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 insideHPC
DDN Simplifies High Performance Storage at SC17
In this video from SC17 in Denver, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company is driving high performance storage for HPC. For more than 15 years, DDN has designed, developed, deployed, and optimized systems, software, and…
From insideHPC
Benchmarking Optimized 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Tools
New benchmarks from Computer Simulation Technology on their recently optimized 3D electromagnetic field simulation tools compare the performance of the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors with previous generation Intel Xeon processors…
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze on Securing Voting Machines
Matt Blaze's House testimony on the security of voting machines is an excellent read. (Details on the entire hearing is here.) I have not watched the video....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Networks for Marketing
Some good and fairly straightforward examples of the technology in marketing.
Bayesia Presents:
Benoit Hubert: From Marketing Science to Artificial Intelligence with Bayesian Networks
Benoit Hubert (GfK) presents at the 5th Annual…
From Computational Complexity
Fireside chat with Simons Inst Director Dick Karp
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Creates an AI Index
Recall an effort to do this back then as well.
Stanford-Led Artificial Intelligence Index Tracks Emerging Field
Stanford News by Andrew Myers
A Stanford University-led team called the AI100 has launched the AI Index, the first…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Understanding
Very good piece, with as you might expect, good demonstration video. This takes such methods beyond captioning and close to what we continually do as humans, visually interpret and understand a contextually changing view.
Helping…
From insideHPC
Kingston NVMe Technologies Speed Up HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Rich Kanadjian from Kingston describes the company's wide array server memory and NVMe PCIe Flash solutions for HPC. "Today’s supercomputing installations are capable of doing billions of calculations…
From insideHPC
Consumer GPUs come to NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI Research
Today NVIDIA announced that hundreds of thousands of AI researchers using desktop GPUs can now tap into the power of NVIDIA GPU Cloud. “With GPU-optimized software now available to hundreds of thousands of researchers using NVIDIA…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Lecture- Soft Materials Research in the Era of Machine Learning
Professor Juan de Pablo from the Institute for Molecular Engineering at University of Chicago will be giving a lecture on Soft Materials Research in the Era of Machine Learning at the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday…
From insideHPC
Video: PASC18 to Focus on Big Data & Computation
In this video, Florina Ciorba from University of Basel describes the theme of the upcoming PASC18 conference. With a focus on the convergence of Big Data and Computation, the conference takes place from July 2-4, 2018 in Basel…
From insideHPC
Intel Omni Path Gains Momentum at SC17
"On the November 2017 TOP500 list, Intel-powered supercomputers accounted for six of the top 10 systems and a record high of 471 out of 500 systems. Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) gained momentum, delivering a majority…
From Schneier on Security
"Crypto" Is Being Redefined as Cryptocurrencies
I agree with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, "Cryptocurrencies aren't 'crypto'": Lately on the internet, people in the world of Bitcoin and other digital currencies are starting to use the word "crypto" as a catch-all term for…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at a Controversy in the Irish Supercomputing List
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a controversy stirred up by the recent Irish Supercomputing List.
The 9th Irish Supercomputer List was released this week. For the first time, Ireland has four computers ranked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Rekognition Announces New Features
For a prototype project have been examining applications of face and image analysis. I see that Amazon has added a number of new features to their Rekognition Services, which is used in Pinterist.
Amazon Adds New Features to …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathy and Product Design
Have followed this site for some time, follow along.
Empathy and the Art of Product Design
By Vignesh Ramesh in UXMatters.
Solving extraordinary problems and creating customer-centric products and services that people want and
Product…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots Driving Future of Content Marketing
Based on our own experience, I concur. Probably driven most by people starting to experience more conversations with chatbots. Authenticity helps, but the authenticity is being accepted as a 'robotic' style. Still has to
How…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software can Identify People from DNA
This software can Identify People from their DNA in minutes via the Hindu Times
“We’re especially excited about the potential to improve cell authentication in cancer research and potentially speed up the discovery of new treatments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smalt: A Smart Salt Shaker
A Smart Salt Shaker? Uses in commercial cooking applications? More generally in any blending design and testing application? In CBInsights.com by Anand Sanwal
" .... You can now pay money to buy a smart salt shaker that you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capital One Rethinking Banking: Multimodal Skills
A useful example of multimodal assistance development. Voice plus visual. Following with another example of skill in this space.
Session recording now available! How Capital One Rethought Multimodal Voice Experiences and Brought…
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at PMIx Process Management Interface for Exascale
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss PMIx with Ralph Castain from Intel. "The Process Management Interface (PMI) has been used for quite some time as a means of exchanging wireup information needed for interprocess…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Destructing Drones
In these cases you have to think about the liability risk from the infrastructure of your supply chain.
Amazon Working on Self-Dismantling Drone by Ethan Baron in CIO Today
Nobody wants a drone falling on their head, especially…
From insideHPC
Video: Australian Bureau of Meteorology moves to a new Data Production Service
Tim Pugh from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology gave this talk at the DDN User Group in Denver. "The Bureau of Meteorology, Australia’s national weather, climate and water agency, relies on DDN’s GRIDScaler Enterprise NAS…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kuri Update and Future
The updated newsletter for the Kuri home robot includes extensive new information. Very nicely presented. The system is now scheduled for shipment this month. It costs $799 plus shipping and handling. Expensive. Still have…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What’s It Like To Serve On A Board?
Throughout my professional career—academia, industry, government, I’ve been involved with many boards. Most of my experiences have be positive; most of them were part of loving, respectful, inclusive communities. I’ve servedContinue…
From insideHPC
Video: Introducing the Nitro Hypervisor – the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization
In this video from AWS Reinvent, Anthony Liguori from Amazon presents: Nitro Hypervisor - the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization. "The new Nitro hypervisor for Amazon EC2, introduced with the launch of C5 instances, is a
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Fixing Statistics in Algorithms, Process
Thoughtful piece. And increasingly important as we decide to algorithmically, and sometimes non transparently implement methods deeper in the process. Will that make cognitive bias from humans less likely, or just embed them…
From insideHPC
Apply now for Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing 2018
Computational scientists now have the opportunity to apply for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). The event takes place from July 29-August 10, 2018 in greater Chicago. "With the challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Knowledge Graphs
A hint at where Google, AI and knowledge delivery is going. Here the foundation is maps. From location, to stores, to brands, to ? Where does this lead to more generally? In SearchEngineland:
Google showing knowledge
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Do it Yourself AI and Voice Kit
For the do it yourself hobbyist, or the clever and inquisitive child, get started with voice and vision AI, assistants. $35 and less. Add AI to your Raspberry Pi. From MicroCenter.
Do it yourself AI
Google AIY Projects
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