Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre Learning to Address Data Gap
Brought to my attention. Common inadequacy of data. Pre-training? Priming the neural pump? Worth a good look.
New AI approach bridges the 'slim-data gap' that can stymie deep learning approaches by Tom Rickey, Pacific Northwest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What are Knowledge Graphs?
Some good introductory resources from the recent Webinar:
From TopQuadrant:
Thank you for attending our webinar: "What are Knowledge Graphs? Why are they key to Successful Data Governance?" We hope you enjoyed the event. …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Board Elections 2019
Wow! Computer Science Teachers Association members should all have gotten an email about this year’s election for the CSTA Board. It is a remarkable slate of candidates. It seems to get stronger year after year. We, members,The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality in an Empty Store
Clever idea. Makes some strong assumptions about how many people are outfitted for AR.
Lego brings AR to an empty store by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
On February 13, for London Fashion Week, Lego opened a “virtually” empty pop-up…
From Computational Complexity
Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science
As you can see from Lance's tweet
Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science
by Gasarch and Kruskal
is now available! The tweet says its $68.00 but that's hardcover- paperback…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC’s Postdoc Best Practices Program Final Report
Four years ago the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) launched the Postdoc Best Practice Program (Postdoc BP), designed to develop, implement and institutionalize the implementation of best practices for supporting postdocs…
From insideHPC
Tachyum Joins Open Euro HPC Project
Today Tachyum announced its participation and support for the Open Euro High Performance Computing Project (OEUHPC). "Tachyum is supporting the OEUHPC Project due to its ability to satisfy the need for both scalable and converged…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. The award honors excellence in computational science by early-career women in Europe. "The winner of the Award will be invited to speak at PRACEdays19 and will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Hospital Assistant
Had previously mentioned an IBM powered hospital assistant system. Care was taken there to not deal with any patient data. Seems the same is true here with a test called Aiva.
An LA hospital will put Alexa in over 100 patients'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Combines Retail Channels with Tesco
Also should give new kinds of data.
Nestlé connects in-store and online media in retailwire, with expert comments. by Dale Buss
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current article from…
From insideHPC
Big Compute Podcast Looks at New Architectures for HPC
In this Big Compute podcast, host Gabriel Broner from Rescale interviews Mike Woodacre, HPE Fellow, to discuss the shift from CPUs to an emerging diversity of architectures. They discuss the evolution of CPUs, the advent of GPUs…
From insideHPC
Augmenting & Automating Operations in Government
The Air Force’s top training official said it is moving toward a new “paradigm” for how it teaches airmen to fly airplanes. A new special report from insideHPC, courtesy of Dell EMC and NIVIDA, explores current machine learning…
From insideHPC
Intel High-Performance Python Extends to Machine Learning and Data Analytics
One of the big surprises of the past few years has been the spectacular rise in the use of Python* in high-performance computing applications. With the latest releases of Intel® Distribution for Python, included in Intel® Parallel…
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Soldiers on Social Media
A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country they were from -- to demonstrate the power of the attack technique…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time Series and Deep Learning
A Considerable look at Deep learning and time series problems. We did many of these kinds of problems in the enterprise. And we did not consider DL because it seemed inefficient. In O'Reilly.
3 reasons to add deep learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math: Truth vs Beauty?
Is Beauty the same as Truth? Or are we seduced by Cognitive, group bias? Is this the same in Computer Science?
Lost in Math? By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, March 2019, Vol. 62 No. 3, Page 7
When I was 10 years…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Episode 3 – What is Thermodynamic Computing?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Thermodynamic Computing workshop that took place in Honolulu between January 3-5. Today a new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is available that features an interview with two of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikidata and Assistants
This was new and interesting to me, we looked at Wikidata early on, and there was little of interest to us. And it seemed that it was not being updated. Now here a connection to assistants. Read deeper for details. Exploring…
From insideHPC
NERSC Hosts GPU Hackathon in Preparation for Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC recently hosted a successful GPU Hackathon event in preparation for their next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. Perlmutter, a pre-exascale Cray Shasta system slated to be delivered in 2020, will feature a number of
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter to Roll Out Laundry
Apparently profitable, have never used the service though several are nearby. Nice leverage of the Brand Name equity. .
Tide to roll out laundry cleaning service nationwide in Retailwire by Tom Ryan plus expert discussion.
Procter…
From insideHPC
Univa Powers Million-core Cluster on AWS for Western Digital
Today Univa announced that Western Digital is using the company's Navops Launch and Univa Grid Engine cloud software for large-scale deployments on AWS. "This successful collaboration with Univa and AWS shows the extreme scale…
From insideHPC
Innovative Use of HPC in the Cloud for AI, CFD, & LifeScience
Ebru Taylak from the UberCloud gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "A scalable platform such as the cloud, provides more accurate results, while reducing solution times. In this presentation, we will demonstrate recent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Judea Pearl on Causal Inference
From insideHPC
Now Shipping: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand Solutions for Accelerating HPC & Ai
Today Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions are now shipping worldwide to deliver leading efficiency and scalability to HPC, Ai, cloud, storage and other data intensive applications. "The world-wide…
From insideHPC
The Best Software-Defined Network for the Best Network Efficiency (or Getting Ready for Exascale)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a concept that has emerged in recent years to decouple network control and forwarding functions. The one network type that does not require special effort to adjust it to the computational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Snapdragon to Connect Automotive
Further looking at this, what are the kinds of connections that will be most useful, essential to the driver? How will the home be connected? What kinds of channels, and who will provide them? What speeds of connection? …
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Wants Natural Conversations with your Car
As I read it this will not be built on existing assistant technologies. Which I recall BMW has supported. See for example an integration with with Alexa. I would think it would be important to integrate with the Smart Home…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Everywhere
Some of the earliest AI work we examined was in using 'Assistant' tech to augment typical work. So when an employee messaged or wrote documents they would get a separate 'column' of searches, suggestions. links, supporting ideas…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Shelf Tags Influential
A method we studied for years in our innovation centers.
Test Shoppers Find Kroger's New Digital Shelves 'Influential' on Purchase Decisions By Randy Hofbauer - 02/01/2019 In Progressivegrocer
Test Shoppers Find Kroger's New Digital…
From Schneier on Security
On the Security of Password Managers
There's new research on the security of password managers, speficially 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally…