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 insideHPC
Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in March
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has published a Call for Sessions for its 16th annual OFA Workshop. "The OFA Workshop 2020 Call for Sessions encourages industry experts and thought leaders to help shape this year’s discussions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
France Starts Nationwide Facial Recognition
To do personal identification apparently. China is also underway. Note the linking to 'biometric identity databases'. Challenges are starting. Though they make a point of using it for Identifying, not monitoring. But…
From insideHPC
Enabling HPC with Intel on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Services built on Intel technology offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Agents for Design
Intrigued by integration of Design and AI. Our early looks were at how to use a vast history of advertising to create new and effective marketing designs.
AI agents imitate engineers to construct effective new designs using visual…
From Schneier on Security
NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize all pedestrians, and was being driven by an operator likely…
From My Biased Coin
Allston : Students Should Speak Up
I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston. A lot of times, these questions are concerns: what food will we…
From insideHPC
Cray and Fujitsu to bring Game-Changing Arm A64FX Processor to Global HPC Market
Today Cray and Fujitsu announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for the exascale era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing the first-ever commercial supercomputer powered by the Fujitsu A64FX…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for a Quantum Internet
A basis for a Quantum Internet? Once that contains and is driven by quantum devices? Technical paper linked to below.
A new quantum data classification protocol brings us nearer to a future "quantum internet"
Internet Quantica…
From insideHPC
Intel showcases New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge
Today Intel unveiled new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. "In its key announcement, Intel demonstrated its Intel Nervana Neural Network Processors (NNP) for training (NNP…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Unrolling your loops can improve branch prediction
Modern processors predict branches (e.g., if-then clauses), often many cycles a ahead of time. When predictions are incorrect, the processor has to start again, an expensive process. Adding a hard-to-predict branch can multiply…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open Data
The following great innovative idea is from Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely from the University of Southern California. Kejriwal and Szekely were one of the Blue Sky Award winners at ISWC 2019 for their paper called Co-LOD:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold on Amazon's Success
From Bob Herbold's Blog:
Amazon’s Secrets to Success
Posted on November 12, 2019
The article on Amazon’s master plan for success that appeared recently in the Atlantic magazine is a very interesting read. I was most impressed
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From insideHPC
Department of Energy to Showcase World-Leading Science at SC19
The DOE’s national laboratories will be showcased at SC19 next week in Denver, CO. "Computational scientists from DOE laboratories have been involved in the conference since it began in 1988 and this year’s event is no different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herman Miller Gets into Gaming
We actively worked with Herman Miller innovation, so used their office layouts in our innovation centers. So this is a bit of a surprise.
Herman Miller is getting into gaming
The famed furniture design company turns its attention…
From insideHPC
ETH Zurich up for Best Paper at SC19 with Lossy Compression for Large Graphs
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich are working on a novel approach to solving increasingly large graph problems. "As the size of graph datasets grows larger, a question arises: Does one need to store and process the exact input…
From insideHPC
Get Infrastructure As-a-Service with new Dell Technologies On Demand
Today Dell rolled out Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings. “Dell Technologies On Demand makes it possible for organizations to plan, deploy and manage their entire IT footprint.They…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Efficiency
Fairly obvious, you can that most analytical and computing system have the same effect. Consistency, speed, some level of autonomy,
How AI is Helping Efficiency Improve By Kevin Gardner
AI is a wonder of modern science that
From insideHPC
Epic HPC Road Trip stops at NERSC for a look at Big Network and Storage Challenges
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NERSC. "NERSC is unusual in that they receive more data than they send out. Client agencies process their raw data on
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Accesses Health Data
Been looking at personal data uses and abuses. Google has been and is now again in the mix:
Google is to get access to millions of Americans’ personal health data'
The news: Google has signed a deal with Ascension, the second-largest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and MIT on the Future of Work
Posted this previously, now just taking a dive, worthwhile read
The Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks- Artificial intelligence - IBM Research and MIT .... Work is changing ... '
From insideHPC
Keys to Success for AI in Modeling and Simulation
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe interviews Loren Dean from Mathworks on the use of AI in modeling and simulation. "If you just focus on AI algorithms, you generally don’t succeed. It
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Gloves to Control Drones Wirelessly
Another example of wearable interfaces. Gloves are usual special purpose clothing, so this probably links to special use cases.
Astronaut smart glove controls drones wirelessly, could be used to explore Mars By Georgina…From Schneier on Security
Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals
The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens -- they made mistakes covering their tracks. They were investigated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethical Use of AI in Warfare
Brought to my attention. Intriguing comment on what is right, ethical and fair in war, now that we will soon have AI participating. But I note that these are broad principles rather than specifics. We have yet to well define…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Consciousness
From the Edge. What does consciousness mean, when is it necessary for useful intelligence?
News from Edge
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New LIDAR Claims Better all Weather Vision
LiDAR Sensing was often criticized for not working in rain or snow. Now I see that Draper Apollo has announced that they have a Lidar that solves this. Progress continues.
New LiDAR Detector Enables Self-Driving Cars to See
CAMBRIDGE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Trucking Startup iSee
Interesting effort which could change supply chain logistics. Worried a bit about huge trucks flying around the road before we get it all right. For more about the cautions side of this I just watched a most recent Nova Program…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Conference Track at The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2019
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), October 26-30, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose of this conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toothbrushes with Apps
Although this has been done before, here some new ideas in the space, especially about automated imaging. Other applications?
Does Your Toothbrush Have an App Yet?
The New York Times
By Janet Morrissey
New technologies are being…
From insideHPC
Production Trial Shows Global Science Possible with CAE-1 100Gbps link
In early October, A*CRC, ICM, and Zettar conducted a production trial over the newly built Collaboration Asia Europe-1 (CAE-1) 100Gbps link connecting Europe and Singapore. "The project has established a historical first," said…