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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Level By Level
Impetus to study a new reducibility relation See Mike’s other projects too Michael Wehar has just earned his PhD degree in near-record time in my department. He has posted the final version of his dissertation titled On the Complexity…
From Schneier on Security
Brian Krebs Uncovers Murai Botnet Author
Really interesting investigative story....
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Doubling Down on AI
Have been in particular following their assistant and chatbot work, impressive so far. Further indications that work is ongoing in augmented reality. In Technology Review:
In 2017, China Is Doubling Down on AI
The country’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Overview of Blockchain
Good, non technical overview of blockchain in Knowledge@Wharton. Very nontechnical piece that is worth reading. Aims to address the question: " ... Is Blockchain the Next Great Hope — or Hype? .... ". Largely lands on the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Draft of Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, an interagency Federal coordinating group, recently posted a draft of the Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan for public comment…
From insideHPC
Michela Taufer from University of Delaware to Chair SC19
"We are excited to have the benefit of Dr. Taufer’s leadership for SC19,” says John West, director of strategic initiatives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and chair of the SC Steering Committee. “This conference has a…
From insideHPC
Nimbix Expands Cloud Offerings to Enterprises and Developers
"Delivering optimized technology capabilities to different communities is key to a successful public cloud offering”, said Nimbix Chief Technology Officer Leo Reiter. “With this unified approach, Nimbix delivers discrete product…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connect + Develop Looks for Innovation.
Have not mentioned it very often, but Connect + Develop is P&G's Open innovation capability. I get its flyers presenting specific innovation opportunities. See the latest flyer here.
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From insideHPC
HiPEAC17 to Focus Memory Systems, Energy Efficiency and Cybersecurity
Taking place in Stockholm from 23-25 January, the 12th HiPEAC conference will bring together Europe’s top thinkers on computer architecture and compilation to tackle the key issues facing the computing systems on which we depend…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inventory Sensing Refrigerators
A topic we took up in innovation. Below repeated in the Verge. If you could determine inventory and predict usage. You could just reorder goods. Of course the frig is not the only storage place in the kitchen. So some…
From insideHPC
Richard Gerber to Head NERSC’s HPC Department
“This is an exciting time because the whole HPC landscape is changing with manycore, which is a big change for our users,” said Gerber, who joined NERSC’s User Services Group in 1996 as a postdoc, having earned his PhD in physics…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What I Learned in College
For various reasons my thoughts lately have been on my college experience. Now I graduated in 1975 which was a few years ago. A lot has changed in computing and computer science in that time. But those four years were quite foundational…
From insideHPC
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Takes the Mystery Out of Supercomputing
"Many supercomputer users, like the big DOE labs, are implementing these next generation systems. They are now engaged in significant code modernization efforts to adapt their key present and future applications to the new processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviewing Turings Enigma
Reviewed the book: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Alan Hodges. Hodges also has a site that provides resource materials and updates to the book at http://www.turing.org.uk. See the movie, The Imitation Game, now available
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From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Department of Commerce Cites ACM U.S. Public Policy Council
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s new Green Paper: Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things references and cites input provided by the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council, particularly as related to IoT privacy and security…
From The Noisy Channel
I’ve done both.
I’ve done both. Much of the work I do involves helping teams with prioritization, evaluation, choosing among architectural or algorithmic options, hiring, etc. Billing by the day – most of my engagements aren’t really hourly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces Cognitive Principles
Announcement by IBM in Davos.
January 17, 2017 | Written by: IBM THINK Blog
Categorized: Cognitive Computing
We are in the early days of a promising new technology, and of the new era to which it is giving birth. This technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Data Optimization by Simplygon
Interesting play, taking a close look. Initially used for game applications, and I expect further used for dealing with multiple dimensional data in interactive 3D displays and virtual reality. Design applications are likely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE on the Kuri Robot
Previously mentioned. The Kuri Robot, by Bosch and Mayfield, scheduled to be out later this year. ... Mayfield Robotics Announces Kuri, a $700 Home Robot By Evan Ackerman. Appears to be a solution that attempts to create…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Machine Problems with Deep Learning
Maintenance prediction is something we worked on. Here a related application that has many possibilities. How about very rare breakdown occurences? In IEEE Spectrum:
Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Contributions of PCAST
Contributions to this post were made by CCC Chair Beth Mynatt and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers…
From insideHPC
Video: AI – The Next HPC Workload
“From new cloud offerings on AWS and Azure, to Summit and Sierra, the 150+ PF supercomputers being built by the US in 2017, new AI workloads are driving the rapid growth of GPU accelerated HPC systems. For years, HPC simulations…
From insideHPC
China to Develop Exascale Prototype in 2017
The Xinhua news agency reports that China is planning to develop a prototype exascale supercomputer by the end of 2017. "A complete computing system of the exascale supercomputer and its applications can only be expected in 2020…
From insideHPC
Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office
“This is an exciting time in high performance computing,” said Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, leader of the project and Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol. “Scientists have a growing choice of potential…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Sponsors Data Sciences Education Roundtable at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences
ACM is sponsoring a new 3-year initiative by the National Academy of Sciences on data science postsecondary education. A series of roundtable discussions will bring together representatives from academia, industry, funding agencies…
From insideHPC
DDN and Inspur Sign Agreement for Joint Sales & Marketing
Today DataDirect Networks announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with Inspur, a leading China-based, cloud-computing and total-solution-and-services provider, in which the companies will leverage their core strengths…
From insideHPC
Video: A Look at the Mogon II HPC Cluster at Johannes Gutenberg University
In this video, Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Brinkmann from the JGU datacenter describes the Mogon II cluster, a 580 Teraflop system currently ranked #265 on the TOP500. "Built by MEGWARE in Germany, the Mogon II system consists of 814…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership in a Cognitive era
Discussion starting in the Cognitive Systems Linkedin Group. Join us in the conversation.
Points to a Forbes article.
How will leadership change in the Cognitive era? Companies like IBM, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon areJacek…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Raspberry Pi Upgrade
Raspberry Pi upgrades Compute Module with 10 times the CPU performance ... Compute Module for embedded computing gets first big upgrade since 2014. by Jon Brodkin
Am a big fan of this, its cheap. Easy to get started. Would…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on Uses of AI today
In Forbes: Mostly well known, and can be said that most of these are very focused applications. The assistant applications like Siri and Alexa, can be said to be appear general, but they are still not providing general intelligence…