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 My Biased Coin
CACM Viewpoints on Theory and Experiments
There's a fun pair of viewpoints in the September CACM by Jeffrey Ullman and myself on experiments in computer science research, with him addressing systems conferences(/people) being far too focused on experiments as the research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Head of UC Center for Business Analytics
My former colleague, Glenn Wegryn has been appointed director of the UC Center for Business Analytics. See Much more about that announcement here. Congratulations. @UCBusAnalytics
From Schneier on Security
Movie Plot Threat: Terrorists Attacking US Prisons
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts wins an award for his movie-plot threat: terrorists attacking the maximum-security federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth: In an Aug. 14 letter to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, Roberts stressed that…
From insideHPC
Intel Updates Developer Toolkit with Data Analytics Acceleration Library
Today Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016, the next iteration of its developer toolkit for HPC and technical computing applications. This release introduces the Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library, a library for…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Travis Deyle, Former CI Fellow, Current Innovator
Last week we published a blog post highlighting the MIT Technology Review’s 2015 list of 35 innovators under the age of 35. This list included Travis Deyle who was a member of the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) CI Fellow…
From insideHPC
Dell Posts Agenda for La Jolla Genomics Data Workshop
Dell has posted the Agenda for their upcoming Genomics Data Workshop. Entitled "Enabling discovery and product innovation with Dell HPC and Big Data Solutions," the event will take place Sept. 15 in La Jolla, CA.
The post Dell…From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Trials Beacons in Theaters
Evan Schuman on: Coke's movie theater trial shows beacon potential ... Retail beacons have huge potential, but it can only be met when chains move beyond seeing beacons solely as tiny ad broadcasters. Coca-Cola is starting to…
From insideHPC
Video: Democratizing Data Science
"CDSW's organizers are professional programmers and data scientists and several of us have experience teaching data science in more traditional university and corporate settings. Our talk will describe how "democratized" data…
From insideHPC
IBTA Publishes RoCE Interoperability List from Plugfest
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the completion of the first Plugfest for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions and the publication of the RoCE Interoperability List on the IBTA website. Fifteen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continuous Design and PLM
Continuous Design: Had not heard of this concept. Reminds me of product life cycle management (PLM) , but including operations more directly. A good thought. " ... Towards continuous design .... A deep integration across…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Stefan Hell and the Difficult Task of Communicating Science
It turns out that the idea behind the Heidelberg Laureate Forum isn't exactly new. In fact, Nobel laureates and young scientists have been meeting in Lindau for more than 50 years, and it is these events that HLF is modelled@HLFF…
From insideHPC
KTH in Sweden Moves to EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced its EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have been selected by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology for use in their PDC Center for High Performance Computing. Mellanox’s robust and flexible EDR InfiniBand…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Pomp and Circumstance at the Opening Ceremony
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes place August 23-28, 2015. Abel, Fields, Turing and Nevanlinna Laureates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hearables as Advisory Systems
Had not heard the term 'Hearable' used, but is a mobile device, integrated with an advisory system, linked with sound only to the user. How much will people normally accept a sound only advisory interface? Akin to Siri orIn…
From Schneier on Security
Are Data Breaches Getting Larger?
This research says that data breaches are not getting larger over time. "Hype and Heavy Tails: A Closer Look at Data Breaches," by Benjamin Edwards, Steven Hofmeyr, and Stephanie Forrest: Abstract: Recent widely publicized data…
From insideHPC
Pushing the Boundaries of Combustion Simulation with Mira
"Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will be testing the limits of computing horsepower this year with a new simulation project from the Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HoloLens in the Workplace
In CWorld: Replacing the workplace? Even outside the world of design. Seems a stretch, but why not? Interface would have to be greatly improved, Display device light and inobstrusive. Focused to specific tasks and contexts…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Testing Hypotheses Privately
In case you missed it, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Cynthia Dwork, distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, and her co-authors Vitaly Feldman, research scientist at IBM’s Almaden Research Center;…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
RESPECT for Diversity (in Computing)
Last week I had the honor and pleasure of attending the 10th annual STARS Celebration collocated with the first annual RESPECT Celebration in Charlotte, NC. STARS Computing Corps is a community of practice for student-led regional…
From insideHPC
Phytium Shows off Mars ARMv8 Processor at Hot Chips
In the first of what will likely be a series of announcements from the Hot Chips conference this week, Phytium Technologies revealed details of its Mars 64-core ARMv8 processors.
The post Phytium Shows off Mars ARMv8 Processor…From insideHPC
Bright Computing Grows its Channel for Cluster Management
Bright Computing has announced an expansion of its global network of channel partners, local resellers, local system integrators, as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The relationships are leading to collaborations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hypertext is 50 Years Old
Ted Nelson used the word in 1965. Much later, but before the Web, we commissioned its use for a knowledge management application in the enterprise. Now most everyone uses the very simple concept daily. Be gratefulHypertext…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Intel VR with Tango
In VRFocus: Hardware and software interaction for virtual reality. " ... Google has lots of plans and one of those is its recent partnership with Intel for Project Tango. ... Intel has recently integrated its 3D sensing RealSense…
From Schneier on Security
Heartbeat as a Biometric
Yet another biometric: your heartbeat....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Analytics in the Cloud Today
Good piece by Tony Cosentino in Smart Data collective on the current state of analytics from the cloud. My own observation from conversations say that insiders in the enterprise want these capabilities, plus the automation…
From insideHPC
Video: Climate Change – Fact, Fiction, and What You Can Do
"Climate change – or as Doug Sisterson, research meteorologist at Argonne National Laboratory, prefers to call it, climate disruption – is probably the greatest challenge we face in modern society, yet many of us don’t fully …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Affective Picture System
Brought to my attention:" ... With its latest grant, the Prosper Foundation is pleased to continue to support the initiatives of the Applied Neuromarketing Consortium (ANC) at Northwestern University. The consortium consistsThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of AI and Work
Future of AI and Work - Millennium Report"Future Work/Technology 2050 The future of work and increasing income gaps are among the most discussed topics of long-term prospects at the moment. However, systemic perspectives andStephen…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Why Physical Cyber Security is Broken
The physical Internet is evolving away from resiliency toward fragility and vulnerability. A broken Internet means flawed cybersecurity.
The post Why Physical Cyber Security is Broken appeared first on BLOG@UBIQUITY.
From insideHPC
Experts Focus on Code Efficiency at ISC 2015
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World explores the efforts made by top HPC centers to scale software codes to the extreme levels necessary for exascale computing. "The speed with which supercomputers…