Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2018
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ukrainian ACM CWiC
Ukrainian ACM CWiC
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
WeEDR2
ACM-W Celebration: Women Workshop on Educational Robotics, WeEDR2
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ChileWic
Chilewic, an ACM celebration
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
womENcourage
womENcourage 2018 – “Creating the Future Together” ACM Celebration of Women in Computing
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
RusCWIC
RusCWIC An ACM-W Celebration
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 6th, 2018)
Ibuprofen extends lifespan in many species including, maybe, human beings. Donna Strickland is the third women to win a Nobel prize in Physics. It appears that she won the prize for one 1985 article. Her scientific publications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manipulating P Values
More from Vincent Granville in DSC on P-Values and their misuse. I recall the repeating experiments as a trick in an early statistical analysis course. perhaps this is more common in other areas, but never saw this kind of
Statistical…
From Computational Complexity
John Sidles, Mike Roman, Matt Howell, please email me/hard to get emails of people
John Sidles, Mike Roman, Matt Howell : please email me. at [email protected] (my usual email)
I need to ask you about some comments you left on the blog a while back (or emailed me -- I forget which, but I can't find your emails…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Cyber Battlespace
Interesting view. Also to the extent it can be integrated with some measure, and prediction of risk. Classic approaches for risk analysis calculates likely, statistical views in a context we are operating in. The notion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Honda Smart Intersection View
Clever, we are starting to see better collaboration between people and machines. Here a good example. Will kind of car augmentation delay complete self-driving? Note this is now in test, and requires the intersection to become…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roles Driving AI Projects
In Forbes, this follows on some of my breadth points. Think of any technical roles being able to either be one of ... these roles or influence them.
Top 3 Roles Driving A Majority Of AI Projects in Cognitive World
in Forbes: …
From insideHPC
Summit Supercomputer Breaks Exaop Barrier on Neural Net Trained to Recognize Extreme Weather Patterns
A team of computational scientists from LBNL, ORNL, and engineers from NVIDIA has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has broken the exaop barrier for the first time ever. "Using a climate dataset from…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at AUS
The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for an HPC System Administrator position commencing in the Spring…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Watch Squid Change Colors
This is an amazing short video of a squid -- I don't know the species -- changing its color instantly. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Sales and Marketing
Have always been interested in how resources are delivered, and a big part of that is how the resources are organized and classified for useful application.
Rethinking The Sales And Marketing Organization By Dave Brock in Customerthink…
From insideHPC
OARnet in Ohio to Help Researchers Accelerate Big Data Sharing
OARnet recently joined several other regional and federal network organizations on a three-year, $3.5 million grant to help scientists more efficiently work with massive datasets that have become essential to modern scientific…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request for Comments on NIST IoT Draft Reports
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released two new requests for comments on draft publications related to the Internet of Things (IoT). The first document addresses trust concerns within IoT, while…
From insideHPC
Why SC18 is a Key Event for Tackling our Planet’s Toughest Challenges
In this special guest feature, SC18 Conference Chair Ralph A. McEldowney writes that HPC is now more crucial than ever to empower science for the benefit of humanity. "From hurricane and earthquake predictions to solving global…
From insideHPC
Video: D‑Wave Rolls Out Leap, A Quantum Application Development Environment
Today D-Wave Systems announced the immediate availability of free, real-time access to the D‑Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Leap is the first cloud-based QAE providing real-time access to a live quantum computer.
…
From insideHPC
Big Data over Big Distance: Zettar Moves a Petabyte over 5000 Miles in 29 Hours
Today AIC announced a world-record in data transfer: one petabyte in 29 hours encrypted data transfer, with data integrity checksum unconditionally enabled, over a distance of 5000 miles. The average transfer rate is 75Gbps,
…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
Interesting research paper: "Fear the Reaper: Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers": Abstract: Payment card fraud results in billions of dollars in losses annually. Adversaries increasingly acquire card data using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difficulties in Commonsense Reasoning
Abstract of good overview survey paper.
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
By Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus
Communications of the ACM, September 2015, Vol. 58 No. 9, Pages 92-103
10.1145/2701413…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and BP with Machine Learning
Deep Machine Learning: GE And BP Will Connect Thousands Of Subsea Oil Wells To The Industrial Internet ...
That magic is also the idea behind a new partnership between BP and GE’s Intelligent Platforms unit. Next year, BP will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Open Source Training Data
Always looking for good open source data, especially for testing models. William Vorhies of of DSC talks this. Sources and links. Good examples:
Lots of Free Open Source Datasets to Make Your AI Better Posted by William…
From Computational Complexity
Google added years to my life
If you google
gasarch
you used to get the following: here
Please go there and notice how old they say I am.
Okay, you are back. You may have noticed that they say I am 68. Gee, I don't feel 68 (I feel younger).
I have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Threat Intelligence Handbook
Just reading. Well done. See recordedfuture.com Get the free book here.
The Threat Intelligence Handbook (108 pages)
A Practical Guide for Security Teams to
Unlocking the Power of Intelligence
Edited by Chris Pace
Foreword…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Looks for Common Car Language
Makes lots of sense.
Ford asks for a common language for self-driving cars
It wants every car to signal its intentions the same way.
Jon Fingas, @jonfingas in Engadget
Ford has been developing its own means for self-driving cars
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Sets Standards for SC Blockchains
An indication that big enterprise are serious, a useful example.
Walmart Sets Blockchain Requirement for Greens Suppliers By CGT Staff
Walmart will require all suppliers of leafy green vegetables to its Sam’s Club and Walmart…
From Schneier on Security
Conspiracy Theories Around the "Presidential Alert"
Noted conspiracy theorist John McAfee tweeted: The "Presidential alerts": they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones - giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera and every function of your phone…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Deputy Director Position Open
The Computing Research Association seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Deputy Director for the Computing Community Consortium. The Deputy Director works with the CCC Director, Council Members, and the CRA staff…