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
"The Declining Half-Life of Secrets"
Several times I've mentioned Peter Swire's concept of "the declining half-life of secrets." He's finally written it up: The nature of secrets is changing. Secrets that would once have survived the 25 or 50 year test of time are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You are the Network
In CWorld: In the future, with increasing use of wearables, you will become the network in a Personal Area Network (PAN).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's Omni Channel Reorganizes
In Think with Google Talk." ... Macy's found that customers who shop across channels are 8X more valuable than those who shop in a single channel. With today's shoppers shifting to buy in micro-moments, Chief Omnichannel Officer…
From insideHPC
Autotune Code from ORNL Tunes Your Building Energy Efficiency
A team at Oak Ridge has developed a set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models to match measured data. Their open source Autotune code is now available…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Patterns in Sequences or Collections?
Need to find patterns in sequences or collections? Used this long ago, and was reminded about it in a recent piece in Quanta Magazine. Remarkably simple and often useful idea. Also something you can demonstrate to kids"…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Now Accepting Applications for Cutler-Bell Prize
This is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the annual ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing Reception…
From insideHPC
XSEDE & UC Berkeley Offer Online Parallel Computing Course
The XSEDE project and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an online course on parallel computing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
The post XSEDE & UC Berkeley Offer Online Parallel Computing…From Computer Science Teachers Association
Certification Committee Update
The Certification Committee of CSTA is responsible for coordinating efforts around computer science teacher certification in the United States. The CSTA Wisconsin Chapter is part of a consortium with University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Dash Progress
Amazon Dash buttons have become effectively free, and expanded available brands. We have had them in place for a time now. Very easy to install. Have used them only once so far. Nice implementation, but I do wonder about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and Design Thinking: Pepsi Spire
From CGT: PepsiCo CEO Turns Design Thinking into StrategyIndra Nooyi, PepsiCo's CEO, is ranked No. 15 on Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women. In an interview this week, Nooyi speaks about making PepsiCo more design driven…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Darrell, and Pieter Abbeel in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department at the University of California Berkeley. Their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Indicators in Patterns
Patterns of essences are everywhere:Jim Spohrer: Just reading this short piece about cognitive systems helping detect pre-psychotic behaviors - amazing! http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/08/word-analysis-proves-effective-pre…
From insideHPC
Five Reasons To Deploy Cicso UCS Infrastructure
Cisco UCS solutions allow for a faster and more optimized deployment of a computing infrastructure. This solution brief details how the Cisco UCS infrastructure can help your organization become more productive more quickly and…
From insideHPC
Microsoft Boosts Azure with GS-Series VMs for Compute-intensive Workloads
Today Microsoft announced their GS-Series serious of premium VMs for Compute-intensive workloads. "Powered by the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family processors, the GS-series can have up to 64TB of storage, provide 80,000 IOPs (storage …
From insideHPC
Video: DARPA’s SyNAPSE and the Cortical Processor
"I will describe a decade-long, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort spanning neuroscience, supercomputing and nanotechnology to build and demonstrate a brain-inspired computer and describe the architecture, programming…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for proposals now open for the 2016 CSTA Annual Conference
It seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conference was just released. I’ve presented a number of times over the years and presenting …
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in October
The HPC User Forum has posted their Agendas for upcoming meetings in Europe next month.
The post HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in October appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Mellanox Shipping Spectrum Open Ethernet 25/50/100 Gigabit Switch
Today Mellanox announced that its Spectrum 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches are now shipping. According to the company, Mellanox is the first vendor to deliver comprehensive end-to-end 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 …
From insideHPC
Strategies for Managing High Performance GPU Clusters
When discussing GPU accelerators, the focus is often on the price-to-performance benefits to the end user. The true cost of managing and using GPUs goes far beyond the hardware price, however. Understanding and managing these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging for Loyalty
Seems counter intuitive, but successes like Amazon Prime seem to point otherwise. What is the value tradoff? In CustomerThink. " ... Let’s make one point clear: Fee-based rewards are not pet rocks. Sure, some major merchants…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foxtrot Code for Focused Analytics
Brought late to my attention .... Seeking to build micro analytics for many problems. A platform of and for analytics makers. Some good thoughts.' ..... “What we’re trying to do is create a revolution around analytics – getting…
From Schneier on Security
History of the L0pht
This Washington Post article uses the history of the L0pht to talk about the broader issues of Internet security....
From Putting People First
What do people really do at airports?
A few days ago researcher Ben Kraal gave a talk at UX Australia 2015 describing four years of research done by him and his colleagues on what people do in airports and what airport user experience really means. He just posted…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Silo Effect
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett Simon & Schuster – September 1, 2015 304 pages > Extract Abstract From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes…
From Putting People First
Anthropologists addressing burning issues on a hot planet
Our planet is becoming increasingly hot. We are facing climate change, social turmoil on local and global scales, and changing political and economic systems. The symposium “Why the World Needs Anthropologists” (27 September,…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Sir Antony Hoare — Theory and Practice
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
Algorithms for Solving Specific Problems
Fascinating piece, a high level cheat sheet, that lists a large number of common process and business questions, and which machine learning algorithm families are likely to be useful for improvement. Six families of algorithms…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2016
It’s that time again! Visit the website at https://www.aspirations.org/ for more information but I have included some details to get you thinking.
From the web site: Applications for the 2016 Award for Aspirations in Computing…From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Issues Call for Papers
The ISC High Performance conference has issued its Call for Papers. As Europe’s most renowned forum for high performance computing, ISC 2016 will take place June 20-22, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The post ISC 2016 Issues Call…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Magazine
Been a while since I have looked at this, but now that AI is reemerging with a vengeance, it is back on my list. Worth following to connect the research and practical side of AI. Some colleagues of mine will be publishing…