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 Putting People First
Future of Healthcare Provision: Opportunities for Patient Engagement
Future Agenda, a non-for-profit UK-based foresight initiative, has just published a new 38-page paper entitled Future of Healthcare Provision: Opportunities for Patient Engagement. Many believe the healthcare sector is ripe for…
From Computational Complexity
What was the first result in complexity theory?
Let Z_d[x] be the set of polynomials of degree d over the integers.
Let ALG_d be the set of roots of polys in Z_d.
One can easily show that
ALG_1 is a proper subset ALG_2is a proper subset ...
and that there are numbers not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Testing D-Wave Quantum Computing
A recent article led me to this arxiv.org paper abstract. (Technical) Using the D-Wave hardware. Are the methods being shown real quantum computing? Points to how Google is testing it. This relates to some of our own experimentation…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning in HPC – Using Data to Go Far Beyond Automation in Pathology
Dr. Amit Seti from IIT-Gauwhati presented this talk at GTCx in India. "This talk will cover how medical imaging data can be used to train computer vision systems that automate diagnostic analysis in current clinical practice.…
From insideHPC
Intel FPGAs Break Record for Deep Learning Facial Recognition
The test took place in Nanjing City, China, where ZTE’s engineers used Intel’s midrange Arria 10 FPGA for a cloud inferencing application using a CNN algorithm. "ZTE has achieved a new record – beyond a thousand images per second…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Professional
Watson Analytics Professional: 3 reasons to go pro by Karen Galiger
Watson Analytics Professional Edition was just the right solution for Mears Group, LLC. With the heavy responsibility of servicing and maintaining 1 million…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning and Bayesian updating in long cycle made-to-order production
My colleague Jeff Camm writes in a recent paper. The Bayesian learning aspect of parameters is interesting. Technical. Abstract.
Learning and Bayesian updating in long cycle made-to-order(MTO) production
K. Womer, H.Li, J. Camm…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let Alexa Scan Paper Abstracts for You
Alexa gets Meta, finds you the latest AI research
The Echo bot can find the 50 latest papers and read you the summaries.
Steve Dent, @stevetdent in Endgadget.
I examined this. Simply and nicely done. If you want to scan theMachine…
From BLOG@CACM
The Work and Inspiration of the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing
The international organization HaPoC promotes and sponsors research that brings together the history and the philosophy of computing.
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Wind Energy Research Engineer at NREL
"The National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado, is the nation’s primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies…
From insideHPC
A Look at the CODAR Co-Design Center for Online Data Analysis and Reduction at Exascale
Ian Foster and other researchers in CODAR are working to overcome the gap between computation speed and the limitations in the speed and capacity of storage by developing smarter, more selective ways of reducing data without
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting and Identifying Images
Home/News/Air Force Tests IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
ACM Tech News
Air Force Tests IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter. Neuromorphic chips.
In Technology Review
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Big Data to Complex Systems
Well written challenge to when big data doesn't work, and an intro to complex systems.
When Big Data Isn’t Enough Alex Woodie
The big data paradigm has changed how we make decisions. Armed with sophisticated machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines to Boost Emotional Intelligence
Intriguing premise. As an engineer I don't think I fully understand it. Link to podcast.
Author Edward Hess discusses his new book, Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age .... In Knowledge…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fossils from the Early Jurassic
New fossil bed discovered in Alberta: The finds at the site include 16 vampyropods, a relative of the vampire squid with its ink sac and fine details of its muscles still preserved in exquisite detail. As usual, you can also…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mr Clean Goes to the Superbowl
Have been a participant in the Mr Clean brand equity, and especially how it has been enhanced by technology. Lately there has not been much technical enhancement, but at least he is going to the US Superbowl. He has alsoIn…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How expensive are the union and intersection of two unordered_set in C++?
If you are using a modern C++ (C++11 or better), you have access to set data structures (unordered_set) which have the characteristics of a hash set. The standard does not provide us with built-in functions to compute the union…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics
Newly brought to my attention: Virtualitics. Bringing VR to Analytics. In Beta:
" ... We have built the first platform to merge Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Virtual/Augmented Reality.
Next generation data analytics .…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Better Wisdom from Crowds
Like the quantifying aspect of this. We experimented with WOC choices and how they linked with actual commercial decisions. Would like to see it tested with consumer as well as expert groups.
Better wisdom from crowds
MIT scholars…
From insideHPC
UberCloud Obtains $1.7 Million in Pre-A Funding Round
“UberCloud has created an entire cloud computing ecosystem for complex technical simulations, leveraging cloud infrastructure providers, developing and utilizing middleware container technology, and bringing on board established…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
Nominations Due in 1 Week! Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the…
From Apophenia
The Information War Has Begun
Yesterday, Steve Bannon clearly articulated what many people have felt and known for quite some time when he told journalists, “You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party… The media’s the opposition party.” This builds…
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at iRODS Data Management Software
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the creators of iRODS: Jason Coposky and Terrell Russell. Also known as the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, iRODS open source data management software is used…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Allowing End Users to Build Models
Very good general question that we have been discussing for years, well, really decades. Started way back in the spreadsheet era, when you empowered users to build 'models' of any kind. Afterwards we were sometimes brought…
From insideHPC
PASC17 to Feature Talk by Gordon Bell Prize Winner Haohuan Fu
"This talk reports efforts on refactoring and optimizing the climate and weather forecasting programs – CAM and WRF – on Sunway TaihuLight. To map the large code base to the millions of cores on the Sunway system, OpenACC-based…
From insideHPC
Beyond Exascale: Emerging Devices and Architectures for Computing
"Nanomagnetic devices may allow memory and logic functions to be combined in novel ways. And newer, perhaps more promising device concepts continue to emerge. At the same time, research in new architectures has also grown. Indeed…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Deep learning: the silver bullet?
In 2016, we saw a wide range of breakthroughs having to do with artificial intelligence and deep learning in particular. Google, Facebook, and Baidu announced several breakthroughs using deep learning. Google also defeated Go…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi Processor Programming in a Nutshell
In this special guest feature, James Reinders looks at Intel Xeon Phi processors from a programmer's perspective. "How does a programmer think of Intel Xeon Phi processors? In this brief article, I will convey how I, as a programmer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding AI to Raspberry Pi
Could be quite a way to add AI experience for students. In CWorld:
Google wants to add A.I. to Raspberry Pi gadgets
Google plans to bring open source machine-learning tools to board makers later this year
By Agam Shah .... "
From Schneier on Security
Research into Twitter Bots
There are a lot of them. In a world where the number of fans, friends, followers, and likers are social currency -- and where the number of reposts is a measure of popularity -- this kind of gaming the system is inevitable...…