Communications of the ACM
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November 2017
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…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Reading Stories in Computer Science Class
Stories are an entertaining way to introduce or reinforce computer science concepts and help students to understand abstract concepts in a more concrete way. Do you read picture books, chapter books, or short stories to yourContinue…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – November 2017
Letter from ACM-W chair. News from Celebrations News from Chapters Scholarship awardees of November Welcome from the ACM-W Chair These are exciting and busy times for ACM-W! In addition to a high level of activity in our “regular…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Beauty in Augmented Reality
We spend some time looking at Virtual Beauty applications. Was never successful in our day. What can make it work here? Is this an example of AR success? A review.
MAC Virtual Try-on Mirror review
It's crazy how well MAC's…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge Conference on Feb 6-7, 2018 in Washington, DC
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate are co-hosting the 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC – Smart and Secure Cities and…
From insideHPC
SC17 Preview: Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
In this video, Pradeep Dubey from Intel Labs describes his upcoming SC17 Invited Talk on Artificial Intelligence. "Dubey will discuss how the convergence of AI, Big Data, HPC systems, and algorithmic advances are transforming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion AI by Alibaba
Examined the use of this kind of in store technology to engage. Personalization and privacy were key aspects. But we also discovered that the environment of such interactions had to be carefully controlled.
Alibaba’s AI Fashion…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education Draft Report
The Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education is working on curriculum recommendations for post secondary schools but I think their work will be of interest to teachers of other levels as well. It is probably going to be interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Pills Approved
An old idea we talked in the innovation centers:
Smart Pills Are Headed to American Patients
The FDA has approved America’s first digital pill. The tablets, called Abilify MyCite, are an antipsychotic which can be used to treat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Home Adds Intercom
Been using a similar function in Amazon Alexa for some time, its a popular function in the Smart Home. Especially if you have a larger space. Only makes sense if you have have more than one device. Google has added some clever…
From insideHPC
Top 10 Things to Look Forward to at SC17
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon offers up her annual Top 10 list of things she's looking forward to as SC17 this week. "It’s that time of year we all look forward to! We have been waiting for it all year, preparing…
From insideHPC
Ellexus Releases I/O Profiling Tool Suites Based for Arm Architecture
Today Ellexus released versions of its flagship I/O profiling products Breeze, Healthcheck and Mistral, all based on the Arm v8-A architecture. The move comes as part of the company’s strategy to provide cross-platform support…
From insideHPC
Jülich Supercomputer Adds 5 Petaflop Booster Upgrade from Dell EMC
The JURECA supercomputer in Germany just got a major upgrade with help from Dell EMC. "Thanks to the additional 5 petaflops, the Jülich supercomputer now appears as one of the fastest computers in Europe on the TOP500 list of…
From insideHPC
Livestream: SC17 Keynote Presentation on the SKA Telescope Project
We are very excited to present this live keynote presentation on the SKA Telescope Project live from SC17. It all starts here Tuesday, Nov 14 at 8:30am Mountain Time.
The post Livestream: SC17 Keynote Presentation on the SKAinsideHPC…
From insideHPC
An Overview of AI in the HPC Landscape
The demand for performant and scalable AI solutions has stimulated a convergence of science, algorithm development, and affordable technologies to create a software ecosystem designed to support the data scientist. This is the…
From Schneier on Security
Long Article on NSA and the Shadow Brokers
The New York Times just published a long article on the Shadow Brokers and their effects on NSA operations. Summary: it's been an operational disaster, the NSA still doesn't know who did it or how, and NSA morale has suffered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lows and Macy's Wnt to Help with the Smart Home
More retailers join into the outfitting of the smart home.
Lowe’s and Macy’s join rivals chasing smart home opportunity
by Tom Ryan and Expert Comments in Retalwire
"Retailers have a finite period of time to convince customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Companies vs Amazon
More detailed thoughts at the link:
Should media companies fear Amazon? by Ted Chamberlin in Gartner
In weighing both sides, I see Amazon as being a clear and present danger to the established media establishment. Amazon the
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From insideHPC
Livestream: SC17 Plenary on Smart Cities
We are very pleased to bring you this livestream of the SC17 Plenary session on Smart Cities. It starts right here Nov 13 at 5:30pm Mountain Time. "The Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents…
From insideHPC
Intel and the Coming AI Revolution
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Gadi Singer from Intel describes how the company is moving forward with Artificial Intelligence. "We are deeply committed to unlocking the promise of AI: conducting research…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Check Out the Videos from the 2017 Computing Research Symposium!
The speaker and poster videos from the 2017 Computing Research Symposium on Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs are now available! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has hosted dozens of research visioning…
From insideHPC
Video: Applying AI to Science
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Prabhat from NERSC describes how AI applies to science. "Looking ahead, Prabhat sees broad applications for deep learning in scientific research beyond climate science—especially…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Upgrades to D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced major upgrades coming to the D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer in the first quarter of 2018. Two of the most powerful new capabilities are reverse annealing and virtual graphs. These features enable…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Showcases Liquid Cooling Innovations at SC17
CoolIT Systems is showcasing their innovative liquid cooling solutions at SC17 in Denver this week. "As the most popular integration partner for OEM server manufacturers, CoolIT will showcase liquid-enabled servers from Intel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits of Machine Learning
Good piece. In particular was struck by the term 'brittleness', which we encountered many times in out exploration of enterprise AI. A solution could be useful in a given context, but if the context changed even slightly,
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Speaker Recognition
Assistants can now recognize individual voice patterns. Have trained my own that way, usually by repeating phrases. And that categorization is important to understand context. But this is usually in a forced, single person…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailwire on AI's Role in Customer Engagement
From Retailwire:
Why artificial intelligence is becoming instrumental for unifying in-store and online experiences
After decades of intense development, AI is coming into its own in retailing.
AI is a technology poised to exercise…
From Computational Complexity
Can you measure which panagrams are natural
A Pangram is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet
The classic is:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
which is only 31 letters.
I could give a pointer to lists…
From insideHPC
SC17 Livestream: Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on the AI Revolution in HPC
We are excited to bring our readers this special livestream from NVIDIA at SC17 in Denver. Tune in right here for a live presentation from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang entitled, "Accelerated Computing: The Path Forward." Volta is
…
From insideHPC
Live! Radio Free HPC does the Latest TOP500 List
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list in front of a live audience in Denver at SC17. "The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world has China overtaking the US in the total…