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 Recaps SC17 in Denver
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team describes the highlights of SC17 in Denver. Highlights includes the debute ARM hardware for HPC, a Rasberry Pie Cluster, and pervasive liquid cooling. Other highlights include: Posit Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Grocery
Is private label grocery about to go to the next level? by Denise Leathers with discussion ....
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current article from Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vetting Design with Rapid Experimentation
Reminds me of the idea of develop and test. A kind of brute force of examination of options. Always a good way to start thinking about a problem, but does depend on how quickly you can create designs and then test them.
Julie…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Downside of Collaboration
Have seen much of this in the enterprise. From Knowledge@Wharton:
Too Much Togetherness? The Downside of Workplace Collaboration
" ... The mere mention of keeping up with overflowing email, constant meetings, and time-sucking
A…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Programming for the Masses
From ACM Sigsoft a presentation about a favorite topic: Dynamic Programming: entitled 'Dynamic Programming for the Masses'. With links to presentation by Prof Patrick Madden of SUNY Binghamton. I will be testing some
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From insideHPC
Dell EMC Brings Machine Learning to Mainstream Enterprises
This week at SC17, Dell EMC announced new machine learning and deep learning solutions, continuing the company’s work to bring high performance computing and data analytics capabilities to mainstream enterprises worldwide. "When…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru and Chile Address Squid Overfishing
Peru and Chile have a new plan. 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
AI Now Institute to Research Impact of AI on Society
The Field of AI Research Is About to Get Way Bigger Than Code
in NextGov.com by Dave Gershgorn
November 16, 2017
Microsoft Research's Kate Crawford and Open Research at Google founder Meredith Whittaker on Thursday announced
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From insideHPC
New TeraBox 1U FPGA Server Doubles Compute and I/O Density
Today BittWare announced the TeraBox 1432D high density 1U FPGA server at SC17. Based on a Dell PowerEdge C4130, the customized TeraBox 1432D provides an unprecedented thirty-two 100GbE ports directly connected to four large
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 17th, 2017)
Josiah Zayner, a biochemist who once worked for NASA, became the first person known to have edited his own genes (…) During a lecture about human genetic engineering that was streamed live on Facebook, Zayner whipped out a vial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Management with Asana and Gmail.
Was pointed to Asana as a good system for project management when using Gmail.
" ... Asana lets teams track projects from start to finish so everyone knows who is doing what and by which deadline and its current status. Teams
More…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast exact integer divisions using floating-point operations (ARM edition)
In my latest post, I explained how you could accelerate 32-bit integer divisions by transforming them into 64-bit floating-point divisions. Indeed, 64-bit floating-point numbers can represent accurately all 32-bit integers on…
From insideHPC
Video: Atos and ParTec to deploy 12 Petaflop Supercomputer at Jülich
In this video, Hugo Falter from Par-Tec describes the new 12 Petaflop supercomputer coming to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. "Modular supercomputing, an idea conceived by Dr. Lippert almost 20 years ago, was realised…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Mirrors
Short piece on the conceptual advances of the 'Smart Mirror'. Was also a discussion point in our innovation centers. Could they inform you, inspire you?
Siri Siri on the wall, is this smart mirror society’s downfall?
An iHome…
From insideHPC
Xtreme Design Showcases Innovative Solutions for Deploying and Managing HPC Clouds
In this video from SC17, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme Design describes the company's innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "XTREME-D is well-known in Japan for architecting technical computing in the cloud.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying Viral Bots
In O'Reilly, a considerable look at the problem of bots in social. Like the use of network diagrams for analytics. Bringing up the concept of 'information entropy'. There is so much noise in social this needs to be carefully…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Tools
Just reexamined the simulation tools that exist today. Would like to also see more as it applies to process optimization and higher level event based systems. Found this, Finite element examples mainly here:
Co-Design Center…
From insideHPC
BOXX rolls out AMD EPYC Deep Learning Server at SC17
This week at SC17, BOXX Technologies debuted the new GX8-M server, featuring dual AMD EPYC 7000-series processors, eight full-size AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards, and other innovative features designed to accelerate high performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Model for Cybersecurity
Defining a New Model for Cybersecurity Trust With Blockchain By eWeek
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) David Shrier recently detailed the MIT Trust::Data Consortium's efforts to build new systems that rethink…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go and the Problem of Checkout
Remember using this as a scenario at our innovation centers. What if a shopper could just walk out, setting up a frictionless way to shop? Does it bring more shoppers in? In an era when we tested RFID tagging. What are
Amazon's…
From Schneier on Security
New White House Announcement on the Vulnerability Equities Process
The White House has released a new version of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). This is the inter-agency process by which the US government decides whether to inform the software vendor of a vulnerability it finds,…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Christophe's Thesis Cover
Another ILPSer, Christophe Van Gysel, has just defended his PhD dissertation, on "Remedies against the Vocabulary Gap in Information Retrieval". I've designed his thesis cover: and here is its the bookmark:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Conversational Apps
Am a long time developer and proponent of intelligent and conversation enabled interactions.
Google supporting Voice and Dialog Based Interactions
Introducing Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, a new way to build voice and text conversational…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Resources for Teachers and the AP CS Principles Tasks
If you are teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles for the first time as I am you probably still have lots of questions about the performance tasks. I know I do. Well it look like Jill Westerlund has our back.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Ultimatum
46 Days Left, P&G's Marc Pritchard on the state of his Digital Ultimatum
By Jack Neff. Published on November 15, 2017. in AdAge
Time's almost up for major digital ad sellers to show that they've improved, Procter & Gamble Chief…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caption Generation Tutorial
Jason Brownlee on caption generation using neural networks, an old problem we addressed. I like the explanations Jason does. Get on his instructive solutions mailings.
" ... Hi, this week we have a gentle intro to neural nets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Ingredients for Allrecipes by Amazon
A long time cook here. Have tested Allrecipes on Echo where it works well, with some reservations about how well the interface works with serial step recipe use. Vocally at least.
Amazon works with Allrecipes to let you order…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast exact integer divisions using floating-point operations
On current processors, integer division is slow. If you need to compute many quotients or remainders, you can be in trouble. You potentially need divisions when programming a circular buffer, a hash table, generating random numbers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Microsoft's Bots
Like I have mentioned many times, we built consumer facing bots that engaged and delivered expertise. Saw Microsoft live demo the construction of an Azure based bot lately in a conference. Good thoughts in this piece:
Lessons…
From insideHPC
Video: ZFS Improvements for Lustre
In this video from LAD'17 in Paris, Adreas Dilger from Intel presents: ZFS Improvements for Lustre. "Lustre is the Parallel file system of choice for High Performance Computing and large file applications. To meet the capacity…