Communications of the ACM
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December 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation Patterns
A scarier yet example of pattern recognition, here in conversation.
AI Can Predict Lasting Relationships Based on How You Speak to Your Partner The Conversation by Ian McLoughlin
Researchers at the University of Southern California…
From Putting People First
Service design video interviews
Marc Fonteijn, co-founder of the Dutch service design studio 31Volts, has been creating quite an impressive roster of video interviews with some of the leading service design players on his Youtube Service Design Show. The goal…
From Putting People First
Service design video interviews
Marc Fonteijn, co-founder of the Dutch service design studio 31Volts, has been creating quite an impressive roster of video interviews with some of the leading service design players on his Youtube Service Design Show. The goal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics on the State of AI Adoption
Nicely done, though this is really about machine learning adoption. Interesting statistics. But not about the installation of systems like assistants to augment human beings. Perhaps machine learning driven, but not necessarily…
From insideHPC
Intel Unveils Industry’s First FPGA Integrated with HBM Memory
Today Intel announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). "To efficiently accelerate these workloads,
…
From insideHPC
Video: Meet in Europe for ISC 2018 and PASC18 Conferences
In this video, Nages Sieslack from ISC 2018 and Michele De Lorenzi from PASC18 invite you to join both conferences next summer. "ISC High Performance and the PASC Conference are pleased to announce that ISC 2018 and PASC18, two…
From insideHPC
Jülich Simulates World Record 43 Qubit Quantum Computer
Scientists from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany have set a new world record--simulating a quantum computer with 46 quantum bits – or qubits – for the first time. For their calculations, the scientists used the Jülich…
From insideHPC
NCI in Australia to Deploy $70 Million Supercomputer
Today the Australian Government announced plans to invest $70 million for a new supercomputer at the The Board of Australia’s National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). The funding will be used to replace NCI’s aging Raijin…
From insideHPC
Rescale Demonstrates Easy HPC Cloud Management at SC17
In this video from SC17, Peter Lyu from Rescale demonstrates how the company brings HPC Workloads to the Cloud. "Rescale helps customers shift from complex on-premise workflows to an easy-to-use web-based engineering SaaS workflow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Talking Advertising
So how does advertising and marketing ultimately work in a voice driven, intelligent assistant empowered world? Below Wired piece does a good idea of outlining this, emphasizing what the current leader in the space, Amazon…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL RAISE on Enabling Quantum Leap: Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems
The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on Quantum Leap and Convergent Research, which are two of the 10 NSF Big Ideas for Future Investment. December 14, 2017 Dear…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Networks for Media Mix
Been pointing to some of the presentations by Bayesia Lab in their recent Paris show because I know there are readers out there who are interested in applications of Bayesian Networks. Media Mix is a classical optimization
Erin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Reasoning and Dialog
Its all about goal and establishing what is required to reach the goal.
Visual reasoning and dialog: Towards natural language conversations about visual data Facebook Research by Kelly Berschauer
The broad objective of visual…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Do You Do Besides Write Code?
A bunch of years ago I read an op-ed piece in one of the news magazines. I forget the one but the piece itself has stuck with me for years. The Op-ed was written by a guy who was critical of software people. He was in construction…
From Schneier on Security
Lessons Learned from the Estonian National ID Security Flaw
Estonia recently suffered a major flaw in the security of their national ID card. This article discusses the fix and the lessons learned from the incident: In the future, the infrastructure dependency on one digital identity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternative Future Views of Work
Some intriguing models for future work in Strategy+Business:
What Will Work Look Like in 2030?
Imagining four radically different scenarios for how companies will manage people and how people will manage their work and careers.…
From Computational Complexity
Monkey First!
The following story is not true nor has anyone claimed its true, but it has a point:
A company gets a contract to do the following: train a monkey to sit on a 10-foot pedestal and recite some passages of Shakespeare. After a…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Truth From Zero?
How we might compare AlphaZero against standards of perfection YouTube 2015 lecture source David Silver is the lead author on the paper, “Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Stops Tango
Surprised at this. Tango had impressed me as a way to really understand spaces, analyze them, and intelligently augment them. Rather than just paste in an image. Lets hope some of that shows up in ARCore
Google kills augmented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hilton's Smart Rooms
Some of my past clients watch hospitality innovation trends, so here is more. In the past participated in innovation sessions for the customers of smart hotel spaces.
Hilton’s IoT-filled ‘Connected Room’ will be a treasure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones vs Action Cams
Why Smartphones Won't be Replacing Action Cams Anytime Soon By Gannon Burgett
In the wake of GoPro’s Hero6 Black announcement, one question that might come up for you is, do you really need this? In an age where water-resistant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Amazon Machine
Have now had a number of interactions with Amazon, at several levels. Worth understanding their unusual organizational structure.
More on the Amazon machine, by Ben Evans.
How Amazon's decentralized operating structure and small…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Says Goodbye to Net Neutrality
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the FCC's move to abolish Net Neutrality regulations put in place during the Obama administration. Dan thinks this is a good move to remove unnecessary regulations, but rest of…
From insideHPC
Video: Arm on the Path to Exascale
In this video from SC17, Mike Vildibill from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describes the company's experiences engaging large HPC customers with prototype systems and highlight the value and benefit of running SUSE on the Apollo…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Data Wrangled
In the Trifacta Blog. Always important element of doing the analytics. by Joe Scheuermann
"... Before data can be analyzed, it must be wrangled (prepped) into the requisite format for the analysis you want to run, especially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Shopping: No Checkouts
So called autonomous, 'checkout-free' experience. Like that being done with Amazon Go. Note how other behavioral information can be derived from such interactions. In Mashable.
We experimented and provided support to IBM's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cashier-less in China
Doing some research on the elements and consumer values of the cashier-less store. Amazon Go getting considerable press this year. But see also, in Mashable: China's version of Amazon's cashier-less store is here " ... The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Mega Trends
Well stated, and not just about the tech, but how it can be implemented for value.
Technology Perspective in Forbes:
Some tech trends fizzle out and die a quiet death, while others are so significant that they transform our world…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifelong CEO Learning
For a while was responsible for answering questions from execs on technology, and connecting them to broader resources, this blog was part of that, but it does make sense to schedule learning more formally. Even making sure
Putting…
From insideHPC
The U.S. D.O.E. Exascale Computing Project – Goals and Challenges
Paul Messina from Argonne gave this Invited Talk at SC17. "Balancing evolution with innovation is challenging, especially since the ecosystem must be ready to support critical mission needs of DOE, other Federal agencies, and…