Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft too, is Emphasizing Voice
Voice is also much beyond just commands. It is that, and conversation, augmentation, memory, learning, expectation, value building, persuasion and more ...Microsoft's Future Involves A Lot of Talkingby Jonathan Vanian in Fortune…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Dash Moves Ahead, Usage Data
Adage reports data on the share of Amazon Dash button pushes, via 1010Data. Article has other interesting data." ... In reporting that consumer packaged goods e-commerce sales had soared 42% last year, 1010data credited Dash…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where The Jobs Are – 2016 Edition
The following is a guest blog post from Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Founding Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (2007-2013). The 2016…
From insideHPC
Intel Rolls Out New Xeon Processors & 3D NAND SSDs
Today Intel announced new technologies, investments and industry collaborations that make it easier for any business to harness the power of the cloud. The news featured the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family …
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Releases Lustre 2.8.0 for LUG 2016 Conference
Today the Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) community announced the release of Lustre 2.8.0, the fastest and most scalable parallel file system. OpenSFS, founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, is the premier non-profit…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Spike those “Luddite” Awards: Not all innovation is good
Luddites attacking powered looms, 1812 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published its annual “Luddite Awards” for 2014 and 2015. These would-be rogues galleries target organizations…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Moves HPC Forward with Broadwell Family of Xeon Processors
In this podcast, Rich Brueckner interviews Hugo Saleh, Director of Marketing for the Intel High Performance Computing Platform Group. They discuss the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, based upon the Broadwell…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multimodal Robotic Drones
From the University of PA Grasp lab, in IEEE Spectrum. Bimodal, here meaning it can walk or fly. Applications that make sense? Bi specialization for specific environments or needs." ... Some of the most versatile and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google is Approaching AI
Its not all just about winning the game 'Go', but how an increasing number of components can be used to address performance of cognitive intelligence. Still a challenge, but we are approaching solutions. I suggest linking these…
From insideHPC
Video: Huawei Powers Efficient and Scalable HPC
"Huawei focuses on R&D of IT infrastructure, cooling solutions, software integration, and provides end-to-end HPC solution by building ecosystems with partners. Huawei help customers from different sectors and fields, solving…
From insideHPC
Allinea Taps the Power of GPUs for High Performance Code
Today Allinea announced plans to showcase its software tools for developing and optimizing high performance code at the GPU Technology Conference April 4-7 in San Jose. The company will highlight the best practices required to…
From Phys.org Technology News
Should we 3D print a new Palmyra?
The destruction at the ancient city of Palmyra symbolises the suffering of the Syrian people at the hands of the terrorist group known as Islamic State (IS). Palmyra was a largely Roman city located at a desert oasis on a vital…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ken Calvert Appointed as NSF CISE/CNS Division Director
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community to announce the appointment of Ken…
From Schneier on Security
ISIS Encryption Opsec
Tidbits from the New York Times: The final phase of Mr. Hame's training took place at an Internet cafe in Raqqa, where an Islamic State computer specialist handed him a USB key. It contained CCleaner, a program used to erase…
From insideHPC
Reducing the Time to Science with Efficient Clouds
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Dr Bruno Silva from The Francis Crick Institute in London writes that new cloud technologies will make the cloud even more important to scientific computing. "The…
From Writing
Infrastructure as code: running microservices on AWS using Docker, Terraform, and ECS
Docker and Amazon ECS are a powerful combination. In previous posts, I showed how to use Docker to package your code and how to manually deploy Docker containers on Amazon ECS. In this post, I’m sharing the slides and code from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Customer Reviews
In HBS Working Knowledge: On the issue of managing customer reviews. I discover that I have personally started to read more of them and considering them as a group.
From Schneier on Security
Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities
The FBI's legal battle with Apple is over, but the way it ended may not be good news for anyone. Federal agents had been seeking to compel Apple to break the security of an iPhone 5c that had been used by one of the San Bernardino…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Can Smart Homes go Mainstream?
A look at the challenge. In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... Amazon’s popular Echo device powered by an artificial intelligence personal assistant called Alexa has rekindled hopes that the smart home — where everything from entertainment…
From insideHPC
Jeff Squyres on Building Community at OpenHPC
"As a community, we are excited about enabling HPC for everyone. If OpenHPC can really make it so easy to install HPC systems that more people join the ecosystem – as users, system administrators, resource managers, or developers…
From insideHPC
European Research Infrastructure Launched for Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is developing a shared European research infrastructure with the aim of examining the organization of the brain using detailed analyses and simulations and thus combating neurological and psychiatric…
From insideHPC
Tutorial on the EasyBuild Framework
Kenneth Hoste from the University Ghent presented this tutorial at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "One unnecessarily time-consuming task for HPC user support teams is installing software for users. Due to the advanced nature…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media is the New Brand Discovery
Interesting changing statistics. In Retailwire: Is social media taking over brand discovery?" ... Word-of-mouth (62 percent) edges TV ads (61 percent) and online ads (61 percent) as the leading way by which teens hear about…
From insideHPC
PSC Powers 3D-Reconstruction of Excitatory Visual Neuron Wiring
With help from the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, an international team of researchers has published the largest network to date of connections between neurons in the cortex, where high-level processing occurs, and have revealed…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion on Exascale Computing
In this video from the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on Exascale computing. “Exascale computing will uniquely provide knowledge leading…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Visual of the Buying Cycle
Nice graphic of the process by Hank Barnes of Gartner. Visualizing it is a great start to understanding it. Would be very useful if it became a standard for talking about Buying process. Would like to see it linked to specific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualized Marketing
In the Teradata Blog: Good view of the topic from a data perspective. " ... Make the Right Connection … Every Time ... So what is individualized marketing, and what does it mean for you? It means that you must ensure that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM CIO on Agile
The CIO Of IBM On How To Create An Agile EnterpriseJacob Morgan What this episode is about and why you should care:When you are leading one of the world’s largest organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees you…
From Phys.org Technology News
The unfulfilled potential of the Danube as a transportation route
Europe's rivers could be used to transport goods much more efficiently. In order to do this, however, the existing international regulations would have to be implemented consistently.
From Putting People First
Six more UX-related articles on PMLive
PMLiVE continues to inform us about UX approaches and developments in the pharmaceutical industry (older series of articles here): Why health psychology should inform pharma strategyv Ella Nuttall – 30 March 2016 We asked Ella…