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 Schneier on Security
Remote Malware Attacks on ATMs
This report discusses the new trend of remote malware attacks against ATMs....
From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Search: Using Human Judgement
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.
In the previous post, we looked at measuring searcher behavior in order to evaluate search engine performance. Measuring searcher behavior is valuable, but a robust evaluation process also…From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Search: Measuring Searcher Behavior
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.
Measuring the effectiveness of your search engine is hard. Fortunately, you have an army of volunteers helping you: your customers. The best way to measure how well your search engine’s effectiveness…From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Good Search (Part I): Measure It
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.
At Twiggle, we’re all about improving the search experience. But how do we define improvement? As Lord Kelvin, one of history’s greatest scientists and engineers, said: “If you cannot measure…From Computational Complexity
Monty Hall (1921-2017) and His Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is the Blockchain?
WTF is The Blockchain? Mohit Mamoria Editor, Unmade
The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain. .... "
From insideHPC
Scaling Up and Out with ARM Architectures
Vijay Nagarajan from the University of Edinburgh gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The second annual Arm Research Summit is an academic summit to discuss future trends and disruptive technologies across all sectors
…
From insideHPC
HPC4Mfg Program Seeks New Projects
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program in the Energy Department’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) announced today their intent to issue their fifth solicitation in January 2018 to fund projects…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Robotics
More Swarms. Now how do we get the cooperation right? With centralized control.
Introducing a New Robotic Class With Abilities Out-Performing Existing Machines or Even Biological Organisms CORDIS News
The European Union-funded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Riding a One Trick Pony
In technology review. See also the comments, which include quite a few people, like myself, who participated in both AI 'revolutions'. What we know now is that this latest one works very well for certain very useful contests…