Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2016
From insideHPC
White House Releases Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence
?Today, to ready the United States for a future in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a growing role, the White House is releasing a report on future directions and considerations for AI called Preparing for the Future
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From insideHPC
European Scientists Can Access more PRACE Supercomputing Power
European scientists and researchers can now apply for access to PRACE supercomputing resources through the PRACE Call 14.
The post European Scientists Can Access more PRACE Supercomputing Power appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Everywhere
Because the seas are much less crowded than the streets, robotics are taking over oceans for a number of purposes. The air will soon be next. In Technology Review.
From insideHPC
Video: How to Reclaim your Application Performance
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Martin Hilgeman from Dell Technologies provides a detailed overview of how to approach code optimization through providing more parallelism. "Martin Hilgeman brings…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub DataStart Highlights
As a result of the CCC / CRA Industry Academic Survey, conducted in spring of 2015 and the CCC Industry Roundtable Discussion held on July 24, 2015, the CCC partnered with the four NSF-sponsored Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs…
From insideHPC
Preparing Code For Parallel Execution
With the advent of the tremendous compute density of new processors, it is important to understand if an application can take advantage of multicore. "Developers should understand if an application might be ready to run in a
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From Schneier on Security
The Psychology of Bad Password Habits
Interesting data and analysis....
From Computational Complexity
2016 Fall Jobs Post
The weather cools down, the leaves change color and you start thinking about what you plan to do after you graduate. As a public service every year about this time, we offer up links and advice for the job search for PhDs in
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Dishwasher Things Ordering Their Own Detergent
A long time idea often discussed in the enterprise. And another spin of the IOT.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Reinventing Organizations
When I first read about these methods, was not expecting that Blockchain Will Transform And Reinvent Organizations, Ecosystems And Economies - in Forbes By Shanker Ramamurthy, IBM. Is there anything they won't do? Read the…
From Schneier on Security
Free Online Cybersecurity Economics Course
TU Delft is running a free online class in cybersecurity economics....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP Report- Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
This blog post was co-authored by CCC Staff and Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, with contributions from Beth Mynatt,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Streams New Engagement
Despite all the other aspects of the Amazon Echo, I believe delivering music easily by voice command is the thing that gets most people interested. It has flipped me to a near continual music and information listener. I
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR and Mental Health Care
Saw this suggested a number of times a decade plus ago. Can you set up environments to 'train' way issues like these? It did not seem to gain traction then, Does it need VR or can it be driven by simpler interaction?
How Virtual…
From insideHPC
NYU Advances Robotics with Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer
In this video, NYU researchers describe their plans to advance deep learning with their new Nvidia DGX-1 AI supercomputer. “The DGX-1 is going to be used in just about every research project we have here,” said Yann LeCun, founding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Multi-Step Expert Advice for Cognitive Computing.
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others,
This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series this week, Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT and 4:30pm in Germany). Our presenter…
From insideHPC
Cheyenne – NCAR’s Next-Gen Data-Centric Supercomputer
In this video, Dave Hart, CISL User Services Manager presents: Cheyenne - NCAR's Next-Generation Data-Centric Supercomputing Environment. "Cheyenne is a new 5.34-petaflops, high-performance computer built for NCAR by SGI. The…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: PASC17 Conference in Lugano
The PASC17 Conference has issued its Call for Submissions. Co-sponsored by ACM and SIGHPC, the event will take place June 26-28, 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. "The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance…
From insideHPC
Allinea Tools Helping Science Move to Intel Xeon Phi
“Being ready with full support for Intel Xeon Phi from day one has been a key strategy for Allinea and underpins our approach for supporting customers, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Trinity system, Argonne National…
From insideHPC
DDN Collaborates with Lenovo at HPC Innovation Center in Germany
"The Lenovo HPC organization is delighted to welcome DDN into our HPC Innovation and Benchmark center and strengthen our close collaboration,” said Rick Koopman, EMEA Technical Lead HPC DCG HPC at Lenovo. “With DDN’s high-performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material Science Trivia
This bit of material science trivia would have been useful in a problem from long ago. What force does it take to push an object through muddy or sandy material? Trying to find the problem statement we had. Related to Resistive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sirens and Geofeedia
Had not heard of the Geofeedia system. Previously wrote about Siren approaches to detecting unrest. Had heard of the growing centralized systems that integrate camera systems and other data from many systems worldwide. Where…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching For Change
This post by Valerie Barr (How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching) really resonates with me. A lot of what education is about is helping students develop into the people they need to be to make society better…
From Schneier on Security
The Psychological Impact of Doing Classified Intelligence Work
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here...
From Writing
How to use Terraform as a team
In the previous parts of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series, we explained why we picked Terraform, introduced the basic syntax and features of Terraform, discussed how to manage Terraform state, showed how to create reusable…
From ACM on Huffington Post
Internet and Society - Looking Toward the Future
Computers, computational algorithms, new forms of computing such as quantum computing, and the aggregation of large amounts of measured data have set the stage for new discoveries and insights about the world around us and in…
From Schneier on Security
Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure
You can edit anyone's information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone's voter registration and make changes to it? The offer from Steve Klink -- a Lafayette-based…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The White House Frontiers Conference
This Thursday President Obama will host the White House Frontiers Conference, a national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to explore the future of innovation here and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Innovative Spaces
In the building of our innovation centers we took early looks at what it meant to be innovative. I was in particular about what it took to be interactive with both your spaces and your data. How can you tell an effective story…
From insideHPC
StartupHPC at SC16 Announces Keynote Speakers
The StartupHPC Conference has announced their keynotes speakers for their upcoming meeting at SC16. Now in its third year, the event takes place Nov. 13 at the Grand America in Salt Lake City. "StartupHPC-16 speakers represent…