Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners
Via Jim Spohrer of the Cognitive Systems Institute. Covers the still many issues behind assistance and partnership. What is it like to be autonomous in this respect?
Creating Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners Academic…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the CCC needs truly visionary…
From Schneier on Security
Guessing Credit Card Security Details
Researchers have found that they can guess various credit-card-number security details by spreading their guesses around multiple websites so as not to trigger any alarms. From a news article: Mohammed Ali, a PhD student at the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on the Value of New Accessibility
New innovation starts with sensors and their integration. With data and analytics. A kind of accessibility. So you can look to accessibility for innovation. AI is a form of accessibility, accessing the symbolic power of
Was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce Will do AI with Einstein
Been much rumor about what Salesforce would do with AI style capabilities for customer management. Now their solution, Einstein, has been announced. Individual conversational assistance? Bot observation of activity? Or
Salesforce…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Boosts Marconi Supercomputer to 6.2 Petaflops with Intel Xeon Phi
"Phase one at CINECA, an academic consortium, was completed in May 2016 – coming in at 1.7 Petaflops, which at the time it was the largest Intel Omni-Path Fabric system in the world. Lenovo and CINECA are pleased to announce
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From insideHPC
Building HPC Clusters as Code in the (Almost) Infinite Cloud
"Researchers can run one cluster for 10,000 hours or 10,000 clusters for one hour anytime, from anywhere, and both cost the same in the cloud. And with the availability of Public Data Sets in Amazon S3, petabyte scale data is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Futuretext for Machine Learning
Brought to my attention. Has some excellent tutorial material.
Futuretext
" ... futuretext applies machine learning techniques to complex problems in the IoT (Internet of Things) and Telecoms domains. We aim to provide a distinct…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Social Media Analytics
Interesting, but not very detailed view of IBM social media analytics with Watson. Analyzing the global reach of the UK retailer John Lewis.
" ... Is TV advertising dead? Given that these days most of us consume our media via…
From Phys.org Technology News
Big data helped Trump even after he scorned it
Donald Trump derided the use of data and technology tools for his presidential campaign—but those techniques might well have propelled him to victory.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bank and Financial Products
The Death of Bank Products has been greatly under-exaggerated by Brett King
This is an excerpt from my new book Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
Since 2005 I’ve been predicting the decline of branch banking. For almost…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Bayesian Inference Works
Out of KDnuggets, nice non-technical view of Bayesian inference. by Brandon Rohrer. In the enterprise I collected pieces like this for use with execs or decision makers. I found that while many people had learned frequentist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Smart Homes
PostWaves (Beta). A collection of blog posts. In this case all about Smart Homes.
About Postwaves.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Engineering Book for Cognitive Assistants
So how do you actually engineer knowledge to integrate into an assistant system? Its a mix of knowledge architecture, reasoning and effective delivery. Many of our early attempts struggled with the idea. This book takes a look…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chicago Merchantile Exchange Trading Challenge
Brought to my attention via Columbia connections. Details at the link.
CME Group Trading Challenge
CME Group's Trading Challenge is a complimentary four-week electronic trading competition where teams of undergraduate and graduate…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Starts of Operations for Japan’s Fastest Supercomputer
Today Fujitsu today announced the completion of the Oakforest-PACS supercomputer at the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC), which is jointly run by the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Building Better Maps
Seems to have been some time since I have heard of Maps mentioned with Apple. Now movable sensors like drones are in play.
Apple Said to Fly Drones to Improve Maps Data and Catch Google
by Mark Gurman and Alan Levin
Company gets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Based Drug Discovery
Discovery has been a favorite topic of mine. We have so much knowledge stored digitally, how can we use that to discover more value in many business contexts? Here I am continuing to track an example.
How Knowledge-Based Analytics…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Hierarchical Re-estimation of Topic Models for Measuring Topical Diversity
Our paper "Hierarchical Re-estimation of Topic Models for Measuring Topical Diversity", with Hosein Azarbonyad, Tom Kenter, Maarten Marx, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke, has been accepted as a long paper at The 39th European…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Yet More Home Entertainment, Advice and Smart Home
And yet again. Less a standalone device, but more of a feature of Windows 10? Seems to be wiser move to have these be stand-alone. Which gets you out of the platform Fan-boy world, yet Cortana by itself still seems quite…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence Analysis
New Book of Of interest. How are these kinds of structure embedded into AI?
Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments: Connecting the Dots
by Gheorghe Tecuci, David A. Schum, Dorin Marcu, Mihai …
From Schneier on Security
A 50-Foot Squid Has Not been Found in New Zealand
A 50-foot squid has not been found in New Zealand. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi with Software Defined Visualization at SC16
"Software Defined Visualization (SDVis) is an open source initiative from Intel and industry collaborators to improve the visual fidelity, performance and efficiency of prominent visualization solutions – with a particular emphasis…
From Computational Complexity
Guest post by Samir Khuller about Visiting the Simons theory Inst for Computing
Guest post by Samir Khuller on his visit to the Simons Inst. of Computing
Visiting the Simons Institute for Theory of Computing
A few days back I had the good fortune to spend four days at the
Simons Theory inst. at UC Berkeley…
From Phys.org Technology News
Thomas Edison's lab door key, lightbulbs up for auction
Thomas Edison's door key to the 19th century lab in New Jersey where he invented the phonograph goes up for auction this weekend, along with lightbulbs he perfected.
From BLOG@CACM
What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
From insideHPC
Cray Sets New Supercomputing Record with HLRS and Ansys
ANSYS, HLRS and Cray have pushed the boundaries of supercomputing by achieving a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS software to 172,032 cores on the Cray XC40 supercomputer, hosted at HLRS, running at 82 percent efficiency…
From insideHPC
Submissions for ISC 2017 Research Papers Due December 16
Submissions for ISC 2017 Research Paper Sessions are now being accepted through December 16, 2016. The deadline has been extended to accommodate current submissions from engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government…
From insideHPC
Video: Behind the Machine at HPE
How is Hewlett Packard Enterprise reinventing the fundamental architecture on which all computers have been built for the past 60 years? In this video, HPC describes the evolution of The Machine research project - one of the
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From insideHPC
Call for Papers: EuroPar 2017 in Santiago de Compostela
The Euro-Par 2017 conference has issued its Call for Papers. The conference takes place Aug. 28 – Sept. 1, 2017 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and
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