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 The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Uncertainty
Much of this is well known in the data visualization space, but like to see it in one place. Should be taught this way. Uncertainty should always be included in early analysis of data. Includes pros and Cons of approaches…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifeguards, Dogs and Light
About models and the need to create transparency through understandable models. With yet another tip of the hat to Phyicist Richard Feynman. To Save Drowning People, Ask what Light Would do. In Nautilus.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robomart Brings an Autonomous Store to You
Unlikely I think except for narrow markets. Interesting follow though.
Will retailers go on the road with self-driving mobile stores? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire with expert comments.
While legislators in some cities have…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast looks at the GAMESS Project for Computational Chemistry
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mike Bernhardt from ECP discusses the GAMESS project with Mark Gordon from Ames Laboratory. Gordon is the principal investigator for the ECP project called General Atomic and Molecular
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From insideHPC
Apply Now for 2018 International HPC Summer School
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the ninth International HPC Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences in the…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Colossal Squid Exhibition Is Being Renovated
The New Zealand home of the colossal squid exhibit is behind renovated. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tech Altering Business Organization
Interesting claim, though don't quite agree yet. The tech is still valuable procedural and operational augmentation, and not structural change. Can see it leading to that though to drive more value.
AI, VR And AR Are Transforming…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 19th, 2018)
The Raspberry Pi 3, a $15-dollar computer that I use for various fun projects, is 15 times more powerful than the Cray-1 supercomputer, but it is 130,000 times lighter. The Cray-1 was worth $9 million in 1977. (Source: Joe Armstrong…
From insideHPC
NASA Goddard Boosts Discover Supercomputer to 5 Petaflops
CSRA Inc. has acquired another compute expansion under its High Performance Computing contract with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. "This HPC expansion brings our compute capacity to over 50 petaFLOPS for all CSRA HPC contracts…
From insideHPC
Podcast: What’s Intel up to with Blockchain?
In this Chip Chat podcast, Mike Reed, Director of the Blockchain Program Office at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel’s blockchain journey and how Intel technologies provide unique capabilities that can improve privacy, security…
From insideHPC
New HPC for Energy White Paper looks at Exascale Architectures for Greener Combustion Systems
The use of new Exascale architectures and the corresponding advances in codes to fully exploit new chip capabilities will help address challenges for combustion technologies, wind power generation and hydrocarbon exploration,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu China's Alexa
More on the elusive indications of what Baidu is up to.
China Has Its Own Alexa, But It’s No Mere Knockoff in Fastcompany
Unlike Amazon and Google, Baidu’s DuerOS avoids competing with its hardware partners.
Baidu’s Raven H smart…
From insideHPC
Accelerated Computing: The Path Forward
Ian Buck from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. “Supercomputing has swept rapidly from the far edges of science to the heart of our everyday lives. And propelling it forward – bringing it into the mobile phone already
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Salesforce
For AI Style applications you must connect with experts in the domain area. Here is an example of doing that,
IBM expands AI partnership with Salesforce By Mike Wheatley
IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are expanding their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel RealSense 3D Camera
Had heard of Intel's Realsense project some time ago, an unusual hardware play, when they were proposed for retail signage application. Now the devices are out and deserve a look:
Intel's new cameras add human-like 3D vision
They're…
From Schneier on Security
Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price
Interesting research: "Long-term market implications of data breaches, not," by Russell Lange and Eric W. Burger. Abstract: This report assesses the impact disclosure of data breaches has on the total returns and volatility of…
From The Noisy Channel
I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…
I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.
Here’s what I said:
I agree with the judge regarding the CFAA. The CFAA, as written…From The Eponymous Pickle
Journies in Wikipedia
Here I was less interested in the fact that people spent large amounts of time linking around the Wikipedia, I knew that, than the particular journies they took. Now if only they accepted advertising.
Wikipedia explains how…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Podcast on Quantum Computing
The terms superposition, entanglement, and interference might sound like they are from a superhero movie, but they are in fact very important terms in the field of quantum computing. Quantum computing is very different from classical…
From CERIAS Blog
How far do warrants reach in “The Cloud”?
There is a case currently (early 2018) pending before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) addressing if/how a US warrant applies to data held in a cloud service outside the US but run by a US entity.
The case is United…From CERIAS Blog
How far do warrants reach in “The Cloud”?
There is a case currently (early 2018) pending before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) addressing if/how a US warrant applies to data held in a cloud service outside the US but run by a US entity.
The case is United…From CERIAS Blog
How far do warrants reach in “The Cloud”?
There is a case currently (early 2018) pending before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) addressing if/how a US warrant applies to data held in a cloud service outside the US but run by a US entity.
The case is United…From Computational Complexity
A Sensitive Game
Last month I posted about the sensitivity conjecture and today I would like to talk about an interesting game developed by Gilmer, Koucký and Saks and independently by Drucker that could yield a proof.
Consider the following…
From insideHPC
Marina Becoulet from CEA to Keynote PASC18
Today the PASC18 conference announced that Marina Becoulet from CEA will be one of its keynote speakers. "The main goal of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is the demonstration of the feasibility…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanding the Dash Button
During our early work on an 'ordering button' we imagined them integrated into consumer products, right next to the point of need. Most of my own Dash Buttons are on the frig after early concept and operations testing. These…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: Aurora Early Science Program for Deep Learning
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is seeking proposals for data and learning projects to help prepare for Aurora, the nation’s first exascale system scheduled for delivery in 2021. "The shift in plans for Aurora…
From insideHPC
India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences Deploys two Cray XC40 Supercomputers
Today Cray announced that the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India has deployed a pair of Cray XC40 supercomputers with Cray ClusterStor storage systems. The combined systems are the largest supercomputing resource in India, and…
From insideHPC
Enabling FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an exciting technology that allows hardware designers to create new digital circuits through a programming environment. Compared to hardware that is designed once or software which must…
From insideHPC
Video: Leading the Evolution of Compute with Neuromorphic and Quantum Computing
Jim Held from Intel Labs gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Intel recently announced important progress in our research into future novel microarchitectures and device technology: neuromorphic and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google ML Automation Service
We will continue to see more automation in driving machine learning problems. Here the training aspects for some kinds of problems are addressed, like image recognition.
Cloud AutoML Alpha by Google
Train high quality custom…