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
UN Considering Killer Robot Ban
This would be a good idea, although I can't imagine countries like the US, China, and Russia going along with it -- at least not right now....
From Phys.org Technology News
Combatting retail fraud using a simulator
Every year the retail industry lose billions of dollars to fraud in the US alone. To complicate the matter research in the field has been obstructed due to the sensitive nature of transactional data. To facilitate future studies…
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of the tech news that caught my attention lately:
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Useful Virtual Realities
These kinds of developments made me think of virtual worlds, which also attempted to set up alternate worlds you could experience. So they are necessarily not only games, but places you can meet or even just hang out. And
Oculus…
From insideHPC
Thread and Memory Scaling Beyond Multicores
In this video, Stefanos Kaxiras from Uppsala University presents: Thread and Memory Scaling Beyond Multicores. "This talk will present the ArgoDSM, a modern, highly-scalable, user-level, distributed shared memory system for clusters…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UX Research is Business Research
Makes sense, like in hte delivery of analytics, they should be closely integrated. And in partcular consider them both as process journies. So should be considered together. That is, they both have direction, need resources…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: AsHES Exascale Workshop 2017 in Orlando
The Seventh International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place May 29 in Orlando, Florida in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed…
From Putting People First
Why UX research is business research
Libby Maurer, UX leader at Widen Enterprise (a content technology company specializing in digital asset management software and content production services), makes a strong case for the value of UX research in a hardcore business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Earthquake Sensor Data
Prediction research via sensor data. An update on the use of captured data.
Berkeley News
Quake-detection app captured nearly 400 temblors worldwide
By Robert Sanders, Media relations
The Android app harnesses a smartphone’s motion…
From Apophenia
Heads Up: Upcoming Parental Leave
There’s a joke out there that when you’re having your first child, you tell everyone personally and update your family and friends about every detail throughout the pregnancy. With Baby #2, there’s an abbreviated notice that…
From updated sporadically at best
The Structured Procrastination Trap
A wise professor once told me to take advice with a grain of salt, as it is mostly highlights and wishful thinking. Structured procrastination is a prime example of wishful thinking doled out to students eager to ease growing…
From The Noisy Channel
Tokenization
Now that we can handle characters, let’s move on to words.
From The Eponymous Pickle
FAQ for AI Customer Service
In Customerthink. Like this, a non technical look at typical questions asked, and reasonable answers:
8 FAQs About Artificial Intelligence and Customer Service by Tara Wildt |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Logos via AI?
John Frazier of Velocity Broadcast Group sends this along:
Can AI design a better logo than you?
Logojoy is a new website that uses Artificial Intelligence to ‘design’ logos. James Greenfield, an actual human designer, gives it…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Facilitating New Workloads by Democratizing HPC
In this Intel Chip Chat, Dr. Figen Ulgen from Intel discusses artificial intelligence workloads that are emerging as a result of greater access to high performance computing. "Noting that “wherever there is computational complexity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics and Disability
Correspondent Madelaine E. Sayko sends this piece she placed on Linkedin:
"Robotics & Disability; Friend or Foe?" by @CognitiveCompas on @LinkedIn
Her company is a great link about augmenting every employee.
Madelaine E. Sayko,…
From insideHPC
Call for Abstracts: FLOW-3D User Conference in Barcelona
The 17th annual FLOW-3D European Users Conference has announced its Call for Abstracts. The event takes place June 5-7, 2017 in Barcelona and will be co-hosted by Simulaciones y Proyectos, the official distributor of FLOW-3D
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain on Real Strategy
Good piece, though I would look to more measurement.
Strategic Planning That Produces Real Strategy
February 10, 2016 Bain Brief By Mark Judah, Dunigan O’Keeffe, David Zehner and Lucy Cummings
The email arrives and your jaw clenches…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Great AI Awakening: Language Translation
In the NYTimes Magazine, may require registration, in particular looks at language translation. We followed this for years, and at that time translation was never good enough for our purpose. This has changed, and we can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Elevators
Recall we worked on simulating operations of elevators, acting as an interactions of people and machines. Made me note this piece. In the CACM:
Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways By Reuters
ThyssenKrupp's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Want more Insights from POS Data
In Retailwire: Makes much sense. Includes expert discussion.
Brands want more insights from retail POS data
by Guest contributor Glenn Taylor
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Trust Falling
Podcast of interest, how can we address the falling of social trust?
This week on Freakonomics Radio: Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Database Decay
In the CACM:
Term was new to me, and am not an architect of databases. But had heard it mentioned when dealing with the need to update systems. And I have been burned by the maintenance of databases and related analytics. CACM…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Woman Throws Squid at Her Boyfriend
This is what passes for news these days. 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
AWS Adds FPGAs to its Public Cloud
Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr announced in a recent blog post that the company was adding Xilinx FPGAs to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The addition of this new hardware will allow users to create…
From insideHPC
Video: CSCS Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
In this video, CSCS celebrates its 25th anniversary of high performance computing in Switzerland.
The post Video: CSCS Celebrates its 25th Anniversary appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
How Engility Delivers HPC
In this special feature, our own MichaelS reports on his SC16 meeting with Engility, a premier provider of integrated services for the U.S. government. "Complex High Performance Computing environments require careful planning…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and technology: what happened in 2016
This year, you are able to buy CRISPR-based CRISPR gene editing toolkits for $150 on the Internet as well as autonomous drones, and you can ask your Amazon Echo to play your favorite music or give you a traffic report. You can…
From insideHPC
Post SC16: Top 10 Things in Retrospect
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon shares her perspectives on SC16. "“Faster” is the game in HPC. You can achieve speed with GPUs, FPGAs, or faster CPUs. GPUs have been around a while – you go to NVIDIA and that’s where…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Acting Out The Loop
One of my major goals this year has been to get more activity in class to help students understand concepts. Jumping right into code is awfully abstract for many students. So I have been adding activities to help students see…