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 insideHPC
Video: Intel Announces Collaborative Cancer Cloud
In this video from IDF 2015, Intel and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announce the Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a precision medicine analytics platform that allows hospitals and research institutions to securely share…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Bottom-Up Advocacy
If you look back through American history for examples of successful grassroots movements that led to policy changes you may notice a few common threads. Trade unions emerged due to the industrial revolution, urbanization, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Machine Learning for Programmers
May have mentioned this before, but here is a good post by Jason Brownlee. Somewhat pictorial. This takes it to a process 'how' level, but not all the way to coding itself. The assumption is that you are a skilled developer…
From Schneier on Security
SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance
Interesting: Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world? It's worse than you might have thought. Researchers speaking to Australia's…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How I Spent My Summer Break From School
I'm in school today - first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I always tell myself that I’m going to spend the summer doing what my friend Lou Zulli calls “retirement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IRI on Private Label and National Brands
In Retailwire: And discussion." .... IRI in their latest Times & Trends report offers this advice: "Ensure that price is a lever that creates demand without diminishing margin." In the previous Business Tip, we discussed factors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from Google's Anouncement
In Bob Herbold's Blog. Quite a considerable interest in this lately. Here from a former Microsoft and Procter&Gamble executive. Insiders perspective.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Significance and Uncertainty
In Flowingdata: Short lesson in significance. Is the p value being misused to determine publishable significance for correlation? ( I don't know the truth of that statement, but will follow up ) Is this like grade inflation…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Must-read (and Share) Report on US K-12 CS Education
They say you can have data without information, but not the other way around. So for those of you seeking data on why CS in K-12 matters there is good news today. There is a new report out from Google … Continue reading
From insideHPC
Alan Alda to Keynote SC15
The Austin Business Journal reports that actor Alan Alda will keynote the SC15 conference. "Alda is a seven-time Emmy winner and science enthusiast. Most widely known for his role as Captain Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, Alda has…
From Schneier on Security
Snake-Oil Cryptography Competition
Funny....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biometric Smart Shirt
In The Verge: " ... Ralph Lauren's 'smart' shirt is the ultimate preppy tech ... A sensor-filled men's suit could be on the way ... "
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
35 Innovators Under the Age of 35, 2015
Every year the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 35 innovators under the age of 35. They recently published the list for 2015. Of the 35 innovators, 13 are working on problems related to computer science. This list includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Data Visualization
From DSC: Uses Tableau which has a free public version. We used Tableau for years in the enterprise, after seeing it at a Stanford demo, where it did bring visualization closer to the end user. I pointed out Tableau to a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kalman Filters for Data Uncertainty
About data and uncertainty. Though all data is uncertain. Easily implemented today. This piece starts simple, but gets very technical. The introduction though, is good. We tested this once in the enterprise, but ended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Commuting Habits
In Datanami: HP and Ford gather data, possible application to commuting efficiency improvement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hitachi Data Mining
AI from Hitachi, have not heard of them in this space for some time, but relevant from the hardware direction.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ode to A&P
In Adage: An Ode to A&P, a Once-Proud Grocery Brand ...The Sun Sets on a Chain With Personal SignificanceAn Ode to A&P, a Once-Proud Grocery BrandTo many people, the A&P brand today probably signifies high prices and middle-of…
From insideHPC
D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer Goes GA with 1000+ Qubits
Today D-Wave Systems announced the general availability of the D-Wave 2X quantum computing system. The D-Wave 2X features a 1000+ qubit quantum processor and numerous design improvements that result in larger problem sizes, faster…
From insideHPC
Video: High Performance Computing for the LHC
In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln gives us a sense of just how much data is involved and the incredible computer resources that make the LHC possible. "The LHC is the world’s highest energy particle accelerator and scientists…
From insideHPC
OpenCL for Performance
"OpenCL is a fairly new programming model that is designed to help programmers get the most out of a variety of processing elements in heterogeneous environments. Many benchmarks that are available have demonstrated that excellent…
From Computational Complexity
Crowdsourcing the Truth
A new project Augur aims to create a decentralized prediction market. If this post so moves you, Augur is in the midst of a reputation sale. Don't miss out if you would like to be an Augur reporter. A prediction market takes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Recipes for Developers
In SIliconAngle: Recipes for developers. " ... Big Blue announced the launch of the IBM developerWorks Recipes, a community designed to help developers — from novice to experienced — quickly and easily connect IoT devices…
From Schneier on Security
No-Fly List Uses Predictive Assessments
The US government has admitted that it uses predictive assessments to put people on the no-fly list: In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Heart
Over at TACC, Jorge Salazar writes that new supercomputer simulations are helping doctors improve the repair and replacement of heart valves. "New supercomputer models have come closer than ever to capturing the behavior of normal…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing in 2025… what can we expect?
It is hot today in Montreal, so let me play my favorite game: (mis)predicting the future (2025). If the past is any guide, we shall still programming using Java, JavaScript, C, SQL, and so forth. Linux will still be everywhere…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in K-8 at the 2015 CSTA conference
This summer’s CSTA conference in Grapevine, Texas had far more K-8 sessions than any previous CSTA conference. A simple metric that measures the strong interest in K-8 Computer Science today. A K-8 computer science teacher like…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Uncertainty in Computation Workshop Report
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) is excited to release a report titled Quantification, Communication, and Interpretation of Uncertainty in Simulation and Data Science, the result of the Uncertainty in Computation Visioning…
From insideHPC
Dolphin Demos 300ns Latency Across PCI Express at IDF
Today Norway's Dolphin Interconnect Solutions demonstrated record a low latency of 300 nanoseconds at IDF 2015. Dolphin achieved this record by adding Intel Xeon Non Transparent Bridging (NTB) support to its existing PCI Express…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on Google's Alphabetic Restructuring
Interesting view by Wharton. Somewhat different than other takes I have seen. A podcast and text. " .... Google’s move to restructure itself under a new holding company named Alphabet will help protect its core brand, gives…