Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2016
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bug Reports
I saw the following tweet earlier today. Still earlier in the day I read a post on Mark Guzdials blog about Barriers to Stack Overflow Use for Females which had me thinking about how people ask for help on Stack Overflow.
…From insideHPC
Volkswagen Moves HPC Workloads to Verne Global in Iceland
Today Verne Global announced Volkswagen is moving more than 1 MW of high performance computing applications to the companys datacenter in Iceland. The company will take advantage of Verne Globals hybrid data center approach
The…
From insideHPC
ArrayFire v3.4 Parallel Computing Library Speeds Machine Learning
Today ArrayFire released the latest version of their ArrayFire open source library of parallel computing functions supporting CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU devices. ArrayFire v3.4 improves features and performance for applications in…
From insideHPC
Fortran for HPC
"Fortran has been proven to be extremely resilient to new developments that have appeared in other programming languages over the years. New versions continue to be available and associated with ANSI standards, so that an application…
From insideHPC
Video: The Deep Learning AI Revolution
In this video from GTC 2016 in Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveils technology that will accelerate the deep learning revolution that is sweeping across industries. AI computing will let us create machines that can learn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Social Interactions in a Teachable Agent
Today: Our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series this week, Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (9:30am CT, 7:30 am PT). Our presenter this week is Erin Walker from Arizona State University, who will"Designing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical View of Online Training
A critical view in a study of online training, aka MOOCs. Massively Open Online Courses. Not unexpected that those who use these methods do not get the same quality of education as individual, face to face teaching. Not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Explosion and Decision Making
In the HBR, useful thoughts on decisions, data and organization.
How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making
by Michael Schrage
Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully
polarizing operating…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Simulation IT Specialist at George Washington University
The George Washington University is seeking a Simulation IT Specialist in our Job of the Week.
GWs Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills (CLASS) Center provides one of the most innovative educational environments in the nation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Digital Assistant Revealed
First via an App called Allo, later in the fall via Google Home to provide a competitor to Amazon Alexa and Siri. Claims for better AI. In Adage: " ... Watch Out, Siri and Alexa: Google's New Digital Assistant Is Here …
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Swift versus Java : the bitset performance test
I claimed online that the performance of Apple’s Swift was not yet on par with Java. People asked me to back my claim with numbers. I decided to construct one test based on bitsets. A bitset is a fast data structure to implement…
From Phys.org Technology News
Dutch brothers in court for bitcoin mining with stolen power
Prosecutors in the Netherlands are seeking prison sentences for two brothers who they say used stolen electricity to power computers they used to mine bitcoins worth an estimated 200,000 euros ($223,500).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Wearable Shipments Soar
Does this mean that the Chinese culture is more prone to wearable devices? In Readwrite. " ... China may become the worlds largest wearable customer in 2017, if sales continue to surge as they have in 2016. In the past year…
From insideHPC
IDC to Launch New Exascale Tracking Study
In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, Earl Joseph describes IDC's new Exascale Tracking Study. The project will monitor the many Exascale projects around the world.
The post IDC to Launch New Exascale Tracking…
From Phys.org Technology News
Donaldson Co. jumps into beverage filtration with heavyweight customers
It took the Donaldson Co. two years, 40 scientists and millions to build a better mouse trap - or a microbe trap, to be exact - for beverage and yogurt manufacturers.
From Blog@Ubiquity
Can a Rubiks Cube Teach You Programming?
Em Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube in 1974 and it became the worlds most popular puzzle. The cube consists of 26 cubelets that move and turn when the faces are twisted. This cube (pictured above) is in a solved position … Read…
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at Singularity Container Solution for HPC
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity, a container solution for HPC and research environments. "Singularity allows a non-privileged user to swap out the operating system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Predictability of Demand
Discussion in Retailwire:
" ... According to RSRs benchmark report on omnichannel order profitability, unpredictable consumer demand is the top business challenge among retail respondents. After much consideration, I would offer…
From insideHPC
PSyclone Software Eases Weather and Climate Forecasting
"PSyclone was developed for the UK Met Office and is now a part of the build system for Dynamo, the dynamical core currently in development for the Met Offices next generation weather and climate model software. By generating…
From The Noisy Channel
Not expecting sympathy I made a mistake, and I own it.
But, in case it wasn’t clear in the post, I had invested a fair amount of time into the company before that last contact, and my…
From insideHPC
CloudLightning Report Looks at Barriers to HPC in the Cloud
The CloudLightning Project in Europe has published preliminary results from a survey on Barriers to Using HPC in the Cloud. "Trust in cloud computing would appear to be a significant barrier to adopting cloud computing for HPC…
From insideHPC
TYAN Adds Support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPUs
Today TYAN announced support and availability of the NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPU accelerators with the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Incorporating NVIDIAs state-of-the-art technologies allows TYAN to offer the exceptional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Casino Key Security
Interesting security application. Not new, but alternative applications of beacons. Note regulatory application.
Casino Prevents Security Violations Via Beacon Solution
Thanks to a system provided by Barcoding Inc. and Visybl…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperledger Project
Update brought to my attention. Have looked at the implications of smart contracts. Worth understanding.
Hyperledger Project
The Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Buys Machine Analytics Firm
Today, GE Digital, the companys software arm, said it acquired Meridium, Inc., a leading developer of asset performance management (APM) software for machine-heavy industries such as oil, gas, electricity and chemicals. The deal…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations
The Computing Community Consortium convened a round-table of industry and academic participants in July 2015 to better understand the landscape of industry-academic interaction, and to discuss possible actions that might be taken…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The State of Natural Language
Long ago I took a course on language theory. Have since remained intrigued about how the evolution of the field ultimately links to Natural Language Processing (NLP), and ultimately intelligence and how we perceive and interact…
From Schneier on Security
Tesla Model S Hack
Impressive remote ,a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3121999/security/researchers-demonstrate-remote-attack-against-tesla-model-s.html">hack of the Tesla Model S. Details. Video. The vulnerability is fixed. Remember, a modern…
From Phys.org Technology News
China court hears case over Tesla fatal crash
The father of a Chinese man killed while driving a Tesla sedan has sued the US electric car maker over an alleged fault with its Autopilot system, the family's attorney said Wednesday.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Warehouse Science from Georgia Institute of Technology
Brought to my attention. by colleague John J. Bartholdi III Georgia Institute of Technology
Warehouse Science
Mathematical models to optimize management of time and space in a warehouse
Free text book, with
Supplementary materials…