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 insideHPC
UH Data Science Institute Receives $10 Million Boost from HPE
The University of Houston has announced a new collaboration with HPE today, including a $10 million gift from HPE to the University. The gift from HPE will benefit the University’s Data Science Institute and include funding for…
From insideHPC
Video: Unified Memory on Summit (Power9 + V100)
Jeff Larkin from NVIDIA gave this talk at the Summit Application Readiness Workshop. The event had the primary objective of providing the detailed technical information and hands-on help required for select application teams
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning with AI
Sure you want to win, delivering value. But does it matter what you call it? Yes because it gets attention, good or bad. Context changes.
Winning with AI
Written by: Rob Thomas in IBM Blog
Categorized: AI | Analytics | Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should Alexa be Your Child's Friend?
Should you let your children talk to and treat an assistant like Alexa as a friend? Imaginary friends have been a common thing, is this different? And is an assistant more or less damaging than a more featured smart phone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VDML and Business Architecture Modeling
Comment below upgraded here, plan is to trial this for upcoming applications. Really like the idea of making the interaction between architecture, process and value delivery very clear.
" .... Fred A. Cummins has left a new comment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Connectivity and Value Creation
Thoughtful and potentially useful:
" ... The connectivity experience of drivers and passengers will soon be transformed, with the potential for significant value creation. Here is a framework to measure progress.
Framework for
Sent…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 3rd, 2018)
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency, could greatly accelerate climate change, should it succeed beyond its current speculative state. Crows can solve novel problems very quickly with tools they have never seen before. The new video game…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Startup Lessons from John Chambers
Podcast and text from K@W. His book, about to take a look.
Success in the Startup World: Why Good Leadership Matters Most
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers shares some hard-won lessons. His forthcoming book is Lessons for Leadership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Elitism is an Error of Omission
Never heard the term. But it was always it our goal to include decision makers that used the data and decision process as closely as possible. If you don't you are inviting failure. I don't think its the default, its a
Does…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Making AI
Had not heard of this, if accurate quite interesting. Neuromarketing? Skeptical.
World First for Decision-Making AI
Auckland University of Technology News
Researchers at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand have…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Emerging Technology Researcher at Chevron
Chevron is seeking an HPC Emerging Technology Researcher in our Job of the Week. "This position will be accountable for strategic research, technology development and business engagement to deliver High Performance Computing
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From insideHPC
Women in HPC to host Networking and Careers Event at SC18
The Women in HPC organization will host a Networking and Careers Reception at SC18 in Dallas. "Join the Women In High Performance Computing members as we celebrate a growing community of women and their supporters in the supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caselaw Access Project
More on the Caselaw access project. Public access to US law, as a potential data source for law related AI projects.
https://case.law/about/
The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law.
Our goal is to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Reimagines Stores as Town Centers
Innovative idea, will it engage consumers? Could also improve the overall status impression of Wal-mart stores.
Walmart reimagines its big boxes as town centers
by Matthew Stern in Retailwire includes expert retail opinion.
Walmart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitization Economist
Should it be a task or a job? Always helps to get the developers involved too, because they need to know the measures involved and how they are derived from process. A measure-ist? I remember when we had a room-full of economists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skills Kits Webinars
Part of the Alexa Skills Dev program. Upcoming webinars. Approach is an interesting view of experience. Still looking for more ways to integrate skills
New Training: Designing for Conversation
Before you can build a voice experience…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Eating More Squid
This research paper concludes that we'll be eating more squid in the future. 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 Lie Detectors at some EU Borders
Could indicate increasing uses of AI to determine sentiment style interaction and detection.
An AI Lie Detector Will Interrogate Travelers at Some EU Borders
in New Scientist (full article requires sign up)
By Douglas Heaven
An…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocers Using for Robots Picking Warehouse Orders
AI continues to aid pattern oriented tasks, here in grocery order filling.
Grocers Enlist Robots to Chase E-Commerce
The Wall Street Journal
By Heather Haddon in WSJ.
Grocers are deploying robots and artificial intelligence (AI)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum has Advantages
Is quantum computing useful? Yes, at least for some kinds of problems. Worth following..
IBM Proves a Quantum Computing Advantage Over Classical
Next Big Future
By Brian Wang
IBM researchers have mathematically validated certain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
iRobot and Google Assistant Partner
Home robotics has not been very successful, except in rather narrow domains. In particular in linking with the concept of a 'Smart Home', and requirements of spatial awareness. Now iRobot and Google are going in that direction…
From insideHPC
HPE Delivers First Above-the-cloud Supercomputing Services for Astronauts
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it is opening high-performance computing capabilities to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its continued experiments on the Spaceborne Computer…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Propose a Presentation for the CSTA Annual Conference 2019
CSTA just announced the Call for Proposals. for the CSTA Annual Conference just days after I blogged (Getting Computer Science Teachers To The Next Level ) that people who help others develop as CS teachers. Coincidence? Actually…
From insideHPC
SC18 Plenary to focus on HPC & Ai on Nov. 12
Over at the SC18 Blog, SC Insider writes that the upcoming Conference Plenary session will examine the potential for advanced computing to help mitigate human suffering and elevate our capacity to protect the most vulnerable.…
From insideHPC
Download the New European HPC Handbook
ETP4HPC has published their annual European HPC Handbook. "This publication describes the HPC Technology, Co-design and Applications Projects within the European HPC ecosystem, including EPI. The Handbook will be distributed
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Holograms to Teach
Cheaper than flying people around, impressive, how much more engaging will it be than a video link?
'Hologram' lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London
By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor BBC Technology
University…
From Schneier on Security
How to Punish Cybercriminals
Interesting policy paper by Third Way: "To Catch a Hacker: Toward a comprehensive strategy to identify, pursue, and punish malicious cyber actors": In this paper, we argue that the United States currently lacks a comprehensive…
From Putting People First
[Book] Ethnographic study of a Swiss bank’s financial analysts
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Stories of Capitalism: Inside the role of financial analysts Stefan Leins University of Chicago Press 2018, 224 pages The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Augmenting Cancer Research
Had not heard of Alexa in this space. Simple idea here. Risk of giving incorrect answers?
New Technology Is Rapidly Improving Cancer Care, and Alexa Is at the Vanguard ... The Guardian (United Kingdom) by Judith Potts
Amazon's…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Early Career Researcher Symposium- Visioning Sessions
As part of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Symposium, described in full here, we featured a number of visioning workshops CCC has held over the past year. CCC task force members and workshop…