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
Agenda Posted: OpenPOWER 2018 Summit in Las Vegas
The OpenPOWER Summit has posted its speaker agenda. Held in conjunction with IBM Think 2018, the event takes place March 19 in Las Vegas. "The OpenPOWER Foundation is an open technical community based on the POWER architecture…
From insideHPC
Video: Computing Challenges at the Large Hadron Collider
CERN's Maria Girona gave this talk at the HiPEAC 2018 conference in Manchester. "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest and most complicated scientific apparata ever constructed. "In this keynote, I will discuss…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Diverging Chip Architectures in the Wake of Spectre and Meltdown
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the tradeoff between chip performance and security. In the aftermath of the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown exploits, Cryptograpy guru Paul Kocher from Rambus is calling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drop Ship Stress Panel
Does Drop Ship Put too Much Stress on the Supply Chain?
Dan Gilmore in Retailwire.
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current article from Supply Chain Digest. ....
A panel at last month…
From Computational Complexity
The web bad/People using it bad.
I was going to write a post about how hard it was to find what grades mean at different schools (e.g., at UMCP W (for withdraw) means the student dropped the course, but at UT Austin its Q (for Quit?)) but then I found that my…
From insideHPC
HACC: Fitting the Universe inside a Supercomputer
Nicholas Frontiere from the University of Chicago gave this talk at the DOE CSGF Program Review meeting. "In response to the plethora of data from current and future large-scale structure surveys of the universe, sophisticated…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at Washington State University
The Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State University is seeking a High-Performance Computing Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "This position will play a vital role in the engineering and administration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Skins as Health Sensors
More novel health sensors.
Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand
You'd know someone's health just by looking at them.
By Jon Fingas, @jonfingas in Engadget.
Electronic skins might not only detect health troubles in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and AI
Artificial Intelligence Interview with ESOMAR (the WORLD Association for Social, Opinion and Market Research) By Tom H. C. Anderson ....
What Market Researchers Should Know about AI and Machine Learning – A Q&A with ESOMAR…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Risks for Alexa in Business
Some good points made for the business use of assistants and other attentive systems. Methods like voice recognition, biometrics and validation methods will have to be added and tested for such systems to be viable in the enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gillette
Gillette: Fat, Happy and Vulnerable in Its Own Fiefdom
By Bob Herbold on his blog ....
A recent article in Fortune magazine discussed the massive loss of market share by Gillette; moving from 71% when it was acquired by Procter…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana Gets IFTTT
Was wondering why this was taking so long. Crucial not only because it links in data that can be used, but also shows some of the possibilities for future connections. Now all the major assistant players link to IFTTT. Have…
From insideHPC
Video: Deep Reinforcement Learning and Systems Infrastructure at DeepMind
In this video from HiPEAC 2018 in Manchester, Dan Belov from DeepMind describe the company's machine learning technology and some of the challenges ahead. "DeepMind Inc. is well known for state of the art Deep Reinforcement Learning…
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing rolls out Moab HPC Suite 9.1.2
Today Adaptive Computing announced the release of Moab 9.1.2, an update which has undergone thousands of quality tests and includes scores of customer-requested enhancements. "Moab is a world leader in dynamically optimizing
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Example of TensorFlow
A good, detailed example of using TensorFlow for one of the most well known analytics techniques. Instructive.
Linear Regression in Tensorflow by Aaqib Saeed
Predicting house prices in Boston area
Tensorflow is an open source
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones in Uncertain Environments
Long been a student of uncertainty.
A little Uncertainty can help Drones dodge Obstacles at High Speeds, says MIT By James Vincent @jjvincent in TheVerge
For drones trying to navigate a busy environment like a warehouse or
With…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Coup(e) of Duchamp
From “readymade” works to surreal hash table wildness in chess programs fooled by him Toutfait.com source Marcel Duchamp was a leading French chess player whose career was sandwiched between two forays into the art world. He…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 16th, 2018)
In all countries, in all years–without exception–girls did better than boys in academic performance (PISA) tests. Vinod Khosla said: There are, perhaps, a few hundred sensors in the typical car and none in the body. A singleContinue…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pin
There's a squid pin on Kickstarter. 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
Open Technology AI
How do we architect and deliver Open AI?
From my Linkedin Cognitive Systems Institute Group:
Karolyn Schalk, Moderator
Executive and Technical Expertise, Cloud, AI and IT Operations
"Opentech AI – Architecture, Ecosystem and…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Self Driving Everything
Nissan put together this cute little video that starts with self driving slippers and moves on to self driving pillows and chairs and, well, watch it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Opens Culinary Innovation Center
Always interested in how we can innovate, was part of a number of innovation center efforts. Surprised that Kroger has not done this before. Now I would ask, how will this do things like spot trends in foods, in consumer process…
From insideHPC
Intel Rolls out new 3D NAND SSDs
Today, Intel announced the Intel SSD DC P4510 Series for data center applications. As a high performance storage device, the P4510 Series uses 64-layer TLC Intel 3D NAND to enable end users to do more per server, support broader…
From insideHPC
Interview: European cHiPSet Event focuses on High-Performance Modeling and Simulation for Big Data Applications
The cHIPSet Annual Plenary Meeting takes place in France next month. To learn more, we caught up with the Vice-Chair for the project, Dr. Horacio González-Vélez, Associate Professor and Head of the Cloud Competency Centre at
…
From Schneier on Security
New National Academies Report on Crypto Policy
The National Academies has just published "Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers." It looks really good, although I have not read it yet. Not much news or analysis yet. Please post any links you find…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Broader More Realistic Approach to AI
Been through it several times, and it is occurring once again. But there is now as there was then a kernel of real value. Good examination:
Looking Beyond the AI Hype Cycle
Interview with Vishal Sikka: Why AI Needs a Broader…
From insideHPC
TACC Podcast Looks at AI and Water Management
It's about letting the AI help us be better decision makers. And it helps us move towards answering, discussing, and exploring the questions that are most important and most critical for our quality of life and our communities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Talks Tech Future of Business
Good piece with lots of details at the link.
Accenture Technology Vision 2018
5 Key Tech areas, which they say are: Citizen AI, Extended Reality, Data Veracity, Friction-less Business, Internet of Thinking.
(So what is Internet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boasting Good for Startups?
Boasting probably just one component in getting the word out and support for development.
Is boasting good or bad for business? By Maddy Savage BBC, Business reporter, Stockholm
Sweden is one of the most innovative countries
So…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Ergonomics in VR
Obvious. But I suggest that sometimes ergonomics are ignored for a clear value proposition or wow effect. Consider Carpal Tunnel syndrome.
Why AR Will Never Go Mainstream Unless The Ergonomics Are Right By Guest writer …