Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Disappoint When asked for Aid
If a system assists it should at least refer to other resources in these cases. Perhaps there is a case here to construct a centralized knowledge base for all of these assistants.
Virtual Assistants Provide Disappointing Advice…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 1st 2019)
Almost all climate predictions are based on the so-called “business as usual” model, yet this model is based on assumptions that are unrealistically pessimistic. (Source: Nature) African populations have Neanderthal ancestry.…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Earth and Space Science for Exascale
In this podcast, Anshu Dubey of Argonne National Laboratory describes the Earth and Space Science application portfolio in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). “By and large, these applications are solving partial differential…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: PhD scholarship in GPU processing for Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is seeking a in our PhD scholarship in GPU processing for Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging in our Job of the Week. "This PhD projects develops real time processing of the acquired
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Show Scans Barcodes
Was surprised this didn't happen much sooner, given their earlier experiments with wands and buy buttons. As suggested, put it right next to the can for quick reorder of staples.
Amazon’s Echo Show can now scan barcodes to …