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
Podcast: Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC Demonstrates HVDC Efficiencies
Engineers of the Hikari HVDC power feeding system predict it will save 15 percent compared to conventional systems. "The 380 volt design reduces the number of power conversions when compared to AC voltage systems," said James…
From insideHPC
CFD in the Aerospace Industry Past, Present, and Future
Doug Ball presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "Doug Ball served as enterprise director for computational fluid dynamics within Boeings Enterprise Technology Strategy, providing strategic guidance and manages
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From insideHPC
Flow Science Partners with FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS for Optimizing Simulation
"The integration of FLOW-3D with CAESES creates a powerful design environment for our users. FLOW-3Ds inherent ease of modifying geometry is even more potent when combined with an optimization tool like CAESES, which specializes…
From insideHPC
DDN Names Robert Triendl SVP Global Sales, Marketing and Field Services
DDN has a long history of technological innovation, a great team and a phenomenal market opportunity, said Triendl. I am excited to help realize what I believe is tremendous potential to extend our unmatched delivery of performance…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Wireless Tire-Pressure Monitoring System
Research paper: "Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities of In-Car Wireless Networks: A Tire Pressure Monitoring System Case Study," by Ishtiaq Rouf, Rob Miller, Hossen Mustafa, Travis Taylor, Sangho Oh, Wenyuan Xu, Marco Gruteser…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Tools for Monte Carlo Simulation
Via Sam Savage. Industrial Monte carlo simulation was commonly used in our enterprise as an analytic method. . It has been a method around for a very long time. A favorite of mine because it can be used to understand process…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Integrates Weather APIs into Bluemix
We were early users of weather data in retail and supply chain analytics, this would have been very useful. The cognitive links in particular are intriguing. Note this includes both data and forecasting capabilities from the…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Beyond Programmers Programs
There is a difference between computer science and software engineering. There are some big and important differences. There is of course a lot of overlap. In any course advertised as computer science there is some tension about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Method Inventor
In the Pennsylvania Gazette: Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Cars Interacting with People
Ultimately all systems interact with people. Of course a driverless car has an interaction that implies levels of safety. Does it blow its horn, or display a scrolling sign? What are the implications?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science-Because it is Magic
Seems like a number of people have been blogging about computer science for everyone this week. This may well be related to this weeks Computer Science For All Summit at the White House and the announcement of the new CS For…
From insideHPC
Loyola University Maryland to Build HPC Cluster with NSF Grant
Loyola University Maryland has been awarded a $280,120 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build an HPC cluster that will exponentially expand research opportunities for faculty and students across disciplines…
From insideHPC
MathWorks Release 2016b Makes it Easier to Work with Big Data
"Companies are awash in data, but struggle to take advantage of it to build better predictive models and gain deeper insights, says David Rich, MATLAB marketing director, MathWorks. With R2016b, weve lowered the bar to allow
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From insideHPC
Aquila Launches Liquid Cooled OCP Server Platform
"The drive towards Exascale computing requires cooling the next generation of extremely hot CPUs, while staying within a manageable power envelope, said Bob Bolz, HPC and Data Center Business development at Aquila. Liquid cooling…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: For AMD, Its Time to ROCm!
"AMD has been away from the HPC space for a while, but now they are coming back in a big way with an open software approach to GPU computing. The Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) was born from the Boltzmann Initiative announced…
From insideHPC
Co-design for Data Analytics And Machine Learning
The big data analytics market has seen rapid growth in recent years. Part of this trend includes the increased use of machine learning (Deep Learning) technologies. Indeed, machine learning speed has been drastically increased…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The memory usage of STL containers can be surprising
C++ remains one of the most popular languages today. One of the benefits of C++ is the built-in STL containers offering the standard data structures like vector, list, map, set. They are clean, well tested and well documented…
From insideHPC
Better Software For HPC through Code Modernization
Vectorization and threading are critical to using such innovative hardware product such as the Intel Xeon Phi processor. Using tools early in the design and development processor that identify where vectorization can be used
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From Schneier on Security
Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode
Remember the San Bernadino killer's iPhone, and how the FBI maintained that they couldn't get the encryption key without Apple providing them with a universal back door? Many of us computer-security experts said that they were…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Frig Cams
What we have all been looking for in the Smarthome? Probably not, but another example where cheap simple cams can be be added to an attentive systems as part of the IoT.
Cheap Fridge Cam
" .... Smarter used to show to launch their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Unilever Consumer Connection
Unilever advertises a number of their products through Supermarket News called The Consumer Connection. To help "Unilever Advance Health, Well-Being and Category Growth".
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Robotic Things
I remember an effort that sought to share the learning of robots, this is different:
The latest Internet of Things (IoT) sub-segment to emerge is the Internet of Robotic Things, where intelligent robots operate with relative autonomy…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
White House Summit on #CSforAll & CS for All Consortium
Yesterday the White House hosted a major summit on Computer Science for All. I wasnt there myself but was able to watch much of it via live streaming. It was a pretty inspiring event. Ruthe Farmer, Senior Policy Advisor for Tech…
From BLOG@CACM
Geek Gene, Teacher and Student Self-Efficacy, and the Problem of Python's Self: A Report on ICER 2016
A report on ICER 2016 paper awardees, CS teaching and grading, student self-confidence, and the problems of using Python.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Submits Comments to Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments to the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The comments address the challenges and possible approaches to strengthening cybersecurity in the digital…
From ACM on Huffington Post
Why Computer Science Education in K-12 Settings Is Becoming Increasingly Essential
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Chevy Generating 'Positivity'
Anther example of the text analysis of social media streams ... although the resulting measure seems quite general. In AdAge:
Chevy and IBM Will Rate Your Social Media 'Positivity' By E.J. Schultz
" ... The global campaign…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu's Paddle
Via O'Reilly:
Baidu's Paddle
Baidu's deep learning framework, Paddle (PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning), has been open sourced.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing Traffic with Reinforcement Learning
Our group looked at related problems in traffic and industry. In Engineering.com
Machine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic by Michael Alba
It's a problem we can all relate to: sitting in traffic and waiting for a green…
From insideHPC
Huawei and ESI to Collaborate on HPC for Manufacturing
ESI Group has signed agreement with Huawei to collaborate on on High Performance Computing and cloud computing for industrial manufacturing solutions for customers in China and worldwide. "The ongoing digital transformation of…