Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2017
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Michael Cohen 1992-2017 and Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2017
Two more tragic losses coming before a greater tragedy Composite of crops from src1, src2 Michael Cohen and Vladimir Voevodsky were in different stages of their careers. Cohen was a graduate student at MIT and was visiting the…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Come to Oracle Bare Metal Cloud
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Kristin Bryson writes that the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud now offers Tesla P100 GPUs for technical computing. "The move underscores growing demand for public-cloud access to our GPU computing platform from…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Breaches: Time to Implement a Forward-looking Research Agenda
The following is a guest blog post from CCC Council Member and Cybersecurity Task Force Member Nadya Bliss from Arizona State University. “Massive breach of databases containing personal information. Millions of records exposed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Releases the Teachable Machine
From the Official Google Blog. No coding. Quite a thought. Exploring.
Now anyone can explore machine learning, no coding required
From helping you find your favorite dog photos, to helping farmers in Japan sort cucumbers, machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redesigning Voice and Scanning Shopping Lists
We spent much time looking at ease of use and psych of the shopping list. Often mentioned here (see the tag below). Here is a unitasking solution to grocery lists. By voice, and with much better design, they say. Current…
From insideHPC
Jonathan Poggie from Purdue Wins DoD Computing Award
Associate Professor Jonathan Poggie and his team from Purdue have received a large research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for supercomputing resources. The award enables science and technology research that would
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Why we are Social
Something to think about whenever we do Social. I note Davis mentions Byron Reeves, who we used as the basis for some of our work with consumer facing chatbots. His book, The Media Equation, is worth a look.
Why Facebook Is…
From insideHPC
Engility To Provide NOAA With HPC Expertise
Today Engility announced $14 million in task order awards from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Engility scientists will conduct HPC software development and optimization, help users gain scientific insights, and…
From insideHPC
Take Our HPC & AI Survey and Win an Echo Show Device
The rise of AI could potentially spur huge growth for the High Performance Computing market, but what kinds of results are your peers already getting right now? There is one way to find out--by taking our HPC & AI Suvey. In return…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Buys Parcel to Compete with Amazon
Walmart buys Parcel in latest attempt to battle Amazon delivery machine by Valentina Palladino in ArsTechnica
Walmart comes to New York in the most Amazon-like way.
Walmart is trying to beat Amazon at its own game and the company's…
From insideHPC
A Vision for Exascale: Simulation, Data and Learning
Rick Stevens gave this talk at the recent ATPESC training program. "The ATPESC program provides intensive, two weeks of training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science…
From BLOG@CACM
Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
From insideHPC
Supporting Diverse HPC Workloads on a Single Cluster
High Performance Computing is extending its reach into new areas. Not only are modeling and simulation being used more widely, but deep learning and other high performance data analytics (HPDA) applications are becoming essential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning's Advance
Why did these methods not work in the late 80s? We used them, but could only get them to replicate the performance of classic statistical techniques, to analyze marketing data, but not take it beyond to tougher problems. So…
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Tracking
Interesting survey paper: on the privacy implications of e-mail tracking: Abstract: We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We assembled a corpus of commercial mailing-list emails…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Saber Khan
I believe I first met Saber Khan over Twitter. Since them we have interacted in a number of ways on and off line. We met face to face for the first time this past summer at the CSTA Conference. To say we’ve had some interesting…
From Putting People First
Don’t miss Experientia at Torino Design of the City
Torino Design of the City is nearly here! Experientia will of course be part of this exciting week (10-16 October) of events, meetings, workshops, exhibitions and guided tours about design, and we warmly invite you to join us…
From insideHPC
FPGAs Power New Intel Programmable Acceleration Cards
Today, Intel announced a comprehensive hardware and software platform solution to enable faster deployment of customized field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based acceleration of networking, storage and computing workloads.
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium Symposium
Since its inception, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has hosted dozens of visioning workshops to envision, discuss, and catalyze the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. The Computing Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TensorFlow Tutorial
Mostly non technical, useful for non tech exec introduction. Needs more comparative implications to other approaches. Why use it as opposed to other open methods? Restrictions of architecture?
Tensorflow Tutorial : Part 1…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOm Provides Voices in AI
GigaOM has put together a series of at least 7 interviews about AI by practitioners. Note these are not about 'Voice', but about what AI is, as it is defined today, what it can do, and the implications. Below is the first,…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing to Accelerate Clean Fusion Energy
In this special guest feature, Jon Bashor from LBNL writes that Exascale computing will accelerate the push toward clean fusion energy. For decades, scientists have struggled to create a clean, unlimited energy source here on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Teams with ADT
No mention of Voice or Bixby here. Connection with a major security system provider is important.
Samsung teams up with ADT for new SmartThings-powered home security system by Chaim Gartenberg
Samsung announced a new SmartThings…
From insideHPC
IEEE Recognizes Three Early Career Researchers in HPC
Today the IEEE Computer Society announced the winners of the IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on HPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. The TCHPC Award recognizes up to three individuals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solver Methods Improved by Frontline
Was an early user of Solver. Should not be forgotten given all the new claims out there today. Solver works directly as an add-on to Excel 365. And as mentioned below, this new version is cloud ready and free. Has been used…
From insideHPC
How Can We Bring Apps to Racks?
In this special guest feature, Rosemary Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus describes why the customized nature of HPC is not a sustainable path forward for the next generation. "The downside is that many of our systems and tools…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future is Now
Gartner looks at futurology:
The Future is Here. The Future is Now. by Frank Buytendijk
We’re getting a bit tired of all the future hype. Don’t we?
In the future we’re all going to be dead, freely after Keynes. How’s that for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Uses AI to Self Heal, Adapt
Have heard relatively little about Oracle and AI. Useful to look at more examples of internal uses of technologies to maintain and deliver value. Intrigued about how such systems measure their 'correctness'. Ultimately all…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Opens AI Lab in Montreal
Following closely what Samsung is doing, given their broad involvement with home appliances and the Smart Home via SmartThings.
Samsung is the latestTech Giant to Open an AI Lab in Canada By Lulu Chang
From insideHPC
Multiscale Dataflow Computing: Competitive Advantage at the Exascale Frontier
"This talk will explain the motivation behind dataflow computing to escape the end of frequency scaling in the push to exascale machines, introduce the Maxeler dataflow ecosystem including MaxJ code and DFE hardware, and demonstrate…