Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reverse Deep Learning Engineering in Pharma
If workable, quite a coup. Its back to the idea that it is all patterns.
A.I. finds non-infringing ways to copy drugs pharma spends billions developing By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrends
Drug companies spend billions developing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can a Neural Net Catch a Virus?
The question struck me, so follow the link below for more. Yes, in one general sense, but probably not in the way they are being used today. Good basically non-technical discussion below:
Can a neural network catch a “virus…
From insideHPC
As Liquid Cooling Gets Hot, CoolIT Systems Secures Round of Funding
Last week, Canadian liquid cooling vendor CoolIT Systems announced that the company has partnered with Vistara Capital Partners as the company expands production capacity to service new and existing global data center customers…
From insideHPC
Apply Now for the ISC 2019 Travel Grant
Students and Young Researchers are encouraged to apply for the ISC Travel Grant program. It's a great way for HPC folks to get to the ISC High Performance conference, which takes place June 16-20 in Frankfurt, Germany. "As an…
From insideHPC
Oracle Expands Cloud Business with Next-Gen Data Center in Canada
Oracle just announced the opening of a Toronto data center to support in regional customer demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure offers the most flexibility in the public cloud…
From insideHPC
HiPEAC Vision 2019 Looks to the Future of Computing
"Today, the possibilities of an interconnected, heterogeneous and intelligent world are only just beginning to make themselves known. This stunning advancement in digital technology was made possible by ever-increasing performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Store of the Future
Good example of in store retail experimentation.
Inside Nike's Store of the Future
Bloomberg By Eben Novy-Williams in Bloomberg
Nike has opened a new flagship store in New York City that focuses on personalized, experiential shopping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holoforge for Historical Experience
Saw a number of examples early on of using VR to effectively show historical data, good example for use, for both teaching and for interacting with complex data.
The Mont Saint-Michel: Digital perspectives on the model
Celebrating…
From Schneier on Security
Clever Smartphone Malware Concealment Technique
This is clever: Malicious apps hosted in the Google Play market are trying a clever trick to avoid detection -- they monitor the motion-sensor input of an infected device before installing a powerful banking trojan to make sure…
From Computational Complexity
ACM prize and some thoughts on the Godel Prize
As Lance Tweeted, and I will re-iterate, nominations for the following prizes
are due soon and you can nominate people here
Godel Prize for outstanding paper in TCS. (Godel mentioned P vs NP in a letter to Von Neuman. I've…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana as a Skill in other Assistants
Good, as opposed to having assistants competing, have them work together by addressing particular contexts. Not Sure how this will work with Cortana exactly, would make sense for it to provide assistance for its office suite…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Containers – Democratizing HPC
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, CJ Newburn from NVIDIA describes how developers can quickly containerize their applications and how users can benefit from running their workloads with containers from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud.
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From insideHPC
Bright Computing Powers HPC at Groupe Logiciel
Today, Bright Computing announced that Bechtle France has won a contract to be the sole distributor of Bright Computing's products and solutions to Groupe Logiciel’s academic and research institutions across France. "I'm excited…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Democratizing AI in Health Care
Perhaps surprising because of the particularly technical aspect of healthcare data. Interpretation of results are also most important.
Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care in MIT News
Leo Celi, a researcher at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Tips for Modelers
Nice thoughts. I am not a design modeler, but can these also be applied to other forms of modeling? I often think of 'Sketching' as the first step of design, re-design and analysis. In the Sketchup Blog:
Nine Workflow Tips…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Profile Books, 31 January 2019 704 pages The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Newsletter, January 2019
At the link is lots of detailed information, past presentation details and future schedule, challenges, research details, etc. Join us.
International Society of Service Innovation Professionals
ISSIP Monthly Newsletter | Issue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Changing Music Industry
Better ways to re-use, enhance, even creatively construct to goals. Sounds like a method we could use on data assets to improve their value.
How AI Is Changing the Music Industry
ABC News by Katharine Gammon
Artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
In this video from the European R Users Meeting, Henrik Bengtsson from the University of California San Francisco presents: A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone. "The future package is a powerful…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: System Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Successful…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 19th, 2019)
Losing even just a bit of weight can be enough to restore fertility in women. Digital technology does not appear to have a significant negative effect on teenagers, according to an article published by Nature. According to an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communications Between People and Smart Buildings
Every interaction between people and machines is a conversation. And we are starting to be able to sculpt that conversation in ways that it can be most efficient and useful. Experiments underway are numerous and broad.
Improving…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hotel Loses Love for Robots
Followed this early on, but missed on a potential for an early visit. They seem to now be working on what makes more practical sense. Was set up in 2015 near Tokyo Disneyland.
Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots The Wall…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Lollipops
Two squid lollipops, handmade by Shinri Tezuka. 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 insideHPC
DOE to Provide $45 Million for Materials Research in Quantum Information Science
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to provide $45 million for new research in chemical and materials sciences aimed at advancing the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). "QIS will play…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Democratizing Data Science
Nice thought, though I wonder how the use/presentation of the results can spin the outcome. Note the use of Bayesian methods, which we also used extensively to provide more explainable results. Use of the Jupyter notebook
Democratizing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rolling Driverless Convenience Stores
Look forward to seeing something like this.
Stop & Shop to Test Driverless Mobile Markets in ThePacker
Stop & Shop customers in the Boston area will be able to shop directly from driverless delivery vehicles in a test set to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger CEO Makes Predictions for Retail's Future
Kroger wants to closely follow the technical future of retail.
Kroger CEO makes predictions for retail's future in Foodnavigator
The retail of the future will look different from today, combining physical and digital shopping
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From insideHPC
Video: Accelerating Science & Impacting the Real World
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Thomas Anthony from the University of Alabama presents: Computing - Accelerating Science & Impacting the Real World. "As the cornerstone service of ASA's charter, we provide High Performance…
From insideHPC
Intel becomes First Corporate Champion for Women in HPC
Today the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) organization announced that Intel Corporation has become its first Corporate Champion. WHPC’s mission is to promote best practices in workforce diversity and inclusion in HPC…