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
Google Building a Matrix?
In Adage:What could the Alphatrix look like?If Alphabet has its way, in a few years, we'll be living in connected homes intelligently powered by Google Home wearing Google VR headsets on our faces. We'll swap those out for Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Ecosystems
Continuing a look at modern ontology capabilities, We did work with Stanford's KSL to build ontologies of corporate data.Semantic EcosystemsCreate a semantic ecosystem—evolve from disparate data to actionable knowledge.TopQuadrant…
From insideHPC
Video: A NASA Perspective on El Niño
In this video, Steven Pawson discussed how NASA uses computer models to build up a complete three-dimensional picture of El Niño in the ocean and atmosphere. Pawson is an atmospheric scientist and the chief of the Global Modeling…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC16
The Intel HPC Developer Conference has issued its Call for Proposals. Held in conjunction with SC16, the event takes place Nov. 12-13 in Salt Lake City.
The post Call for Proposals: Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC16 appeared…From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Digital Work Methods Needed
Again, I would point to some of our work on this to first and foremost getting all the right data to people as they need it to both support decisions and make constraints clear. Further supported by analytic/cognitive agents…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Importance of Carefully Considering Outliers
Good short piece by Rick Delgado on the concept of outliers. Very important that both the analyst and the decision maker understands this idea as it relates to collected data and decision problem. Frequently brought up here…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Picking a Platform for Teaching Mobile App Development
Come late August I’ll be teaching a course in Mobile Application Development. It seemed like a great idea when we were discussing new courses to add to the program of studies. Now it appears to me that picking a development platform…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Squid with Chard and Potatoes
Looks like a tasty recipe. 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
Predictive Models Improving Automated Decisions
Useful points, Though there is is the question on 'how predictive' and how precise such models can be.How Predictive Models Improve Automated DecisionsWritten by: Colleen McClintock ... Agility is a key focus and benefitBeing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using GPS Underwater
Had studied alternative to GPS for location in indoor spaces. Had not realized the complexity of it working underwater. Say for locating and directing underwater drones. In the Atlantic. ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Adaptable Leaders
Could not be more correct, especially in the world of changing technology and business. But what do they look like, and what do they have to be adaptable to? Admit to not knowing everything? More.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Biology
Including the work of a biological game theorist. From matchbook-sized models of living human organs to the surprising alternative-energy implications of symbiotic giant clams, the work of three new faculty members represents…
From Schneier on Security
I Have Joined the Board of Directors of the Tor Project
This week, I have joined the board of directors of the Tor Project. Slashdot thread. Hacker News thread....
From insideHPC
Got Disruptive HPC Technology? Get Free Exhibit Space at SC16
Do you have new technology that could disrupt HPC in the near future? There's still time to get free exhibit space at SC16 in November. "At the SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase, we invite submissions from industry, academia…
From insideHPC
CloudLightning Project Seeks Your Input on New Survey
Are you looking at how to deliver HPC services through the Cloud? The CloudLightning Project in Europe is seeking your input on a new survey.
The post CloudLightning Project Seeks Your Input on New Survey appeared first on insideHPC…From insideHPC
DOE Awards 1.7 Billion Core-hours on Argonne Supercomputers
The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 26 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The one-year awards began July…
From insideHPC
Video: Profiling Genome Pipeline I/O with DDN and the Sanger Institute
"The data that I presented from the Sanger Institute is typical of the profiles that we come across: a mix of good streaming IO (ie the larger reads), but unexpectedly high numbers of small reads and writes. These small reads…
From insideHPC
NASA Boosts Pleiades Supercomputer with Broadwell CPUs and LTO Tape
NASA Ames reports that SGI has completed an important upgrade to Pleiades supercomputer. "As of July 1, 2016, all of the remaining racks of Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) processors were removed from Pleiades to make room for an…
From Phys.org Technology News
Airport app concept nets UNT students win in first contest
Ever been lost in an airport terminal or nearly miss a flight because you were late? An airport app concept created by University of North Texas students may provide the answer to these and other air travel issues. The concept…
From Putting People First
Close to home
So close to home. That is what we feel at Experientia when work calls us to France. Just a quick trip across the border, to a country at once reminiscent of, and delightfully different from, our home town of Turin. So when tragedy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Problem with Thinking You Know
Very key and interesting teaching conundrum. I will be working with a varied group of students this fall, and the situation has come to mind. by Bertand Meyer:" ... The human mind is flexible; when taught well, many people…
From insideHPC
Video: 5-Minute Hadoop Cluster Setup using Bright Cluster Manager
Hadoop has a reputation for being extremely difficult to install and configure, but that seems to be changing. In this video, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data is used to install Cloudera 5.3.1 with YARN failover in just five…
From insideHPC
CocoLink Using Consumer GPUs for Deep Learning
CocoLink, a subsidiary of Seoul National University, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley, has upgraded its KLIMAX 210 server with 20 of the latest GeForce 1080 GPUs – with the eventual goal of scaling the single 4U rack…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Change Makers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued the following Dear Colleague Letter calling for proposals that will advance STEM learning and explore solutions to global challenges. Dear Colleague: The National Science Foundation…
From insideHPC
Managing Critical Data with SGI’s New Zero Watt Storage
Today SGI announced Zero Watt Storage, a powerful extension to its SGI DMF data management platform designed to meet growing customer demands for managing critical data. This solution was developed by SGI to offer its DMF customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter and other Social Connections
Many of the blog posts here are also on my twitter feed: @FranzD that feed also repeats information from other information streams I am connected to in Advanced Tech, Retail, AI, Analytics and Cognitive. Follow me there…
From The Eponymous Pickle
O'Reilly Newsletter on AI
O'Reilly piece on AI value hype. Good overview of the topic with links to some key indicators and topics. Positive and negative. When will the disruption occur? How does this relate to cognitive capabilities? They have…
From insideHPC
Cilk Plus from Intel Offers Easy Access to Performance
Intel® Cilk™ Plus is an extension to C and C++ that offers a quick and easy way to harness the power of both multicore and vector processing. The three Intel Cilk Plus keywords provide a simple yet surprisingly powerful model…
From insideHPC
Faster Route to Insights with Hardware and Visualization Advances from Intel
An eye-popping visualization of two black holes colliding demonstrates 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement volume rendering on next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors. "It simplifies things when you can run on a single processor …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding How Neurons Compute
In CACM: We still don't understand fully how the activity of neurons cause our brain to work. New work gathers data that may give us a better understanding, The inspiration from astronomy and the model of an observatoryIn…