Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2015
From Schneier on Security
I'll be Talking Cyber-Resilience on a Webinar
This coming Thursday, I'll be talking with Larry Poneman about cyber-resilience and the results of a new survey he's releasing. Join us here. The event is sponsored by my company, Resilient Systems, Inc....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
Vernor Vinge is a retired mathematics professor who became famous through his science-fiction novels. He is also famous as being one of the first to contemplate the idea of a “technological singularity“. There is debate as to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Behaviors from Simple Brains
From Santa Fe Institute. This is often stated as a precept of complexity theory. Though the precise arrangement of hardware, connections and rules is often difficult to determine. Control problem is easier, but not necessarily…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magic Mirrors in Retail
Evan Schuman looks at the magic mirror concept. Good thoughts. An idea that we examined and featured at times in the innovation center for cosmetics marketing. (See Mirror tag below) Including one developed by IDEO. Was…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science: Dictating Careers in Digital Technology
The Computer Science Teacher Association’s Executive Director, Mark Nelson was recently featured in MediaplanetUSA’s “Careers in Digital Tech” campaign to inspire students to pursue careers in digital tech. The campaign highlights…
From insideHPC
Video: Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry
In this video from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship meeting, Jarrod McClean from Harvard University presents: Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry.
The post Video: Quantum Computers and Quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on Voice
In Forbes: On voice interpretation. Voice to text. And its use for devices and online. Not everywhere, since we don't always want to be heard. They say: " ... It won’t be long before you wonder how you ever typed muchIn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix and Data Rich Analytics
There is always opportunity for data rich environments.How Data Analytics Is Shaping What You WatchWhen Netflix decided to go into the entertainment-producing business by commissioning the streaming series “House of Cards,” there…
From insideHPC
Alan Turing Institute Hits the Ground Running for HPC & Data Science
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science. It has marked its first few days of operations with the announcement of its new director, the confirmation of £10 million of research funding from Lloyd…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Commercial Drone
In Spectrum IEEE: More on the Sony Commercial Drone. " .... Last month, Sony Mobile announced a partnership with ZMP to build drones. Or rather, “to collaborate on the development and launch of enterprise solutions using autonomous…
From insideHPC
Video: Argonne’s Pete Beckman Describes the Challenges of Exascale
"Argonne National Laboratory is one of the laboratories helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software and storage systems and applied math. And we're really focusing…
From insideHPC
Engility to Support NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Today Engility announced it has been awarded a prime position on a $25 million multiple award contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide broad spectrum IT support including high performance…
From Schneier on Security
China's "Great Cannon"
Interesting research: "An Analysis of China's 'Great Cannon.'" Abstract: On March 16th, 2015, the Chinese censorship apparatus employed a new tool, the "Great Cannon", to engineer a denial-of-service attack on GreatFire.org,…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Division Director Position Available at NSF CISE
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community describing the Division Director position…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews Tutorials at SC15
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews three of the excellent Tutorial sessions coming up at SC15. "The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights of the SC Conference series, and it is one of the largest tutorial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Volometrix Acquisition: Understanding Organization
Organization analysis via graph analytics is a favorite application, not sure what this uses, but exploring. Microsoft to buy organizational analytics company VoloMetrixThe acquisition will be used to improve Microsoft's Office…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like to talk about something he once said to me and how it relates to…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like to talk about something he once said to me and how it relates to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google Runs the Office
From Knowledge@Wharton: Podcast and edited text. How Google’s Rules Can Work In Your OfficeTake power away from managers. Don’t trust your gut. Be open and transparent. These are just a few of the insights from Work Rules! Insights…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attempting to Define the Enterprise in 2020
Good thoughts. How exactly things like wearables will fit into the enterprise of 2020 is difficult to say. Obvious for specific focused applications, like machine maintenance, but for the typical knowledge worker? Analytics…
From Computational Complexity
Whiplashed
I recently watched the movie Whiplash, about a college jazz band director, Fletcher played by J.K. Simmons, who torments his musicians to force them to be their best. The movie focuses on a drummer, Andrew, which makes for a…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robin Murphy’s TED Talk on Disaster Robotics
Texas A&M University‘s Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Robin Murphy recently gave a TED talk on Disaster Robots. Robots don’t replace people…
From My Biased Coin
One Lecture Down....
CS125, the "new", "honors-ish" Algorithms and Complexity course, got off to a good start today. The room was full with not enough seats for people, the students asked good questions and responded well to questions asked, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sanctity of 5 Ws Lost, but Needed
I had read somewhere that because of the internet, Ihe old 5 Ws rule (Who, What, Where, When, Why) in the top sentence or para was no longer being taught. Old outmoded stuff. Then in reading some of the best known insert rags…
From insideHPC
GPUs Power Analytical Flavor Systems for Brewing Better Beer
HPC and Beer have always had a certain affinity ever since the days when Cray Research would include a case of Leinenkugel's with every supercomputer. Now, Brian Caulfield from Nvidia writes that a Pennsylvania startup is using…
From insideHPC
Data Analytics Requires New Libraries
A convergence in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data has led to new opportunities for software developers to create and deliver products that can help to analyze very large amounts of data. The HPC software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Robots at PARC
Shiwali Mohan from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), presented "Designing Instructable Cognitive Robots" Slides here.Please find the schedule of presenters here for the next several calls and please sign up for making a presentation…
From insideHPC
Intel to Invest $50 Million in Quantum Computing
Today Intel announced a 10-year collaborative relationship with the Delft University of Technology and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate advancements in quantum computing. To achieve this goal, Intel…
From insideHPC
An Open Invitation to Work on the Tianhe 2 Supercomputer
European researchers are welcome to use the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, to pursue their research in collaboration with Chinese scientists and HPC specialists. "Enough Ivy Bridge Xeon E5 2692 processors had already…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Can Robots Be Trusted?
Can robots be trusted to make better decisions than humans? Sometimes automation can be a matter or life or death.
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