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
Retailers Need Chat
We worked with a number of chat style systems well before the Internet could adequately support them. Now there are lots of ways to implement simple chat and Chatbots. Note it can also be a way to simply chat seamlessly with…
From insideHPC
New BOXX Deep Learning Workstation has 4 NVIDIA GPUs and 18-core Xeon Processors
Today BOXX Technologies announced the new APEXX W3 compact workstation featuring an Intel Xeon W processor, four dual slot NVIDIA GPUs, and other innovative features for accelerating HPC applications. "Available with an Intel…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL- FY18, FY19 Budget Update
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces DGX-2 as the “First 2 Petaflop Deep Learning System”
Today NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA DGX-2: the "world's largest GPU." Ten times faster than its predecessor, the DGX-2 the first single server capable of delivering two petaflops of computational power. DGX-2 has the deep learning…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA rolls out GV100 “Dual-Volta” GPU for Workstations
Today NVIDIA announced Quadro GV100 GPU. With innovative packaging, the Quadro GV100 comprises two Volta GPUs in the same chassis -- linked with NVIDIA's new NVlink 2 interconnect. "The new AI-dedicated Tensor Cores have dramatically…
From insideHPC
Dr. Keren Bergman and Thomas Sterling to Keynote ISC 2018
Today ISC 2018 announced that Dr. Keren Bergman from Columbia University will give a keynote on the latest developments in silicon photonics. The event takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt.
The post Dr. Keren Bergman and Thomas…
From insideHPC
Nyriad and ThinkParQ Announce Partnership to Certify GPU-accelerated Storage
Today Nyriad and ThinkParQ announced a partnership to develop a certification program for high performance, resilient storage systems that combine BeeGFS with NSULATE, Nyriad’s solution for GPU-accelerated storage-processing.…
From insideHPC
Livestream: GTC Keynote with Jensen Huang
NVIDIA is hosting their annual GPU Technology Conference this week. "Watch the livestream of NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, will be delivering the opening keynote to officially kick off the event with a focus on AI and Deep Learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Travelers Purchase Journey
Journies within Journies.
The Future of travel: New consumer behavior and the technology giving it flight By Jaclyn Loo
With its early use of online booking, the travel industry stands as one of the first successful adopters of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Intelligent Machines
Cautionary review of intelligent machines. Are they thinking like people, or just with people? And what are the implications for value and bias?
AI savants, recognizing bias, and building machines that think like people
Despite…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Text Reviews
An example of analyzin reviews using analytical methods.
Tidy Text Mining Beer Reviews
On R, tidytext, clustering, classification, correlation, tfidf, knn, dataviz, web scraping
Craft beer is a huge market. Beer reviews from fellow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subconscious Choice
Reminder of work in the past, and Zaltman. Back to measurement challenges. Still being done, but to what value? Read my previous tags from long ago.
Harvard Professor Says 95% of Purchasing Decisions Are Subconscious
When marketing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Outliers
Nicely done, non-technical piece
Visualizing Outliers by Nathan Yau in Flowingdata
Visualizing data that looks like it came straight out of Statistics 101 text book is nice and all — for teaching and learning purposes. You gotta…
From Schneier on Security
Fooling Face Recognition with Infrared Light
Yet another development in the arms race between facial recognition systems and facial-recognition-system foolers. BoingBoing post....
From insideHPC
NVMe Over Fabrics High performance SSDs Networked for Composable Infrastructure
Rob Davis from Mellanox gave this talk at the 2018 OCP Summit. "There is a new very high performance open source SSD interfaced called NVMe over Fabrics now available to expand the capabilities of networked storage solutions.…
From BLOG@CACM
Securing Threats to Election Systems
Election systems are supposed to be disconnected from the Internet, for obvious and sensible reasons. Most elections today, however, use computers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Comes Next After the Algorithm
Nice thoughtful piece from William Vorhies. My take, we need to get better ways to attach algorithms (the magic) to Work (the process). He hints at it. Simple as that, with lots of details to do.
What Comes After Deep …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workbook Building an Internet of Things
Useful thoughts ...
Digital Transformation
Announcing the First Project Workbook for IoT
By Maciej Kranz - Cisco Blog
After publishing “Building the Internet of Things” some 16 months ago, readers told me they gained a deeper understanding…
From My Biased Coin
An Ad-Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment and Related Issues
The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institutions to deal with harassment and related ethical issues. You may see the post on other…
From insideHPC
GPU-accelerated Storage System goes “Beyond RAID”
Today Nyriad and Advanced HPC announce their partnership for a new NVIDIA GPU-accelerated storage system that achieves data protection levels well beyond any RAID solution. "Nyriad and Advanced HPC have brought together a hardware…
From insideHPC
Video: Powering the Road to National HPC Leadership
Jack Wells from ORNL gave this talk at the 2018 OpenPOWER Summit. "The Summit supercomputer coming to Oak Ridge is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems for open science. Summit will have a hybrid architecture,
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wayfind: Dialog on Customer Experience
Late to this but brought again to my attention:
Wayfind: Dialog on Customer Experience
WayfinD is a quarterly e-magazine filled with insights, trends and predictions from customer experience experts.
Each issue covers the latest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Rosmaro Automata Programming
Łukasz Makuch writes:
Hello, Thank you very much for mentioning Rosmaro
When it comes to a practical application of visual automata-based programming, I find it a great way to deal with user interfaces. I'd be very happy if
https…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphs and Task Planning
Technical Perspective: A Graph-Theoretic Framework Traces Task Planning By Nicole Immorlica
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 3, Page 98
10.1145/3176187
Algorithmic game theory has made great strides in recent decades by
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA and Accenture Show a Tech Advanced Store
Again, IKEA looks quite advanced.
IKEA asks, will virtual inventory be key to the new urban showroom? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire.
The completely unique experience of shopping at an IKEA store is part of the brand’s appeal…
From Schneier on Security
Adding Backdoors at the Chip Level
Interesting research into undetectably adding backdoors into computer chips during manufacture: "Stealthy dopant-level hardware Trojans: extended version," also available here: Abstract: In recent years, hardware Trojans have…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Launches Rack Scale GPU Accelerator System
Today One Stop Systems expanded its line of rack scale NVIDIA GPU accelerator products with the introduction of GPUltima-CI. "The GPUltima-CI power-optimized rack can be configured with up to 32 dual Intel Xeon Scalable Architecture…
From Computational Complexity
Why do we give citations? How should we give citations?
Why do we cite past work? There are many reasons and they lead to advice on how we should cite past work
Give credit where credit it due. Some people over cite and that diminishes any one citation. I once saw a paper that …
From insideHPC
Broad and Intel Advance Genomics
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Intel, is playing a major role in accelerating genomic analysis. This guest post from Intel explores how the two are working together to 'reach levels of analysis that…
From insideHPC
Video: Gen-Z High-Performance Interconnect for the Data-Centric Future
"Gen-Z is different. It is a high-bandwidth, low-latency fabric with separate media and memory controllers that can be realized inside or beyond traditional chassis limits. It treats all components as memory (so-called memory…