Communications of the ACM
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February 2019
From insideHPC
WekaIO Matrix Cluster Excels on SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark
Today WekaIO announced the results of the independent SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark testing of its flagship WekaIO Matrix product. "Having established itself in the number one position for the SPEC SFS 2014 software build in January…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdfunding Marketing
New thing for major CPG. Looking for other examples.
How crowdfunding helped Gillette, Coca-Cola test new products
Gillette and Coca-Cola are among the brands that have launched products via crowdfunding, allowing the firms to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Skill Blueprints
The details here are a big deal. Makes it easier. Now add more intelligence features. Real surprise in user value is important. Content of value please.
Amazon expands Alexa Skill Blueprints to court brands and content creators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Generating Value at Scale
Agree, have seen first hand.
From McKinsey Insights.
AI adoption advances, but foundational barriers remain
Survey respondents report the rapid adoption of AI and expect only a minimal effect on head count. Yet few companies have…
From insideHPC
Putting Computer Vision to Work with OpenVINO
OpenVINO is a single toolkit, optimized for Intel hardware, that the data scientist and AI software developer can use for quickly developing high-performance applications that employ neural network inference and deep learning…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Quantum Accelerators
Koen Bertels from Delft University of Technology gave this talk at HiPEAC 2019. "In my talk, I will introduce what quantum computers are but also how they can be used as a quantum accelerator. I will discuss why a quantum computer…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Candidate Search – Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
The following is a letter to the community from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director, France A. Córdova. Dear Colleague: The National Science Foundation is initiating a national search for the Assistant Director for Computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson AI Services Now Work on Any Cloud
Broadening the compatibility with other infrastructures will help.
IBM says Watson AI services will now work on any cloud
in Reuters By Paresh Dave
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM Corp announced on Tuesday that some of its Watson
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Abandon Cortana?
Microsoft may be doing this, but I still think there is a place for Cortana supporting Microsoft's business services. Should be doing that already, it had earlier experience in the area. It doesn't yet though, and I am disappointed…
From Schneier on Security
Cyberinsurance and Acts of War
I had not heard about this case before. Zurich Insurance has refused to pay Mondelez International's claim of $100 million in damages from NotPetya. It claims it is an act of war and therefor not covered. Mondelez is suing. Those…
From Putting People First
Papers on behaviour, design and the circular economy
Consumer insights into the circular economy Report of stakeholder meeting, 25 October 2018, 14 pages The “Stakeholder Meeting: Consumer Insights into the Circular Economy” in Brussels on 25 October 2018, was co-organised by the…
From BLOG@CACM
Governance and Oversight Coming to AI and Automation: Independent Audit of AI Systems
Independent Audit of AI Systems is the next evolution of governance for artificial intelligence and automation.
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches Cloud Hardware Subscriptions with TruScale Infrastructure Services
Today Lenovo announced TruScale Infrastructure Services, a subscription-based offering that allows customers to use and pay for data center hardware and services – on-premise or at a customer-preferred location – without having…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Doorbell
Don't have the below, nor am I promoting it. I have had three different doorbells to date. I note this has just passable reviews. Most troubling are those about support. But it seems to have many of the needs we might
Netvue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watch IBM Think Live
Insights and innovation, streaming live from Think
Beginning this evening with Pushing the Frontiers of AI: Project Debater at 5PM PT / 8PM ET, you can watch Think 2019 live from anywhere. Even if you're following along from afar…
From insideHPC
Truly Inspiring: Fighting World Hunger with Cray Supercomputers
In this video, Computational biologist Laura Boykin describes the threat to lives and livelihoods the whitefly represents, the international effort to fight it, and how supercomputing flips the script on a once unwinnable war…
From CERIAS Blog
Things are not getting better
I was reminded this morning that nearly 10 years ago testimony I gave before a US Senate committee about cybersecurity. Sadly, I think things are worse and we are continuing on the same self-destructive path.
Here is a copy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Analytics Research
Report: Global AI Research By Alice Bonasio in Medium
How far has Artificial Intelligence research developed in the past two decades? Global information analytics company Elsevier shares its findings.
The report’s data shows how…
From insideHPC
Today’s Application of Ai Within Government
Across the globe, governments are acknowledging the potential of AI technologies to impact our daily lives, from how we make purchasing decisions to improving our healthcare. But there are several reasons why government agencies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuro Moves Forward
This is the company Kroger is working with to pilot autonomous delivery. Following closely.Autonomous delivery startup Nuro picks up $940M from SoftBank By Maria Deutscher in SiliconAngle
For a market that didn’t exist a
Nuro…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA steps up with Nsight Systems Performance Analysis Tool
Today NVIDIA announced that NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2019.1 is now available for download. As a system-wide performance analysis tool. With it, developers can visualize application algorithms, identify large optimization opportunities…
From insideHPC
Podcast: What is an Ai Supercomputer?
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team asks whether a supercomputer can or cannot be a “AI Supercomputer.” The question came up after HPE announced a new AI system called Jean Zay that will double the capacity of French supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Retail
Good overview of the challenge. It is here and cannot be ignored.
Robots Address Today’s Retail Industry Concerns
Jim Liefer, SCB Contributor
Point. Click. Ship. That’s what today’s consumers demand.
There’s no question that the…
From Schneier on Security
Blockchain and Trust
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust." He was referring to blockchain, the system…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
EAI Readiness in TLDs: A UASG Test
By John Levine Since its inception in 2015, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has focused on raising awareness of Universal Acceptance (UA) issues, providing support and measuring the industry’s progress on UA adoption…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Order Prioritizes U.S. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research
Contributions to this post were provided by the Computing Research Association’s Director for Government Affairs, Peter Harsha, and Computing Community Consortium’s Director, Ann Drobnis. Today President Trump signed an executive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Used to Strain-Engineer Material Properties
Conceptually quite interesting. AI seems to be involved in controlling the combinatorically complex ways that strain can be applied. Does not link to the article mentioned. Searching that.
Using Artificial Intelligence to…
From Computational Complexity
I think ze was confused -- in favor of genderless pronouns
You've probably heard the following:
At first I didn't want to get an X but now that I have it, I can't imagine life without one.
X could be telegraph, radio, TV, color TV, VCR, CD player, streaming, Netflix…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Has Sure Changed
Last week, I was reading some old code. I wrote it in 1975. It was in FORTRAN IV and it was on punch cards. Really bad code. One character, meaningless variable names. Lots of goto statements. FORTRAN IV didn't have while loops…
From insideHPC
The State of High-Performance Fabrics: A Chat with the OpenFabrics Alliance
In this special guest feature, Paul Grun and Doug Ledford from the OpenFabrics Alliance describe the industry trends in the fabrics space, its state of affairs and emerging applications. "Originally, ‘high-performance fabrics…