Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Sanitizers
Johnson & Johnson's hand sanitizer Purell is of course getting a good ride recently. They have special news and related information. Should they be playing other social media as well? None that I can see. Out of stocks an issue…
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: deposits, stalking horses, Bull(s), and parachutes in the SGI Rackable
One of the legal documents from the proceeding today in bankruptcy court is making its way out to employees. Rackable CEO Mark Barrenchea filed an affidavit in conjunction with the ruling affirming that Rackable is a “good faith…
From insideHPC
Rackable Featured on CNBC Tech
Rackable Systems was featured on yesterday’s CNBC Tech Effect news spot.
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: SGI notifying customers that the Rackable acquisition has been
SGI has begun notifying customers that the judge in its bankruptcy case approved the sale of SGI to Rackable during the hearing today in district court. The deal and the remaining paperwork are set to complete on May 11. Some…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Attracting Young Women and Minorities To Computing
As part of my work on the CSTA Leadership Cohort, a Southern New Jersey Shore Chapter of CSTA has been created. On Tuesday, March 26th Dr. David Klappholz from Stevens Institute of Technology spoke to our chapter at its monthly…
From insideHPC
Bull reports Q1, growth in
Bull is not listed on any of the American stock exchanges, which means that they have different rules about what news they have to share with investors. In particular I could not find the words “profit” or “loss” in their earnings…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom Among World's Most Influential
I see that Time Magazine has declared sensory marketing expert Martin Lindstrom, author of the recent best-seller Buyology, is among the world's hundred most influential people. Had a most of the day meeting with him and Buyology…
From Putting People First
NESTA
NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, just announced that it has undertaken research which leads it to believe the UK is unprepared for ageing. Just under a third of all pensioners live on or close to…
From insideHPC
PSC Debuts Dynamic Science
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has debuted a new dyanmic science teaching tool geared towards high school and undergraduate students.
From insideHPC
Court docket for SGI
SGI is in Judge Martin Glenn’s courtroom this morning. Here is the relevant part of Judge Glenn’s docket today
10 am : Silicon Graphics, Inc. RE: Doc #177; Objection to Motion 10 am: Silicon Graphics, Inc. RE: Doc #245; Notice…From Putting People First
Bill Moggridge wins Cooper-Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award
Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, which recognise excellence across a variety of disciplines. The 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award - given…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-30
From insideHPC
IBM
The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has written up a detailed account
From insideHPC
Intel tops EPA green power rankings, IBM, HP, Sun
Timothy Prickett Morgan has an article at The Register today about the EPA’s latest quarterly ranking of organizations who report their renewable power consumption The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working with an organization…
From insideHPC
More free computational science courses, deadline May
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (one of the Blue Waters partners) is announcing a May 18 deadline for application to two free computational science courses to be offered this summer by the Virtual School…
From Putting People First
A selection of CHI2009 papers
Today I spent some time looking through the CHI 2009 papers. Here is a personal selection (and you need an ACM membership to access them): A comparative study of speech and dialed input voice interfaces in rural India Neil Patel…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Addresses the National Academies
On Monday, President Obama spoke before the National Academies during the National Academy of Sciences' Annual meeting. Both audio and video of the address are available from the Academies, and from the White House. A transcript…
From insideHPC
EnSight CFD
This week visualization software provider CEI, maker of EnSight, announced the launch of EnSight CFD This new CFD visualization product has an interface specifically tailored to the needs of CFD engineers, featuring improved…
From insideHPC
Green design can add to costs, but that isn
From Enterprise IT Planet’s weekly news roundup, a few items of green news that you can drop at your next center staff meeting
IT hosting company The Planet unveiled a new facility in North Dallas that features a green design…From insideHPC
Obama sets goal for largest R&D investment in US
Peter Harsha covered this a couple days ago at the CRA’s Policy Blog, but I managed to miss it then. The President used a speech before the members of the National Academy of Sciences today to reiterate his commitment to boosting…
From insideHPC
Sun reports Q3, posts
A lot went wrong for Sun’s business in the third quarter: Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, and compared with $3.220 billion…
From insideHPC
Behind Blue
My pal Bill Kramer (who I just interviewed as part of a project I’m doing that I’ll talk more about in a week or so) has center stage in a video NCSA just released about the Blue Waters project. Something I didn’t realize until…
From Putting People First
Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
Tim McCoy of Cooper thinks it is, at least as a service offering and a career path. “IDEO
From Putting People First
Social networking sites as building tools
anthrodesign is a Yahoo! group of (currently 1693) individuals interested in the role of applied anthropology in the corporate, public sector, and medical contexts. A recent contribution by Russ Nelson of Conifer Research is…
From Putting People First
User-centred design improves workflows in radiology
From an article on eHealthNews: “The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for Computable Knowledge
Stephen Wolfram posts a short timeline of a Quest for Computable Knowledge. Certainly some interesting mentions. Includes things like Wolfram's New Kind of Science (NKS). That thick work is intriguing, but I have yet to see…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen on Global Media
A very good pdf report on global social media from Nielsen, worth the read.
From CSDiary
Tom Mitchell Named CMU University Professor
An announcement sent out earlier today by Randy Bryant, Dean of the CMU School of Computer Science: I
From insideHPC
Cray reports Q1, posts
Supercomputing stalwart Cray Inc. reported results today for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. From the release Cray Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. Revenue for the quarter was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Opens Up
I see that Facebook has released a largely open API. What this means is that you will start to see many additional parties writing applications for Facebook. This will add some of the additional creativity you see adding to…