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 Computational Complexity
Solution to the infinite hat problem/a point/a new problem
In my last post I asked the following question (I've shortened it here but its the same really.) An infinite number of people, labelled 1,2,3,... have hats on their head, RED or BLUE. They must all shout at the same time a color…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holacracy
Had heard this term before, but forgotten its exact meaning, seems this is still very uncommon. I wonder what VCs think about this approach to managing their money?For Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, ‘Holacracy’ Is the Right FitZappos CEO…
From Phys.org Technology News
How Pokemon Go is helping road safety researchers
Pokemon Go is giving a glimpse of how gaming can keep drivers safer behind the wheel, according to QUT's Dr Ronald Schroeter.
From Schneier on Security
Security Effectiveness of the Israeli West Bank Barrier
Interesting analysis: Abstract: Objectives -- Informed by situational crime prevention (SCP) this study evaluates the effectiveness of the "West Bank Barrier" that the Israeli government began to construct in 2002 in order to…
From Phys.org Technology News
Utah votes to let authorities disable drones near wildfires
Utah authorities likely will be among the first in the nation to be allowed to disable and crash drones for flying too close to wildfires after lawmakers approved legislation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
NodeXL: Creating Network Graphs from Excel
Simple, clever idea.These are network graphs created with NodeXL, a template for graphing network data in Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016).NodeXL is a template for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016) on Windows (XP…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Amazon Prime Day Links to Amazon Technology
Extract from a much longer CGT article. Indication of percent changes from last year and rankings versus exact numbers of interactions. Since most of the technologies are very new, this may not be very indicative of theirHighlights…
From Schneier on Security
Visiting a Website against the Owner's Wishes Is Now a Federal Crime
While we're on the subject of terrible 9th Circuit Court rulings: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.... Its reasoning appears to be very…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Enhances RoCE Software to Simplify RDMA Deployments
Today Mellanox announced the availability of new software drivers for RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet). The new drivers are designed to simplify RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) deployments on Ethernet networks and enable…
From insideHPC
Open MPI 2.0.0 Released
Today the Open MPI Team announced the release of Open MPI version 2.0.0. Version 2 is a major new release series containing many new features and bug fixes.
The post Open MPI 2.0.0 Released appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Functional Packaging
Always an interesting idea, and augmented reality and smartphones bring new capabilities forward. When will they actually create engagement, provide value? To be clear, the examples don't have to be that technological" ..…
From insideHPC
Simulationclusters.com Shows ROI from Intel v4 Processors
Today Simulationclusters.com announced it is now running Intel’s E5-2600 v4 processors. A site for real-time demonstration of the ROI of upgrading from a workstation to an HPC cluster, Simulationsclusters.com is a collaboration…
From Schneier on Security
Password Sharing Is Now a Crime
In a truly terrible ruling, the US 9th Circuit Court ruled that using someone else's password with their permission but without the permission of the site owner is a federal crime. The argument McKeown made is that the employee…
From insideHPC
Video: Nvidia’s Peter Messmer on Co-Design at PASC16
In this video from PASC16, Peter Messmer from Nvidia gives his perspectives on the conference and his work on co-design for high performance computing. "Using a combination of specialized rather than one type fits all processing…
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Energy Research at UFRJ in Brazil
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is embarking on ground-breaking energy research powered by a new SGI Computer. The high performance computing system will be installed through the SGI valued partner, Versatus HPC.
The…From insideHPC
Kyoto University Thinks Widening SIMD Will be Key to Performance Gains in New Intel Xeon Phi processor-based Cray System
"With an imminent switchover to a new Cray system with next-generation Intel Xeon Phi Processors (codenamed Knights Landing) planned for October, the ACCMS team at Kyoto University is eagerly looking forward to a potential two…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Connected Vehicle Data Environments from the Following Projects of the Dynamic Mobility Application (DMA) Program are Now Available in the Research Data Exchange
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and provides access to archived and real-time multi-source and multi-modal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Starts to Allow Forgetting
Have not heard about this anywhere else, but has some fascinating implications. In the past we always assumed that knowledge would persist. May that be a thing of the past from the point of view of the search engine and online…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Cyber Scams Advance
In Knowledge@Wharton. A forward looking piece on the current and coming waves of cyber scams in retail. Good thing to watch as we continue to add new channels to buying and also to sharing information in general. Some recent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo and Business Intelligence
Been looking at potential business applications of the Amazon Echo. Like many virtual advisory applications, you can think of potential 'hands free' scenarios, but these are relatively rare in the back office. And rarer yet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data World Provides Data Resources
Activity in the semantic data world, Dean Allemang mentioned and quoted. Toward an improvement of the use of data assets. An indication of increased open ontology development?PRESS RELEASEAustin, TX – July 11, 2016 – data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pokemon Go Explodes
Pokemon has been around for a long time. We examined the brand long ago. The idea of using augmented reality to create games that overlapped the real world with images to create quest missions is also an old idea. But the…
From Schneier on Security
Google's Post-Quantum Cryptography
News has been bubbling about an announcement by Google that it's starting to experiment with public-key cryptography that's resistant to cryptanalysis by a quantum computer. Specifically, it's experimenting with the New Hope…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Micron’s Steve Pawlowski on the Latest Memory Trends for HPC
In this podcast from ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Steve Pawlowski from Micron discusses the latest memory technology trends for high performance computing. "When you look at a technology like 3D XPoint and some of the new materials…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Can Mankind Survive Scientific Illiteracy?
Science is not taught as science at all. Students are taught how to do science, but not what science actually is. They suffer from scientific illiteracy.
The post Can Mankind Survive Scientific Illiteracy? appeared first on BLOG…From CERIAS Blog
Passing of a Cyber Securty Pioneer
Stephen T. Walker recently died. He was the founder of the pioneering Trusted Information Systems, a prime force behind the establishment of the NCSC (now the Commericial Solutions Center, but also the producer of the Rainbow…
From CERIAS Blog
Passing of a Cyber Securty Pioneer
Stephen T. Walker recently died. He was the founder of the pioneering Trusted Information Systems, a prime force behind the establishment of the NCSC (now the Commericial Solutions Center, but also the producer of the Rainbow…
From insideHPC
China Leads TOP500 with Home-grown Technology
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that the new #1 system on the TOP500 is using home-grown processors to shake up the supercomputer industry. "While the system does have a focus …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mistakes Managers Make with Analytics
In the HBR: Good points, mostly about process and application, rather than technology. Worth a look. Obvious to any manager, if they don't buy the hype, and not necessarily complete.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archetypes and Branding
Thinking about the brand personality. I have never seen this done particularly well. Does it end up constricting, decreasing innovative channels? Here is another approach.