Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2018
From insideHPC
ISC Keynote: Tackling Tomorrow’s Computing Challenges Today at CERN
In this keynote video from ISC 2018, Physicist and CTO of CERN openlab discusses the demands of capturing, storing, and processing the large volumes of data generated by the LHC experiments. "CERN openlab is a unique public-private…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of the AR Demo
Is an AR demo better than the real thing? with discussion by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
Trying out a toy in-store can get kids excited about the product. And once kids are interested in a toy, they can be very effective in…
From Schneier on Security
Backdoors in Cisco Routers
We don't know if this is error or deliberate action, but five backdoors have been discovered already this year....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer AI Concerns in Retail?
Not sure this is as big as they say. Similar to privacy concerns, if clear value is shown up front, people are willing to take some risk.
What can retailers do about consumer’s AI concerns? in Retailwire.
While consumers are…