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Nov 19 2013

Building a Computationally-Literate Workforce

Students must leave their formal training ready to take up the state of the practice in fields that routinely use computational tools, and ready to advance the state of the practice in fields that have been slower to adopt. While the academic community works through internal processes to adapt to the changing needs of their students, the computational knowledge gap is filled by employees and technical conferences.
Architecture and Hardware
Nov 18 2013

For These Companies, It All Started With the Decision to Adopt

SC13 is featuring sixteen companies on the exhibit floor that have adopted HPC as part of their core business and, as a result, have transformed their ability to compete and succeed. From NASCAR to diapers, the HPC Impact Showcase is designed to provide inspiration and role models for organizations that think advanced computing is not relevant to what they do, or that it is out of their reach.
Computing Profession
Nov 14 2013

HPC Every Day, Everywhere

This Saturday the world's largest, and most influential, conference on high performance computing opens in Denver. Over the next week new advances in supercomputing research will be presented, new products will be announced, and important relationships will be kindled or renewed. And, yes, all of this really does matter to you: the impact of high performance computing is felt everywhere throughout our culture, in big ways and small, and impacts each of us every day.
Computing Profession
Nov 10 2013

Computing Does Not Support Its Infrastructure

All large, multinational companies that depend on their intellectual prowess are able to avoid most taxation. Two factors enable the trend: first intellectual property (IP) as product designs and software are hard to value in financial terms; second, the creators of software IP do not care about what businesses do with their products — they just as soon give them away — as long as they get paid. The infrastructure components that supported their education, the underlying research, and the communication facilities are to be supported by others. Transitioning to a fair balance requires more than patches to fix loopholes.
Computing Profession
Sep 24 2013

The First Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize and Nevanlinna Prize winners for a whole week from September 22-27, 2013 at the beautiful campus of the Heidelberg University. The laureates in attendance this year are the 40 of the best minds in mathematics and computer science.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Sep 13 2013

Fixing the K-12 CS Teacher Certification Mess

This blog piece explores the mess that is K-12 Computer Science Teacher certification in the U.S. and why this matters. It introduces CSTA's new "Bugs in the System" report and provides practical recommendations for creating requirements that make sense and make a different.
Education
Aug 19 2013

Turing’s 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers

The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer building? "Yes, certainly" and "No, definitely not" are often-heard answers. A third, more nuanced, response acknowledges a diversity of local computing habits in the 1940s-1950s, including Dutch computing habits that were based on Turing's 1936 "universal machine" concept.
Architecture and Hardware

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