Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2019
From The Noisy Channel
Supporting the Searcher’s Journey: When and How
Sometimes, search is simple. The searcher types a few words into the search box, retrieves a ranked list of results, and selects the right one. Easy peasy.
Other times, search is more complex — particularly if the search query…From insideHPC
NVIDIA Jarvis AI SDK Fuses Vision, Speech, and other Sensors into One System
"The NVIDIA Jarvis SDK offers a complete workflow to build, train and deploy GPU-accelerated AI systems that can use visual cues such as gestures and gaze along with speech in context. For example lip movement can be fused with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tools Annonced for Alexa NLU Dev
Impressed by the number of new capabilities being rolled out for skills delivery in Alexa. Yet I still see quite a few foundational problems with natural language understanding on Alexa, which I use at the skill and foundation…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Words in That Text?
One of the projects I have used for years is a letter counter program. The idea is to count the occurrences of each individual letter. It’s a nice project that includes arrays, loops, and some string manipulation. This is the…
From Schneier on Security
Public Voice Launches Petition for an International Moratorium on Using Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance
Coming out of the Privacy Commissioners' Conference in Albania, Public Voice is launching a petition for an international moratorium on using facial recognition software for mass surveillance. You can sign on as an individual…
From insideHPC
Video: NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform Accelerates AI
Today NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform – a high-performance, cloud-native platform that lets organizations harness rapidly streaming data from factory floors, manufacturing inspection lines and city…
From insideHPC
ARCHER2 to be first Cray Shasta System in Europe
"The new ARCHER2 supercomputer will be the first Shasta system announced in EMEA and the second system worldwide used for academic research. ARCHER2 will be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer and will be equipped with the revolutionary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Deere Labs
So true, been involved in several related projects. See my agriculture tag posts. Good to see Deere involved and the emergence of their lab.
Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs…
From insideHPC
Beowulf Bash returns to Denver Nov. 18 for SC19
The Beowulf Bash is returning to Denver for SC19. With a theme based on the Stranger Things TV show, the annual party takes place 9:00 pm to midnight on Monday Nov. 18 at the Pinnacle Club. "There will be 80s-style entertainment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computationally Driven Design
A kind of data driven, need driven design.
TU Delft Researchers Design New Material Using AI Only
TU Delft
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands have designed a new material solely with artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of the Drone Taxi
Now serious it seems. First in crowded Asian cities.
Hover-taxi whizzes over Singapore, firm eyes Asian push by Martin Abbugao in Techxplore
A drone-like flying taxi whirred over Singapore's waterfront Tuesday, with the firm…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Thinking
The idea came late to our world, which was more 'analytical problems solving ...'
Two top designers debate the value of “design thinking” in Fastcompany
Pentagram partner Natasha Jen and Adobe principal designer Khoi Vinh discuss…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – Choosing the Right GPU for the Job
In this new whitepaper from our friends over at Exxact Corporation we take a look at the important topic of deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and choosing the right GPU for the job. Focus is given to the latest…
From Schneier on Security
Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard
NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. From the conclusion: The result of performing that operation on the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Neuromorphic Computing and Sensors
We worked with ORNL. Where more sensor based computing would have been useful in reasoning about complex processes. Its not clear that just getting closer to 'Neuromorphic' computing, that is computing that uses models much…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Meet One of the 2019 MacArthur Fellows- Computer Scientist Josh Tenenbaum!
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2019 MacArthur Fellows – “26 extraordinary MacArthur Fellows demonstrate the power of individual creativity to reframe old problems, spur reflection, create new knowledge, and better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jungle Jims, Foodie Adventures
Am a long-time shopper at Jungle Jims. Every week. Also led many tours there for our innovation groups from all over the world. Saw this article and had to quote it. Lots of pictures at the link. Many expert opinions. …
From insideHPC
Ian Foster named DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow
In this video, Ian Foster from Argonne accepts his award naming him as one of the DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientists Fellows. "Foster was honored “for trailblazing work in distributed and high performance computing…
From insideHPC
Video: Research on Blue Waters
Dr. Brett Bode from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is one of the fastest supercomputers on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across…
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Can't Trust Deep Learning Alone
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Gamification and AI
Steve Omohundro talks some favorite topics of mine in a recent presentation, slides at the link. Integration of gamification a favorite. We used gamification as a means to find alternative 'expert crowdourcing' to explore alternative…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Polemical Overreach?
Our 1977 paper on the role of formal methods [ Harvard ] Harry Lewis is known for his research in mathematical logic, and for his wonderful contributions to teaching. He had two students that you may have heard of before: a Bill…
From Computational Complexity
Differentiation and Integration
Recently there was an excellent xkcd about differentiation and integration, see here.
This brings up thoughts on diff and int:
1) For some students Integration is when math gets hard.
Diff (at least on the level of Calc I)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Landscape in Europe
Some good alternative work ongoing in Europe:
Voice Landscape in Europe from All About Voice Conference – Voicebot Podcast Ep 119
From Voicebot.ai by Bret Kinsella
This week’s interviews were conducted onsite at the All About…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu installs Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer in Singapore
Today Fujitsu launched of the Digital Platform Experimentation Project in Singapore. In cooperation with A*STAR and SMU, the Project marks the world’s 1st on-premises installation of the Fujitsu Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Context Facial Recognition Improved
More work in this space, apparently particularly useful when seeing alternative views to ID. The UK's massive coverage of CCTV cameras would benefit considerably. Probably also will increase the objection to using the approach…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China vs US in AI Research
Perhaps, but citing is not always a good measure to determine value. There can be pressure in some countries to cite other papers from your country. Number of papers can be driven by hype, nature of a topic, and also its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insect Scale Robotics
And is a bit frightening too.
The Deep Learning Way to Design Fly-Like Robots
EPFL (Switzerland)
October 11, 2019
Researchers at Switzerland's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) have developed motion-capture software…
From insideHPC
HPE Hybrid HPC Early Access Program for your Hybrid HPC Journey
This timely article from our friends over at HPE provides the following key takeaways: HPE Hybrid HPC provides you choice to meet demanding workload needs; HPE is committed to your success by offering their Early Access Program…
From Schneier on Security
Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Wired's Andy Greenberg presents evidence that the perpetrator was Russia, and not North Korea or China…