Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2018
From insideHPC
IBM’s Plan to bring Machine Learning Capabilities to Data Scientists Everywhere
Over at the IBM Blog, IBM Fellow Hillary Hunter writes that the company anticipates that the world’s volume of digital data will exceed 44 zettabytes, an astounding number. "IBM has worked to build the industry’s most complete…
From insideHPC
Violin Systems Acquires X-IO Storage on Road to Recovery
Today Violin Systems announced the appointment of a new CEO and the acquisition of X-IO Storage. "This has been a year of rebirth, of growth and of tremendous success for Violin,” said CEO Mark Lewis. “That success has been fueled…
From insideHPC
Video: How Intel is Advancing High Performance Computing at CHPC in South Africa
In this video from the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes how the company is advancing the use of high performance computing on the African Continent. "In her Keynote talk at CHPC, Trish…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP December 2018 Newsletter
The December 2018 ISSIP Newsletter: Institute of Service Systems Innovation Professionals
I often promote their work here, which includes work that often deals with AI, expertise, human Assistance, people and machine interaction…
From insideHPC
Atos to build BullSquana Supercomputer in Czech Republic
Atos has announced plans to build a BullSequana XH2000 for IT4Innovations in the Czech Republic. The new supercomputer will be located in the National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations, which is part of the Technical University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Recognizing and Labeling Images
We spent quite a lot of time in the late 90s addressing the labeling of photographs. So we knew it was hard in general. Now its become much easier. Whether it be face recognition in real time, or the ability to label all…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Leads in AI Research
China to usurp Europe in becoming AI research world leader By Ashton Young in DataCentre News
The rush to understand and implement artificial intelligence (AI) solutions has become almost akin to the space race, with countries…
From Schneier on Security
Teaching Cybersecurity Policy
Peter Swire proposes a a pedagogic framework for teaching cybersecurity policy. Specifically, he makes real the old joke about adding levels to the OSI networking stack: an organizational layer, a government layer, and an international…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Guard Takes a Step into Home Security
As announced recently Amazon will be starting to offer the Alexa/Echo infrastructure to listen into the home for security while you are away. Only some of their devices will support this, but I imagine most people who have invested…
From insideHPC
Video: How DDN Powers HPC & Ai Applications
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company powers HPC and Machine Learning applications. "Organizations around the world are leveraging DDN’s people, technology, performance and innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Azure Services Examples Providing AI in Action
Interesting examples, all chat bot-style via Microsoft Azure AI services. I had some of these demonstrated last year, well done.
AI in action. Three technical case studies show how developers are using Azure AI to create the
Developers…
From insideHPC
Video: Two Days of Weather Predicted in Just 20 Minutes
In this video, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showcases new weather prediction capabilities enabled by GPUs. The demo was initially shown on the big screen at SC18 in Dallas for a crowd of more than 700 conference attendees. "We’re
…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sorting strings properly is stupidly hard
Programming languages make it hard to sort arrays properly. Look at how JavaScript sorts arrays of integers: > v = [1,3,2,10] [ 1, 3, 2, 10 ] > v.sort() [ 1, 10, 2, 3 ] You need a magical incantation to get the right result:Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Neural Networks being Explored
In the Google AI Blog. Quite an interesting play here, updating neural nets in a quantum fashion. Two more technical papers pointed to. Faster, or perhaps a means of introducing more subtle aspects of learning and creativity…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: Swiss HPC Conference & HPCXXL Meeting in Lugano
The Swiss HPC Conference has issued its Call for Participation. Held in conjunction with the HPCXXL User Group, the four-day event takes place April 1-4, 2019 in Lugano, Switzerland. "Explore the domains and disciplines driving…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC and the Future of Computing
In this video from ICT2018, Mateo Valero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre presents: HPC and the Future of Computing. "Europe is going in the right direction with EuroHPC and this must be sustained in the long-term. BSC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Donald Knuth
I slogged and marvelled through his books when they came out starting in 1968, there are so many embedded gems. My friends at my first 'coding' job gave me a copy when I moved on to grad school .... WSJ has a good overview
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irving Wladawsky-Berger on Blockchain
A favorite writer of mine Irving Wladawsky-Berger, on Blockchain, makes some good points. Apply it carefully where it makes sense. As a Trust model is probably the first place to examine it.
From Irving Wladawsky-Berger's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Textiles
We examined options for smart textile cleansing
Graphene Unlocks New Potential for 'Smart Textiles' by University of Exeter
An international engineering team led by the University of Exeter in the U.K. has pioneered a new method…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Data Driven Approaches to Sales
Had not heard of the specifics of this, interesting, especially regards the link to specific data, customers paying based on usage.
A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales
Sanaz Namdar, Ryan Fuller in the…
From insideHPC
World’s First 7nm GPU and Fastest Double Precision PCIe Card
AMD recently announced two new Radeon Instinct compute products including the AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerators, which are the first GPUs in the world based on the advanced 7nm FinFET process technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proactive Events in Alexa Skills
From the Alexa Skill Developer news feed, of interest, with an example:
Send Timely Information to Your Alexa Skill Customers with the ProactiveEvents API By June Lee
We are excited to announce the availability of the ProactiveEvents…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Threat Intelligence Handbook
I continue to follow the work of Recorded Future. They have updated their new handbook in an interesting way. Links to a favorite topic: Risk analysis
A Closer Look at 'The Threat Intelligence Handbook' (Infographic) By…
From Schneier on Security
New Shamoon Variant
A new variant of the Shamoon malware has destroyed signifigant amounts of data at a UAE "heavy engineering company" and the Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem. Shamoon is the Iranian malware that was targeted against the Saudi…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain in the Ad World
Don't quite get this, but intrigued by the advantages claimed and involved, beyond classic IT.
The Blockchain Will Tear Through The Ad Market Like A Tornado
The blockchain will restore balance to a market that desperately needs…
From Computational Complexity
Guest post: Join SIGACT!
This is a guest post by Samir Khuller and Robert Kleinberg.
Dear friends,
As our research community continues to grow and thrive, SIGACT membership has not grown apace. We respectfully urge you to join SIGACT! Membership is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kurzweil Interview on Future Arc of Technology
Of interest. Brought to my attention by Walter Riker.
Kurzweil AI
accelerating intelligence
the TED Interview | Future Arc of Technology: a special conversation
on air | feature with: Ray Kurzweil .... "
From insideHPC
Simulating nature with the new Microsoft Quantum Development Kit chemistry library
In this video, the Microsoft Quantum Team describes how Quantum computers have the potential to solve the world’s hardest computational problems and alter the economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practicality of Decision Trees
Good piece on the pros and Cons and design of Decision trees, which we often selected as a first approach when we addressed a problem. Not because we were certain it was the best approach, but because it started with something…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: OFA Workshop in Austin
The OpenFabrics Alliance has issued their Call for Participation for the 2019 OFA Workshop. The event takes place March 20-21 in Austin, Texas. "The annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those…