Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2017
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. "Dan’s got the inside scoop on all the new wrinkles of the competition this year, where 16 international student teams will go head-to-head…
From insideHPC
Cavium Thunder X Cluster to Crunch Big Data at University of Michigan
Today Cavium announced a new partnership that will position the University of Michigan as a leader in data-intensive scientific research by creating a powerful Big Data computing cluster using dual socket servers powered by Cavium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Distill: For Machine Learning Research
Brought to my attention: Distill
Distill: Machine Learning Research
Should Be Clear, Dynamic and Vivid.
Distill Is Here to Help.
A modern medium for presenting research
The web is a powerful medium to share new ways of thinking.
Publishing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feature Visualization
In the Google Blog, they provide an overview and pointer to deeper information. An image rich and informative article.
Feature Visualization
Posted by Christopher Olah, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team and Alex Mordvintsev…
From insideHPC
Panasas Doubles Metadata Performance on ActiveStor Scaleout NAS
Today Panasas introduced the next generation of its ActiveStor scaleout NAS solution, capable of scaling capacity to 57PB and delivering 360GB/s of bandwidth. This flexible system doubles metadata performance to cut data access…
From Schneier on Security
Me on the Equifax Breach
Last week, I testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee on the Equifax hack. You can watch the video here. And you can read my written testimony below. Testimony and Statement for the Record of Bruce Schneier Fellow…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Use the SCRIPT to Develop Your District’s Own #CSforAll Plans
Individual teacher and school champions have enabled participation in K-12 computer science education to soar to new highs in recent years. However, true systemic change will occur when school districts across the nation create…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa as the End of Smartphones?
Had never thought of it quite this way. overall a big challenge. Mobile is still convenience. Also not enough about the attentiveness of such systems. Voice/conversation in intelligent dialog is still crude.
For Amazon, The…
From Putting People First
From human-centered design to humanity-centered design
The design industry’s reigning paradigm is in crisis. It’s time to evolve from human-centered design to humanity-centered design, write Artefact’s Rob Girling and Emilia Palaveeva. If followed blindly and left unchecked, this…
From Putting People First
‘Thick data’ sees the market future when big data can’t
“Customers are really the most unpredictable, the most unknown, and the most difficult-to-quantify thing for any business,” said Tricia Wang, ethnographer and co-founder of Sudden Compass, in an interview during the IBM Data …
From Putting People First
Service design at BBVA bank
BBVA (an international financial institution with a presence in 35 countries, providing services to 70 million customers) was one of the sponsors of the Service Design Global Conference in Madrid last week. Derek White, BBVA’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valens Offers a Single Copper Cable
Quite interesting solution that extends the simple .... for the rolling supercomputer.
Valens Automotive Offers Carmakers One Cable To Rule Them All By Philip E. Ross in IEEE Spectrum
As our cars turn into rolling supercomputers…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors power new AWS C5 Instances for HPC
Today, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of C5 instances, the next generation of compute optimized instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Designed for compute-heavy applications like batch processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Advanced Robot Aibo Dog
Saw the early version of the Aibo dog demonstrated in Japan. Tried to get a demo for our space, but it never happened. Japan was and is interested in eldercare: 'friendly' robot solutions. Reminds me a bit of the Kuri robot…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Powers Advanced Analytics at NASA NCCS
Today Supermicro announced that the company has partnered with the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) to expand advanced computing and data analytics used to study the Earth, solar system and universe. Based on the combination…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Optimizing Cosmos Code on Intel Xeon Phi
In this TACC podcast, Cosmos code developer Chris Fragile joins host Jorge Salazar for a discussion on how researchers are using supercomputers to simulate the inner workings of Black holes. "For this simulation, the manycore…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Adds a Spark Conferencing Assistant
Said to be a result of Cisco's acquisition of MindMeld earlier this year. Makes sense, now will it add a level of attentiveness to a conference and do supporting searches and create to-do lists?
With Spark Assistant, Cisco adds…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Help Shape the Future of Data Science!
National Library of Medicine Director Patti Brennan spoke at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) this morning and strongly urged computer scientists to respond to this Request…
From insideHPC
University of North Texas turns to Bright Computing for Efficient Cluster Management
Today Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, is proud to announce that the University of North Texas (UNT) has integrated Bright Cluster Manager into its HPC environment for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as the New Electrcity
Interesting thoughts on AI, Still beware of hyped expectations. Brains in Alexa or Siri? Still awaiting that. In Knowledge@Wharton.
Why AI is the new Electricity
Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Memory Video Holograms
As the Verge article linked to beow suggests, the term Hologram is being used differently and non-technically here, as kind of 3D video that can be later accessed using VR tech for interaction. Read the whole article to understand…
From insideHPC
Composable Infrastructure: Composing Greater HPC Breakthroughs
Composable infrastructure allows any number of CPU nodes to dynamically map the optimum number of GPU and NVMe storage resources to each node required to complete a specific task. In this sponsored post, Katie Rivera of One
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mentors, Mentees, Assistants
Perhaps obvious, but reasonable statement of the needs. In the HBR.
Can a virtual assistant be a mentee? We examined. In the short term, no, the information exchange can be subtle, but longer term it can present structure for…
From Schneier on Security
Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments
There's a new criminal tactic involving hacking an e-mail account of a company that handles high-value transactions and diverting payments. Here it is in real estate: The scam generally works like this: Hackers find an opening…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Mike Zamansky–the update
When I last talked to Mike Zamansky for this blog he was teaching computer science at Stuyvesant high school (one of New York City’s entrance exam high schools). Since then he has had something of a career change. Like many great…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hinton and Capsule Networks
We followed neural networks from their earliest days, but where they failed they did not have the data to consistently work under changing context, and at high enough speed, say for analyzing real-time video. Geoffrey Hinton's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Cow Drone Cell Service
A drone that temporarily flies at a few hundred feed to provide services. Our own look at commercial drone services showed this could be done. 40 mile square radius is impressive. Expect more of this kind of solution to be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building AI Applications to Solve Analytics
Interesting view of how different companies are addressing the complex issue of how AI solutions are built and delivered. Getting more important by the day.
Building AI That Can Build AI
The New York Times, by Cade Metz…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2017 ASSETS Paper Impact Award
The ASSETS Paper Impact Award is given every other year to the authors of a paper that was presented at least 10 years ago to an International ACM SIGACCESS Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) conference and has had a significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Enterprise AI Apps
Now been involved in a number of such enterprise efforts, nicely put, can use more examples and details. See the use cases linked to for more.
Developing Successful AI Apps for the Enterprise
The IBM team encourages developers…