Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Entities
Also a strong interest of mine, how close are we to building such systems and trusting them in every day life? Certainly too, in the near term such systems will contain people and other agents that will require monitoring and…
From insideHPC
Innoviz to Accelerate AI for Autonomous Vehicles with WekaIO
Today WekaIO announced that Innoviz, a leading manufacturer of high-performance, solid-state Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors and Perception Software that enables the mass-production of autonomous vehicles, has selected…
From insideHPC
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Sees Major Growth on Latest TOP500 List
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) reported the latest TOP500 List results show that HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based systems on the List, including the fastest TOP500 supercomputer…
From insideHPC
NGD Systems Steps up with Arm Processors on SSDs at SC19
In this video from the Arm booth at SC19, Scott Shadley from NGD Systems describes the company's innovative computational storage technology. "In a nutshell, Computational Storage is an IT architecture where data is processed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustainability of LEDs
This came up in a project done during the earlier days of LED adoption. Good piece here that makes the case. Another landfill scenario?
LED Technology Isn't All That Sustainable
Declan Barrett, SCB Contributor in SupplychainBrain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Battery Life for IOT
Waking up your IOT device when needed.
Chips for IOT Battery Life
UC San Diego News Center
Liezel Labios
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have developed a power-saving chip that could significantly reduce or…
From Schneier on Security
Extracting Data from Smartphones
Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Europe, December 2019
Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019), Barcelona The first conference on the Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019) was held in Barcelona, November 28 – 29, 2019, to promote and increase the visibility…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Scholarships–December 2019
We are delighted to welcome the following new Student Chapters to ACM-W: University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Washington Bothell University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering Boston University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan to Use Blockchain Payments
Another indication of the wider adoption of Blockchain for tracking verified currency transfer.
JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain payments platform looks to be expanding to Japan, and soon.
Daniel Palmer in Coindesk
The U.S. banking multinational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Autonomous Cars Arrive in the Car Chase
Dr. Lance Eliot spends considerable time and detail in examining how the autonomous car will be included in the classic California 'car chase'. Also points to a number of his other examination of automobile/people behavioral…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Trials AI Soccer Commentary
Note similarity to the Wimbledon video clip management example. As I commented there I would also like this done as real-time assitistive commentary to business meetings. Say determine who has said they will do and when…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Papers to Determine Tech Future
Somewhat weak attempt, but the general thought is interesting, yet how well can we predict without knowing future context?
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Wins Most Innovative New Product Award for Big Data
Today GigaIO announced that the company's FabreX technology has been selected as the winner of Connect's Most Innovative New Product Award for Big Data. The Most Innovative New Product Awards is an annual competition that recognizes…
From insideHPC
Verne Global brings hpcDIRECT to Bonseyes AI Marketplace
Today Verne Global announced that is has partnered with the Bonseyes secure marketplace and collaborative platform for building and trading AI applications. The move will provide Bonseyes users with access to Verne Global’s hpcDIRECT…
From insideHPC
NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on HPCG Benchmark
In this video from SC19, Erich Focht from NEC describes how the company's SX-Aurora vector architecture achieves extreme energy efficiency on the HPCG benchmark. After that, Shintaro Momose from NEC describes recent enhancements…
From insideHPC
Data Scientist Thomas Thurston to speak at HPC User Forum in New Jersey
Venture Capitalist and Data Scientist Thomas Thurston is slated to speak at the upcoming HPC User Forum in Princeton, New Jersey. Thurston will give a talk titled, “Using HPC-enabled AI to Guide Investment Strategies for Finding…
From insideHPC
Intel Powers HPE Apollo 20 for HPC Workloads
In this video from SC19, Larry Keller from HPE and Taha Mughi from HPE describe how the two companies collaborated on the innovative new Apollo 20 server for HPC workloads. "Are you searching for greater performance and more
…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Annual Report 2018-2019
Mission and Impact From the Chair Celebrating, supporting, and advocating for women in computing is the mission and motivating force behind the work of ACM-W. In this inaugural annual report we hope to show our many members and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Operational Analytics
Free eBook that looks to be of interest. Clearly this is not a new thing, was a primary part of our early training. New methods have emerged though, and the computational power is now far superior, data is much more manipulable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Based CyberCrime Evidence Detection
Links to other approaches I have recently seen in this area.
CIT Researchers Develop System to Detect Cloud-Based Cybercrime Evidence
Purdue University News
John O'Malley
Researchers at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute's Department…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Digital Twins
A good example of how models can built from data to predict the behavior of systems. Here a UAV as an example.
Developing a Digital Twin
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (University of Texas at Austin)…
From Schneier on Security
Reforming CDA 230
There's a serous debate on reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I am in the process of figuring out what I believe, and this is more a place to put resources and listen to people's comments. The EFF has written…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACM-W North America Committee Chair
The newly formed ACM-W North America committee is up and running! We are currently working on establishing roles and responsibilities as well as the important task of identifying the goals we will be working towards over the…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Scholarships, December 2019
The ACM Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences. The student does not have to present a paper…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Calculating Entropy
As I read this and the paper noted at the link, this could be a very big deal. Entropy is disorder .... and if we can accurately measure it, it leads to means of better models, measures, understanding and should lead to better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Billion Cameras Will be Watching
Inevitable. But where is the data going and how is it used? Does the installation of cameras consider future advances that will use that data in more invasive ways? Such future use transparency does not now exist.
A World…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saying No to Loyalty Offers
This came to mind as I shopped in the last week. No clear offers for my time or data were offered. Lots of 'apparent' offers that were easy to see through. I often do a simple forward forecast of the offer to see that it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Hanabi Card Game the Future Challenge for Human AI?
We readily reason and interact with incomplete information and the need to cooperate. Is this sample deceptively simple game challenge a way to model those kinds of human level contexts? More links to supporting information
Google…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding Without a Net
My Programming Honors students are struggling with creating classes in C#. They really wanted me to code up a project live (again) and have them follow along. But I’ve used my usual examples and samples and projects already.Now…