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
CIARA Announces World-record SPEC Performance
Today CIARA announced that its ORION HF servers have achieved record performance on 18 SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks. According to the company, CIARA’s complete ORION HF server line achieved top ranks in every CPU category when compared…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows 10 for the IOT?
Would never have thought of something like Windows suitable for running small connected devices. Unfortunately the term 'bloated' comes to mined. But Microsoft thinks otherwise, and has adapted the newly launched mothership…
From insideHPC
Training the Next Generation of Code Developers for HPC – Part 2
This is the second article in a two-part series about the challenges facing the HPC community in training people to write code and develop algorithms for current and future, massively-parallel, massive-scale HPC systems.
The…From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move – August Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names on the move include Dr. Ilkay Altintas, Glenn Lockwood, and Wilf Pinfold.
The post HPC People on the Move – August Edition…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC BRAIN Workshop Report
The organizing committee for the Research Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science (BRAIN) have released their workshop report. This two-day workshop, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), brought…
From insideHPC
Rambus Collaborates with Intel on R+ DDR4 Server Memory
After a long absence, Rambus is back in the news with their announcement of the RB26 DDR4 server memory chipset. Developed in cooperation with Intel, the RB26 is an enhanced, JEDEC-compliant memory module chipset designed to …
From insideHPC
ZFS Powers Spectra Verde DPE for 9 Cents per Gigabyte
Today Spectra Logic announced Spectra Verde DPE, a new Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)-based NAS disk platform designed to provide high-density bulk storage for reliable, high-capacity digital preservation, at costs as low …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google on the Purchase Journey
Interesting thoughts and related statistics. " ... I-Want-to-Buy Moments: How Mobile Has Reshaped the Purchase Journey ... For today's constantly connected consumers, shopping never sleeps. Whether making an everyday purchase…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Biometrics in the Smart Home
In Silicon Angle: Biometrics and more in the Apple Smart home. " .... It has long been rumored that Apple is entering the smart home business. From patents that include Siri for home control, to a device that controls “scenes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invisume: Invisible Resume
Invisume. An invisible resume. Simple idea. " ... 100% PRIVATE!!! Companies apply for your data, not your name or company. You choose to share your identity if you like the company and your role. ... "
From Schneier on Security
Oracle CSO Rant Against Security Experts
Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a blog post ranting against security experts finding vulnerabilities in her company's products. The blog post has been taken down by the company, but was saved for posterity by others. There's…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 August 2015
My summer break is almost over. Many of you are back already. Where does the time fly? Last week was interesting and I started (finally) to work on my course outlines for the coming year. Making some changes. Also Google announced…
From Computational Complexity
Have we made Progress on P vs NP?
While teaching P vs NP in my class Elementary Theory of Computation (Finite Automata, CFG's, P-NP, Dec-undecid) I was asked What progress has been made on P vs NP? I have heard respectable theorists answer this question inWe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Cognitive Systems with CrowdFlower
Learning and adapting knowledge to train a cognitive system is key. While we experimented with corwdsourcing methods, they were difficult to manage for AI systems.In CrowdFlower: " .... This is especially true in the interpretation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommendation Engines for Newspapers
Language Log describes the new NY Times article recommendation engine. This piece is interesting because it discusses the problem from a linguistic, rather than entirely from a computer science direction. Newspapers used to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Glass for Business
A new Google glass for business and the workplace. I think there will have to be some clear focused examples of its use to make this fly.
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Display for the Car
A 3-D Display for Your CarA startup has built a glasses-free 3-D screen that’s much bigger than its previous prototype, bringing it a step closer to being built into gadgets (including the one in your driveway). .... Holographic…
From insideHPC
Climate Researchers Collaborate with HPC
"The complexity and scale of weather and climate simulation have led weather centers and research groups to turn to their own community, either through direct collaboration or open source software initiatives, to increase performance…
From insideHPC
Video: Supernova Cosmology with Python
In this video from PyData Seattle 2015, Rahul Biswas from the University of Washington presents: Supernova Cosmology with Python.
The post Video: Supernova Cosmology with Python appeared first on insideHPC.
From Schneier on Security
NSA's Partnership with AT&T
There's a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, aboutNSA's longstanding relationship with AT&T. It's based on the Snowden documents, and there are a bunch of new pages published. AT&T's cooperation…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid
I think it's a very pretty creature with some impressive adaptations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Based on Behavioral Science
Pete Foley InnovationInnovation Based on Behavioral ScienceI am an innovation guide who combines 25 years of experience as a serial innovator and internal consultant at P&G with deep insights from applied psychology, perceptual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Haptography: Digitizing Touch
Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - by Katherine Kuchenbecker of UPenn GRASP: Overview of research topic.Is it possible to incorporate the sense of touch into the digital world? Katherine Kuchenbecker thinks so. At TEDYouth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Photography Scanning for Replication
My earliest exposure to 3D printing was to see a complex array of cameras capture a bottle design, construct a model, and then sculpting a prototype for shelf use. This was expensive and complex. Now is there really simpleIn…
From insideHPC
Video: High-Throughput Processing of Space Debris Data
"Space Debris are defunct objects in space, including old space vehicles (such as satellites or rocket stages) or fragments from collisions. Space debris can cause great damage to functional space ships and satellites. Thus detection…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Lead HPC Engineer/Cloud Engineer at Simply Biotech
Simply Biotech in San Diego is seeking a Lead HPC Engineer/Cloud Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Lead HPC Engineer/Cloud Engineer at Simply Biotech appeared first on insideHPC.
From Putting People First
Innovation labs as public change agents
Jesper Christiansen and Runa Sabroe of the Danish human-centred internal governmental body MindLab ask how to increase the effectiveness and legitimacy of public sector interventions – both by creating the actual outcomes that…
From Putting People First
What is the ‘sharing economy’? A perspective from Seoul
As a Fulbright grantee, Emily Hong spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of her main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor. This first…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Comments Policy
A reminder, all blog comments are moderated, usually within 24 hours. Only comments that have to do with the post topic will be considered. I will ignore comments that are not on point. I may, but only rarely, edit a comment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Machines
Current and future state of machine learning. Technical, Historical. " ... We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and…