Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Opens it Internal Machine Learning to All for Free
Nice, especially with regards to how machine learning links to its own devices. I am noting Amazon Comprehend.
Amazon Opens Its Internal Machine Learning Courses to All for Free
in TechCrunch By Connie Loizos
Amazon is opening…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid-Fishing Towns in Decline
It's a problem: But now, fluctuations in ocean temperatures, years of overfishing and lax regulatory oversight have drastically depleted populations of the translucent squid in waters around Japan. As usual, you can also use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Information from Unstructured Medical Text
Announced at Amazon Invent this week. This was just pointed out to me. (Via Walter Riker) I had heard of this being used in conjunction with assistant style interfaces, How it might be accurate enough to purpose is unclear…
From Schneier on Security
Click Here to Kill Everybody News
My latest book is doing well. And I've been giving lots of talks and interviews about it. (I can recommend three interviews: the Cyberlaw podcast with Stewart Baker, the Lawfare podcast with Ben Wittes, and Le Show with Henry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contracts for Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Trees with Python
With a full conceptual implementation in Python:
A breath of fresh air with Decision Trees in Medium
A very versatile decision support tool, capable of fitting complex algorithms, that can perform both classification and regression…
From Schneier on Security
Three-Rotor Enigma Machine Up for Auction Today
Sotheby's is auctioning off a (working, I think) three-rotor Enigma machine today. They're expecting it to sell for about $200K. I have an Enigma, but it's without the rotors....
From insideHPC
Development Tools are More Important Now Than Ever
In this video, Sanjiv Shah, Vice President of the Core Visual Computing Group, and General Manager of Technical, Enterprise, and Cloud Computing Software Tools at Intel offers his perspective on the evolving nature of the developer…
From Schneier on Security
That Bloomberg Supply-Chain-Hack Story
Back in October, Bloomberg reported that China has managed to install backdoors into server equipment that ended up in networks belonging to -- among others -- Apple and Amazon. Pretty much everybody has denied it (including…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee Solid Project
More on Berners-Lee's SOlid Project, aimed to save the Web. Informative. Un-wall the gardens? Better privacy and identity? Too late?
Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Project: Can It Save the Web? By David Cardinal
Not everyone
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAS Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects — Report Release Webinar
What are the risks and benefits of quantum computing? What technical challenges does the field face? The National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board in collaboration with the Intelligence Community Studies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Toy Car for Reinforcement Learning
Amazon shows come clever ways to demonstrate development for Reinforcement learning. Toys, carefully designed and implemented can be an innovative easy to learn complex development lessons.
Go, DeepRacer, Go: How a toy car makes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Barrier of Meaning: Human level AI?
Excerpt from NYT Op Ed, Good thoughts. Human level AI is the intelligence of context.
Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes…
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches HPC as a Service at SC18
In this video from SC18 in Frankfurt, Naoki Shibata from XTREME-D describes the company’s new HPC-as-a-Service offering. "Customers can use our easy-to-deploy turnkey HPC cluster system on public cloud, including setup of HPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Disrupting Job Markets
Jobs and AI.
Voices in AI – Episode 74: A Conversation with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee By Byron Reese in GigaOM
About this Episode
Episode 74 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee discussing the potential of AI to…
From insideHPC
Plug and Play Liquid Cooling for AI and HPC
Cutting edge AI and HPC clusters require the highest performance versions of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Coming along with the throughput, these components bring high heat loads. Often, liquid cooling becomes a requirement in these…
From Schneier on Security
FBI Takes Down a Massive Advertising Fraud Ring
The FBI announced that it dismantled a large Internet advertising fraud network, and arrested eight people: A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target: Its About the Data
Useful view of how Target has addressed Online data
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website In HBS Working Data
Target is one big-brand retailer that seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly sampling from two arrays (C++ edition)
Suppose that you are given two arrays. Maybe you have a list of cities from the USA and a list of cities from Europe. You want to generate a new list which mixes the two lists, taking a sample from one array, and a sample from…
From Computational Complexity
LOGCFL Venkat Style
H. Venkateswaran, a much loved professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech and a fellow computational complexity theorist, is retiring at the end of December. In honor of Venkat I'd like talk about my favorite…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Debuts Inferentia Chip
Amazon loads up the AWS cloud with Chips for prediction for machine learning.
Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip in SiliconAngle
In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing…
From insideHPC
nCorium Startup joins LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium for Ultra-scale Efficiency
The San Jose-based startup company nCorium has joined Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) in the quest for efficient, ultra-scale computing. "We are excited to be working with…
From insideHPC
NCSA Director Bill Gropp Named AAAS Fellow
Today NCSA Director and Chief Scientist William Gropp and NCSA Faculty Affiliate Narayana Aluru were both named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "The AAAS is the premier society representing…
From insideHPC
How Asetek provides Flexible, Reliable, and Proven Liquid Cooling for HPC
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Steve Branton describes how Asetek advanced liquid cooling solutions deliver Flexible, Reliable, and Proven Liquid Cooling for HPC. “Now enterprises and hyperscalers have a choice of exploiting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way to Think About Cooling With Shade
Clever idea. With images.
A new way to provide cooling without power
Device developed at MIT could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Solutions for Monitoring Conduct Risk
Risk should be considered in any kind of decision process. Even seemingly very simple decisions can have high risk. So, this means they are not simple decisions after all. Conduct risk, or how people: individuals or groups…
From insideHPC
How Quantum Corp. Wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Jason Coari from Quantum Corp. describes how the company wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars. "Scientists and analysts today need intelligent data management throughout the entire…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting the Level of Goals
Goals make me think of specific numerically defined measures, so if we measure a goal, which this piece suggests we can, can we use optimization techniques, and newer methods like GANs to drive towards them? In theory, at
Why…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Tech Talk: From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning
Good piece. With frightening implications of the combination surveillance, neural methods, and the use of high speed video generation to fake anything we want. Notable explanation of Adversarial neural networks (GAN).
Watch…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready, Fire, Aim–Why Is Design First So Hard To Learn?
We’re talking about top-down design in my APCS Principles class this week. I gave the students a worksheet (part of the code.org curriculum which is really well done) that asks…“Hours of coding can save you minutes of planning”