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 The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Risk Disclosure
Cyber Risk Disclosure
No secret that this has become very serious. Now to what degree can we measure the risk involved, given the evolution of methods involved for protection and breach?
Cyber Risk Disclosure - Who Cares? In…
From insideHPC
WACCPD Workshop at SC16 to Focus on Using Directives for Accelerators
The third Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD) has posted their meeting agenda. Held in conjunction with SC16, the WACCPD workshop takes place Nov. 14 in Salt Lake City. "To address the rapid pace of
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From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at the Julia Language for Technical Computing
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the creators of the Julia programming language for technical computing. “Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivery Bots to Soon Test in DC
With considerable advantages over drones in specific contexts. Likely to become common in city scapes. In CWorld:
Autonomous delivery bots will soon stroll D.C. streets
The pilot delivery program is slated to begin sometime…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On an Experimental UX for AI Assistants
In Medium. Contextual Bubbles ...
" ... At Snips, we have spent the past year building technologies for assistants, from analyzing your location patterns to extracting relevant stuff from your email and chat messages. But…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Productivity at Wal-Mart
In Investors.com. New Innovation for productivity at Wal-Mart.
How Wal-Mart May Revive U.S. Productivity — And Its Own Fortunes by Jed Graham
Wal-Mart brought back its Smiley icon this year as the mark of its low-price deals. Now…
From Putting People First
New Masters in Interaction Design in Italy
Gillian Crampton Smith (among others former director of the legendary Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) and Philip Tabor (among others fomer director of the Bartlett School of Architecture) will direct a new Master in Interaction…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Barramundi with Squid Ink Risotto
Squid ink risotto is a good accompaniment for any mild fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Cancer Diagnostics with CyVerse
Adam Buntzman and his colleagues at the University of Arizona recently developed a tool that uses CyVerse supercomputing resources to create the first nearly comprehensive map of the human immunome, all the possible immune receptors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science for an Internet of Things
More extracts form the Open Gardens blog by Ajit. Following now.
Creating an open methodology for Internet of Things (IoT) Analytics: Data science for Internet of Things January, 2016 By Ajit.
A methodology for solving problems…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Is Being Truthful A Good Thing?
In the context of stable matching problems Jamie Morgenstern is a researcher into machine learning, economics, and especially mechanism design. Today Ken and I would like to discuss a joint paper of hers on the classic problem…
From insideHPC
AMD GPUs to Speed Alibaba Cloud
Today AMD announced that the Alibaba Cloud will use AMD Radeon Pro GPU technology to help expand its cloud computing offerings and accelerate adoption of its cloud-based services. "The partnership between AMD and Alibaba Cloud…
From insideHPC
Jack Dongarra Presents: Adaptive Linear Solvers and Eigensolvers
Jack Dongarra presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "ATPESC provides intensive, two weeks of training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target to Test Vertical Farms in Stores
Interesting play that uses existing real estate footprints. Attract new consumers. Place to test other technologies like drones and robotics to test sensor and labor alternatives?
Target to test vertical farms in stores Retailwire…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors
Some of the latest Intel processors support the AVX-512 family of vector instructions. These instructions operate on blocks of 512 bits (or 64 bytes). The benefit of such wide instructions is that even without increasing theContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Surveys the Gig Economy
McKinsey via surveys and useful interpretation and advice for our 'industry'.
Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy
By James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan…
From insideHPC
Job of the week: Director at NCI in Australia
NCI in Australia is seeking a new Director in our Job of the Week. Based in the Nation’s capital, and hosted by the Australian National University, NCI is supported by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research…
From insideHPC
New OpenCAPI Consortium to Boost Server Performance 10x
"IBM has decided to double down on our commitment to open standards and enablement of industry innovation by opening up access to our CAPI technology to the entire industry. With the support of our OpenCAPI co-founders, we have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolving CRISP-DM
We examined, but never formally used Crisp-DM. ( Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining ) Even if you do not use it formally, its worth looking at as a checklist of considerations for analytics process oriented applications…
From The Noisy Channel
I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…
I’m something of a hybrid between a chief scientist, engineering leader, and product leader. But I’m not particularly an IT and operations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Problems and Grocery
Interesting because we looked at potential problems for quantum, and very combinatorial problems are there. But not, practically, delivery routing. Which by its nature is done well enough without it.
At the bleeding edge of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI That Turns a Body into a Digital Platform
Quite fascinating approach related in engineering.com, with multiple and unexpected uses.
Meet the AI That Turns a Body into a Digital Platform
Michael Molitch-Hou posted on October 14, 2016
However achingly slow, the bright technological…
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration
On today's Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations hold the balance of power. If we are to leave a better Internet…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Security and the Internet of Things
Yesterday I wrote about Cars and Code about the intersection of transportation and software development. As a teaser I mentioned secure code and the need for that with our software dependent and increasingly connected cars. Car…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaning of Life without Work
The Singularity University Asks: What Is the Meaning of Life If Society Doesn’t Need You to Work Anymore? by David J. Hill With several people involved that I have worked with on related topics. " ... Paul Saffo, Jeremy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lists in the Virtual Assistant
In general have found the management of shopping, to-do and related lists in virtual assistants to be too primitive for general use. People naturally think using lists to save and arrange and complete things. Now word that …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Daydream VR Examined
Hand on look in Engadget. Indxpensive,.Field of view claimed to be good. Emerging content. Only one compatible phone at this time, a key issue?
Google's Daydream View is the VR headset for the masses
This might be the first…
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Introduces Petabyte Flash Arrays
Today Pure Storage announced the availability of petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by the release of the next-generation of FlashArray//m the company’s flagship all-flash storage array, which now
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cars and Code
The other day I heard someone talk about what it might be like if car makers or other manufacturers released products the way most companies released software. Think about it. “We think the wheels will stay on but we’re looking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Asimov Institute
Brought to my attention:
Asimov Institute:
Machine Creativity
We are an artificial intelligence research company that utilizes deep learning technology to develop tools for the creative industry – architects, graphic designers,…