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 The Eponymous Pickle
Digital and Your Business
A bit too much of an infographic, but makes its point. Its about the business, the process, what it produces in context over time. Its the economics. In McKinsey"
"... Want to better understand what digital is doing to your…
From insideHPC
IBM Multicloud Manager to Create Harmonized Systems
IBM’s Multicloud Manager provides an operations console for companies as they increasingly incorporate public and private cloud capabilities with existing on-premises business systems. "With its open source approach to managing…
From insideHPC
Great Lakes Supercomputer from Dell EMC Coming to University of Michigan
Today the University of Michigan announced their new $4.8 million Great Lakes computing cluster. A Dell EMC system, the new supercomputer will serve researchers across campus. "Great Lakes will also be the first cluster in the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Validating UTF-8 bytes (Java edition)
Strings are just made of bytes. We send and receive bytes over the network all the time. If you know that the bytes you are receiving form a string, then chances are good that it is encoded as UTF-8. Sadly not all streams ofContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Future of Drone Natives
My recent involvement with looking at near and long term applications of drones made me note this. The term 'Drone Native' struck me. Describing some near or long term future where drones will be cheap and common enough that…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ISWC 2018
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA. ISWC is the international forum for the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Nobel-prize winner Rommer on innovation and higher education
Rommer was one of the the winners of the Nobel prize in economics this year (2018). He wrote about higher education and innovation. One of his proposals is the introduction of more generous scholarships for students in science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG Comes Up with a Smart Sofa
The concept is new to me, but why can't the sofa be a hub like a frig? Can it capture the consumer imagination the smart speaker has? Will use Google assistant or LG Signature App for 'intelligence'.
LG’s Colosseo smart sofa…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VDMbee a Value Management Platform
Some time ago I wrote about VDML, the Value Delivery Modeling Language. Just today got a note from Theodoor Von Donge about how they are using and extending it. Below I bought his comment to the top, so its gets more exposure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Musical Improvisation
Have always mused that improvisation should exist beyond music. Business process extension that lead to better results? Creative extension of the basic? Note AI connection. Real time aspects for business? Here an example…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lossy Text Compression Project
My motto has long been "steal from the best" at least when it comes to teaching resources. Today I found a good project from Code.org. I'm using their Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles curriculum and we are currently…
From Schneier on Security
Privacy for Tigers
Ross Anderson has some new work: As mobile phone masts went up across the world's jungles, savannas and mountains, so did poaching. Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Enterprise Benefits of Internationalized Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, Founder and CEO, XgenPlus Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts (such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati and …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patents for Anomaly Detection
There are many ways to do this kind of anomaly detection. Done them for years. Anomaly detection alone is not new or patentable, but perhaps as a larger process?
Anodot Gains Patents for Anomaly Detection By George Leopold
Anodot…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TruStar and Enclave Defense
Newly brought to my attention by a piece in Recorded Future. More pieces to follow.
Connective Defense is Here
TruSTAR’s intelligence platform uses Enclaves to streamline collaboration and provide enrichment from all of your trusted…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Content Generation for Workforce Training Workshop- Call for White Papers
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a visioning workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 14-15, 2019 to discuss and articulate research visions for authoring rich media content for new workforce training. The workshop…
From Schneier on Security
How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy
If you're an American of European descent, there's a 60% you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public…
From insideHPC
Video: MIT Makes Billion-Dollar Bet on Ai and Machine Learning
Today MIT announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence. The initiative marks the single largest investment…
From BLOG@CACM
Mystery Dating of the World-famous 'Millionaire' Calculating Machine Solved
Regarding the discovery of new documents about the H.W. Egli AG (Zurich) company in the Museum für Kommunikation, Berne, Switzerland.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation for Autonomous Cars
Like the idea of simulation for difficult, rare or dangerous scenarios. Of course we naturally do this already when thinking: "What would we do if?". Automated simulation has existed for a long time, allowing us rigorously…
From insideHPC
ExaFLOW Project takes on High-order CFD
After three years of working on key algorithmic challenges in CFD, the European ExaFLOW Project it touting a series of industry milestones. With three flagship runs, ExaFLOW has managed to work on different specific CFD use cases…
From insideHPC
The Rising AI Tide in HPC – Are You Ready?
This guest article from Dr. Bhushan Desam, Lenovo’s Director, Global Artificial Intelligence Business covers how new HPC tools like Lenovo's LiCO (Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration) are working to address the growing…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Advanced Parallel HPC for AI Applications
Elsevier publishers have launched their Call for Papers on their Special Issue on Advances on Parallel and High Performance Computing for AI Applications. "Clusters of computers and accelerators (e.g. GPUs) are routinely used…
From insideHPC
Video: Graphical User Interfaces for HPC
Mark Dawson gave this talk at the Supercomputing Wales Swansea Symposium 2018. "Supercomputing Wales is funded to provide university research teams access to powerful computing facilities to undertake high-profile science and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook has a Portal
More Detail on Facebook's Portal, will it compete with assistants?
Creepy or convenient? Facebook’s new Portal smart display follows you around the room
Get ready, folks, for a screened smart speaker from…Facebook?
Yep, you read…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – October 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Student Chapters ACM SIGGRAPH CARES News from ACM-W Europe Welcome from the ACM-W Chair The new year is off to a fast start for the Student Chapters project. This month’s report introduces…
From Computational Complexity
Practical consequences of RH ?
When it seemed like Riemann Hypothesis (RH) might be solved (see Lipton-Regan blog entry on RH here and what it points to for more info) I had the following email exchange with Ajeet Gary (not Gary Ajeet, though I will keep
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From The Eponymous Pickle
For Seeking Alternative Software
Sometimes you can't use the obvious software for a project. Or don't know of alternatives. Because you are building a cheap prototype under a budget, or you are a student, or you just want to see another example of how something…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Re-designed
As more assistants get the ability to provide images easily. Or show images on phones or displays when needed.
The Google Assistant gets more visual By Frederic Lardinois @fredericl in Techcrunch
Google today is launching…
From insideHPC
ESCAPE-2 Project to develop algorithms for weather and climate prediction at exascale
Today ECMWF launched the ESCAPE-2 project on energy-efficient scalable algorithms for weather and climate prediction at exascale. "It brings together 12 partners, including national meteorological and hydrological services, HPC…