day on August 22
Today NERSC announced plans to host a new, data-centric event called Data Day. The main event will take place on August 22, followed by a half-day hackathon on August 23. The goal: to bring together researchers who use, or are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Conversation about the State of AI
Link to talk with Peter Norvig who is Director of Research at Google. We used his text as an intro to AI and it is still very popular. This is not ot a technical talk. It is very non hype. It reminds me of similar discussions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Digital in Perspective
In CustomerThink: " ... This year, the number of smartphones, tablets and connected devices is expected to cross 7 billion – that will mean more connected devices than there are human beings on earth. With more and more people…
From insideHPC
Seagate Announes Industry-First 2TB M.2 Enterprise SSD
Today Seagate unveiled a first-of-its kind, high-capacity drive that can help data centers more easily accommodate exponential data growth, while still maintaining high levels of computing power and performance. The two terabyte…
From The Noisy Channel
Punch Hard
If you’ve read my posts on reducing scope and incremental product development, you may have concluded that I’m conservative about the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
For Better Decisions: Get more Varied input
In Inc. Big observer of the decision process. How do you improve the decision process? Get a diversity of input. People that fundamentally think about the process in different ways.
From Schneier on Security
Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents
Here's the story of how it was done. First, a fake ad on torrent listings linked the site to a Latvian bank account, an e-mail address, and a Facebook page. Using basic website-tracking services, Der-Yeghiayan was able to uncover…
From insideHPC
Video: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Moves Forward with HPC Strategy at ISC 2016
At ISC 2016, HPE introduced new high-performance computing solutions that aim to accelerate HPC adoption by enabling faster time-to-value and increased competitive differentiation through better parallel processing performance…
From Writing
Gruntwork Infrastructure Packages: world-class infrastructure, all of the control, none of the work
An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better way to build and manage infrastructure. And today, we’re unveiling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Data Studio Beta
Brought to my attention. Looks interesting. Seems a limited trial. Will report on this." ... Beautiful data stories start hereGoogle Data Studio (beta) provides everything you need to turn your data into beautiful, informative…
From Phys.org Technology News
Flight 370: With search suspended, a cold-case file awaits
For two years and more, it has been a lost ship, a metal container carrying 239 souls that simply disappeared one late Asian night never to be seen again. And now, the search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely…
From The Noisy Channel
Gireesh, thanks for the response.
Given the interest in this post, I’ll try to follow it up with further thoughts about scoping and prioritization.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Innovation Platform
Previously mentioned, my former colleague Pete Blackshaw announces Nestle's Open Innovation Platform. :" ... I’m extremely excited to unveil our new “Open Innovation” platform, [email protected] (http://Henri.Nestle.com). Check…
From Schneier on Security
Decoded, by Mai Jai
Has anyone read this book?...