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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Video Analysis for Body-worn Cameras in Law Enforcement
In May, The White House Office of Science Technology Policy, Department of Commerce and the Arnold Foundation approached the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), as a community organization of computer science researchers, to…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for LAD’15 in Paris, Sept. 22-23
EOFS and OpenSFS published their Agenda for the LAD’15 Lustre Administrator & Developer event, which takes place Sept. 22-23 in Paris, France.
The post Agenda Posted for LAD’15 in Paris, Sept. 22-23 appeared first on insideHPC…From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Lessons of HitchBot
This past week, a story circulated around social media about how HitchBot, a friendly hitchhiking robot met a grisly end here in Philadelphia. When the news hit, all my techie friends rallied and vowed, “We can rebuild him.”Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowing what You Want before You do
In the WSJ: And the implications for virtual assistants. Is this also a way to do product development? Almost by definition.Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You DoNew technology for smartphones will monitor activity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook's Moneypenny to Provide Help
I was sent a query about Moneypenny last week, suggesting it was Facebook's entry into the virtual assistant fray, but it seems it will be more of a system to direct you to the right expert. A concierge of sorts. Another idea…
From insideHPC
Video: Team Spain Brings ARM to the Student Cluster Competition
In this video from ISC 2015, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting interviews Team Spain, the first team ever to use ARM processors in the Student Cluster Competition.
The post Video: Team Spain Brings ARM to the Student Cluster Competition…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising IDs and Tracking in Windows 10
Quite a remarkable review of tracking capabilities in my update to Windows 10. Did you know you now have your personal ad ID? Covering privacy issues in Windows:" ... On the General screen, you'll see your Advertising ID. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trying Again in the Metaverse
If has been quite a long time since I heard the term Metaverse. Yet I attended the building of a huge IBM Second Life complex as a representative of our enterprise. Shopped in the aisles of a virtual store. Interacted with…
From insideHPC
Australia Connects to US Pacific Research Platform
Today the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) announced a partnership to connect Australian researchers to the US Pacific Research…
From insideHPC
Video: Brendan Gregg Tutorial on Linux Performance Tools
In this video from the Velocity 2015 conference, Brendan Gregg from Netflix presents a 90 minute tutorial on Linux performance tools. "There are many performance tools nowadays for Linux, but how do they all fit together, and…
From insideHPC
Black-Scholes Pricing on Intel Xeon Phi
"An expanding area of work both on the hardware front and the software side is to modify and optimize applications to run on both the host processor and a coprocessor. Many techniques to transform applications to reduce runtime…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Computers to See Medical Imagery
In A Smarter Planet. This raises a question we often addressed. At what level should human expertise be inserted into a system like this? Or should we push down to the fundamentals that computers can do today? And how do…
From Computational Complexity
How hard would this cipher be for Eve to crack?
I've been looking at old ciphers since I am teaching a HS course on Crypto. We've done shift, affine, matrix, Playfair, 1-time pad, Vigenere, and then noting that in all of the above Alice and Bob need to meet, we did Diffie-Hellman…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Marketing
In the Cisco Blog:Our customers’ expectations and buying behaviors are changing, and more brands compete for their attention. We either need to reinvent our approach to marketing or risk losing business to our competitors.The…
From Schneier on Security
Nicholas Weaver on iPhone Security
Excellent essay: Yes, an iPhone configured with a proper password has enough protection that, turned off, I'd be willing to hand mine over to the DGSE, NSA, or Chinese. But many (perhaps most) users don't configure their phones…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Powered Assistants
If you have followed this blog, I have been covering the various forms and approaches of the virtual assistant for some time. Click tag below for much more.A.I.-powered assistants step into the enterprise (Required registration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Value of User Experience
Good piece in K@W, sponsored by SAP. We have developed some very big expectations regarding user experience. The expectation includes having instantaneous and complete data. In fact it is an assumption that the data is complete…
From insideHPC
Video: Docker for HPC in a Nutshell
"As the newest flavor of Linux Containers, Docker gained a lot of momentum in the last 12 months. With a very convenient and open API-driven architecture Docker is able to help decrease the complexity of operations and increase…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF
"IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF takes control of data transfers to help organizations improve data throughput and lower costs by minimizing wasted compute cycles and conserving disk space. Platform Data Manager automates the…
From insideHPC
Bringing HPC to the SME
Tom Wilkie reports from ISC 2015 on moves to make it easier for SMEs to access high-performance computing, and on why it matters.
The post Bringing HPC to the SME appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Intel Code Modernization Picks Up Steam at ISC 2015
"Modernizing your code on Intel architecture can help you achieve breakthrough performance for highly parallel applications. And, you won’t have to recode your entire problem, or master new tools and programming models."
TheIntel…From insideHPC
Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory
Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
The post Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book on Amazon Echo Programming
Announced today: Programming the Amazon Echo, by Joseph Jaquinta. Technical, yet to be completely edited, can't vouch for it, but only 99 cents on Kindle. Can at least give you an idea of what is involved and capabilities.investing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Emerging Architectures for Global System Science
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Michela Milano at the University of Bologna-Italy and Pascal Van Hentenryck from NICTA Optimisation Research Group and the University of Michigan. Their Emerging Architectures for Global…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Current State and Future of Augmented Reality
Short overview in ClickZ. A list of current developments in AR. It still has mainly narrow applications rather than broad interfaces. But note also events like Google's investment in Magic Leap. Is this a new way to see…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Test for Creative Intelligence
How can we determine a machine or system is more than just intelligent, but also creative? A place for a Turing test.
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE's Industrial Internet
In SiliconAngle:General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often described as the Internet of Things for big industry. But to do…
From The Eponymous Pickle
PLM and Internet of Things
Interesting area of application.Read what CIMdata's President Peter Bilello has to say about PLM, the IoT, and metalworking equipment innovation in the July/Aug edition of Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News (eAPMEN). Article…
From Schneier on Security
Face Recognition by Thermal Imaging
New research can identify a person by reading their thermal signature in complete darkness and then matching it with ordinary photographs. Research paper: Abstract: Cross modal face matching between the thermal and visible spectrum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First 3D Printed Prescriptions
An unusual example of 3D printing" ... First 3-D printed prescription drug to be made in Blue Ash, Ohio ... The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug made through 3-D printing: a dissolvable tablet…