Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Reasoning and Intentionality for AI
Big issues here. This is what we will have to address if we want to ultimately create useful conversations between people and machines. Another moves towards intelligence.
Making AI 'Intentional'
In NC State News By Matt…
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 insideHPC
BioBurst: Leveraging Burst Buffer Technology for Campus Research Computing
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC17, Ron Hawkins from the San Diego Supercomputer Center presents: BioBurst — Leveraging Burst Buffer Technology for Campus Research Computing. Under an NSF award, SDSC will implement…
From insideHPC
SDSC Earthquake Codes Used in 2017 Gordon Bell Prize Research
A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source code developed by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAACL 2018 Student Research Workshop
The 2018 NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 1-6th, 2018. The SRW gives student researchers in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE to Roll Out Predix Asset Management
Have been following Predix, was a beta user. Managing Assets in the IoT is important
GE to roll out its Predix Asset Performance Management software at its monitoring, diagnostic center .... By rolling out APM to its monitoring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Takes Youtube Off Echo Show
I have verified this has happened. Have been involved in sketching out an application using the Echo Show. With an option of using the Youtube content on the device. Will this ultimately be solved? Not giving access to
Google…
From insideHPC
Microsoft Azure Becomes First Global Cloud Provider to Deploy AMD EPYC
Today AMD announced the first public cloud instances powered by the AMD EPYC processor. Microsoft Azure has deployed AMD EPYC processors in its datacenters in advance of preview for its latest L-Series of Virtual Machines (VM)…
From insideHPC
VMware moves Virtualized HPC Forward at SC17
In this video from SC17, and Martin Yip and Josh Simons from VMware describe how the company is moving Virtualized HPC forward. "In recent years, virtualization has started making major inroads into the realm of High Performance…
From insideHPC
Cavium Joins OpenCAPI for Next-gen Platforms
Today Cavium announced it is collaborating with IBM for next generation platforms by joining OpenCAPI, an initiative founded by IBM, Google, AMD and others. OpenCAPI provides high-bandwidth, low latency interface optimized to…
From insideHPC
Interview: Cray to Deploy Largest Supercomputer in South Korea at KISTI
In this video from SC17, Dr Kwang Jin Oh, Director of Supercomputing Service Center at KISTI describes the new Intel-powered Cray supercomputer coming to South Korea. “Our cluster supercomputers are specifically designed to give…
From Schneier on Security
Germany Preparing Backdoor Law
The German Interior Minister is preparing a bill that allows the government to mandate backdoors in encryption. No details about how likely this is to pass. I am skeptical....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving AI Adoption in the Enterprise
Interesting infographic style view look at this question, driven by Forrester surveys. In particular how enterprises are choosing to do work in this area, an area I was involved in in previous attempts to bring in this and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and AI
Once again, my take, its about using analytical methods to detect patterns (Machine Learning) in enough managed data (Big Data) , and inserting what is found into process (AI) to augment and improve systems. We are seeing…
From insideHPC
AI Technology: The Answer to Diffusion Compartment Imaging Challenges
Use cases show AI technology, like what's used in an optimized Diffusion Compartment Imaging (DCI) technique, is growing the potential of HPC computing. AI is thought to be a solution to many of DCI's challenges.
The post AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Restocks
Kroger begins next phase in Restock initiative
Company expects partnerships based on local preference to increase By Dan Orlando in SuperMarketNews
The Restock Kroger Initiative, which launched in October, has begun to change…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Simplistic programming is underrated
I was a nerdy kid who liked to spend a lot of time reading. Back then, we did not have the Internet, we could not even imagine it… so I ended up reading the dictionary, reading my encyclopedia. I had a weird vocabulary. I could…
From Putting People First
Workplace anthropology video series
A few months ago a new channel Workplace Anthropology Matters popped up on Youtube that profiles workplace anthropologists, whose work directly influence their own workplace processes. The video series is part of a workshop in…
From Putting People First
Workplace anthropology video series
A few months ago a new channel Workplace Anthropology Matters popped up on Youtube that profiles workplace anthropologists, whose work directly influence their own workplace processes. The video series is part of a workshop in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Battles for Strategic Problems
So What is a Micro-Battle? The HBR explains:
Figure Out Your Company’s Make-or-Break Strategic Problems, Then Use Small Teams to Solve Them by James Allen .... "
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Thoughts on Drag and Drop Block Programming
I’ve toyed with drag and drop or block based programming for a bunch of years now. I even keep a list of block programming platforms. But this year I am really using them a lot with students. It’s been a real learning experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On AI Transforming the Economy
Also some about the AIIndex mentioned here recently. Good points here, what has been done is still only scratching the surface of what we would call 'intelligence'. We are not there yet, but making progress that we have to…
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in Boulder
The OFA Workshop 2018 Call for Sessions encourages industry experts and thought leaders to help shape this year’s discussions by presenting or leading discussions on critical high performance networking issues. Sessions are designed…
From insideHPC
Video: IBM Launches POWER9 Nodes for the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
In this video from SC17, Adel El Hallak from IBM unveils the POWER9 servers that will form the basis of the world's fastest "Coral" supercomputers coming to ORNL and LLNL. "In addition to arming the world's most powerful supercomputers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming Machine Learning
Previously mentioned. A good means for applying simulation. Here in further detail. And Gaming.
Gaming Machine Learning By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 12, Pages 14-16
Over the last few years,
All…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics to Combat Opiod Epidemic
Becoming an epidemic in our area. Good thoughts here, but would have liked more in the area of pattern detection, predictive and prescriptive applications. Though once you did more accurate data gathering, you would get more…
From insideHPC
Verne Global Launches hpcDIRECT, an HPC as a Service Platform
Today Verne Global in Iceland announced hpcDIRECT, a powerful, agile and efficient HPC-as-a-service (HPCaaS) platform. hpcDIRECT provides a fully scalable, bare metal service with the ability to rapidly provision the full performance…
From insideHPC
Intel SC17 Booth Tour: Driving Innovation in HPC
In this video, David Warberg gives us a quick tour of the Intel booth at SC17. "Intel unveiled new HPC advancements for optimized workloads, including the the addition of a new family of HPC solutions to the Intel Select Solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVidia Democratizing AI
Specialized hardware is becoming important for edge resident AI and analytics. Also for more broadly available analytic and cognitive skills.
Nvidia Corp. is moving to lower the entry barrier to developing artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
Mellanox and NEC Partner to Deliver High-Performance Artificial Intelligence Platforms
Today Mellanox announced in collaboration with NEC Corporation support for the newly announced SX-Aurora TSUBASA systems with Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters. "We appreciate the performance, efficiency and scalability advantages…