Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Retail Data Science
Unlocking the Secrets of Big Data with Science (Commerce Anywhere Blog)" .... Buzzwords abound in the tech world, and mobile, social, big data, and cloud are the four horsemen. Of those I think big data is least understood,“Data…
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum to Spotlight High Performance Computing ROI
IDC will present a report on ROI for HPC at their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield, CO.
The post HPC User Forum to Spotlight High Performance Computing ROI appeared first on insideHPC.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Data Quality
Good set of definitions it is worth considering." .. To tackle any problem in a systematic and effective way, you must be able to break it down into parts. After all, understanding the problem is the first step to finding the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
City for Robot Cars
A town designed for Robotic Cars .... 32-Acre Michigan City to Hone Driving Skills, By Keith NaughtonSuppose you set up a place or system where any human tacit machine or human skill could be practiced? Skills recorded. Errors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making a Good First Impression
Its about making a good first impression. Some good advice on how.Why?" ... A study in 1997 by Wilkielman, Zajonc, and Shwartz created first impressions in subjects with images of smiles and frowns. The people in the study…
From insideHPC
Video: Drug Discovery Team Finds Inspiration at SDSC
"When Professor Ross Walker explains what he does for a living, he says he’s on the cutting edge of drug discovery research using supercomputers. Today, he and his team build supercomputer molecular biology software thanks in…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Linux & HPC Administrator at Ascentiant
Ascentiant International in California is seeking a Senior Linux & HPC Administrator in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Senior Linux & HPC Administrator at Ascentiant appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Stats and Scary but Useful Trends
From Adobe, via Adage: A number of very interesting mobile, advertising and related statistics, including:" .... Time spent per day by adult Internet users has moved from less than an hour a day five years ago to nearly three…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Translator App
Good to see Google get competition here. The direct comparisons will be interesting. When we get Babel Fish quality, instantaneous capabilities? And directly integrated into OS, browsers, office technology and mobile. Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hackable IV Pumps
An example of the dangers of more medical devices accessible from networks as part of a innovation of things. Reason for more security research in this space.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in the Enterprise
Interview with my former colleague Pete Foley, a successful innovator at P&G, in Innovation Excellence. Follow him at @foley_pete Read the whole interview at the link:1. Pete, can you give a brief description of where you…
From Putting People First
Stanford: taking back control of an autonomous car takes five to eight seconds
Autonomous cars are based on the premise – similar to airplanes – that the human driver can take back control of the vehicle in case of emergency. But that takes quite a bit of time. Two seconds are not enough, even when the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Crowdfunds Products
New approach by Sony. " .... It could be the start of a new Sony -- a company that's trying to recalibrate its new product compass by throwing nascent ideas and projects to the public... and asking for money. Perhaps Sony's…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard
The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that link soon.) It was an interesting experience. A learning experience. Originally I planned…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Divers Find Squid Eggs
Divers discover a large mass of Ommastrephes bartramii eggs: Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected: a 4-meter wide gelatinous mass of what turned out to be one of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carrefour and Romanian Beacons
An interesting place to try this test. In RFID Journal. We worked with Carrefour on technology tests. Several previous posts mention Carrefour beacon activity, use the tag link below.Carrefour Puts Beacons in Its Romanian…
From Schneier on Security
Meerkats that Look like Bruce Schneier
Yet another example of my surreal life. (No, I have no idea who did this.)...
From insideHPC
A Tribute to the Very First SC Attendees
We should all be thankful for the Perennials that keep coming back, year after year. That's the sentiment over at the SC15 Blog, which pays tribute to 18 hearty souls that have attended all 27 of the Supercomputing conferences…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Problem Solving on the Sales Floor
Retailwire: Good piece. I will add: Yes, certainly preparation is a big part, though many problems will arise that are not enough like previous ones encountered in training to know what the match to solution should be. Adaptive…
From insideHPC
Video: HP Moves Forward with New Business Unit for HPC & Big Data
"As a result of a new alliance with Intel, HP is offering its HPC Solutions Framework based on HP Apollo servers, which are specialized for HPC and now optimized to support industry- specific software applications from leading…
From insideHPC
How to Measure a Supercomputer’s Speed?
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale.
The post How to Measure a Supercomputer’s Speed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Eldercare
Frank Stein, Director of Analytics Solution Center at IBM on use of Cognitive systems for Eldercare, and in particular data about Japan. Discussion and examples. Further a link to " ... Mario - Managing active and healthy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmatic Advertising Displays in Europe
Interesting note because it looks at the attitude to digital displays. Predicts that they will be increasing in Europe. My own observation is that I have not being seeing increases of their use in the US lately. Anyone have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Going Digital Mean?
To me it is measuring business with sensors, analyzing the data you get, and feeding the results back to control the system. All driven by technology and monitored by decision makers.In McKinsey:Companies today are rushing headlong…
From Schneier on Security
The Outing of ECHELON
Before Edward Snowden told us so much about NSA surveillance, before Mark Klein told us a little, even before 9/11, Duncan Campbell broke the story of ECHELON. This is his story of that story. It's a fascinating read. (Yes, it…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPCAC Brazil Conference, Aug. 26
The HPC Advisory Council has posted their agenda for the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015. The event will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de Janeiro.
The post Agenda Posted for HPCAC Brazil…From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting the Most from your Online Ad Money
In K@W: Reconsidering the 'last touch'." ... Advertisers often use multiple publishers for their online campaigns, but may not use the best metrics to decide which ones they should compensate. Should companies compensate the…
From insideHPC
Argonne Selects Theta Supercomputer Early Science Projects
Today the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced the selection of six projects for its Theta Early Science Program (ESP), a collaborative effort designed to help prepare scientific applications for the architecture…
From Schneier on Security
Security for the Rest of Us
Good fictional account of an average computer user and how people understand and view security. Related: "Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users."...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resilience Power for the Enterprise
Via MIT Sloan. Very good talk today by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, on using resilience in the supply chain, with excellent case studies. Including P&G Katrina example…