Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2018
From insideHPC
ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing
ESI Group has announced the release of SimulationX 3.9, a software platform for multiphysics system simulation. Designed for many industries – from automotive, energy, and mining to industrial machinery, railways, aerospace and…
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions: UK OpenMP User Conference
The UK OpenMP User Conference has issued its Call for Sessions. The event takes place May 21-22 at St Catherine's College in Oxford. "This inaugural event is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community…
From insideHPC
Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. "TSUBAME3 embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allow for HPC to BD/AI convergence at scale, including significant scalable…
From Schneier on Security
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks
After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one process can spy on other processes.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans as Neurons Strategy
Brought to my attention. Takes me back to our early days of neural nets, and thinking about how error minimizing reinforcement worked in alliance with an architecture of neurons. We thought of them as very restricted societies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product and Experience are King
Interesting positioning. Of course depends on the category of product that we are talking about, and what kind of experience exists today in their Moments of Truth (MOT) ... (Market, Choose, Use) for given demographics of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Always Look for Bias in Data Analytics
A short, somewhat simplistic, but point-making piece in KD Nuggets on biases in analytics. Note these kinds of biases occur in all kinds of analytics: Descriptive, Statistical, Big Data or Deep Learning. I have seen considerable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Pushes Lighting in the Smart Home
GE pushes for more involvement in the Smart Home. Working with all the major assistants in play today. Looking forward to diving deeper into this. See also my continually updated look at assistants.
GE doubles down on Alexa…
From The Noisy Channel
Relevance Feedback
The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back to the 1960s. Relevance feedback allows searchers to tell the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Global Head of Digital Innovation
My former colleague at P&G, now at Nestle writes:
2017: From Mom's Digital Trail to a Brand Safety #Fails
A very personal review of 2017's digital highs and lows by Pete Blackshaw, Nestlé's global head of digital innovation and…
From insideHPC
Intel Omni-Path Architecture: The Real Numbers
In this slidecast, Joe Yaworski from Intel describes the Intel Omni-Path architecture and how it scales performance for a wide range of HPC applications. He also shows why recently published benchmarks have not reflected the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Year 2017: technological highlights
DeepStack and Libratus become the first computer programs to beat professinal poker players. We are using synthetic cartilage to help people with arthritis. Stem cells can regrow a whole new tooth. We have made significant progress…
From insideHPC
Preliminary Agenda Posted for March HPC User Forum in France
The HPC User Forum has posted their Preliminary Agenda for their upcoming meeting in France. Free to attend, the event takes place March 6-7 near Paris at the Teratec campus in Bruyères-le-Châtel. "We have developed an exciting…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CACM Viewpoints Article on the Postdocs Best Practices Program
The Communications of the ACM (CACM), the print and online publication for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), has recently released a Viewpoints article titled, “Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do for You” from the leads…
From BLOG@CACM
How Can We Foster Inclusiveness?
What can an individual do on a day-to-day basis to ensure that her/his environment fosters inclusiveness?
From insideHPC
Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. As makers of high-speed data caching technologies, Avere Systems has customers among many of the world’s top brands in media and entertainment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on VR Magic Mirror Idea
An old idea, but the technology has been creeping up on doing it well. We demonstrated the concept for years in innovation center venues.
In Fastcompany: Amazon patents a mirror that lets you try on clothes, virtually. Can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotify Using Big Data and AI
Very intriguing to see how the data regarding muisc listening is being used to drive behavioral analysis. Been experimenting with some of that myself.
The Amazing Ways Spotify Uses Big Data, AI And Machine Learning To Drive Business…
From insideHPC
Top 10 HPC White Papers for 2017: Machine Learning, AI, the Cloud & More
Many of the top 10 2017 HPC white papers deal with the next steps in the HPC journey, including moving to the cloud, and discovering the potential of machine learning and AI. The most downloaded reports of the year were written…
From Schneier on Security
Tamper-Detection App for Android
Edward Snowden and Nathan Freitas have created an Android app that detects when it's being tampered with. The basic idea is to put the app on a second phone and put the app on or near something important, like your laptop. The…
From Putting People First
Videos of all keynote and plenary presentations at the Service Design Global Conference
The theme of this year’s Service Design Global Conference (November 2-3, Madrid) was Service Design at Scale. Through continued practice, widespread capability building, and successful implementation of service strategy and execution…
From Putting People First
Videos of all keynote and plenary presentations at the Service Design Global Conference
The theme of this year’s Service Design Global Conference (November 2-3, Madrid) was Service Design at Scale. Through continued practice, widespread capability building, and successful implementation of service strategy and execution…
From Putting People First
This Anthro Life podcasts on design anthropology
This Anthro Life is a round-table, open format discussion of an anthropological take on the people, objects, ideas, and possibilities of everyday life around the world. They are hosted by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins and there…
From Putting People First
This Anthro Life podcasts on design anthropology
This Anthro Life is a round-table, open format discussion of an anthropological take on the people, objects, ideas, and possibilities of everyday life around the world. They are hosted by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins and there…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions We Didn’t Make
With wishes for a memorable New Year 2018 Muhammad Afzal Upal is Chair of the Computing and Information Science Department at Mercyhurst University. He works in machine learning and cognitive science, most specifically making…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Dare To Dream
I believe the future of Computer Science education is bright. This bright future, however, requires leaders with vision and a continued focus on equity and advocacy. I have been fortunate to work with, and learn from, individuals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and Cortana not in Partnership yet
Noted this with interest last year. I did test it later last year and got a recognition of Alexa from within Cortana, but nothing more. It would be interesting to see a significant partnership occur between assistant systems…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Multicore versus SIMD instructions: the “fasta” case study
Setting aside graphics processors, most commodity processors support at least two distinct parallel execution models. Most programmers are familiar with the multicore model whereas we split the computation into distinct parts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Discussing Alexa Advertising
Started to examine this basic idea a year ago, but Amazon was not allowing advertising embedded in skill or other interactions based on data. Google built such an empire by using the appeal of providing searches, here Amazon…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Personalized Preference-based Service Selection and Recommendation
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Kenneth K. Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Fletcher presented his poster, A Method for Dealing with Data Sparsity and…