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 insideHPC
Quantum Names Molly Rector VP of Marketing
Today Quantum announced that Molly Rector has joined the company as vice president, marketing. Rector brings more than 15 years of enterprise storage experience to the role, including 12 years as a chief marketing officer most…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Rolls Out Magna 1015 OpenPOWER Servers
Based on the Barreleye platform design pioneered by Rackspace and promoted by the OpenPOWER Foundation and the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation, Penguin Magna 1015 targets memory and I/O intensive workloads, including high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and Programmatic Advertising
Interesting collaboration of players in advertising, retail, measurement and loyalty systems.
Nielsen Partners with I2C on Porgrammatic Venture
UK Nielsen is collaborating with Sainsbury's and Nectar card owner Aimia's partnership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clark.AI for Taking Call Notes
An interesting, relatively focused example, of an AI assistant capability. Once a few of these take off, people will expect this kind of assistance. Have not examined this yet.
Meet Clark.AI, the AI that automatically
Everyone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths About an AI Future
Brought to my attention.
Its Going to Kill Us! and Other Myths About the Future
of Artificial Intelligence by Robert D Atkinson.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, June 2016
The past decade has seen many important…
From insideHPC
Job Posting: Senior HPC Linux Systems Administrator
Southern Methodist University is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator for High Performance Computing (HPC) to build, maintain, operate and manage HPC systems. The individual in this position will have shared support responsibility…
From Schneier on Security
Periscope ATM Skimmers
"Periscope skimmers" are the most sophisticated kind of ATM skimmers. They are entirely inside the ATM, meaning they're impossible to notice. They're been found in the US....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 September 2016
The big news last week was the launch of the CSforAll Consortium with over 180 members committed to K12 CS Education. That was not all I picked up last week though. Im pleased to have a good bunch of links to share with you …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debating the Rules of Brainstorming
In Fastcompany: Still a debate. The key may be to just do it at all with as many participants as possible.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assertiveness
I like this series, which also links to related research. This Is How To Be More Assertive: 3 Powerful Secrets From Research. In particular in this edition: "How to Say No." Everyone needs that advice. I do.
From insideHPC
Video: Chapel Productive, Multiresolution Parallel Programming
"Engineers at Cray noted that the HPC community was hungry for alternative parallel programming languages and developed Chapel as part of our response. The reaction from HPC users so far has been very encouragingmost would be…
From insideHPC
Dell Powers New HPC Cluster at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Today the University of Alabama at Birmingham unveiled a new supercomputer powered by Dell. With a peak performance of 110 Teraflops, the system is 10 times faster than its predecessor. With their new Dell EMC HPC cluster, UAB…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Cyber Effect
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The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online Dr. Mary Aiken Spiegel & Grau, August 2016 400 pages A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel…
From Putting People First
Better decisions by design: applied behavioral science
Can we design a decision aid that gives us health information we need and counters our biases so that we end up more knowledgeable and confident in our preference? This is the challenge that Artefact, together with Group Health…
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic on the home of the future
Jasmina Tesanovic (previously) and Bruce Sterling did a residency at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD (San Diego, USA), working with the students on design fiction and futurism. The residency culminated…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2016 / Spotlight on Preethi Srinivas: HCI Researcher Improving Coordination and Communication in Hospital ICUs
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes place September 18-23, 2016. Abel, Fields, Turing and Nevanlinna…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apples Continues Moves in VR
Continued interest by big players in Virtual and Augmented reality moves. Lets see the big workplace applications.
Apple continues hiring augmented and virtual reality experts
By Jacob Kastrenakes
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been hinting…
From Phys.org Technology News
Technology at Paralympics sparks advances and controversy
Here's how good technology for prosthetic running blades has become.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Storytelling and Process
Though I have come from a storytelling (marketing) company, its still rarely thought of in the realm of engineers and analysts. Because it rises too far apart from data and model? Same problem exists with really trying to…
From updated sporadically at best
Five Things More Important About a Research Project Than Being in Love
I recently talked to an early PhD student trying to decide between two projects: one they were in love with, and one with a much longer list of "pros" including "more likely to go somewhere" and "the faculty involved have experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Judging the Algorithm
Excellent piece. I have been involved in several projects which look at the correctness of algorithmic methods. One point to make where a distinction is necessary. A Black Box model implies the details of how and/or why…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Disruptive Technologies Panel
In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, a select panel of HPC vendors describe their disruptive technologies for high performance computing. Vendors include: Altair, SUSE, ARM, AMD, Ryft, Red Hat, Cray, and Hewlett…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at New HPC Power & Cooling Technologies
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting new developments in HPC Power & Cooling including: the Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC that is demonstrating the advantages HVDC racks. Plus, Aquila's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Learns from Google Glass Failure
Well put. Gaming will always be there, but real, practical uses will open many more possibilities. I had two different applications for Glass posed to me, but got no support from Google to develop these. Make sure the applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Used for Contract Management
Interesting use of the smart contract idea by very digital companies. The example of its use and value is very useful. Note the Open Source use of Hyperledger.
SINGAPORE - 16 Sep 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Summit on Computer Science Education
This week’s White House Summit on Computer Science for All celebrated progress made in support of the U.S. Presidents initiative to provide every student the opportunity to learn computer science and featured announcements of…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid on Japanese Television
I got this video from PZ Myers's blog. I know absolutely nothing about it. 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
Getting Visual in the Smart City
Analysis of NYC Yellow Cab Taxi data Posted by SupSta
In DSC, a visualized analysis of Yellow Taxi Cab data about NYC using R. Gives an example of what can be done. Is this useful for Uber? For an understanding of what a…
From insideHPC
NREL to Lead for Wind Power Research for Exascale Computing Project
"This project will make a substantial contribution to advancing wind energy," said Steve Hammond, NREL's Director of Computational Science and the principal investigator on the project. "It will advance our fundamental understanding…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Bridge-Hand Generation Software
Interesting: Roughly three weeks later, there is a operation program available to crack ACBL hand records. Given three consecutive boards, all the remaining boards for that session can be determined. The program can be easily…