Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2015
From insideHPC
Podcast: Societal Impact of Earthquake Simulations at Extreme Scale
Thomas Jordon, rofessor of Earth Sciences at University of Southern California and the Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center Thomas Jordon, rofessor of Earth Sciences at University of Southern California and the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Funds Robotics Projects as Part of National Robotics Initiative
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced that it will fund the development of three co-robots, or robots that work cooperatively with people, as part of its fourth year of participation in the National Robotics Initiative…
From Schneier on Security
"Security Theater" Sighting
In a Schlock Mercenary comic....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 December 2015
I’m late this week. Windows Live Writer’s connection to Blogger (where this blog is hosted) is broken. Now that it is being open sources as Open Live Writer I am hopeful all will be fixed soon. In the meantime I have to use the…
From insideHPC
Buddy Bland Presents an Update on the Summit Supercomputer
Buddy Bland from ORNL presented this talk at SC15. "Summit will deliver more than five times the computational performance of Titan’s 18,688 nodes, using only approximately 3,400 nodes. Each Summit node will contain multiple …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contracts and Block Chains
From insideHPC
SC15 Announces Attendance Record & Awards Roundup
SC15 has released results from the Supercomputing conference in Austin. This year, the conference drew a record 12,868 attendees, including 4,829 who registered for the six-day Technical Program of invited speakers, technical…
From insideHPC
Mellanox 10/40 Gig Ethernet Switches Approved for DoD Networks
Today Mellanox announced the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has approved the Mellanox SwitchX series of 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for use on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) networks. This move comes as a direct…
From insideHPC
Use-Cases and Methods for Scalable Enterprise HPC in the Cloud
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, David Pellerin, HPC Business Development Principal at Amazon Web presents: Use-Cases and Methods for Scalable Enterprise HPC in the Cloud.
The post Use-Cases andinsideHPC…From Schneier on Security
Good Swatting Story
The New York Times Magazine has a good story about swatting, centering around a Canadian teenager who did it over a hundred times....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passive Consumer Data Collection
Why are retailers turning to passive data for consumer insights? Custom surveys are considered the most important data source for the creation of insights today, but fast forward two years and they will be rivaled by passively…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Abundance Theory Applied to Analytics
Abundance Theory: Had never heard it called this, and was always as a general mindset rather than a working strategy. Analytics usually works with constraints, can algorithms take us beyond this? Can we 'feature engineer' ourselves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheaper Thermal Imaging Technology
How can the emergence of cheaper sensor technology segments change our world? BBC looks at an example. I had previously looked at uses of thermal cameras." ... But in the same way that GPS location tech has now found its way…
From updated sporadically at best
Travel as a Constraint Satisfication Problem: My Minimal Core
Traveling is an important part of being an academic. It's an incredible privilege to be able to go all over the world, especially Fredrick, Maryland*, where I am right now. It's also a difficult part of the job. Having to fly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Bayesian Learning Framework
I particularly like the premise here ... that the approach starts with causal decision descriptions of the real world. With the potential of building from real world process. Often use 'influence diagrams' to do this.In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Processes of Memory and Learning. Machine Learning?
Several Blogs have recently picked up on the processes of learning. Just this past week there have been a number of advances revealed on linking analytic and biomimicry processes. Notably the use of Bayesian methods (moreIn…
From insideHPC
Flow Science Adds Active Simulation Control to FLOW-3D Cast
This week Flow Science released a new version of FLOW-3D Cast, its software specially-designed for metal casters. FLOW-3D Cast v4.1 offers powerful advances in modeling capabilities, accuracy and performance.
The post Flow Science…From insideHPC
Video: Bryan Catanzaro on HPC and Deep Learning at SC15
In this video from SC15, Bryan Catanzaro, senior researcher in Baidu Research's Silicon Valley AI Lab describes AI projects at Baidu and how the team uses HPC to scale deep learning. Advancements in High Performance Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Digital Gaps with CIO Insight
Pearl Zhu on the idea of digital gaps. Have seen every one of these gaps. CIO's should be about insight, process and delivery rather than just 'information'. Please get us to the knowledge and wisdom level using the abilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Many R Visualization Examples
In the past have always used advanced, interactive data visualization packages. But open source analytics packages like R have considerable data viz abilities. Here just an example of creating multiple plots on a singe panel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Aimed at Faster, Better AI
Note the emphasis on Quantum Computing directed at AI. A new direction, it was not mentioned when we explored applications, which mostly addressed combinatoric optimization. In the past, better algorithms (Software) were always…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cities Become Digital Laboratories.
In the WSJ: The City becomes a Digital Lab. (May require registration)New York: —Gregory Dobler is an astrophysicist who honed his craft by recording spectral images of quasars and black holes. Now, from a high-rise rooftop…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Droneport under Construction
Regulation is still evolving for the concept, but given that the concept requires location and technology, it makes sense. In FastCompany: World's first Droneport under construction near Las Vegas. The Aerodrome will provide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open AI Emergent
Why not? Anything to get the ideas closer to many specific business purposes. Following. How can companies ally themselves for this kind of open innovation? See OpenAI. Will be approaching.Elon Musk + Sam Altman launch…
From insideHPC
Video: Working Together on Frameworks for HPC Systems with OpenHPC
"OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to deploy and manage High Performance Computing Linux clusters including provisioning tools, resource…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Python Software Engineer at Penguin Computing in Portland
Penguin Computing in Portland is seeking a Python Software Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Python Software Engineer at Penguin Computing in Portland appeared first on insideHPC.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Rare Octopus Squid Video from Hawaii
Neat: While the Dana octopus squid may lack a squid's trademark trailing tentacles, it makes up for them in spectacular lighting equipment, with two of its muscular arms ending in lidded light organs called "photophores." About…
From Schneier on Security
Resilient Systems News: End-of-Year Trends Webinar
I'll be participating in an end-of-year trends and predictions webinar on Thursday, December 17, at 1:00 PM EST. Join me here. In other news, Resilient has joined the IBM Security App Exchange community. And we're still hiring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Anaytics doing Social Media Analysis
" ... I was an Alpha and Beta user of Watson Analytics. Continue to follow their application for specific industry areas. Somewhat narrow, but impressive so far in ease of use and visual results presentation. Another step"…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung and Automotive Systems
In CWorld: Samsung moves their technology into the auto industry. This piece further looks at how other companies are in the automobile systems and sensors market, with links to further information. Implications for this particular…