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 The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Blockchain Good For?
Nothing? Well at least not what they expected, or were willing to reveal. Still, negative examples are useful.
Blockchain: What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing, report finds
In a joint report for the Monitoring, Evaluation,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asset Management
Management in context and some forecast of future context is powerful.
" ... Achieving digital alpha in asset management
The ability to generate value through digitization will increasingly separate leaders and followers in North…
From Schneier on Security
2018 Annual Report from AI Now
The research group AI Now just published its annual report. It's an excellent summary of today's AI security challenges, as well as a policy agenda to address them. This is related, and also worth reading....
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys Largest IBM POWER9 Machine Learning Cluster in the UK
With a new upgrade, the University of Birmingham is set to benefit from the largest IBM POWER9 machine learning cluster in the UK, delivering unprecedented performance for AI workloads. Working with OCF, the high-performance
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From insideHPC
VMware Powers Machine Learning & HPC Workloads
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Ziv Kalminovich from VMware describes how the company's powerful virtualization capabilities bring flexibility and performance to HPC workloads. "With VMware, you can capture the benefits of…
From insideHPC
Intel Pushes the Envelope at SC18
Intel has a long history of making important announcements at the annual Supercomputer shows, and this year was no exception. This guest post from Intel covers what new technology was front and center from Intel at SC18, including…
From Computational Complexity
Super Asymmetry on The Big Bang Theory: How Realistic?
The TV show The Big Bang Theory portrays academia so I am naturally curious how realistic it is. I have posted about this before (see here) in the context of whether actual things they say about physics are true. Today I post…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Transposing
On the arithmetic complexity of the matrix transpose [ KKB ] Michael Kaminski, David Kirkpatrick, and Nader Bshouty are complexity theorists who together and separately have proved many wonderful theorems. They wrote an interesting…
From updated sporadically at best
A Tribute to Scott Krulcik
Yesterday morning, I read a news article that my former student Scott Krulcik had died. Surely they’ve got the wrong guy, I thought.
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| Scott on an apple-picking trip that he helped organize. |
From insideHPC
Video: How OpenACC Enables Scientists to port their codes to GPUs and Beyond
In this video SC18, Jack Wells from ORNL describes how OpenACC enables scientists to port their codes to GPUs and other HPC platforms. "OpenACC, a directive-based high-level parallel programming model, has gained rapid momentum…
From insideHPC
Equus Rolls out G2660 2U 2xGPU Server for HPC & Ai
Today Equus Compute Solutions rolled out its new G2660 2U 2xGPU server, ideal for artificial intelligence and deep learning environments. This GPU platform offers higher performance, reduced rack space requirements, and lower…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking Questions to Gather Knowledge
The Game of Questions, once again looking at a means of questioning to gather knowledge ... we explored this idea from a game perspective.
Back in 2013, posted about this:
https://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2013/09/asking-questions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and Microsoft Strategic Data Alliance
Making data more intelligently available to analytics. Integrating data assets.
Nielsen, Microsoft Unveil Strategic Data Alliance
Nielsen and Microsoft have jointly developed an enterprise solution that brings the former’s consumer…
From The Noisy Channel
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
From The Eponymous Pickle
AINow Publishes Recommendations
Followup with AINow, promoting regulation and transparency in the AI development space.
After a Year of Tech Scandals, Our 10 Recommendations for AI (Outline Overview)
Let’s begin with better regulation, protecting workers,
Today…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opsgenie for Incidents in Process Modeling
In the process of looking at modeling processes that link to and handle incident driven operations, I was pointed to:
Atlassian: Opsgenie
Plan and prepare for incidents
Determine who should respond
Use templates to prepare messaging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Best
I like the pieces from Think with Google, good to follow.
We often addressed the problem when dealing with the term 'Optimal', which often followed with the question: In what context? under what Constraints? When we use 'best'…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 8th 2018)
The energy density of lithium-ion batteries doubled between 1995 and 2005 but only increased by about 15% between 2005 and 2015. It is estimated that there is relatively little further gains in energy density possible with lithium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Scientist Creates New Materials
Machines doing design, and the creative process. How do they interact with people?
A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials
Technology Review By Will Knight
Cambridge, MA-based startup Kebotix has created machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
R&D in the Age of Agile
Pharma R&D in the ‘age of agile’ From McKinsey
As innovation reshapes the pharma landscape, pharma companies will need to revisit their R&D operating models to thrive. ...
Sent from McKinsey Insights, available in the App Store…
From insideHPC
Video: Arm + Lustre in HPC
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Brent Gorda from ARM presents: Arm + Lustre in HPC. At the show, DDN announced that its Whamcloud division is delivering professional support for Lustre clients on Arm architectures. With…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at the HDF Group
The good folks at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group in Champaign, Illinois is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The HDF Group provides a unique suite of technologies and supporting services that…
From Schneier on Security
Problems with the Squid Emoji
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has some problems with the squid emoji. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from the Stanford AI100 Study
Initial report from this work:
Stanford: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)
Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several institutions to begin a 100-year effort to study and anticipate…
From Schneier on Security
Back Issues of the NSA's Cryptolog
Five years ago, the NSA published 23 years of its internal magazine, Cryptolog. There were lots of redactions, of course. What's new is a nice user interface for the issues, noting highlights and levels of redaction....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Floor Cleaning and Complex Environments
Note the claim of being able to operate ' ... to effectively and safely function in complex, crowded environments, ensuring increased productivity and efficiency across applications .... ' That is, in the same environments
Walmart…
From Schneier on Security
Banks Attacked through Malicious Hardware Connected to the Local Network
Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network: In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2020 Census and Differential Privacy
CCC Executive Council member Daniel Lopresti from Lehigh University and CCC Council member Sampath Kannan from the University of Pennsylvania provided contributions to this post. There is a conundrum between statistical access…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New IFTTT Functions for Assistants and Home
A number of new and interesting IFTTT (If This Then That) functionalities for the smart home. I always explore these offerings. They are free. Some new interactions that link things like doorbell pushes and multiple step…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Cashierless at Airports?
Overall an excellent, hands-on demonstration of the advance of fast reliable sensors. Will further open people to the idea of the convenience of 'AI' type solutions. They have already done it with Alexa. These developments…