Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchless plus Tactile Interaction
Quite unusual combination, can it greatly improve interaction in new ways?
Intuitive in the Virtual Reality
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
By Simon Schmitt, Press Release
Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
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From insideHPC
Advania Data Centers to build sustainable HPC datacenter in Sweden
Advania and Stockholm Exergi have joined in partnership for the construction of a new HPC data center in Stockholm, Sweden. ADC will lease land in Stockholm Data Parks to build the data center, and the heat generated by computing…
From insideHPC
Interview: Advancing HPC in the UK in the Age of Brexit
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World interviews Mark Parsons on the strategy for HPC in the UK. "We are not part of EuroHPC, so we are not going to have access to the exascale systems that…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Studio Online–Possibilities for Education?
Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements. One of them was a cloud-based development environment called Visual Studio Online.
OK, that looks interesting and I will probably…From insideHPC
TMGcore Teams with Dell EMC on Immersion Cooled Datacenter Platform
Today datacenter solution provider TMGcore announced it has developed a first-of-its-kind data center platform that utilizes immersion cooling and is ready to house Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers. "Traditionally, data center…
From insideHPC
Building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Bare-Metal
In this video, Taylor Newill from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "From the beginning, Oracle built their bare-metal cloud with a simple goal in mind: deliver…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applause for Automated AI Testing and More
Was just pointed to Applause, a means to expert-crowdsource and manage complex projects. We had similar capabilities in the enterprise. Interesting that these methods are popping up. I would suggest there are also interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain: IBM adds Assistant Based Methods
Combining Assistant oriented methods and algorithmic prescriptive solutions makes much more sense. One way to combine human and autonomous solutions effectively. Our work in the enterprise did exactly this.
Strengthening links…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Da Vinci's Robot Lions
Have a long time interest in Leonardo Da Vinci, and came upon some of his work in 'Robotics'. He was a person well ahead of his time with the concept, but sadly had little of the technology to support it. Will we soon be in…
From Schneier on Security
Details of an Airbnb Fraud
This is a fascinating article about a bait-and-switch Airbnb fraud. The article focuses on one particular group of scammers and how they operate, using the fact that Airbnb as a company doesn't do much to combat fraud on its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots in the Boardroom
A place we experimented with, see a number of tags below for more.
Research by HBS, with a number of related topics, some examples:
Robots in the Boardroom by Sean Silverthorne HBSWK
Understanding cloud technology was the No.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Patent Office to Leverage AI
US Patent office to use AI Methods
Patent Office Seeks Help From AI By The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is expanding its use of artificial intelligence.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Adding a (predictable) branch to existing code can increase branch mispredictions
Software is full of “branches”. They often take the form of if-then clauses in code. Modern processors try to predict the result of branches often long before evaluating them. Hard-to-predict branches are a challenge performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bridging the AI Gaps
There are AI gaps, huge gaps. Just like my very modern, effective, correct and powerful smartphone. With special purpose Apps, loaded up and many more available. Even some very good sensors. Is full of gaps. I am meant to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hitching a Ride
An interesting idea.
Delivery Drones Could Land on Public Transport to Extend Their Range
New Scientist
Edd Gent
October 31, 2019
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a computer program that plans deliveries by getting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Better Blockchain
Thoughtful piece.
These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain in Wired
By Gregory Barber
Blockchain tech enables systems where no one is in charge, and keeps them secure. But it's compute-intensive and slow, a hurdle…
From insideHPC
AMD to Power Cray Shasta Supercomputer coming to AWE in the UK
Today Cray announced that the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has selected the Cray Shasta supercomputer to support security and defence of the U.K. Called Vulcan, AWE’s new machine powered by AMD EPYC processors…
From insideHPC
Students Encouraged to Enter Math Modeling Challenge for Scholarships
Juniors and seniors throughout the United States seeking a transformative high school experience and the chance to win thousands of dollars in scholarships for college are invited to register for the MathWorks Math Modeling (M3)…
From insideHPC
New ImmersionFAQ site to Dispel Misconceptions about Datacenter Immersive Cooling
Today GRC and Asperitas launched ImmersionFAQ.com, a new website with FAQs and facts about immersion cooling. “The newly developed vendor agnostic website is a key tool for operators looking to educate themselves on immersion…
From insideHPC
Xilinx Alveo Accelerators Power Real-Time AI-based Intrusion Detection Service
Today Xilinx announced that SK Telecom has adopted Xilinx Alveo Datacenter Accelerator cards to power a real-time AI-based physical intrusion and theft detection service. SK Telecom’s AI inference accelerator (AIX) implemented…
From insideHPC
Hardware & Software Platforms for HPC, AI and ML
Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Today, NVIDIA’s tensor core GPU sits at the core of most AI, ML and HPC applications, and NVIDIA software surrounds every level of such a modern application,
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Defense Innovation Board Final Report on AI Ethics Principles
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CCC Executive Committee Member Nadya Bliss from Arizona State University. The leadership of the Department of Defense…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Listening for Indicators of Failure
Not an uncommon thing that is done by human engineers responsible for maintenance. Now proposed to be more autonomous.
'Listening' to Engine Blades to Stop Failures, Disasters By Purdue University News
This new method can measure…
From Schneier on Security
Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats a 5G World Look Like
Useful examples of where the new technology will be relevant:
A First Look at What a 5G-Enabled World Looks Like, Courtesy of Samsung and IBM
Written by: Steve Canepa
Built on the IBM Cloud, the new platform created in partnership…
From Putting People First
[Report] Shaping Choices in the Digital World
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Shaping Choices in the Digital World From dark patterns to data protection: the influence of ux/ui design on user empowerment Jean Lessi (Publication Director); Gwendal Le Grand (Editor); Régis Chatellier, Geoffrey Delcroix,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigating via
More work on Robot navigation. But where do the clues come from? We already navigate from things like addresses. But to get there precisely may need more than that. And the hint that this will also require some common
MIT…
From insideHPC
Steve Tuecke from Globus passes away
It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news of the death of our dear friend and colleague Steve Tuecke on November 2, 2019. "Steve was also a consummate architect of organizations. Argonne’s Distributed Systems Lab,
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From insideHPC
Video: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
In this video, Vinay Kumar from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "Oracle offers on-demand HPC infrastructure, suitable for any HPC workload, based on the most…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
From what we know how the brain works to artificial neural nets (ANN), which we know are very simplistic neural models, then back to the actual operation of the brain?
Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition Weizmann…