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 Putting People First
Experience design and Big Data at BBVA bank
Over the last 6 months, Fabien Girardin has been working in a rather unique position at BBVA Data & Analytics, a center of excellence in financial data analysis. My job is to make the design of user experiences reach a new frontier…
From Schneier on Security
Let's Encrypt Is Making Web Encryption Easier
That's the conclusion of a research paper: Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk, thus quickly and automatically enable encryption…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Launches Chat Bot
Now I want to see a real world application of this, beyond just an amusing interaction. Bring on the contextual power and usefulness. And something that can carry on a memory enabled learning conversation.
Microsoft officially…
From Phys.org Technology News
Apple's Jobs loses out in Paris street name vote
Steve Jobs may have been a technological revolutionary, but his legacy will not be remembered in a Paris street name.
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference in February
The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference has issued its Call for Papers and Presentations. The event takes place Feb. 7-8 in Palo Alto, CA. "We invite submissions introducing a wide range of topics, levels and considerations…
From The Noisy Channel
I don’t have any easy answers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Technologies for Smart Services
Have been involved with just such applications. The potential value is to have smart analytics that provide clear value, and can be sustained under changing business and data context.
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for Jobs in Emerging Information Tech
Reasonable thoughts here. But even more important, jobs that will deliver on these innovation areas and sustain the process of their use and value. Its change management all over again.
2017 Predictions For AI, Big Data, IoT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy and Listening Digital Assistants
Voice based listening assistants are attentive. To what degree do they violate privacy?
Alexa and Google Home Record What You Say. But What Happens to That Data?
If you have an Amazon Echo or Google Home voice assistant, welcome…
From insideHPC
Big Lab Problems Solved with Spectrum Scale: Innovations for the Coral Program
Sven Oehme, Chief Research Strategist at IBM presented this talk at the DDN User Group. "Since 2007, DDN has sustained a highly strategic partnership with IBM to drive our mutual HPC technology vision to the next level. By leveraging…
From insideHPC
Mellanox 25G/100G Ethernet Speeds Speech Recognition at iFLYTEK
Today Mellanox announced that one of China’s leading intelligent speech and language technologies’ companies, iFLYTEK, has chosen Mellanox’s end-to-end 25G and 100G Ethernet solutions based on ConnectX adapters and Spectrum switches…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: MSST 2017 in Santa Clara
The International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2017) has issued its Call for Participation. The event takes place May 15-19, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. "MSST 2017 will dedicate five days to…
From insideHPC
Interview: Bill Mannel and Dr. Eng Lim Goh on What’s Next for HPE & SGI
In this video, Bill Mannel, VP & GM, High-Performance Computing and Big Data, HPE & Dr. Eng Lim GoH, PhD, SVP & CTO of SGI join Dave Vellante & Paul Gillin at HPE Discover 2016. "The combined HPE and SGI portfolio, including
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization for Machine Learning
Of interest. The idea of dealing with many dimensions was rarely addressed in the usual business data, but it was always there in reality. Now in machine learning we need better perspective. Explanatory images at the link.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Experiments with Google
Just brought to my attention, a means of experimenting with Google AI. I like the broad extent of context.
Introducing A.I. Experiments (Video)
Explore machine learning by playing with pictures, language, music, code, and more…
From insideHPC
New Intel Technologies Highlighted in SC16 Announcements
Here’s a recap of SC16 announcements from Intel that are designed to provide even more powerful capabilities to address HPC challenges like energy efficiency, system complexity, and the ability for simplified workload customization…
From Schneier on Security
Hiding Information in Silver and Carbon Ink
Interesting: "We used silver and carbon ink to print an image consisting of small rods that are about a millimeter long and a couple of hundred microns wide," said Ajay Nahata from the University of Utah, leader of the research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alien Spacecraft, Computing and Mathematics
Have long been a big student of how computing, mathematics, analytics and visualization are presented in film. In particular how they portray real science and engineering involved. And how this is a useful inspiration and…
From The Noisy Channel
I feel strongly that we should have non-exclusive ownership of our raw behavioral data — that’s…
But I’m not convinced that we should have any inherent rights to inferences that companies make from observing our behavior. Especially if…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Your Science T-Shirt Doesn’t Fly
A few months ago Science sent many people a sample of the magazine and a solicitation to subscribe. As seems to be the manner in which these things are done, there were several enticements included in the package. The one … Read…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Bletchley Park
Lessons from the Park that still apply today Iain Standen is the CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, which is responsible for the restoration of the Park. After the war, the Park was almost completely destroyed and forgotten—partially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple to Start Publishing Some of it's AI Research
Likely to also help support ethics studies and development for AI systems.
In BusinessInsider:
Artificial intelligence researchers at Apple are going to start publishing some of their work and engaging more with the wider academic…
From The Noisy Channel
Nice post.
From The Noisy Channel
Privatizing Our Past
The essence of machine learning is learning from data. Since we can only learn from past data, machine learning uses our knowledge of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beginners Guide to Machine Learning
A beginners guide to machine learning from DSC. Links to some interesting resources. Not really about machine learning, or anything close to what we think of as learning. But rather, how to use focused analytical methods, mostly…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years
The following blog post is by CCC Vice Chair and Executive Council member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill and co-author of the report. In June 2016, I blogged about the successful Architecture 2030…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Lie with Analytics
Article in Internet Citizen. Good piece. I remember reading the classic 'How to Lie with Statistics', by Darrell Huff. It was not a 'how to', but rather a how not to get fooled by simple statistics and numerical arguments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Draw to Win
Am a big proponent of casual drawing and the use of more formal diagramming of business. Here Knowledge@Wharton interviews the author of a new book on very casual visual thinking and communications. This is like data visualization…
From Computational Complexity
Guest post by Samir Khuller on Humans, Machines, and the Future of Work (a workshop)
Guest Post from Samir Khuller on
Humans, Machines, and the Future of Work
(A Workshop)
On Dec 5th and 6th I attended, at Rice University,
a workshop on Humans, Machines, and the Future of Work.
I had a wonderful lunch with
…
From insideHPC
New AMD Radeon Instinct Rolls Out to Accelerate Machine Intelligence
"New Radeon Instinct accelerators will offer organizations powerful GPU-based solutions for deep learning inference and training. Along with the new hardware offerings, AMD announced MIOpen, a free, open-source library for GPU…