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 Schneier on Security
Effects of the 2011 DigiNotar Attack
Nice article on the 2011 DigiNotar attack and how it changed security practices in the CA industry....
From Phys.org Technology News
Alexa a witness to murder? Prosecutors seek Amazon Echo data
Authorities investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose body was found in a hot tub want to expand the probe to include a new kind of evidence: any comments overheard by the suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Engineers vs Data Scientists
Its more about how data engineering than it is about data science. Science primarily involves discovering first principles, while engineering involves the use of those principles to consistently deliver useful value. Both are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exponential Laws of Computing Growth
CACM Video
Exponential Laws of Computing Growth
Authors Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis discuss "Exponential Laws of Computing Growth" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/1/211094), a Contributed Article in the January 2017 CACM. ..…
From insideHPC
Building for the Future Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne
"Argonne National Labs has created a process to assist in moving large applications to a new system. Their current HPC system, Mira will give way to the next generation system, Aurora, which is part of the collaboration of Oak…
From insideHPC
Pointwise Adds Script Language Support for CFD Mesh Generation
Today Pointwise announced that the latest release of their CFD mesh generation software has been extended such that its Tcl-based Glyph scripting language can be called from any scripting language including Python. This new Glyph…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Dealing with Infrastructure Disruption: IoT Security
Congress should incentivize universities and industry to partner to build security into Internet of Things (IoT) devices by design.
The post Dealing with Infrastructure Disruption: IoT Security appeared first on BLOG@UBIQUITY…From insideHPC
IDC: Worldwide HPC Server Revenue Grows 3.9% in Third Quarter
IDC is out with their latest Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView report. The QView presents the HPC market from various perspectives, including by competitive segment, vendor, cluster versus non-cluster, geography…
From insideHPC
Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems
"This talk reviews the history of the changing balances between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the underlying technology changes led to these market shifts. Key metrics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPS Navigation in Tunnels
Navigation via Waze, but only in tunnels with Waze beacon support. " .... Waze worked with Bluvision to create custom beacon hardware designed to suit moving vehicles and solve historic, tunnel-specific location challenges…
From insideHPC
Artificial Intelligence Becomes More Accessible
With the advent of heterogeneous computing systems that combine both main CPUs and connected processors that can ingest and process tremendous amounts of data and run complex algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Solving the Complex Subtasks
Good example of how, by breaking up complex sub tasks, you can perform difficult goals. We, as humans, don't have to 'solve' the problem of sight every time we want to see, and thus can get to more difficult goals. Also naturally…
From Schneier on Security
How Signal Is Evading Censorship
Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's new anti-censorship feature uses a trick called "domain fronting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Spreads AI to all Phone Apps?
Interesting claim here, what exactly it means is unclear. I remain skeptical about Samsung software, send me a demo of some sort and I will report on experience. In Engadget:
Samsung's Galaxy S8 reportedly uses AI across all…
From insideHPC
insideBigData Industry Predictions for 2017
In this special guest feature, Daniel Gutierrez from insideBIGDATA offers up his 2017 roundup industry predictions from Big Data thought leaders. "AI, ML, and NLP innovations have really exploded this past year but despite a
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go and Shopper Learning
An online parody of Amazon Go by a French retailer Monoprix linked to and discussed in Retailwire. What is the point and where is the human engagement?
" ... Monoprix’s storyline veers from Amazon’s when it says shoppers also…
From insideHPC
HPE IDOL Machine Learning Engine Adds Natural Language Processing
"Building on HPE IDOL’s history of delivering industry-leading analytics engineered for human data, IDOL Natural Language Question Answering is the industry’s first comprehensive approach to delivering enterprise class answers…
From insideHPC
Call for Posters: HPC Saudi Arabia Conference at KAUST
The High Performance Computing Saudi Arabia conference has issued its Call for Posters. The event takes place March 13-15 at KAUST University.
The post Call for Posters: HPC Saudi Arabia Conference at KAUST appeared first on …
From insideHPC
HPC^NY Bringing High Peformance Computing to Industry
In this video, HPCNY staff describe their mission to bring high performance computing to industries in New York. HPCNY provides businesses and research organizations with access to world-class advanced computing expertise through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Thinking Skills
This time of year always seems to a good time to think about good strategy. HBR Considers that everyone should be thinking about this.
Strategic Thinking ... 4 Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills by Nina Bowman
So…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Value of Customer Journies
How to benefit from data associated with journey.
How to Discover Hidden Value in Your Customer Journey
Posted by Ronald van Loon
.... " What Is the Customer Journey?
The customer journey is the path that a customer takes through…
From Phys.org Technology News
The biggest technology failures of 2016
2016 has been a watershed year for technology. There has been some spectacular fails that have brought a more realistic perspective to the fundamental belief that technology improves with time. In part, this is because we have…
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA's PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which seeks to verify an applicant's…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The threat of technological unemployment
There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new… In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced the term “technological unemployment”… We are being afflicted with…
From insideHPC
Maxeler Dataflow Engine Speeds Compliance Capture and Analytics for Financial Institutions
"As financial institutions acknowledge the importance of data as an asset and as they continue to deploy sophisticated analytics to realize the benefit of that asset, we will begin to see some achieve competitive advantages in…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Subatomic Particle Research on Titan
By using multiple grids and separating the modes in the problem onto the various grids most efficiently, the researchers can get through their long line of calculations quicker and easier. "GPUs provide a lot of memory bandwidth…
From insideHPC
Nimbus Data Patents Parallel Memory Architecture
Today Nimbus Data announced the award of a patent for its non-blocking all-flash architecture. Nimbus Data’s Parallel Memory Architecture scales capacity and performance linearly within each ExaFlash system, offering latency
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From insideHPC
Podcast: Deep Learning 101
In this AI Podcast, Host Michael Copeland speaks with NVIDIA's Will Ramey about the history behind today's AI boom and the key concepts you need to know to get your head around a technology that's reshaping the world. "AI has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Augmented Reality
In Kickstarter (Prototype) .
Makes sense, if we want to improve our reality we should not have to be on a wire tether.
OKULARION: The First Wireless Mixed Reality Headset
First wireless mixed reality (VR & AR in one) headset that…
From Computational Complexity
Hidden Figures
