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 insideHPC
DDN feeds NVIDIA DGX Servers 33GB/s for Machine Learning
Today DDN announced that its EXAScaler DGX solution accelerated client has been fully integrated with the NVIDIA DGX Architecture. "By supplying this groundbreaking level of performance, DDN enables customers to greatly accelerate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOM Podcasts
GigaOM continues their podcasts on AI. Informative. Below link lets you subscribe and see others.
Voices in AI – Episode 37: A Conversation with Carolina Galleguillos
Byron Reese Mar 29, 2018 - 7:00 AM CDT
In this episode Byron…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Prime at Whole Foods
Am a shopper at Kroger and Whole Foods since their inception. Watching the expansion of tech closely.
Amazon Prime Now gives Whole Foods a price edge: report
Barclays study of Cincinnati market shows savings over Kroger/Instacart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Alexa Lamps
They are everywhere now, and lamps and light fixtures are a convenient place for more. The introduction of a reference design should make it easier yet.
More Alexa-enabled lamps are coming
By Ashley Carman @ashleyrcarman in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Retailers Are Starting To Reap The Rewards Of Omnichannel Commerce
Webinar replay
By Michelle Beeson in Forrester
Retail digital business executives must challenge the status quo and deliver omnichannel excellence across the customer…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
But I Digress
Students sure are good at distracting teachers from the main topic. Especially if they have a teacher who likes to talk. I confess that I am someone who likes to talk (ok stop laughing those of you who know me.) I tend to think…
From Computational Complexity
A Reduced Turing Award
A Turing machine has an extremely simple instruction set: Move left, move right, read and write. If you want to do real programming, you need something a bit more powerful. So computer architects created chips with more2011…
From BLOG@CACM
Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
From Schneier on Security
Another Branch Prediction Attack
When Spectre and Meltdown were first announced earlier this year, pretty much everyone predicted that there would be many more attacks targeting branch prediction in microprocessors. Here's another one: In the new attack, an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car of the Future, Selling your Data?
Well, Yes. Somewhat different in an automotive channel due to context and changing location.
The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
As smarter vehicles become troves of personal information, get ready for coupon offers at the…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is There Momentum in Chess?
And if so, what units does it have? Cropped from source Fabiano Caruana has just won the 2018 chess Candidates Tournament. This earns him the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world championship next November in London…
From insideHPC
Video: VMware powers Virtualization at GPU Technology Conference
In this video from from 2018 GPU Technology Conference, Ziv Kalmanovich from VMware and Fred Devoir from NVIDIA describe how they are working together to bring the benefits of virtualization to GPU workloads. "For cloud environments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Own the Customer experience
Attending this tomorrow, a favorite topic of mine ... join us at the link below:
How to Own the Customer Experience:
" ... AI-driven interactions between customers and brands will soon be occurring more often. Messaging platforms…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mozilla Currently Accepting Research Grants
Mozilla is currently seeking proposals for research funding to support its mission: to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. These grants include topics directly relevant to current research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpreting Predictive Models with Skater
One of the most important issues in data science, interpreting models, especially for particular contextual use. And part of the context is always metadata driven. ...
In O'Reilly:
Interpreting predictive models with Skater…
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Anonymity in the Cryptocurrency Monero
Researchers have exploited a flaw in the cryptocurrency Monero to break the anonymity of transactions. Research paper. BoingBoing post....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting Viruses with Machine Learning
A furhter indication of the value of pattern recognition ...
Machine Learning Spots Treasure Trove of Elusive Viruses
In Nature by Amy Maxmen
Researchers have applied artificial intelligence to the discovery of nearly 6,000 previously…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Delays Assistant - Smart Speaker
More players in the space.
Facebook reportedly delaying smart speaker launch in wake of data outrage Now might not be the best time for an always-listening Facebook device.
By Jeff Dunn in Ars Technica
Facebook has some hardware…
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Such Things as Corporate Entrepreneurs
Disagree, but it is clear they do not evolve the same way.
Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur
By Scott Kirsner in the HBR
Can we please agree that there is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur?
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive's Guide to AI
An Executive’s guide to AI via McKinsey
To stay at the forefront of the accelerating artificial-intelligence race, business executives can study up on the basics of AI using this interactive guide ... "
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
When accessing hash tables, how much time is spent computing the hash functions?
Suppose that you create a large set of objects that you store in a hash table. Let us take 10 millions objects. It is large enough that it probably will not fit in the cache memory of your processor. Let us keep the objects simple…
From insideHPC
Liqid and Inspur team up for Composable GPU-Centric Rack-Scale Solutions
Today Liqid and Inspur announced that the two companies will offer a joint solution designed specifically for advanced, GPU-intensive applications and workflows. "Our goal is to work with the industry’s most innovative companies…
From insideHPC
Cray rolls out new Cray Artificial Intelligence Offerings
Today Cray announced it is adding new options to its line of CS-Storm GPU-accelerated servers as well as improved fast-start AI configurations, making it easier for organizations implementing AI to get started on their journey…
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling Quantum Computing Over the Cloud
"Quantum computing has recently become a topic that has captured the minds and imagination of a much wider audience. Dr. Jerry Chow joined CloudFest to speak to the near future of quantum computing and insights into the IBM Q…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Wikipedia
Have had a long time interest in how we curate the world'd knowledge. And thus Wikipedia asks ...
Wikipedia Asks its Readers Why.
Wikipedia has a lot of readers–approximately 6,000 people visit every second. Since the online
That…
From insideHPC
DDN partners with SQream for “World’s Fastest Big Data Analytics”
“The complexities of big data and data science models, particularly in data-intensive fields such as life sciences, telecommunications, cybersecurity, financial services and retail, require purpose-built database applications…
From BLOG@CACM
What Went Wrong? Facebook and 'Sharing' Data with Cambridge Analytica
The road to the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal is strewn with failures.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIA Releases Operational Board Games
Intriguing. How useful these might be is unclear. I recall seeing a board-style game with supposed espionage related origins that utilized game theory. We edited some of the player parameters to get something that might
CIA…
From Schneier on Security
Tracing Stolen Bitcoin
Ross Anderson has a really interesting paper on tracing stolen bitcoin. From a blog post: Previous attempts to track tainted coins had used either the "poison" or the "haircut" method. Suppose I open a new address and pay into…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telepresence Robotics with Autonomy
Been a while since I have seen novel telepresence robotics. Here is an Ava Robotic telepresence system with autonomous navigation. We experimented with meeting attentendance telepresence.
Ava Robotics Introduces Autonomous…