Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Systems and Innovation Publications
Brought to my attention by ISSIP, Service Innovation Publications and books:
Service Systems and Innovation Professionals:
Editors: James C. Spohrer & Haluk Demirkan
This collection provides concise and practical descriptions of…
From insideHPC
Anita Nikolich to Keynote PEARC18 in Pittsburgh
The PEARC18 Conference has added Anita Nikolich from IIT to its lineup of Keynote Speakers. Her talk on Hacking Academia will certainly resonate with the conference, which takes place July 22-27 in Pittsburgh.
The post AnitainsideHPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Truth Seal via Predictive Markets
A recent inquiry had me looking at the detection and analysis of 'disinformation'. Much in and of the news. That led me to work by Rick Hayes-Roth, who was the CEO of an AI company called Teknowledge that I have written about…
From insideHPC
Lenovo’s Niagara Cluster Upgrade makes it Fastest Supercomputer in Canada
Today Lenovo unveiled the addition of 1,500 ultra-dense Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 high-performance compute nodes for Niagara – Canada’s most-powerful research supercomputer. As the demand for high performance computing in quantitative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana Needs to be Business Competent
Computerworld compares and criticizes Cortana in a Speaker. Will it go the way of the Zune? Which has been my criticism, Cortana does not integrate well with the very business power that Microsoft excels in. Why not? It…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the European Processor Initiative
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the European Processor Initiative, an effort to design a build an exascale computer based around European technology. "According to an interview in Primeur Magazine with EPI project…
From insideHPC
OCF deploys first IBM POWER9 systems in UK Academia
Queen Mary University of London and Newcastle University are the first UK academic institutions to install POWER9 systems. Deployed by OCF, both Universities have already integrated the machines into their existing HPC infrastructures…
From insideHPC
First Experiences with Parallel Application Development in Fortran 2018
Damian Rouson from the Sourcery Institute gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will present performance and scalability results of the mini-app running on several platforms using up to 98,000 cores. A second…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Prototyping Mistakes
Good thoughts, prototype early and visually, and more ...
Avoiding Common Prototyping Mistakes Practical Usability
Moving toward a more usable world
A column by Jim Ross in UXMatters
Prototyping is the best way to explore a design…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Let The Computer Grade the Projects
It seems like a great idea – have the computer automatically grade student projects. Save all that boring work. Looking at all those projects is a pain. Why not have the computer grade them? It’s what happens in a lot of courses…
From Schneier on Security
Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret information, in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Video from Text Snippets
More broadly would like to be able to create draft video from a short description of the processand goal of the video This might be useful for advertising or marketing work to create a mockup, then further refine it.
New Algorithm…
From insideHPC
Linac Coherent Laser Source (LCLS-II): Data Transfer Requirements
Les Cottrell from SLAC gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Scientists use LCLS to take crisp pictures of atomic motions, watch chemical reactions unfold, probe the properties of materials and explore fundamental processes…
From insideHPC
GPU Technology Conference Returns to San Jose March 26-29
NVIDIA will host thousands of the world’s leading AI experts at its ninth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on March 26-29 in San Jose, California. "GTC is where the world’s leading researchers and business leaders learn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Image Trove
Reminds me of situations where I needed visual data examples with metadata and could not find them.
A New Data Trove Could Teach Computers to Tell Blind People What They Need to Know In CACM
Researchers at the University of Texas…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Inference Platform
Technical, but bringing hardware to the fore again.
Deep Learning Inference Platform
Inference Software and Accelerators for Cloud, Data Center, Edge and Autonomous Machines
There is an explosion of demand for increasingly sophisticated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Adds Libraries of Sound Clips
Amazon adds libraries of many sound clips for integration in skills. Includes code snippets at the link. Can this provide more realism and engagement? Similar to selecting among Emoji. Still needs better dialog support to…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Lemma Cited From Burnside
How might it be applied in complexity theory? St. Andrews history source William Burnside was a well-known researcher into the early theory of finite groups. Today Ken and I thought we would talk about one of his most-cited results…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation Making Retail Teams Less Efficient?
An unexpected view. Pointers to Wharton researcher work and expert comment in Retailwire. Perhaps only until we learn to collaborate with advanced, initiative taking automation?
Will automation make retail teams less efficient…
From insideHPC
Outlook on Hot Technologies
Shahin Khan from OrionX gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "We will review OrionX's predictions for 2018, the technologies that are changing the world (Iot, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, AI ...) and how HPC will
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From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Linux System Administrator at Michigan State University
The Michigan State University Institute for Cyber Enabled Research is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator/Information Technologist in our Job of the Week. "The Information Technologist II will develop, support and optimize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning
This provides an interesting list, but not sure I buy what the movement from 2017-2018 implies, given that the definitions are changing, but still a worthwhile look. Just the list of players and their general position is interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
When AI Makes Music
A recent project connected with creativity and music:
'Earworm Melodies With Strange Aspects'--What Happens When AI Makes Music Horizon Magazine by Kevin Casey
The FlowMachines project, funded by the European Union's European…
From Putting People First
Putting humans at the center of health care innovation
The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare…
From Putting People First
Putting humans at the center of health care innovation
The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking IoT Connectivity
Unlocking Value from IoT Connectivity
" ... Companies must take a more nuanced look at connectivity providers as the Internet of Things evolves. ....
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly, with 127 new devices connecting…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 2nd, 2018)
Flashing lights might cure Alzheimer’s, according to Nature. There is no paradox: being obese is definitively bad for you. Class attendance predicts success in college. Barbara Streisan had her dog cloned, more than once. Contrary…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Humboldt Squid with Electronic Bait
Video and short commentary. 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....
From insideHPC
Paul Messina Receives 2018 CRA Distinguished Service Award
Paul Messina has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the CRA Distinguished Service Award for his significant contributions to the advancement of high performance computing and decades of service to the field. Messina has an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Counterfeiting
I was involved with a number of product counterfeiting analysis and detection projects for CPG products. Often working with retailers. Its much more common globally than you think, even with relatively common home CPG goods…