Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2017
From insideHPC
D-Wave Collaborates with Virginia Tech on Quantum Computing
Today D-Wave Systems and Virginia Tech announced a joint effort to provide greater access to quantum computers for researchers from the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. D-Wave and Virginia Tech will work towards…
From insideHPC
Top Weather and Climate Sites run on DDN Storage
"DDN’s unique ability to handle tough application I/O profiles at speed and scale gives weather and climate organizations the infrastructure they need for rapid, high-fidelity modeling,” said Laura Shepard, senior director of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS On Image Recognition
SAS Blog on image recognition. Nicely done piece on the business implications.
" ... Image recognition is a hot and hyped topic in machine learning, artificial intelligence and other technology circles. Computer vision technology…
From insideHPC
Next-Generation Sequencing Altering the Patient Care Landscape
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools produce vast quantities of genetic data which poses a growing number of challenges to life sciences organizations. Accelerating analytics, providing adequate storage and memory capacity,…
From insideHPC
Altair Releases HyperWorks 2017 Comprehensive Simulation Platform
Altair just released HyperWorks 2017, the "most comprehensive, open architecture CAE simulation platform in the industry, offering the best technologies to design and optimize high performance, weight efficient and innovative…
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware for Sale
Brian Krebs posts a video advertisement for Philadelphia, a ransomware package that you can purchase....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stable Priority Queues?
A priority queue is a data structure that holds a set of elements and can return quickly the smallest (or alternatively the largest) element. It is usually implemented using a binary heap. So you “add” elements to the priority…
From insideHPC
Women in IT: Apply for WINS Program at SC17
Applications are now being accepted for the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program at SC17. The conference takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver. "The WINS program seeks qualified female U.S. candidates in their early to mid-career…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Quantum Computer Sees Trees
In Science via CACM: Quantum Computer Learns to See Trees:
" ... St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they say could help scientists use other quantum systems for complicated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and Cortana in the Office
In the WSJ. How elements of Alexa and Cortana may be heading towards the office. Thinking about this now in terms of how it connects business process and deeper computing technologies, like AI and analytics. Article may
Alexa…
From insideHPC
GTC to Feature 90 Sessions on HPC and Supercomputing
Accelerated computing continues to gain momentum. This year the GPU Technology Conference will feature 90 sessions on HPC and Supercomputing. "Sessions will focus on how computational and data science are used to solve traditional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Merging Brains and Machines
An odd debate. But regardless we will have to collaborate. We have been doing this for some time, but the the details of how this is done is getting more important. ....
Merging our brains with machines won’t stop the rise
February…
From Schneier on Security
The CIA's "Development Tradecraft DOs and DON'Ts"
Useful best practices for malware writers, courtesy of the CIA. Seems like a lot of good advice. General: DO obfuscate or encrypt all strings and configuration data that directly relate to tool functionality. Consideration should…
From insideHPC
RIKEN AIP-Fujitsu Collaboration Center to Focus on Next-Gen AI
Today Fujitsu announced plans to establish a coordination center within the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP). Scheduled to open April 1, the RIKEN AIP-Fujitsu Collaboration Center will combine RIKEN AIP’s
…
From insideHPC
Call for Abstracts: FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference
The 2017 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference has issued its Call for Abstracts. The event takes place Sept. 20-21 in Santa Fe, NM. "The call for abstracts for is now open. Share your experiences, present your success stories and…
From Computational Complexity
Other fields of math don't prove barrier results- why do we?
Before FLT was solved did some people prove theorems like:
FLT cannot be proven using techniques BLAH. This is important since all current proofs use BLAH.
I do not believe so.
Replace FLT with Goldbach's conjectures or others…
From insideHPC
Future Technologies on the Rise for HPC
"2017 will see the introduction of many technologies that will help shape the future of HPC systems. Production-scale ARM supercomputers, advancements in memory and storage technology such as DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME)…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Azure’s Move to GPUs and OCP for Deep Learning
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a set of IT and Science stories. Microsoft Azure is making a big move to GPUs and the OCP Platform as part of their Project Olympus. Meanwhile, Huawei is gaining market share
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From The Noisy Channel
Query Expansion
A key application of query rewriting is increasing recall — that is, matching a larger set of relevant results. In extreme cases…
From BLOG@CACM
Just Press Reboot
Why does the press continue to talk about "computer problems"?
From Schneier on Security
FBI's Exploit Against Tor
The Department of Justice is dropping all charges in a child-porn case rather than release the details of a hack against Tor....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
March Madness and Programming Projects
Yesterday was selection Sunday and the NCAA announced the teams entering the 2017 basketball championships. So of course I thought about programming projects. I mean there is data and something a lot of my students are interested…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zipf's Law
A favorite topic of interest: Zipf's Law. by Vincent Granville. Great topic for kids with an interest in numbers and patterns in data,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sports Decision Making
Have seen lots of examples addressing patterns of athletic data, but not specifically decision making. Makes this interesting. Deep learning Techniques and athletic decision making. Via the CACM.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conferences for K-12 Computer Science Educators
If you are a K-12 teacher looking for conferences about using technology in education there are many conferences one can go to. If you are a post secondary school computer science educator there are a good number of conferences…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare and IOT
From IOTCentral: a set of useful articles for healthcare applications regarding the internet of things.
From The Eponymous Pickle
G Suite Aims at Enterprise Business Chat
More bots and enterprise oriented chat delivery.
G Suite Wants To Be Your Business Meeting Chat System
Meanwhile, the new Hangouts Chat app was created to "reflect the way…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots as the Next User Interface
Good thoughts on thinking of coneversation as iterface. Is a challenge to do it well. In Adage:
SXSW: 4 Best Practices to Make Bots the Next Big User Interface
By Nat Ives
People spend more and more time on their smartphones…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Data Studio is Now Free
Have not examined this directly, but worth a look.
Making Google Data Studio Free for Everyone
February 2, 2017
Today, Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is even more…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Using GPUs and AI to Fight Cybercrime
"Cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse always has long had the upper hand because it’s so easy for new malware to go undetected. Dr. Eli David, an expert in computational intelligence and CTO of Deep Instinct,…