Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2017
From insideHPC
Submission Deadlines for ISC 2017 are Fast Approaching
Are you planning for ISC 2017? The deadlines for submissions are fast approaching. The conference takes place June 18 - 22, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. "Participation in these sessions and programs will help enrich your experience…
From insideHPC
AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecure with HBM Memory
Today AMD unveiled preliminary details of its forthcoming GPU architecture, Vega. Conceived and executed over 5 years, Vega architecture enables new possibilities in PC gaming, professional design and machine intelligence that…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Powers HPC at University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut has partnered with Dell EMC and Intel to create a high performance computing cluster that students and faculty can use in their research. With this HPC Cluster, UConn researchers can solve problems…
From insideHPC
Programming for High Performance Processors
"Managing the work on each node can be referred to as Domain parallelism. During the run of the application, the work assigned to each node can be generally isolated from other nodes. The node can work on its own and needs little…
From insideHPC
New ReRAM Memory Can Process Data Where it Lives
A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors like those made by Intel and Qualcomm. This means data could now be processed…
From Computational Complexity
Learning About Learning
Yesterday Scott Aaronson released his sweeping new P v NP survey. Babai gave an update on graph isomorphism, in short while he still has the first subexponential time algorithm for GI, he no longer claims quasipolynomial-time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Brands Leveraging Foundational AI
Good overview, nothing very unexpected. Starbucks, IBM, Amazon, Lowes and Cosabella are highlighted. Following these for years. More about what is being done, as opposed to what the possibilities are. I like the statement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Spot Extends Google Home
One of the challenges for smart home assistants is to extend their functionality throughout the home efficiently, as part of a single service. NVIDIA has now come up with a microphone/speaker combination called the Spot that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
2017 CES Wired Live Blog
Used to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the enterprise, tracking technology applications. Now watch it much more comfortably from my desk and don't think I have missed anything. See Wired's live blog, updated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mercedes Silicon Valley Research Center
Excerpt. Mercedes is known for interesting work, see the tag below for more posts on them. Considering the volume of data involved
Inside Mercedes' Silicon Valley research center
A tour of the automaker’s future, and sometimes…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Capabilities of the Barbie Typewriter
They're not much, but they do exist....
From ACM on Huffington Post
EMV Credit Card Chips: No Silver Bullet, but a Significant Step Forward in Fraud Reduction
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Babai’s Result: Still a Breakthrough
Even after today’s retraction of quasi-polynomial time for graph isomorphism Cropped from source László Babai is famous for many things, and has made many seminal contributions to complexity theory. Last year he claimed that
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From Schneier on Security
An SQL Injection Attack Is a Legal Company Name in the UK
Someone just registered their company name as ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD. Reddit thread. Obligatory xkcd comic....
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG's Announces Hub Robot Assistant
Note this uses Alexa's Voice recognition. Another embedding example.
LG's new robot helpers are cute and friendly AF by Karissa Bell
The Korean company showcased two Hub Robots, an Airport Guide Robot and an airport cleaning…
From insideHPC
New Site Lists all Comparable Features from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Are you shopping for Public Cloud services? A new Public Cloud Services Comparison site gives a service & feature level mapping between the 3 major public clouds: Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud. Published
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From insideHPC
a16z Podcast Looks at Artificial Intelligence and the Space of Possible Minds
In this a16z Podcast, Murray Shanahan, Azeem Azhar, and Tom Standage discuss the past, present, and future of A.I. as well as how it fits (or doesn’t fit) with machine learning and deep learning. "Where are we now in the A.I.…
From insideHPC
Video: Azure High Performance Computing
"Run your Windows and Linux HPC applications using high performance A8 and A9 compute instances on Azure, and take advantage of a backend network with MPI latency under 3 microseconds and non-blocking 32 Gbps throughput. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa at Consumer Electronics Show
Most interesting is that Alexa continues to be embedded into a number of systems. Amazon does not want to be in the business of selling echo branded boxes, but wants to be part of the intelligence inserts? What does the
What's…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- BigGIS: A Continuous Refinement Approach to Master Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Spatio-Temporal Big Data
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Patrick Wiener from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Wiener along with his coauthors Manuel Stein and Daniel Seebacher from University of Konstanz, Julian Bruns, Matthias T…
From insideHPC
Parallel Multiway Methods for Compression of Massive Data and Other Applications
"Scientists are drowning in data. The scientific data produced by high-fidelity simulations and high-precision experiments are far too massive to store. For instance, a modest simulation on a 3D grid with 500 grid points per
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving the Value of Data Science
Of interest, taught aspects of this at my recent Columbia Course. The PDF below is very visual and largely non-technical. Worth a look.
Optimizing the Effectiveness of Data Science Teams
Data science efforts are only as good…
From insideHPC
HPC Networking Trends in the TOP500
The TOP500 list is a very good proxy for how different interconnect technologies are being adopted for the most demanding workloads, which is a useful leading indicator for enterprise adoption. The essential takeaway is that
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From The Eponymous Pickle
ZigBee's Dotdot Language Seeks Harmony
Been a while since I have looked at ZigBee, new developments to link attached devices.
ZigBee's Dotdot language aims for IoT harmony
The new application layer defines how connected devices discover and learn about each other …
From Schneier on Security
Are We Becoming More Moral Faster Than We're Becoming More Dangerous?
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our planet over the long term. More generally, "the world continues to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Link to My Personal Assistant Studies
As a part of a broader AI study I have been examining how personal assistants can interact with deeper AI, and what architecture will best support their further development. To provide services for individuals or business, based…
From Phys.org Technology News
Cruise company Carnival gets personal with concierge tech
What if your room on a cruise ship were to unlock automatically as you approach, or if the wait staff could bring your favorite cocktail before you even ask?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lenovo Launches Smart Assistant
Yet another smart speaker plus idea, reported in Business Insider. The dynamic of integrating the brain of Alexa into many devices is interesting. I am worried that the architecture of Alexa will not be good enough to launch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Closes Startup Incubator
With some interesting insights on how a big company can deal with startups or pre-startups. In TechCrunch. Followed Coke's innovations for some time. See previous tabs on Coke.
Coca-Cola closes Founders startup incubator
After…
From Phys.org Technology News
FDA probes dangers of exploding e-cigarette batteries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is probing the dangers of exploding batteries in e-cigarettes, following dozens of reports of devices that have combusted, overheated or caught fire and sometimes injured users.