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
Wearable, IOT Memory
In CWorld: New kinds of very low power memory for Wearables and IoT by Samsung and IBM.
From Phys.org Technology News
Southwest says technology outage fixed but more flights cut
Southwest says it has fixed computer problems that caused hundreds of flights to be canceled, but it is telling passengers to get to the airport early because there could be long lines.
From The Eponymous Pickle
DSC Surveys Data Science Techniques
Index to useful article lists from Data Science Central. Click through to their site for search details. Join the the group. Very nicely done articles from introduction to in-depth. I have not linked them all, but go to DSC…
From Computational Complexity
Snowbird 2016
Earlier this week I attended the 2016 CRA Snowbird Conference, a biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the the computing community. I’ve attended every meeting since 2010, the first as a panelists on journals in…
From Phys.org Technology News
Oceanographer says Flight 370 could be north of search area
The oceanographer whose calculations helped an American adventurer find potential debris from Flight 370 said Thursday that the Malaysia Airlines jetliner could have crashed slightly north of the current search area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fabric Software for Visual Programming
New way to visually program. I built software for years, so understand the embedded power, but always believed there had to be a better way. Can visual methods be precise enough to construct algorithms, and reduce errors and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
When and Why of Causation
Adam kelleherPhysics PhD; Principal Data Scientist at BuzzFeed : Thoughtful Medium piece:" ... So what is causality good for? Anytime you decide to take an action, in a business context or otherwise, you’re making some assumptions…
From Phys.org Technology News
Southwest suffers technology outage; flights held at gates
Some Southwest Airlines flights are being held up while the airline tries to fix a technology outage.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buying Disruption in Personal Care
Buying into Disruption.Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for $1 Billion Deal represents a big win for Dollar Shave Club’s investors.Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's Tests Watson AI
In Yahoo Finance. some of the details are interesting. Most interesting would be, the value of services a system provides, beyond just specials based on loyalty information and location. " ... Macy's is testing a mobile tool…
From insideHPC
3D Printing Survey Provides Insight on First Adopters
While the National Labs are known for their supercomputers, some are also tasked with helping US industry advance digital manufacturing. The 3D printed car and Jeep projects were done to demonstrate Oak Ridge’s Big Area Additive…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Computing Research Symposium- Life Long Learning (Education and Workforce)
The following is a guest blog by Vasant G Honavar, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Member, Edward Frymoyer Endowed Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Center…
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech & ESI Partner on Affordable Clusters for OpenFOAM
"We saw a disconnect in the industry between rapidly growing organizations that could really benefit from HPC clusters and the solutions that were on the market," said Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig. "Our goal was to…
From insideHPC
Video: HPE Apollo 6500 Takes GPU Density to the Next Level
In this video from ISC 2016, Greg Schmidt from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describes the new Apollo 6500 server. With up to eight high performance NVIDIA GPUs designed for maximum transfer bandwidth, the HPE Apollo 6500 is purpose…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Enterprise Account Manager at CoolIT Systems in New York
CoolIT Systems in New York is seeking an Enterprise Account Manager with experience in Data Center infrastructure in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Enterprise Account Manager at CoolIT Systems in New York appeared…From insideHPC
Slidecast: Rethinking Server Power Architecture in the Post-Silicon World
In this slidecast, Alexander Lidow from EPC describes how the company is leading a technological revolution with Gallium Nitride (GaN). More efficient than silicon as a basis for electronics, GaN could save huge amounts of energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR for Marketing
Always looking for real life applications beyond the game. Marketing is an engagement angle.3 Ways Virtual Reality Is a Marketing Game ChangerVirtual reality is all the rage for gamers, but what does it mean for marketing?Larry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Tutors
In The Echo, a quite long ago talk with Daniel Hillis about the web, about knowledge and its evolultion. Also the realm of 'automatic tutors' and what they could mean when having access to universal knowledge. How are these…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Spoofed Messages Using Clock Skew
Two researchers are working on a system to detect spoofed messages sent to automobiles by fingerprinting the clock skew of the various computer components within the car, and then detecting when those skews are off. It's a clever…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Tests Direct Online Subscription
In MarketWatch: Procter tests direct online subscription service for Tide Pods. Already available from Amazon via a Dash button. This finally circumvents major channels like Amazon and Wal-Mart. This was, in the past, avoided…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantifying the Use of Data
Was recently involved in a project thinking about how semantics can be a good way to make the best use of your data. Make real sense of data and how it is related to other data. Here is the argument, with a rough architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Bots Everywhere
The CEO of Automation Anywhere on How Robotic Process and Automation will Transform the Workplace by Jacob MorganWhat is in this episode and what you should care:Mihir Shukla is the CEO of Automation Anywhere, an enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tactile Intelligence
Intelligence requires sensors, so the sense of touch needs to be refined for robots to have complete intelligence. Good piece on developments in this area: Why Tactile Intelligence Is the Future of Robotic GraspingBy Vincent…
From insideHPC
Cavium Rolls Out ThunderX Servers with GIGABYTE Technology
Today GIGABYTE Technology and Cavium announced a new set of servers built on the industry-leading ThunderX family of workload-optimized ARM server SoCs. According to Cavium, the collaboration brings the world's most powerful …
From Phys.org Technology News
Facebook films Muncie Animal Shelter's 'Pokemon Go' walks
The director of an Indiana animal shelter says Facebook has hired a production company to shoot video about its effort to encourage "Pokemon Go" players to walk an adoptable dog.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Computing Research Symposium- Learning Health Systems and Successful Aging
The following is a guest blog by Beth Mynatt, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair, Professor and Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology. Computing technology creates the core capabilities in many…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How to Be a Leader, Shopify Style
Self-actualization, that thing at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: “what a person's full potential is and the realization of that potential.” Shopify cares deeply about growth, and aims to be a company where its people…
From insideHPC
Spectra BlackPearl Offers Direct Archive to AWS
Private cloud storage enabled by BlackPearl provides the best option for balancing performance and cost; however, some customer workflows benefit greatly from incorporating a public cloud storage infrastructure,” said Matt Starr…
From insideHPC
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor—Highly Parallel Computing Engine for HPC
For decades, Intel has been enabling insight and discovery through its technologies and contributions to parallel computing and High Performance Computing (HPC). Central to the company’s most recent work in HPC is a new design…
From insideHPC
Interview: Peter Bauer from ECMWF at PASC16
In this video from PASC16, Peter Bauer from ECMWF shares his perspectives on the conference and his work with high performance computing for weather forecasting. "ECMWF specializes in global numerical weather prediction for the…