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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities
Last week the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted an overview blog about our recent 2017 Symposium on Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight each panel session on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
November-December Analytics Magazine
From the Informs Organization:
Analytics Magazine: Sneak Preview
The November/December issue of Analytics magazine takes a close look at a wide range of topics, including predictive analytics in the public sector, survey sampling…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Accelerates AI to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges
Today at SC17, Lenovo announced new initiatives designed to empower customers to embrace Artificial Intelligence and make it a true reality for their organizations to achieve augmented intelligence capabilities for increased
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From insideHPC
Intel Select Solutions for HPC Debut at SC17
Intel Select Solutions HPC provide a fast path for purchasing and deploying a cluster for simulation and modeling workloads with a pre-validated selection of components designed to meet the demands of HPC applications and workflows…
From insideHPC
New Report Offers insight on OpenMP
Technical Report 6 demonstrates the importance of user feedback to the OpenMP specification,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee. “Users have indicated that several features are vitally important…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reconfigurable Camera Systems
Shree Nayar discusses "Cambits: A Reconfigurable Camera System" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/11/222170), a Contributed Article in the November 2017 CACM.
.... Cambit pieces can be assembled to create a dozen different imaging…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Offers Fast Onramp to Deep Learning
Today Bright Computing announced Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science, an all-in-one product for data scientists. The new product brings together all of the tools needed to build, manage, and operate an enterprise-class data…
From insideHPC
Ray Tracing on Intel Xeon Phi with Embree
In computer graphics, ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. "Experienced computer…
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Concentrators Jump Again
During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled. Growth has continued, and according to the Crimson, we're now clearly the second largest concentration at.…
From Computational Complexity
A Tale of Three Rankings
In the Spring of 2018 the US News and World Report should release their latest rankings of US graduate science programs including computer science. These are the most cited of the deluge of computer science rankings we see out…
From Schneier on Security
Motherboard Digital Security Guide
This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Steps up with Intel Select Solutions for HPC
The new Intel Select Solutions for HPC leverage the proven Intel Scalable System Framework delivers balanced HPC through tighter integration of compute, memory/storage, fabric, and software. The Intel SSF specification provides…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Wal-Marts Bossa Nova Bots among the Shelves
One of my favorite topics. How will robots be effectively used in real life environments, contexts? Note 3D imaging. And how do you get a count of what is behind? More at the Bossa Nova Tag.
Walmart Deploys Robots to More…
From insideHPC
Video: Project Cyclops comes to SC17 in a Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Node
In this video from SC17, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC describes Project Cyclops, a benchmarking quest to build the world’s fastest single node. The single-node Cyclops supercomputer demonstrates the computational power that
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Private, Portable Deep Learning
More mobile deep machine learning:
New Technology Makes Artificial Intelligence More Private and Portable
University of Waterloo News by Matthew Grant
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say they have developed…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Big Graph Analytics Systems and Their Applications
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Da Yan, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Yan presented his poster, Big Data Frameworks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Aims to put AI Anywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mariott Guestroom Lab
We were involved as a corporate customer of hotel space. And saw many future hotel scenarios to attract the business traveler. Here is Mariott's take, collaborating with tech companies:
Marriott Guestroom Lab brings cutting…
From insideHPC
SC17 Preview: BoF Session on IEEE Consortium on HPC
Are you at SC17 in Denver? Please join a special session for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC). The meeting takes place (Wednesday Nov 15, 2017) in room 201-203 at the Denver…
From insideHPC
AMD Delivers ‘Supercomputing for All’ at SC17
At SC17 in Denver, AMD and its ecosystem partners announced at SC17 immediate availability of a suite of new, high performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to accelerate innovation in supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Cray to Power AI Innovation at Samsung
Today Cray announced that Samsung has purchased a Cray CS-Storm accelerated cluster supercomputer. The Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) procured the system for use in its research into Artificial Intelligence and deep…
From insideHPC
HPE Steps Up with AI Innovation at SC17
Today at SC17, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new high-density compute and storage solutions that enable enterprises to harness the power of high performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. “Today, HPE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Detection is Important
Not often covered well enough, worth thinking about. Detecting the Risk, working with business partners to understand its implications, is important. In my observation, not often done well.
The neglected art of risk detection…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing and SUSE Collaborate at SC17
"The Bright Computing and SUSE partnership was first announced in 2009, enabling customers to deploy, manage, and monitor SUSE Linux Enterprise Server clusters using the Bright interface. Since then, the companies have collaborated…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Rolls Out Composable Infrastructure Solutions at SC17
This week at SC17, One Stop Systems is showcasing all-new "HPC composable infrastructure solutions" designed for data scientists requiring flexible high performance infrastructure across multiple nodes. "By adding NVIDIA GPU
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Writing Music
Delivering a level of creativity is always of interest.
From Mozard to Botzard: when machines write our music
Paris (AFP) - Machines are already taking our jobs, will they soon be writing our music too?
Swiss researchers said Thursday…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Manufacturing
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View from the Marketplace
IBM Watson Video Series - Cognitive Manufacturing
By using data and predictive analytics, it’s possible to improve the manufacturing process from the supply chain through to production. ... "
From Schneier on Security
Apple FaceID Hacked
It only took a week: On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing that -- by all appearances -- they'd cracked FaceID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup, and simple…
From insideHPC
Catch Today’s ‘Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute’ Presentation by Intel
At SC17, Intel is reinforcing its ongoing commitment to HPC and AI technologies. If you want to learn more about Intel’s investment in Artificial Intelligence, and the convergence with HPC, then be sure to catch the future-focused…
From Putting People First
[Book] Designing Better Services: A Strategic Approach from Design to Evaluation
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Designing Better Services: A Strategic Approach from Design to Evaluation by Francesca Foglieni, Beatrice Villari and Stefano Maffei (Polytechnic University of Milan) Springer International Publishing, 2018 VIII, 115 pages This…