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
Allinea to Offer New Software Performance Briefings at SC16
Today Allinea Software announced that the compay will hold series of New Software Performance Briefings at SC16. The briefings will be held at the Allinea booth #1508 in Salt Lake City. This year at SC, we’re giving booth visitors…
From insideHPC
Parallware Selected for SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase
Today European software startup Appentra announced that its Parallware technology for guided parallelization has been selected to be part of the SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase. "As a technology with the potential to influence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Bezos: Echo and AI for Health Care
Had brainstormed some possibilities here, but still felt the devices had not evolved enough in terms of accuracy and dependability. Will be watching Amazon Echo and new entries into the voice activated and AI driven space.
Jeff…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Dot Energy Extraction
In IEEE Spectrum. Quantum dot research at Los Alamos points to efficient window coatings that can extract useful energy.
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Makes Workers More Productive
Interesting research....
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Opportunities in Deep Learning
"This talk will provide empirical evidence from our Deep Speech work that application level performance (e.g. recognition accuracy) scales with data and compute, transforming some hard AI problems into problems of computational…
From Phys.org Technology News
Groundbreaking review on counteracting mobile phone distraction while driving
With mobile phone use by drivers now a reality, a groundbreaking QUT review looking at the issue as a task-sharing problem has recommended further research into how to make the practice safer.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech Industry Ph.D.s: Academia Can Be Nicer Than You Think
If more Ph.D.s do not return to the academy, there will not be enough graduates capable of taking all those high tech jobs.
From XRDS
CHI PLAY 2016 – Day 3
Highlights from the third day of ACM CHI PLAY 2016 - the international conference on human-computer interaction in play. Continue reading
The post CHI PLAY 2016 – Day 3 appeared first on XRDS.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Invitation to the NIH Open Data Science Symposium
The Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would like to invite you and your communities to attend the Open Data Science Symposium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sailfish Suite
Just recently saw this: Big Data Analytics using the Sailfish Suite.
" ... MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An algorithm that predicts consumer retail trends down to the style of sweater that’s most likely to sell out this fall…
From insideHPC
Driving Collaborative Research Partnerships at IBM
Martina Naughton presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. "IBM has a strong tradition of research collaboration with academia. We go beyond the boundaries of our IBM labs to work with colleagues in universities…
From insideHPC
EPA Joins National Consortium for Data Science
"The work we do involves capturing and analyzing huge environmental data sets so that the government can make informed policy decisions that protect humans and the environment,” said Ron Hines, Associate Director for Health at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Marketing Blog
Just discovered this blog 'for practical shopper marketing'. Some useful thoughts about the topic. We did not agree with the premise, but treated the problem as a laboratory effort to be translated into the real world as engineering…
From insideHPC
Latest NAG Numerical Library Adds Optimization Modeling Suite
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group announces the latest version of its flagship software, the NAG Library, Mark 26. In this release, NAG has introduced an Optimization Modeling Suite for linear and nonlinear semidefinite programming…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC 2017 in Frankfurt
"ISC High Performance 2017 is now open to a number of submission opportunities. Whether your interest lies in research posters, project posters, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions or the PhD forum, ISC is welcoming proposals from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks and Complex Reasoning
Beyond just recognition, on to recognizing and reasoning. Like to see this in a business context that includes complex quant optimization. Some of our own experiences typically built a representative quant model, then had humans…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executives and Behavioral Science
Good post, makes sense, but always test the assumptions and the operational results.
Why executives should be interested in behavioural science by John Aves
In my last post I looked at the way in which Ikea, whether they knew…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Very Large Networks
Architectures and size. With some lessons from Google:
" ... I’m pretty sure that you would agree with me if I told you that your enterprise network will just be getting bigger and bigger over time. As the person with the CIO…
From insideHPC
A New Generation of Performance with Intel Xeon Phi
"With up to 72 out-of-order cores, the new Intel Xeon Phi processor delivers over 3 teraFLOPS (floating-point operations per second) of double-precision peak while providing 3.5 times higher performance per watt than the previous…
From Computational Complexity
Alternate Histories
Imagine if we had a machine that let us change some earlier moment in history and see what developed. We wouldn't actually change history--that would lead to paradoxes and other disasters, but we could see what would develop.…
From Schneier on Security
President Obama Talks About AI Risk, Cybersecurity, and More
Interesting interview: Obama: Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself looking to medicine and thinking about viruses, antibodies.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce Acquisitions for Data and Analytics
Interesting list, speculation of course, but the whys are interesting. In particular for companies that already deal with large amounts of data, its acquisition, analytics and delivery for business value. Not included, Linkedin…
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing Intel's ASLR
Researchers discover a clever attack that bypasses the address space layout randomization (ALSR) on Intel's CPUs. Here's the paper. It discusses several possible mitigation techniques....
From insideHPC
Seagate HPC User Forum Coming to SC16
The 3rd Annual Seagate HPC User Forum is coming to SC16 on Nov. 17. "We’re venturing well beyond legacy boundaries. Are you confused about the real future of HPC storage? Is it all flash like the hype suggests? Are reliable spinning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes in the Rules of Retailing
In Knowledge@Wharton:
How Target and Amazon Are Changing the Rules of Retailing
Wharton's Peter Fader and Syracuse's Amanda Nicholson discuss recent moves by Target and Amazon. ..."
The retail business is witnessing two potentially…
From insideHPC
Apply Now for ISC 2017 Student Cluster Competition
Attention students: there is still time to enter your team into the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition. As part of the ISC 2017 conference, the Student Cluster Competition will take place June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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From insideHPC
Dell EMC Isilon Goes All-Flash for Unstructured Data
Today Dell EMC announced a new member of the Dell EMC Isilon product family. Designed around an all-flash, the Isilon scale-out family of NAS storage is designed to help IT organizations modernize their infrastructure and deliver…
From insideHPC
Simulating Jellyfish Blooms to Protect Coastal Power Stations
Scientists at the University of Bristol are working with the energy industry to develop an 'early warning tool' to predict jellyfish blooms that can cause serious problems by clogging the water intakes of coastal power plants…
From CERIAS Blog
It Was A Good Monday
Mondays. There are many reasons Monday have a bad reputation. Few of us would claim to like Mondays.
My Monday earlier this week got off to a poor start. I was traveling to attend a workshop (a good one, on ethics in cyber) and…