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
Smart Displays beyond Voice?
Now emerging, the 'Smart Display', which takes voice interaction to a new place, which is why amazon is calling it voice-first on their Show and Spot assistants. Now Google is planning to introduce this year 'smart displays'…
From Schneier on Security
XKCD's Smartphone Security System
Funny....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Chatbots
A good, very broad look at chatbots in DSC. Starting with the 'AI Shrink', which it turns out, many people trusted more than their real doctors. Though to my knowledge it never replaced any psychiatrists. History, experiments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automobile Dashboard of the Future
An interesting view that makes you think about all the design architecture of the steering wheel and what a car would be without it. Will the term steering wheel sound as archaic as a buggy whip in the future? Some say thisIn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound Classification
Sounds are important. Getting them right can make the difference between correct and incorrect advice. Those of you experimenting with advisors have now seen this.
Sound Classification with TensorFlow
Having this solution along…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Hype and Reality
In Knowledge@Wharton, good cautionary thoughts.
Wharton Global Forum from this summer on Hype and Reality in AI.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Why the Hype Has Outrun Reality
Robots that serve dinner, self-driving cars…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for LUG 2018 in April
Registration is now open for LUG 2018. Sponsored by Globus. the 2018 Lustre User Group (LUG) conference will be held April 23-26, 2018 at Argonne National Laboratory. "As always, LUG provides technical sessions on the latest
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From insideHPC
Fighting Cancer with Deep Learning at Scale with the CANDLE Project
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Mike Bernhardt discusses the CANDLE project for cancer research with Rick Stevens from Argonne National Lab. The CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) is an ECP application development…
From insideHPC
HPC4Mfg Program Selects New Industry Projects
Today the DOE announced $1.87 million for seven projects to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing through HPC. "The HPC4Mfg program leverages world-class technical expertise with high performance computing to tackle manufacturing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Process Modeling and Assistants
Would suggest that anyone looking at constructing serious assistants also look at understanding the underlying process that includes the assistant. I am just now looking at IBM's offerings in this space at https://www.ibm.com…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems
The eight annual International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 12th, 2018)
A few years ago, researchers in Danemark expressed concerns regarding high concentrations of pesticides that are showing up in urine samples of Danish mothers and children. Last time I was in Danemark, a newspaper was reporting…
From insideHPC
Video: Molecular Simulation at the Mesoscale
Dr. Rommie E. Amaro gave this talk at SC17. "We are developing new capabilities for multi-scale dynamic simulations that cross spatial scales from the molecular (angstrom) to cellular ultrastructure (near micron), and temporal…
From Schneier on Security
Facial Recognition Is Coming to Retail
Summary article....
From Apophenia
Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism
(This was originally posted on Medium) If you ever hear that implementing algorithmic decision-making tools to enable social services or other high stakes government decision-making will increase efficiency or reduce the cost…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Tuya for IoT
China’s Tuya expands its reach further with launch of IoT platform for the U.S. By Clayton Moore in DigitalTrends
Tuya, one of the world’s largest and most widespread Internet of Things (IoT) OS providers, landed in the United…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Process for AI Applications
Ultimately this is a key point for any innovative change, how does it link to actual current or proposed business process? And especially for scaled solutions. Good piece, but due to the fact its in the WSJ, you need to
To…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Buttons Open to Developers
Besides just buying things, how else might they be used?
Amazon opens up virtual Dash Buttons to third-party developers By Swapna Krishna, @skrishna in Engadget
If
Amazon…
From insideHPC
Dark Energy Survey Releases First Three Years of Data
Today scientists from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released their first three years of data. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies…
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting Digital Documents
In this era of electronic leakers, remember that zero-width spaces and homoglyph substitution can fingerprint individual instances of files....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI Research in 2017
Fascinating, technical, lengthy piece on Google AI related research in 2017. More to follow.
The Google Brain Team — Looking Back on 2017 (Part 1 of 2)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data, Algorithms, and Fairness Panel
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Nadya Bliss, Solon Barocas, Nick Diakopoulos, and Kelly Jin. Every few weeks we have been highlighting different panels from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)…
From XRDS
Impressions of Primavera Hacker (Santiago de Chile)
Due to my involvement in the UNAM/DGAPA/PAPIME PE102718 project on the ”creation of teaching materials regarding privacy and anonymity mechanisms”, as the Southern half of the world gets ready for the warm season, I was invited…
From insideHPC
Using the Titan Supercomputer to Accelerate Deep Learning Networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the generation and training of
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From insideHPC
Using the Intel C++ Compiler’s Optimization Features to Improve MySQL Performance
IT operations and maintenance developers have found that just by compiling the MySQL source code with the Intel C++ Compiler and turning on its Interprocedural Optimization feature, you can improve database performance from 5…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Board of Directors Reminder
I hope everyone had a great holiday break is leaping back into the school year with renewed drive and energy. With all of the chaos of the new year, you might have missed the call for nominations for the CSTA … Continue reading…
From insideHPC
Intel’s Al Gara Presents: Technology Opportunities Like Never Before
Al Gara from gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Technology visionaries architecting the future of HPC and AI will share the key challenges as well as Intel’s direction. The talk will cover the adaptation…
From insideHPC
European Commission to invest EUR 1 Billion in Exascale
Today the European Commission unveiled today its plans to invest jointly with the Member States in building a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure. "While Europe already had a number of exascale initiatives under…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Builds Raven H Assistant
Reported this previously regards its use of the Duer platform. See my tags below to see more about that.
Baidu takes aim at Amazon and Google with the Raven H, its first smart speaker By Brandon Widder in DigitalTrends.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implementing Chatbots
What departments should you talk to before implementing a chatbot? In Chatbot magazine, which is new to me. Good thoughts. But no mention of Legal? In our own implementations we spent most of our time with legal. May…