Communications of the ACM
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November 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
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From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG and the Smart Home
Smart Homes: The Next CPG Battleground? Recall some of the examples we have seen that bring buying to exactly the right place in the home. By touch or voice. Tag links below. The domestication of retail?by Don Scheibenreif…
From insideHPC
Video: IBM Platform LSF in the Cloud at SC15
"We're now providing LSF in the Cloud as a service to our customers because their workloads are getting larger over time, they're converging-- HPC is not converging with Analytics and even tough they provision for their average…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Trends looks at Holiday Toy Shopping
In Forbes. Looks fairly obvious, but it is the specific forecast number that make a difference to the elements of the supply chain involved.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC and Big Data Regional Hubs’ Industry-Academic Collaboration
Today the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announces the launch of an Industry-Academic Collaboration with the partnership of the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs). The goal of this program is to catalyze and foster…
From Schneier on Security
A History of Privacy
This New Yorker article traces the history of privacy from the mid 1800s to today: As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and…
From Putting People First
Aging the technoscape | Anthropology & Aging
Aging the technoscape Do technologies like chairs and walkers have a place in our imagination of the technoscape? How might this image help us to think differently about Mauss’s concept of “techniques of the body” from the perspective…
From Putting People First
Aging the technoscape | Anthropology & Aging
Aging the technoscape Do technologies like chairs and walkers have a place in our imagination of the technoscape? How might this image help us to think differently about Mauss’s concept of “techniques of the body” from the perspective…
From insideHPC
Towards the Convergence of HPC and Big Data — Data-Centric Architecture at TACC
Dan Stanzione from TACC presented this talk at the DDN User Group at SC15. "TACC is an advanced computing research center that provides comprehensive advanced computing resources and support services to researchers in Texas and…
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What I Learned from Becoming A "Biologist"
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From insideHPC
Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference
The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 has issued its Call for Participation. The event will take place Feb 24-25, 2016 on the Stanford University campus at the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center. "The HPC Advisory…
From insideHPC
Video: VMware HPC Virtualization Enables Research as Service
"We have enabled virtualization for HPC but it's important to bring the benefits of virtualization to end researchers in a way they can use it, right? So what we have done is we have created the solution plus VMware High-Performance…
From insideHPC
Three German Instititutes Deploy NEC’s SX-ACE Vector Supercomputers
Today NEC Corporation announced that SX-ACE vector supercomputers delivered to the University of Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart have begun operating and contributing to research…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Takes Liquid Cooling to the Next Level at SC15
"CoolIT Systems Inc. is the global leader in Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) for the Data Center and Desktop markets. As an experienced innovator with 50 patents and more than 2 million liquid cooling units deployed, CoolIT…
From insideHPC
HPC Helps Drive Weather Forecasting
The computational requirements for weather forecasting are driven by the need for higher resolution models for more accurate and extended forecasts. In addition, more physics and chemistry processes are included in the models…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Foundry Program with Competitors
More background from CPG giant Unilever on how they handle interactions with startups. here about their Foundry interactions. Note in particular their connection to competitive companies. Volume of connection is impressive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slowing Move to Digital
Marketers say trade partners are holding them back from shifting TV spend to digitalMarketers from some of the world’s biggest FMCG brands including Johnson & Johnson and Pernod Ricard have suggested that their shift in marketing…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalysis of Algebraic Eraser
Algebraic Eraser is a public-key key-agreement protocol that's patented and being pushed by a company for the Internet of Things, primarily because it is efficient on small low-power devices. There's a new cryptanalytic attack…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 November 2015
Last week was busy on a personal level with some great family time. I even got to babysit my 14-month old grandson while everyone else when shopping. Double win. Time with the grandson and avoiding the shopping. Professionally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Baysian Networks Research eBook
New Book Release:from Bayesian Networks & BayesiaLabA Practical Introduction for Researchers By Stefan Conrady and Lionel Jouffe382 pages, 433 illustrationsOur long-awaited book is now available for free download. It was released…
From Computational Complexity
One more sign that a Journal is bogus. Or are they?
I went to an AMS conference with my High School Student Naveen (who presented this paper) and an ugrad from my REU program Nichole (who presented this paper). Note that this is a math conference- low prestige, mostly unrefereed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Amazon Inspector for Security Compliance
Amazon previews a compliance and security service. Nice idea, have heard related ideas suggested. Security certification approach. Indemnification? " .... Andy Jassy, svp at Amazon Web Services, positions the service in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Assistance at Work
Excellent slides by Hamid R Motahari, of IBM Almaden, about the idea of a cognitive assistant in the workplace. Includes one of my favorite topics, how such systems can work within a formally understood business process. Very…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emphasis for Simpilifed Analytics
Blog of interest. An attempt to simplify news coming out of analytics. Good idea. But .... Its not always about Big Data. But it is all about improving business process. Lets emphasize that.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Small Species in our Lives
Brought to my attention, somewhat specialized, but links to some of my work and interest in Botany, horticulture and agriculture. It is also useful to see unexpected linkages between sciences. " ... Rob Dunn and the scientists…
From insideHPC
Rambus Advances Smart Data Acceleration Research Program with LANL
Last week at SC15, Rambus announced that it has partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for evaluating elements of its Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program. The SDA platform has been deployed at LANL to…
From insideHPC
Share Your Machine Learning Story to Inspire Others
Baidu's Chief Scientist Andrew Ng has started a Social Media campaign for inspiring people to study Machine Learning. "Regardless of where you learned Machine Learning, if it has had an impact on you or your work, please share…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service
Though I came out of an enterprise that was largely an Oracle shop, I have been only minimally involved with them since then. Now I see that Oracle and Larry himself are out promoting deep analytics and cloud data visualization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Many Dimensions of Big Data
Paul Hofmann, longtime correspondent, on the many dimensions of Big Data. Always provocative on how data and viz can be used in business, " ... As storage gets ever cheaper, many organizations are collecting and keeping unprecedented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample Beautiful Science Visualizations
In Visualnews. A little less about data visualization, more about visualizing science in general. Another example of something to enthuse the scientist within you, and scientists of any age you know. Pass it on to your children…