Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading Indicators of Innovation
Good general thoughts, but no precise metrics. Bottom line, results in your domain. " ... Metrics, indicators, best practices, success stories – everyone is looking for the magical baseline data to compare to in order to define…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Quarterly on Golden Age of Marketing and Analytics
McKinsey Quarterly 2015 Number 1: Overview and full issueThis issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, describes the dawn of marketing’s next golden age, new ways to create value in the sales channel, the power…
From Schneier on Security
The History of Lockpicking
Interesting....
From Computational Complexity
Advice on running a theory day
Last semester I ran a THEORY DAY AT UMCP. Below I have ADVICE for people running theory days. Some I did, some I didn't do but wish I did, and some are just questions you need to ask yourself. 1) Picking the day- I had two external…
From insideHPC
Video: Understanding Hadoop Performance on Lustre
"In this talk, Seagate presents details on its efforts and achievements around improving Hadoop performance on Lustre including a summary on why and how HDFS and Lustre are different and how those differences affect Hadoop performance…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches
Today Penguin Computing announced the Arctica 4804ip switch and a collaboration with Cumulus Networks.
The post Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
PBS Pro Becomes Cray’s Preferred Workload Manager
Today Altair announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Cray Inc. PBS Professional is now Cray’s preferred workload manager and job scheduler.
The post PBS Pro Becomes Cray’s Preferred Workload ManagerinsideHPC…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ads to Watch You
In Wired:GOOGLE IS ABOUT to make ads on television work just like ads on the web. Through Google, advertisers will know how many times their ads were viewed. They’ll be able to target audiences based on location and viewing history…
From insideHPC
INCITE Seeking Proposals for U.S. Leadership Computing
The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns.
The post INCITE Seeking Proposals for U.S. Leadership…From Schneier on Security
The Further Democratization of Stingray
Stingray is the code name for an IMSI-catcher, which is basically a fake cell phone tower sold by Harris Corporation to various law enforcement agencies. (It's actually just one of a series of devices with fish names -- Amberjack…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Novel Mathematical Methods for Exascale
The Journal of Computational Science is seeking submissions for a special issue on The Route to Exascale: Novel Mathematical Methods, Scalable Algorithms Skills Training.
The post Call for Papers: Novel Mathematical Methods for…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 April 2015
Here in New Hampshire we are on school vacation this week. Seems like a lot of places were on vacation last week. Like a lot of teachers I will be spending break time catching up both around the house and on school work. Grades…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Anti-Pigeonhole Conjecture
A conjecture about faculty behavior “Dr. Kibzwang” source Colin Potts is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Georgia Tech. His job includes being a member of the President’s Cabinet—our president, not the real one—and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chartjunk Tufte Extract
If you have yet to see it, over the years have picked up several copies of the book, have seen Edward Tufte present it a few times, always something new stands out, here is an extract to get you interested:Edward Tufte, The:…
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre + Linux – Putting the House in Order
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, James Simmons from ORNL presents: Lustre + Linux - Putting the House in Order. "In the last year great strides have been made to sync up the lustre Intel branch to what is upstream. We present…
From insideHPC
Jeff Layton on How 3D Flash is Changing the Market
"For a period of time, it didn't look like flash drives were going to decrease in price very much. Flash cell technology is limited to around 20nm because of cost and complexity considerations, but manufacturers have found ways…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkurious: New Tool for Graph Data Visualization
An interesting new tool I had not heard of, it competes with tools like Gephi (Open source, free) and Polinode, which I have used. Have not had experience with this one as yet.Linkurious unveils enterprise graph data visualization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Open Source Operation Research (OR) Tools
New book:Operations Research using Open-Source Tools, Hardcover – April 8, 2015by Jeffrey StricklandThey write: ...Operations Research using open-source tools is a book that is affordable to everyone and uses tools that do not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Markets with Data
Using Big Data technology to disrupt markets. " ... Big data has made a dramatic impact on companies all over America, but running big data programs is only one side of the puzzle. After collecting the data, companies need to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Operations Research?
Nicely done overview of OR, my formal training and thirty plus years of experience. Closely connected to Analytics, with the inclusion of the decisions needed. By Jeffrey Strickland. " .... Many people probably never heard…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peak Work Performance
Former P&G and Microsoft executive Bob Herbold on How to Achieve Peak Work Performance. In his insightful blog." ... A couple of years ago a management research firm did a massive survey of almost 100,000 people employed worldwide…
From insideHPC
Video: Monitoring a Heterogeneous Lustre Environment with Splunk
"Monitoring a large Lustre site, running multiple generations of Lustre filesystems can be a challenge. Some equipment offer vendor specific monitoring interfaces while others, built on open source Lustre, have minimal monitoring…
From My Biased Coin
Girls Who Code (Newton) Visit to Harvard
My friend David Miller is looking for instructors to help out with the Newton Girls who Code club. Here's an announcement, please connect with him if you're interested. They visited Harvard last week -- David gave me permission…
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Fionn Supercomputer at ICHEC in Ireland
In this video, Niall Wilson describes how ICHEC delivers top-quality technology services and support to universities and enterprises. "Based on the solution’s superior price performance, ICHEC deployed Fionn, a supercomputer …
From The Eponymous Pickle
New System Modeler Capabilities: Reliability
Wolfram's new SystemModeler version brings new capabilities, examining. I like the mention of 'cyber-physical' systems. Most anything these days can be considered a member of that set. And has performance, reliability and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Consumer Clusters
Coca-Cola rewiring marketing around ‘consumer clusters’ to make sales pop The drinks maker’s chief executive Muhtar Kent let slip the strategic shift today (22 April) when he told analysts on a conference call that its focus …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convergence of Retail and Mobile
In Think with Google:In this month's Creative Shortlist, John Boiler, founder of 72andSunny, spotlights digital campaigns from brands such as Target and Topman that are changing the way we shop. But as retail and mobile converge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lack of Broadband Limits Telemedicine
In CWorld: A lack of broadband service is limiting the deployment of telemedicine services in some places of the U.S., and not just remote rural areas, some experts say.Panasonic of North America, while providing Internet-based…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Unique Reproductive Habits of the Vampire Squid
Interesting: While most female squid and octopuses have just one reproductive cycle before they die, vampire squid go through dozens of egg-making cycles in their lifetimes, scientists have found. As usual, you can also use this…
From Schneier on Security
Signed Copies of Data and Goliath
You can now order signed copies of Data and Goliath from my website....