Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Shoppers: Paper from the CACM
An area we worked in for years, in our labs and in real stores. here a n excellent update from the ACM:
"Tracking Shoppers," by Keith Kirkpatrick, explains how brick-and-mortar retailers, like their online counterparts, are using…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: HPC Saudi Conference
The HPC Saudi Conference has issued its Call for Papers. Taking place March 17-19 in Riyadh, HPC Saudi enables participants from academia, industry, and government come together to share ideas and experiences, and discuss cooperation…
From insideHPC
Top Data Storage Predictions for 2020
Today Qumulo announced its 2020 data storage predictions. Qumulo’s predictions are guided by the enterprise’s realization that legacy scale-out and scale-up NAS storage solutions were not designed to handle today’s unstructured…
From insideHPC
Univa Releases Navops Launch 2.0 for Migrating HPC & AI Workloads to the Cloud
oday Univa announced the general availability of Navops Launch 2.0, its flagship cloud-automation platform, designed to help enterprises simplify the migration of HPC and AI workloads to their choice of cloud. "With 9 out of
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From insideHPC
Video: The Convergence of Big Data and Large-scale Simulation
David Keyes from KAUST gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "Analytics can provide to machine learning feature vectors for training. Machine learning, in turn, can impute missing data and provide detection and classification. The scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Privacy Framework
Brought to my closer attention this week. An excellent checklist for important privacy issues in current and approaching technology contexts. Currently reviewing for projects underway. Like the fact that this is considering…
From Schneier on Security
Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store
To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Validated Designs for IOT
Of interest via Cisco, new to me, much more below:
Internet of Things (IoT)
New Cisco Validated Designs offer customers more recipes for IoT success
Bryan Tantzen
In the kitchen, you strive to use the highest-quality ingredients
In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Transforms Workplace Experiences
A move forward in related capabilities using AI
IBM Transforms Workplace Experiences With New AI Capability For Intelligent Real Estate And Facility Management
IBM Corporation logo. ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules for Crypto Business in Singapore
Interesting as an example of what kind of regulations are being written. An note the connection to business models. How about process models? Installation of specific risk and fraud predictions and alarms?
The Monetary Authority…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Web Development
Like to see more specific examples of this, since it bears on the elements of complex goal directed process. Also the specific elements of efficiency. But would not it expect to add to transparency.
AI Is Changing Web Development…
From insideHPC
ISC 2020 Revamps Invited Program
Today the ISC 2020 conference announced improvements to its Invited Program. The conference takes place June 21-25 in Frankfurt, Germany. "ISC High Performance 2020 will showcase the latest advancements in HPC, encompassing all…
From BLOG@CACM
Why Is There No Well-Known Swiss IT Industry?
Herbert Bruderer asks why no information technology industry emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s, despite the appearance of computers from several sources.
From insideHPC
Simula Research Lab to Manage Heterogeneous HPC Platform with Bright Computing
Today, Bright Computing announced that Simula Research Laboratory has chosen Bright Cluster Manager to manage its multi-architecture, multi-OS HPC environment. "After a careful evaluation, Simula chose Bright Cluster Manager
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From insideHPC
LANL’s EMC3 Consortium enjoys rapid growth in its first year
Just over a year after Los Alamos National Laboratory launched the Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3), 15 companies, universities and federal organizations are now working together to explore new ways to make…
From insideHPC
IBM Announces New AI Inference POWER9 Server
Today IBM announced a new AI Inference POWER9 Server. The new IBM Power System IC922 is a purpose-built inference server designed to put your AI models to work and help you unlock business insights. "The IBM Power IC922 supports…
From insideHPC
Intel Powers HLRN-IV Supercomputer at ZIB in Germany
In this video, Prof. Ramin Yahayapour from the University of Göttingen describes how the Lise supercomputer at ZIB is powering research and discovery. With 5.355 Petaflops of performance on the Linpack benchmark, the Atos system…
From Schneier on Security
Google Receives Geofence Warrants
Sometimes it's hard to tell the corporate surveillance operations from the government ones: Google reportedly has a database called Sensorvault in which it stores location data for millions of devices going back almost a decade…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity of Showing How AI Decides
Thoughtful piece on the problem of how to reasonably provide explanation. Have now looked at several means of addressing the problem. Consider carefully the decisions being driven and risks involved.
Grilling the answers: How…
From Schneier on Security
Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline…
From insideHPC
Candace Culhane from LANL to Chair SC22
Candace Culhane, a program/project director in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Directorate for Simulation and Computation, has been selected as the general chair for the 2022 SC Conference (SC22). "We are thrilled to announce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Met Police to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras in London
Not surprising at all to me, given the broad use of cameras already in the UK. And despite all the complaints regarding privacy, this will be the future of such systems, tied to live facial recognition.
Met Police to Use Live…
From insideHPC
Video Showcase: Lenovo Hosts AI Researchers at SC19
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net writes that university researchers had an opportunity to showcase their work at the the third annual University AI Challenge at SC19. "Winning researchers were rewarded
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Avast Data to be Sold
Currently looking at the process of how data is gathered, enhanced and sold ... here a good example
Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars
The data doesn't include personal information, but experts…
From insideHPC
Call for Applications: ATPESC 2020 Extreme-Scale Computing Training Program
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) has issued its Call for Applications. The event will take place from July 26–August 7 in the Chicago area. "ATPESC provides intensive, two-week training on the
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From insideHPC
Top Three Predictions for HPC, AI, and the Cloud 2020
In this special guest feature, Altair CTO Sam Mahalingam predicts that HPC and AI will continue to move forward in interesting ways in 2020. "As the decade has closed, we are now at a point when HPC and cloud work together to…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Microbiome
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker from LBNL describe how the ExaBiome project is developing computational tools to analyze microbial species—bacteria or viruses that typically live in communities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Self Learning to Correct Mistakes
In all conversation there is adjustments of our interactions.Good piece here that shows how this is being proposed for a common assistant.
Amazon Uses Self-Learning to Teach Alexa to Correct its Own Mistakes
The digital assistant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Micro Networks
Do that already in business with things like Slack and Teams.
Why private micro-networks could be the future of how we connect in Technology Review
Forget amassing likes or cultivating your online persona. Apps like Cocoon are
by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real-time Mapping and Localization
Much work underway in smart mapping ... Given the increasing need for real-time intelligence. We used aspects of this in forestry asset analysis.
Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping technique uses available Wi…