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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - April 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 4)
Items in the April issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content. You will need to be a member of ACM or a subscriber to CACM in order to …
From Apophenia
upcoming conferences/talks
Now that I'm working at Microsoft Research, I'm doing a bit more public/academic speaking, but I've done a terrible job of announcing where and when. So let me take a moment to list some of the upcoming talks in the next four…
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: Rumors that two bidders survived the SGI
Industry sources say that only two bidders made it through the diligence process willing to submit a bid: Rackable, and a group of creditors, and that Rackable has the winning bid at this point. We posted at the beginning of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ariely on Experimentation and Measurement
In SASCom Voices: Dan Ariely on experimentation and measurement. Always an important issue.
From insideHPC
Cray Expands Reseller List for CX-1
Cray has announced that it has expanded its global set of resellers of the popular CX-1 deskside unit. We are pleased with the progress we are making with the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer. Expanding our worldwide reseller…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-29
From Putting People First
Book
The Plenitude Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff Rich Gold Foreword by John Maeda MIT Press, September 2007 We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every…
From Putting People First
Research on how teenagers use news sites
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Foundation has published a report on a study on how teenagers use news sites. “The NAA Foundation and the Media Management Center at Northwestern University have teamed up to explore…
From insideHPC
Panasas and Dell Partner on Life
Panasas announced today a new partnership with Dell aimed at developing integrated compute and storage solutions for the life-sciences market.
From Putting People First
Prepaid economies and bottom of the pyramid research in Helsinki
Recent Experientia collaborator and emerging markets expert Niti Bhan, who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland (where we met her yesterday), is involved with several interesting user-centred research projects on Bottom of…
From insideHPC
ISC keynotes focus on lean brain management, next generation HPC, and
The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (held this year June 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany) has announced its slate of four keynote addresses Tuesday, June 23: Andreas
From CSDiary
A New Era in Support for Science Research
Two days ago, President Obama set the remarkably ambitious goal of spending 3% of the US gross domestic product on basic and applied science research. If achieved, this level of investment would be the greatest in US history.…
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged him by releasing Google Public Data today. Catty? Perhaps…
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged him by releasing Google Public Data today. Catty? Perhaps…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Quitters Grow
According to Nielsen News Wire only about 40% of the system's users comes back the following month. More stats at the site with overdone curve fitting. Twitter has had big growth in the last year, but this kind of stat may…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Coupons with Biometrics
Overview of work done by Neurofocus on the reaction of consumers to coupons and promotions. Multiple biometrics techniques used. Analyzing print and online coupons. In the Neuroscience marketing blog.
From insideHPC
Apple Picks up Graphics
MSN Money via the Inquirer: Apple has hired graphics wizard Bob Drebin away from AMD’s graphics group.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
End the University as We Know It: My Commentary
Mark C. Taylor is quickly becoming famous for his New York Times piece End the University as We Know It.
From insideHPC
Power down for the planet winner
Back in February we covered a challenge issued by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to encourage universities reduce pollution by powering down campus computers. From that story
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Announces New PCAST Members
Yesterday President Obama announced the full membership of his President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). This is an advisory body that works with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Making its
eWeek has posted an article on the latest progress made within the camp of Penguin Computing.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-28
I read this book by Simson Garfinkel when it first came out. It's still very relevant. At its core, it asserts that treating identity…
From insideHPC
PRACE Offers Summertime Porting
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is sponsoring two summer workshops to be held at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland as part of a series of code-porting workshops the group is presenting in 2009. The first…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Open Analytics Centers
IBM will be opening a number of global analytics centers and hire or retrain 4,000 analytics professionals. They seem to be serious. Press release.
From insideHPC
Rice Buys Appro HyperGreen
Appro announecd today that the Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has purchased an Appro HyperGreen Cluster solution.
From insideHPC
Butte Sim Center Close to a Deal with
Earlier this month, the Butte-MT-based National Center for Health Care Informatics signed an agreement with the US Air Force to produce advanced computer-simulated training environments.
From insideHPC
Intel launches Cluster Connection
Last week Intel launched a new website to promote the advantages of its Cluster Ready program. Here is what Intel’s Chip Shots site has to say about the launch Intel launched Cluster Connection, an online community that enables…
From insideHPC
Cisco CEO: clouds
From an article late last week at CSO Online, news that Cisco CEO John Chambers is optimistic about the future of cloud computing (which is good given his company’s recent UCS announcement), and realistic about the infrastructure…
From insideHPC
NSF awards support academic research in Google
Found at HPCwire, news of NSF awards late last week to support academic use of the CluE program [The] National Science Foundation announced it has awarded nearly five million dollars in grants to fourteen universities through…
From insideHPC
Lustre Scalability
The folks over at the Sun HPC Watercooler have led us over to a great video on the topic of Lustre scalability.