Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2018
From insideHPC
Lightmatter Startup Funded to Accelerate AI with Optical Chip
Today and AI chip startup called Lightmatter announced that it has received $11 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of the industry’s first chip to leverage the unique properties of light to enable fast and
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From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Better Semiconductors For Solar Energy
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to develop better semiconductors for solar engery. "Dr. Levine models the behavior caused by defects in materials, such as doping bulk silicon to transform it into semiconductors in
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea Autonomous Agents in the Wild: Human Interaction Challenges
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Laura Major, the Vice President of Engineering at CyPhy Works. Major was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR 17) in Puerto Varas…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeper Learning
Nicely put piece that addresses where AI is going. Quotes from James Kobielus:
Deeper deep learning shifts AI from sci-fi to software by R. Danes in SiliconAngle
The basic framework for artificial intelligence has existed since…
From insideHPC
Application Readiness Projects For the Summit Supercomputer Architecture
Dr. Tjerk P. Straatsma from ORNL gave this talk at SC17. "The Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) projects are using an Early Access Power8+/Pascal system named SummitDev to prepare for the Power9/Volta system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Survey of Household Robotics
Includes Sony Aibo, Aeolis, Buddy the Robot, Sophia the Robot and Luke the Owl. Not much detail but interesting indication of what developers are interested in and what they can prototype is provided. The only one I have seen…
From insideHPC
The 3 Types of Cloud Computing For Hpc Systems Management
Three types of clouds have been developed: public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds. We continue our insideHPC series of features exploring new resource management solutions for workload convergence, such as Bright Cluster…
From Schneier on Security
Poor Security at the Uk National Health Service
The Guardian is reporting that "every NHS trust assessed for cyber security vulnerabilities has failed to meet the standard required." This is the same NHS that was debilitated by WannaCry....
From Computational Complexity
"How can you use your research for ugrad projects?'- the wrong question
I was helping a math PhD who worked in computable ramsey theory prepare his teaching and research statements for his job application. One of the questions various schools wanted to know was
How can you use your research as the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t underestimate the nerds
I’m a little nerdy. According to my wife, I even look like a nerd. I am not very big. I have a long resume posted online, and I’ll proudly post my follower count, but if you meet me in person, I am unlikely to come across asContinue…
From Schneier on Security
Sensitive Super-Bowl Security Documents Left on an Airplane
A CNN reporter found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of Innovation from Surveyed Execs
From former correspondent Paul Gillin, always a good writer. Not sure there is a sharp divide though, it's more the how and when this will happen. And how much it is to replace versus augment our skills. We also interviewed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and AI
Non Technical look at what is happening in marketing. Lots of places for augmentation in marketing activities. All this is not new, were doing it in the very early days of the biggest marketers.
AI Opportunities to Solve Digital…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Science Webinar- Tools for data, science, scientists and reasoning machines
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another webinar in their Data Science Seminar Series from Stan Ahalt on Tools for data, science, scientists and reasoning…
From insideHPC
ISC STEM Student Day & Gala is Back with a Stronger Program
Today the ISC 2018 conference announced the return of the ISC STEM Student Day, with an attractive program for students and sponsoring organizations. Students attending the program will receive an exclusive tutorial on high performance…
From insideHPC
Ampere Computing Startup to Bring Arm to the Datacenter
Today a new Arm server company called Ampere launched with a mission to address memory performance, cost, space and power constraints for the datacenter. Of note is the company's leadership team, which is comprised of semiconductor…
From insideHPC
First Public Disclosure of Isambard Supercomputer Performance Results
In this video from the GoingARM Workshop, Prof. Simon McIntosh-Smith from the University of Bristol presents: First Public Disclosure of Performance Results from Isambard Arm-based Supercomputer. " Isambard is a unique system…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC looks at New Leadership at HPE
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at HPE's new CEO, Antonio Neri, a longtime HPE executive who previously served as President of the company. As the number 1 server vendor in the HPC space, this change will be one…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Builds Smart Glasses
Still waiting for workable examples. Ultimately how AR will be delivered A little surprise to see Intel in this space. We looked at a number of applications that seemed obvious, but did not prosper. The idea may be like…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Fidelity-Weighted Learning
Our paper "Fidelity-Weighted Learning", with Arash Mehrjou, Stephan Gouws, Jaap Kamps, Bernhard Schölkopf, has been accepted at Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2018). \o/ The success of deep neural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Vision of the Cognitive Era
This recorded session presents a complete innovative vision to the cognitive era ...
By Hesham Soultan, Senior IT Architect at IBM
Further discussion at the Linkedin: Cognitive Institute Group Join us.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Anyone Read the Error Messages?
I suspect most if not every Computer Science teacher has had this conversation:
Student: Hey, I’m getting an error.Teacher: What error are you getting?
Student: I don’t know.Often they have dismissed the message without reading…
From insideHPC
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Industrial Revolution
It has been said that artificial intelligence will create the next industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution that modern-day society has experienced since the dawn of mechanical production and steam power energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy and Data Use
Leveraging the use (or threatening the use) of user data. Its not clear if the tweet referenced below went just to the people referred to. If not is it just a statistical snippet, or still clearly a 'We know who you are"…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Intelligence Quest
Quite a challenge. The ultimate goal of what we agree is collective intelligence. Much more at the MIT IQ link below, than at the Boston Globe article.
MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think …
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre File System on ARM
Carlos Thomaz from DDN gave this talk at LAD'17 in Paris. "With the first set of Arm-based HPC servers debuting at SC17 in Denver, the platform is being evaluated for Lustre performance by a number of other organizations including…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Perfectly with Machine Learning?
Been in the forecasting business for a long time. Taught it, used it, made excuses for it. So always skeptical about perfect forecasting. It does not exist, except in the most narrow contexts. Can we do it better, perfectly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrated Work System
A conversation with former enterprise colleagues led me to this piece on reliability innovation I had a small part in. See the tag links to Los Alamos Labs, which was also involved. Here to pass this on to my readers for
Pointer…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "In this faculty role, you will develop and teach science and engineering educational programs; workshops, lecture series, and for credit courses, for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Barriers to Smartphone Checkout
A major them in our retail tech innovation center.
How steep are the barriers to smartphone checkout?
"To improve conversion retailers should improve their UX but also create mobile specific incentives that will make shoppers buy…