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 The Noisy Channel
Search as a Conversation
Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-response paradigm works well for simple search needs that the search engine…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Proving Peano Arithmetic Partially Consistent?
An approach to consistency that could work… Kurt Gödel is feeling bored. Not quite in our English sense of “bored”: German has a word Weltschmerz meaning “world-weariness.” In Kurt’s case it’s Überweltschmerz. We have tried for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data for Marketing
Simplistic, but goo introductory examples. How are you doing these today?
Big Data in Marketing; 5 Use Cases There are a lot more than just 5. in Inc by James Paine
Big data is more than just a buzzword. In fact, the huge…
From insideHPC
Video: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today
In this video from the International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Dr. Colin P. Williams from D-Wave Systems presents: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today. His focus for the…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors come to Penguin on Demand HPC Cloud
Penguin Computing has announced plans to deploy more than 11,500 cores of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor in their Penguin Computing On-Demand HPC cloud. “The latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor expansion will provide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video of Tencent's New AI Lab
Natural to think of more links between large social entities and the resulting data with the means of leveraging it. Keep watching Facebook M for more in this space.
Tencent: Inside the company's new AI lab in the BBC
Tencent
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanizing Autonomy
This may ultimately become the most important question of the future. How do machines work with humans in varying contexts? Both in their application of knowledge and in physical scenarios.
Developing human interactions with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and the Cognitive Enterprise
I can make a number of observations here as well ...... Need more links between their AI/cognitive and specific business process. They have all the pieces for it, but are still playing up the AI aspects too much in their marketing…
From Putting People First
Developing human interactions with autonomous systems
Two excellent Medium articles by the people of Humanising Autonomy, a London based startup that works towards a vision of intuitive interactions between autonomous systems and people: Child-Friendly Autonomous Vehicles: Designing…
From Putting People First
Developing human interactions with autonomous systems
Two excellent Medium articles by the people of Humanising Autonomy, a London based startup that works towards a vision of intuitive interactions between autonomous systems and people: Child-Friendly Autonomous Vehicles: Designing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Road Kill
My former P&G colleague and Microsoft exec Bob Herbold talks retail models and performance in his blog. No holds barred in his gutsy take. Worth following.
Retailers: Most are Lethargic Road-Kill!
It’s amazing to see many of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Essays and Dialogs
This was intriguing. Could it also be used to state how AI algorithms are created, to make them transparent to their users? Also how related issues like process, risk and rewards are included in the 'conversation'. In the…
From insideHPC
SC17 Panel: Energy Efficiency Gains From Software
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Dan Reed moderates a panel discussion on HPC Software for Energy Efficiency. "This panel will explore what HPC software capabilities were most helpful over the past years in improving HPC system…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: IT Engineer at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is seeking an IT Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The IT Engineer will serve as lead architect to manage, develop and design high-level systems. The position shares responsibility…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizational Management
Good podcast, back to the notion of 'chasing shiny objects'.
What every leader needs to know about organizational management
Leaders of organizations should beware chasing the next shiny object and instead focus on practical, time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards more Explainable AI
A look at Explainable AI, an emerging research discipline to make decision-making of machine learning systems more transparent and understandable to humans ....
Cliff Kuang / New York Times Mag: Requires registration, sign in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Firm of the Future
In Bain On the Firm of the Future
" ... In the world of the firm, something is changing. It’s not that your local bookstore went out of business. Or that your taxi driver now rates you on a 5-point scale. Or that anything can
The…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fake Squid Seized in Cambodia
Falsely labeled squid snacks were seized in Cambodia. I don't know what food product it really was. 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…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 24th, 2017)
Women earned majority of doctoral degrees in 2016 for 8th straight year and outnumber men in grad school 135 to 100. Materialists use Facebook more frequently, because they compare themselves to others, they objectify and instrumentalize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Boundaries for Privacy?
The Big Stores that Track your every Online Move
Holiday shopping with Big Brother is always a bummer.
By Violet Blue, @violetblue in Engadget
A study by Princeton researchers came to light earlier this month, revealing that over…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How often do superior alternatives fail to catch on?
Many of us rely on a Qwerty keyboard, at least when we are typing at a laptop. It is often said that the Qwerty keyboard is inferior to clearly better alternatives like the Dvorak keyboard. However, this appears to be largely…
From insideHPC
Excelero NVMesh powers Canada’s new SciNet Petascale Storage Facility
Today Excelero announced that SciNet, Canada's largest supercomputer center, has deployed Excelero's NVMesh server SAN for the highly efficient, cost-effective storage behind a new supercomputer at the University of Toronto.
…
From insideHPC
Asetek Rides the Wave of Liquid Cooling for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Steve Branton from Asetek describes the company's wide array of liquid cooling solutions for HPC. At the Asetek booth, the company displayed liquid cooling from recently announced OEMs and channel…
From insideHPC
Univa Grid Engine Powers University of Oxford Human Genetics Centre
Last week at SC17, Univa announced its Univa Grid Engine distributed resource management system is powering the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics’ (WHG) high performance computing environment. WHG is a research institute within…
From insideHPC
Video: Altair Serves Up HPC with PBS Pro at SC17
In this video from the Altair Tiki Bar at SC17, Bill Nitzberg describes the company's open sources solutions for HPC system management. "PBS Professional automates job scheduling, management, monitoring and reporting, and is
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Branded Voice Experiences
Building Branded Voice Experiences In Adage.
In 2017, more than 24.5 million voice-based devices will be sKnow By Dan Cripe. In Adage.
hipped to consumers -- effectively quadrupling from just 6.5 million in 2016. And as adoption…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Retail
Good, long read about the recent history of retailing, the introduction of the Internet and Amazon and how retailers are looking to react. Good examples and analyses.
The Future Of Retail In The Age Of Amazon
As Jeff Bezos’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Enters Quantum Race
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airbus Testing Self-Flying Taxi
Airbus is ready to test its self-flying taxi
Vahana will take to the skies of Oregon soon.
Swapna Krishna, @skrishna
We've covered Airbus's Vahana project, which is the aeronautical company's endeavor to build a self-flying taxi…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
TRIWIC
Tri-State Women in Computing Conference An ACM-W Celebration