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
Vendor Shortlists
I then further ask, is there a way to update a shortlist automatically? OR add candidates that should be separately evaluated.
What is a Shortlist Anymore? by Hank Barnes In the Gartner blog
As Gartner continues to explore…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Launches Cloud Application Assessment Tool
Today Hyperion Research launched a new Cloud Application Assessment Tool. Available free of charge to the public, this tool is an interactive grading system to assess the characteristics of HPC applications to help understand…
From insideHPC
HPC + Ai: Machine Learning Models in Scientific Computing
Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Most AI researchers and industry pioneers agree that the wide availability and low cost of highly-efficient and powerful GPUs and accelerated computing…
From insideHPC
Finding a Solution for Ai in Government
A new special report from insideHPC, courtesy of Dell EMC and NIVIDa explores current machine learning applications in government. And this excerpt breaks down solutions for AI in government, including Dell EMC Ready Solutions…
From The Noisy Channel
Reflecting on TunkRank
One of my earliest blog posts was “A Twitter Analog to PageRank”, in which I proposed a simple measure for Twitter influence.
As the title indicates, the measure is inspired by PageRank. It relies on the insight that Twitter users…From Computational Complexity
Using `who will be the dem VP choice' article in class
I recently read an absurd article that speculated on who the Democratic VICE prez nominees will be. Yes, you read that right, VICE Prez. Gee, wouldn't knowing who the Prez nominees was first help. But leave it to Nate Silverarticle…
From Schneier on Security
Estonia's Volunteer Cyber Militia
Interesting -- although short and not very detailed -- article about Estonia's volunteer cyber-defense militia. Padar's militia of amateur IT workers, economists, lawyers, and other white-hat types are grouped in the city of…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Have Ten Years Brought Us Closer?
To solving the big questions, that is Cropped from Device Plus source Tetsuya Miyamoto is a mathematics teacher who divides his time between Tokyo and Manhattan. He is known for creating in 2004 the popular KenKen puzzle, which…
From Schneier on Security
I Am Not Associated with Swift Recovery Ltd.
It seems that someone from a company called Swift Recovery Ltd. is impersonating me -- at least on Telegram. The person is using a photo of me, and is using details of my life available on Wikipedia to convince people that they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governance, Oversight and Auditing AI Systems
Good overview of the idea. Increasingly will be proposed and required. My own connection to legal AI systems will start to embrace this as well. Adding this to my own investigation of regulation and liability aspects.
Governance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HIgh Order Optimization Queries
Package Queries, Technical, having this looked at by some practitioners.
Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries
By Matteo Brucato, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou
Communications of the ACM, January 2019, Vol. 62…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Outside US Cashier Free Stores
The idea continues to spread How soon will it become expected?
Amazon may be close to opening its first cashier-free store outside U.S. By Trevor Mogg in Digitaltrends
Amazon could be on the verge of opening its first cashier-free…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Looks at the Connected Car
Even before we become self driving, we will be very connected. Cisco is starting a series of pieces on the implications, and thought provoking stats.
Connected Car – The Driven Hour
By Joel Obstfeld in the Cisco Blog
It’s time
Connected…
From insideHPC
Video: Container Mythbusters
Michael Jennings from LANL gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "As containers initially grew to prominence within the greater Linux community, particularly in the hyperscale/cloud and web application space, there was…
From insideHPC
Python Power: Intel SDK Accelerates Python Development and Execution
It was with one goal – accelerating Python execution performance – that lead to the creation of Intel Distribution for Python, a set of tools designed to provide Python application performance right out of the box, usually with…
From Schneier on Security
Cataloging IoT Vulnerabilities
Recent articles about IoT vulnerabilities describe hacking of construction cranes, supermarket freezers, and electric scooters....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replication Crisis in Science
Following this for some time. Reproducing results is often context dependent. It is a serious problem, especially in the social sciences, but elsewhere too. One reason you is need to consider context, and related biases…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do the Great Winemakers Sell?
Intriguing view of selling. Works if you already have the established brand equity: real, bought or imagined.
Should You Ignore What Your Customers Want? The Great Winemakers Do.
Rather than follow consumer taste, they push it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Great Finishes
Simple point, made well. From Queue ACM.
The Importance of a Great Finish
You have to finish strong, every time.
By Kate Matsudaira
Have you ever felt super excited about the start of a project, but as time went on your excitement…
From insideHPC
Seeking Seed Money? Creative Destruction Lab offers Incubator Streams for Quantum, Blockchain, and Ai
The Creative Destruction Lab is now accepting applications for their 2019 Quantum Machine Learning and Blockchain-AI Incubator Streams. As a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies, the mission of the…
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory
In this video from the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference, Usha Upadhyayula & Tom Krueger from Intel present: Introduction to Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory. For decades, developers had to balance data in memory for performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak, Spell, Language Training?
An instructive article in Penn Language Lab on the 'Speak and Spell' toy reminded me of using as it model for training. Could still see this as possible. First produced by Texas Instruments in 1978. A new version is coming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
eBay Sponsoring Retail Revival
Seems tough direction to compete, small retailers will still look for the volume of traffic at Amazon. See the article for more detail. We visited eBay some time ago in this regard.
eBay looks to lead a ‘retail revival’ by…
From insideHPC
Designing Convergent HPC and Big Data Software Stacks: An Overview of the HiBD Project
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will provide an overview of challenges in designing convergent HPC and BigData software stacks on modern HPC clusters. An overview…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at the University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics
The University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "This position will work with the Lead HPC Systems Administrator to build and maintain the BSD High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Holographic Car Assistant
In Indiegogo. A Future of car assistants?
EyeDrive: All New Holographic Car Assistant.
Display navigation, music & calls on your windshield. Control them using your hand or your voice.
Designed by senior automotive engineers and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 16th, 2019)
In their new book Empty Planet, Bricker and Ibbitson argue that within the next 30 years, Earth’s population will start to rapidly decline. They believe that official population predictions overestimate future populations because…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Surveillance at Parkland
Accuracy and invasiveness are being questioned. Back to the transparency of algorithms involved.
Parkland School Turns to Experimental Surveillance Software That Can Flag Students as Threats
The Washington Post By Drew Harwell…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West by Payal Arora Harvard University Press, 2019 280 pages A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sharp-Eared Enope Squid
Beautiful photo of a three-inch-long squid. 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....