Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Short History of Big Data
Overview by Bernard Marr. Really about data systems in general. Not enough about the actual distinctions between data Big or otherwise, because there are not that many. Lots about volume, too little about analytics needed.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Palindrome Games at Bletchley Park
Brought to my attention in the Language Log, Which points to a much longer piece on Palindrome construction games played by the code breakers at Bletchley Park, as shown in the recent movie about Alan Turing and the Enigma…
From insideHPC
Saul Perlmutter presents: Data, Computation, and the Fate of the Universe
"I think it’s a very interesting period for human cosmology because it’s a golden age in which every ten years we learn breathtaking new parts of the story. We have never before been able to do that in human history – to have…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at Radley James
Radley James in New York is seeking HPC Software and Systems Engineers in our Job of the Week.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploiting the non Randomness of People
Fascinating piece in the Wolfram blog on methods to exploit the inability of people to create random patterns, using the example of the 'Where's Waldo' search game. Nicely done analysis using Wolfram analytical software. Applications…
From Putting People First
[Book] Netnography Redefined
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Netnography Redefined by Robert V Kozinets (York University, Canada) Sage Publications, 288 pages July 2015 Social media and the internet are rich, fertile sources of data for social researchers, though online data offer both…
From Putting People First
Open Policy Making: A people-centred approach to transform UK local services
Open Policy Making is about recognising that top down thinking and decision making no longer can deliver the range of services that people and communities have come to expect in a connected society, writes William Barker, Head…
From Putting People First
[Book] Doing Sensory Ethnography
Doing Sensory Ethnography by Sarah Pink Sage Publications Paperback, 232 pages Second edition, February 2015 Between 2010 – 2014, a team of UK anthropologists, engineers and designers worked towards a deeper understanding of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Sketching and Coding
From IEEE: A favorite topic, how do we take the informal sketches of a non graphic artist and convert them into knowledge with precision? See also post on CogSketch.How Software Designers Interact with Sketches at the Whiteboard…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communicate by Flashing Each Other
Scientists are attaching cameras to Humboldt squid to watch them communicate with each other. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From BLOG@CACM
What Are The Best STEM Careers in 2015?
According to U.S. News & World Report: Money, the top four STEM careers (and nine of the top 20) are all in computing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Data Science Tutorials
Have mentioned this resource before, but I passed it on to a colleague today and see it is worth mentioning again. A resource of key short tutorials for data scientists. Technical details for beginners and all practitioners…
From Schneier on Security
Data and Goliath Book Tour
Over the next two weeks, I am speaking about my new book -- Data and Goliath, if you've missed it -- in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Seattle, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. Stop by to get your book signed, or just to say…
From insideHPC
Video: DEEP-ER Project Reaches for Exascale
In the video, the DEEP-ER project paves the way to energy-efficient Exascale computing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Data Usage
Statement of a growing problem. Recently saw this in a project. More about the kind of and completeness of data rather than the volume of data."As the volume and complexity of data barraging businesses from all angles increases…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fembots and the Gender of AI
Interesting piece on the presented gender of AI and notably robotics as it is delivered today. Why is this often presented as female? I think this will change as the idea extends more broadly into our everyday office and home…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Deep Learning – Unreasonably Effective
"Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence. At the 2015 GPU Technology Conference…
From insideHPC
HPC News Roundup for February 27, 2015
As we head into the busy event season we like to call HPC March Madness, the past week has had its share of notable news items that didn't make it to the Features page.
From insideHPC
ISC High Performance Announces Hans Meuer Award
"We are pleased to announce that ISC is introducing the Hans Meuer Award to honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference’s research paper committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Megatrends and IT
In CIOInsight. A good survey on the influence of tech megatrends on IT. Obvious examples like Bringing your own devices in the enterprise.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spontaneous Discovery
Thoughtful piece work a scan from the Tom Peters Blog:Surprise, Transformation & Excellence through “Spontaneous Discovery”:A Personal Saga, this is a revision of an antique—but arguably more relevant than ever (PDF version…
From Putting People First
Steve Portigal’s insider view of corporate user research
The acclaimed UX researcher Steve Portigal hosts the DollarsToDonuts podcast series [iTunes | Twitter] where he talks with the people who lead user research in their (corporate) organization. Six programs so far: Carol Rossi,…
From Writing
How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?
My answer on Quora to How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?:
From Computational Complexity
Selecting the Correct Oracle
After my post last week on the Complexity accepts, a friend of Shuichi Hirahara send Shuichi an email saying that I was interested in his paper. Shuichi contacted me, sent me his paper and we had a few good emails back and forth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Big Data Revolution is Big Data at work.
Just received a preview copy of: Big Data Revolution: What farmers, doctors and insurance agents teach us about discovering big data patterns by Rob Thomas and Patrick McSharry. To be published next week.Will read shortly."…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Research Opportunities in Europe
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released two Dear Colleague Letters (DCL) describing research opportunities in Europe. Dear Colleague Letter: Research Opportunities in Europe for NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellows…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Favorite Data Science Books from Kirk Borne
Correspondent Kirk Borne posts a selection of his favorite books on Data Science, Machine Learning and Analytics. Taking a look now. Met Kirk at a recent conference and was impressed by his mingling of the learnings of physical…
From insideHPC
Spanish Meteorological Procures 168 Teraflop Bull Supercomputer
A new supercomputer, provided by the French company Bull, will be predicting accurately whether or not the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
From insideHPC
DownUnder GeoSolutions Dives Into Liquid Submersion Cooling
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its CarnotJet System at the Australian geosciences company DownUnder GeoSolutions.
From insideHPC
Interview: E4 Computer Engineering Gears Up for ISC High Performance
The E4 Computer Engineering team has garnered a solid reputation in Europe with high performance computing solutions for customers like CERN. To learn more, we caught up with Simone Tinti, who heads up the E4 HPC Team.