Communications of the ACM
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October 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Re-inventing the WhiteBoard
Have seen a number of attempts at this. None really successful. Perhaps the ultimate solution will be some augmented reality approach. Surprised in particular that Google is playing here. In CWorld:
Google is trying to reinvent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announcements: Linking Watson to Reality
Today's announcements, which included considerable new thoughts for the use of Data, Machine learning and Bot shaped designs. So better interfaces to data, analytics and humans. Comes down to how easily and cheaply such…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Democratize Deep Learning
Continued tendency to create and liberate tools for Cognitive. I like that. Still will take considerable design and data management tools and skills. Deep learning is a very useful, but still narrow skill for generalized
Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Marketing to Millennials
In Retailwire. Good overview on the use of channel interactions by millennials in Retail, and discussion. In the discussion, Peter Fader makes a good point:
Peter Fader
Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School of the Univ.…
From insideHPC
ASML taps Livermore for Extreme UV Chip Manufacturing
Tomorrow's top supercomputers will require chips built using advanced lithography far beyond today's capabilities. Towards this end, Lawrence Livermore National Lab today announced a collaboration with ASML, a leading builder…
From insideHPC
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Updates for Deep Learning Advances
Today Microsoft released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Develops New Architecture for Combinatorial Optimization
Today Fujitsu Laboratories announced a collaboration with the University of Toronto to develop a new computing architecture to tackle a range of real-world issues by solving combinatorial optimization problems that involve finding…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science and the Good Idea Fairy
The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we talk about is parity checking (I blogged about that three years ago at Making Magic)…
From insideHPC
Seagate Launches World’s Fastest Hard Drive
"Performance demands on enterprise datacenters today are increasing as customers consider agile storage solutions to handle diverse workloads. The key to success is to apply the right technologies to the right workloads, and
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing System Security Updates
Recent malicious attacks have highlighted the need to update systems to provide security.
In the Cisco Blog:
Have you ever told your team, “Upgrading our equipment is too expensive and likely to cause downtime. Let’s just keep…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analog Methods for AI
Came into computing at the very end of analog computing systems being taught. I remember asking why, and got the answer that they were being replaced by digital methods. Essentially a digital system could simulate any analog…
From insideHPC
The Intelligent Industrial Revolution
"Over the past six weeks, we took NVIDIA’s developer conference on a world tour. The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) was started in 2009 to foster a new approach to high performance computing using massively parallel processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving the Problem of AI
Stanford's Fei Fei Li Looks to Solve the Problem of Artificial Intelligence
Right after the Startup of the Year competition finished, Fei Fei Li, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University, took the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Cognitive Computing
I like to see what the definitions, and thus perceptions of new technologies are from varied kinds of customers. Here from Customerthink.
From Phys.org Technology News
Washington's version of Silicon Valley startup founders
The Obama administration's "18F" program to create its own version of a high-tech startup for government digital projects has foundered since its launch in 2014, losing nearly $32 million as its staff spent most of its time on…
From Phys.org Technology News
Report: Gunmen still control metals mined for modern gadgets
Violent gunmen still menace pick-and-shovel miners in eastern Congo, a new report finds, despite years of efforts to loosen their grip by local reformers, Western activists and companies like Apple and Intel that use minerals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing with a Watson Bot: GSK: Cough and Cold Pharma
An example of a bot style interaction with a product. Using IBM Watson as a means to provide natural language, cognitive knowledge. Again recall our Mr Clean efforts in this area. We did not have the Tech to deliver this directly…
From Computational Complexity
Exaggeration is one thing but this is....
This website is about the history of math and lists famous mathematicians. The ones from the 20th century are biased towards logic, but you should go there yourself and see who you think they left out.
There entry on Paul Cohen…
From Schneier on Security
UK Admitting "Offensive Cyber" Against ISIS/Daesh
I think this might be the first time it has been openly acknowledged: Sir Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, has said Britain is using cyber warfare in the bid to retake Mosul from Islamic State. Speaking at an international…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Transportation SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Training Webinars
The Department of Transportation is holding a series of webinars developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Safety Training and Analysis Center (STAC) for researchers as an introduction to the SHRP2 Naturalistic…
From XRDS
Cancer: From Biology to Computer Science
October is the breast cancer awareness month. Cancer is classified as a genetic disease caused by the abnormal cell division that destroy body tissue. Wait! Cell? Body tissue? Disease? So now you might be wondering: what does…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Correctness of AI
More from Cambridge University and the newly formed Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI): Artificial intelligence: computer says YES (but is it right?)
My comments:
As long as we measure business results, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware of Rating People Online
Not usually a follower of this, but happened on this bitingly vicious satirical look at the online 'ratings' game for people and businesses. Exaggerated, as all satire should be. Has a glaring hole in its logic, as pointed…
From insideHPC
Thomas Schulthess to Present Goals and Baselines for Exascale at SC16
Next month at SC16, Dr. Thomas Schulthess from CSCS in Switzerland will present a talk entitled “Reflecting on the Goal and Baseline for Exascale Computing.” The presentation will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 11:15 am
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From insideHPC
Students Learn HPC at ARL Supercomputing Summer Institute
The DOD High Performance Computing Program and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) hosted the Supercomputing Summer Institute July 18-29, 2016, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The program introduced students to high…
From insideHPC
ORNL Celebrates 4 Years of the Titan Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Lab is celebrating the fourth birthday of Titan, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. that is currently ranked at #3 on the TOP500. "To celebrate Titan’s 4th “birthday” properly, the OLCF needs your help!
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From insideHPC
BSC Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation. The news will be part of a keynote address by BSC Director, Mateo Valero at the OpenPOWER Summit Europe, which takes place this week in Barcelona.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Design Studio
Elev8 Alexa Application Design Studio
Interesting claims to allow the development of Alexa skills without programming for home or business use. Local company here. Good idea, examining.
" ... Elev8 harnesses the power of Amazon…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2016
The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of the new K-12 Computer Science Curriculum framework. The DDoS attack was local news for me…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition. To get us primed up, Dan gives us his impressions of the 14 teams competing this year. That's a record number! "The Student Cluster Competition…