Communications of the ACM
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December 2017
From The Noisy Channel
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An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Featured Snippets in Google
Is this a challenge to Wikipedia being at the top of many search results? How we arrange knowledge and its discovery is an important topic.
Improving Search and discovery on Google By Michael Galvez in the Google Blog.
Search…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legos for Creativity
Look at this once for enterprise creativity, but got no buy in. Still intrigues me as a play-create process. A Gamification idea with fewer constraints. Have written about here previously.
Here's How NASA Is Using Legos to…
From Computational Complexity
Having Faith in Complexity
I believe P ≠ NP as much as anyone else. Nevertheless should we worry about trust we put in complexity?
You don't need the full power of P = NP to break cryptography. I don't worry about quantum computers breaking RSA and related…
From insideHPC
Video: Deep Learning for the Enterprise
Sumit Gupta from IBM gave this talk at H2O World. "From chat bots, to recommendation engines, to Google Voice and Apple Siri, AI has begun to permeate our lives. We will demystify what AI is, present the difference between machine…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit
The story of the recent vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit....
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
2017 in Review: UASG Continues Its Mission
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2017 was an important year for the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG). Whereas in 2016 we focused our efforts on introducing people…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Youtube Works on Show
I had noticed a couple of days ago that Google is now again allowing access of Youtube on the Amazon Show. So the below article starts out being wrong. That particular feud is over. But it would make sense to do this, if…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) 2017
Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Gregory Hager. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the International Symposium on Robotics Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG Renames Appliances by Intelligence: ThinQ
Intriguing marketing spin for intelligent appliances. Includes list of systems and applications involved. Note smart home implications and deep learning. Want to see a broader indication of value proposition by appliance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Personal Shopping Service
Sounds like a powerful idea. Anything else out there on results of this?
Walmart is developing a personal-shopper service for rich moms — and a store with no cashiers ... This ain’t your grandpa’s Walmart.
By Jason Del Rey in …
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Data Monetization
Via a McKinsey Survey. Analytics means doing things better,faster, cheaper .... so why not?
Fueling growth through data monetization
A new survey finds that many companies are launching data-focused businesses. But few have achieved…
From insideHPC
Stanford HPC Conference Returns to Palo Alto in February
Today HPC Advisory Council announced its 2018 Stanford HPC Conference will take place February 20-21, 2018 at Stanford University. The annual California-based conference draws world-class experts from all over the world for two…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: HiPINEB 2018 in Vienna
The IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place February 25, 2018 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction…
From insideHPC
First Global Survey of Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management
In this special guest feature, Siddhartha Jana summarizes the key findings of the first-of-its-kind survey on Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management. The Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG) has…
From insideHPC
Video: How to Get the HPC Best-in-class Performance via Intel Xeon Skylake
"HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering the C5 compute intensive instance at AWS and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting…
From insideHPC
AI Software: Understanding the Rapidly Expanding Ecosystem
The hardware and software for AI devices is rapidly evolving, so it is important to procure wisely for the future without incurring technology or vendor lock in. This post from an insideHPC Special Report focuses on AI software…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Education and AI
Last week, I had the interesting experience of giving evidence at a hearing of our House of Lords Artificial Intelligence select committee. The House of Lords is the (entirely unelected) upper house of the UK’s legislature, so…
From Schneier on Security
Details on the Mirai Botnet Authors
Brian Krebs has a long article on the Mirai botnet authors, who pled guilty....
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Becomes Independent Company
Today Hyperion Research announced that it has completed an employee buyout and is now an independent company. "The team will continue all the worldwide activities that have made it the world’s most respected HPC industry analyst…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Seeks Comment On Response Efforts Undertaken During 2017 Hurricane Season
The following is a public notice from the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, who are seeking comments on the 2017 hurricane season response efforts. DA 17-1180 Released December 7, 2017 PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY…
From insideHPC
New Paper looks at Unsupervised Machine Learning on Rigetti 19Q Quantum Computer
Over at Rigetti Computing, Will Zeng writes that the company has published a new white paper on unsupervised machine learning using 19Q, their new 19-qubit general purpose superconducting quantum processor. To accomplish this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Uses of Augmented Reality
Good points in Wired. Have been searching for the big applications of AR long before modern AR. Our own experiments first looked at maintenance support in manufacturing plants. That's still possible, but it still has environmental…
From insideHPC
Video: South Africa to Compete in ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition
In this video, Happy Sithole from CHPC introduces the team from South Africa that will travel to the Student Cluster Competition at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "Last week the local students came first in a national competition at
…
From insideHPC
EuroExa Project puts Europe on the Road to Exascale
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that the EuroExa project has Europe on the road to Exascale computing. "Ultimately, the goals for exascale computing projects are focused on delivering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Predicting
All business is about prediction. But prediction also implies you can define well enough the current state .... and can be assured an equivalent context in a future state. .....
New robots can see into their future
By Brett,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Digital Transformations
A view of digital transformation in the HBR
What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common
By Jacques Bughin, Tanguy Catlin
Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the…
From insideHPC
Lessons on Integrating and Utilizing 10 Million Cores: Experience of Sunway TaihuLight
Haohuan Fu gave this Invited Talk at SC17 in Denver. "The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is the world's first system with a peak performance greater than 100 PFlops and a parallel scale of over 10 million cores. Different from…
From BLOG@CACM
Small and Big Pleasures
What makes a supervisor happy?
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Found -- and Disclosed -- a Windows 10 Vulnerability
Now this is good news. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) -- part of GCHQ -- found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component). Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it…