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 Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization in Quadrants with a Story
Clever piece in KDNuggets, about how to take survey data and take some basic, well known frameworks, and add a story to make your point. Non-technical. Not sure how wow-viral the point is, but this gives an example of how
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Reading Understanding
Been reading and exploring about what reading understanding means. Here an update from Quanta Magazine on the toic. We still have far to go when we have to deal with changing context, common sense and even inferring things…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft AI Powered Digital Marketing
Not a very detailed article, but of interest. Somewhat unexpected space for Microsoft. Here an effort first in India.
Microsoft unveils AI-powered Digital Marketing Center
By Hamza Jawad in Neowin
In recent months, we have
Now…
From insideHPC
A64fx: A Game Changing, HPC / AI Optimized Arm CPU for Exascale
Satoshi Matsuoka from Riken gave this talk at Linaro Connect 2019. "Fugaku is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken R-CCS and Fujitsu in collaboration. Fugaku will have hyperscale datacenter…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artifcial Gut Exploring Microbiomes
Saw a presentation recently on means of using the human microbiome, but not linking to an artificial gut that would allow it to be interacted with and simulated in new ways. Note unexpected links between the gut and brain.
Artificial…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Simulation & Visualization Drive New Discoveries and Insights
In this podcast, Katrina Feliciano-Stoddard joins Intel's Conversations in the Cloud. "Katrina talks about simulation and visualization, its role in innovation, and how the technology is being used across industries such as manufacturing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Startups in Healthcare
A look at AI type startups in the health and diagnostic and imaging areas. Very active.
8 AI Diagnostics and Imaging Startups for Digital Health in NAnalyze
Investing in emerging technologies can be extremely risky. It can also…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Database of Tomorrow: Self Driving and Autonomous
Was struck by the depth and further volume of data and implications? The intro below, much more at the link
The Database of Tomorrow: The Self-Driving, Autonomous Database
September 18, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence Big DataDr…
From Writing
Lessons learned from losing 50 lbs
On January 10, 2019, I weighed in at 223 lbs. On October 20, I weighed in at 173 lbs. That’s 50 pounds lost (22.7 kg) in 10 months.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reflections and Projections about IBM Watson
An nicely done internal look at Watson. As I have mentioned here before, Watson may not have lived up to some of the early expectations, but it remains a serious contender for serious, practical AI applications. And in particular…
From insideHPC
Video: The Cambridge Research Computing Service
Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and
…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC at Quantlab in Houston
Quantlab in Houston is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We seek to fill the role of an HPC Engineer within our research group in Houston, TX. The highly skilled and experienced individual will be responsible for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Handheld Printing
Fascinating application, for some kinds of graphics applications. In Indiegogo. With the usual warnings that such offers for product are high risk. For both initial shipment, and longer term availability and product quality.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Matching for Identification of Antibiotics
Refreshing here is that there is no claim for AI. We need all kinds of analytics to enhance our skills.
Computational 'Match Game' Identifies Potential Antibiotics
Carnegie Mellon News By Byron Spice
Carnegie Mellon University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeff Bezos's Master Plan
Some non technology views of how unique Amazon is, and where it is going
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan in The Atlantic By Franklin Foer
What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echo Auto: Customizing Mobile Voice Experiences
My test for client discussions have been ongoing. In my last post on this I mentioned that Amazon currently has very different behavior between home and Echo Auto behavior in the car, making the experience bumpy. They should…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attention for Advanced Forecasting and Classification
Interesting and quite technical view of forecasting and classification that is worth a look. Of course accurate and timely forecasting is important for most businesses. Considerable piece here, below an intro with much more…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Six-Foot-Long Mass of Squid Eggs Found on Great Barrier Reef
It's likely the diamondback squid. There's a video. 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 blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
California Launches Earthquake Early Warning System
What is particularly good here is that the means to test this will be obvious. I get USGS reports on earthquakes via an App, can filter them to mag 4.5 and higher, minutes after they occur. So comparison to predictions should…
From Schneier on Security
Why Technologists Need to Get Involved in Public Policy
Last month, I gave a 15-minute talk in London titled: "Why technologists need to get involved in public policy." In it, I try to make the case for public-interest technologists. (I also maintain a public-interest tech resources…
From The Noisy Channel
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips…
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips demand and most intents are in the tail, e.g., searching through a vast catalog books or scholarly articles. In those cases, demand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon, Qualcomm, Tencent
Points to some marketing reports available for a fee. At the link.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon & Qualcomm, and AI Investments of Tencent | 2019 Overview & Examination Report
October 18,Research…
From insideHPC
Codeplay SYCL 1.2.1 Solution offers an Open Alternative to CUDA
Today Codeplay announced the world's first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. "As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos Group that enables developers to write…
From insideHPC
SC19 Session Preview: Whither Advanced Scientific Computing After Exascale Is Achieved?
"The goal of this BoF is to discuss the landscape for advanced scientific computing after the United States achieves the exascale milestone. What are possible future breakthroughs? What are promising computing and mathematics…
From insideHPC
Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailwire: Why Brands Are Moving Direct-To-Consumer
From Yesterdays webinar:
If you would like to see a recording of the webinar or refer it to others, you'll find it in our Resources section: Recording and PDF Slides (Requires registration)
For your copy of Oracle NetSuite's eBook…
From insideHPC
Energy Exascale Earth System Model to Accelerate Climate Research
As one of the Grand Challenges of our time, climate modeling typically requires long run times and huge computational resources. Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to tackle this
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From The Eponymous Pickle
November Informs Analytics E Mag
The latest Analytics Mag from the Informs Group. Below some quick summaries of key articles, plus lots more at the link. Always informative.
Beyond Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
Data people come in all shapes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Grip Improved
Grip is a big thing in robotics. This will be a big deal for classic smart home applications for eldercare. And in factory manufacturing applications.
Giving robots a faster grasp
An algorithm speeds up the planning process robots…
From The Eponymous Pickle
40 Machine Learning Tutorials from DSC
This group of tutorials via DSC looks good. And to get full access you need to join as a member, which I always recommend. Its free. If you like self-study, its a great era we live in, lots of free and detailed information…