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
A World of Opportunities for HPC and AI
In this special guest feature, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE shares the endless possibilities of supercomputing and AI, and the challenges that stand in the way. "Can AI systems continue to learn and evolve based on historical data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sotheby's International Realty Does VR
Did work in the auction space, so I follow Sotheby's, On the face of this VR App looks impressive. An obvious area of VR application. See also previous posts on room design and furnuture.
Sotheby’s International Realty First…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Guide to Data Analysis
Nicely done, non technical, but considerable and basic and step by step guide to data analysis. Gives lots of suggestions to be complete about the process. From Geckoboard,
A Guide to Basic Data Analysis
Trying to find the cause…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Basics of Virtual Reality
Good non-technical piece on the Basics of Virtual Reality (VR).
What is VR? By Tyler Lacoma @CaptainWords In DigitalTrends.
Learn the basics of VR: Here's everything you need to know about virtual reality ... VR, or virtual
Now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning International Trends
Surprise, its via the Internet. Some business case studies.
How Companies Are Learning From Trends Across the World
People can now get a glimpse of how others live, dress, work, eat, and think, all without needing to travel --…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google’s Chatbot Analytics Platform Chatbase Launches to Public
Considerable challenge, but tracking the process data by which a chat progresses can lead to better results. Ultimately this leads to better conversations. Could also lead to suggestions as to how humans are appropriately inserted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast and Automatic Translation
We spent lots of time using translation services to understand how consumers interacted with product. Now we re not far away from automating the process. My desktop assistants do it already. Some aspects, like Intent analysis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating Business Decisions
I like the decision oriented aspects of how this book is presented. On Order. Available in Kindle edition below.
New Book: AI and Analytics - Accelerating Business Decisions Posted by Sameer Dhanrajani
My new book has been
AI…
From insideHPC
Video: Convergence of AI & HPC
Thor Sewell from Intel gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas conference. "We are seeing the exciting convergence of artificial intelligence and modeling & simulation workflows as well as the movement towards cloud computing and…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at RedLine Performance Solutions
RedLine Performance Solutions in Herndon, VA is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "RedLine Performance Solutions has been in the HPC solutions engineering services business for approximately 17 years and is consistently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Providing Transparency for AI Data
Useful to the extent that Blockchain can provide more protection and integrity checking in context for data. A part of our old search for consistent transparency. Its about useful, consistent organization.
Blockchain Potential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NSF Solicitation on Augmenting Human Cognition
Alexandra Medina-Borja Group Owner
Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation
New Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Solicitation on Advancing Cognitive Capabilities
This solicitation focuses on advancing…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
When shuffling large arrays, how much time can be attributed to random number generation?
It is well known that contemporary computers don’t like to randomly access data in an unpredictible manner in memory. However, not all forms of random accesses are equally harmful. To randomly shuffle an array, the textbook algorithm…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Stealing Food from Each Other
An interesting hunting strategy: Off of northern Spain, giant squid often feed on schools of fish called blue whiting. The schools swim 400 meters or less below the surface, while the squid prefer to hang out around a mile deep…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does GDPR Require ML To Explain its Human Subject Decisions?
Even if this is not the legal interpretation, could some legal interpretations lead us this way? What is an accepted 'explanation'? An accepted statistical method? The training regimen of a neural net? The Theory structure…
From Schneier on Security
Zeynep Tufekci on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Zeynep Tufekci is particularly cogent about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Several news outlets asked me to write about this issue. I didn't, because 1) my book manuscript is due on Monday (finally!), and 2) I knew Zeynep…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt ACM Computing Across Disciplines Interview
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt provided contributions to this post. How do you successfully accomplish human-centered computing research and design? Focus on users who are not you. Figure out someone else’s computing technology barriers…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 23rd, 2018)
Sending your kids to highly selective schools is maybe less useful than you think: “However, once we controlled for factors involved in pupil selection, (…) the variance in exam scores at age 16 explained by school type dropped…
From insideHPC
Amazon SageMaker goes for “Infinitely Scalable” Machine Learning
Over at the All Things Distributed blog, Werner Vogels writes that the new Amazon SageMaker is designed for building machine learning algorithms that can handle an infinite amount of data. "To handle unbounded amounts of data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tech Supply Venture
Kroger Venture will offer Store's tech to other Grocers
Kroger has established Sunrise Technologies, an offshoot designed to share the supermarket's technology with other retailers, company executive Annette Franke shared at this…
From insideHPC
European Processor Initiative to develop chip for future supercomputers
Today the European Commission announced more details on the European Processor Initiative to co-design, develop and bring on the market a low-power microprocessor. "This technology, with drastically better performance and power…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP, Accenture Embed Predictive Analytics into Work Flows
Always thought this was a good idea. And we did it, though is was not as clean an integration as it could have been. Companies like IBM have many of the components (Ilog, BPM, Watson, Modeler ... ) but have not integrated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics is the New Source of Competitive Advantage
Have been saying this for a long time. And people agree. But its also the 'how' thats important. Will it be the old way of getting data, analyzing, then selling it to management. Or deeply embedding in process as a form of…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches MAX – an App Store for Machine Learning Models
"MAX is a one-stop exchange for data scientists and AI developers to consume models created using their favorite machine learning engines, like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Caffe2, and provides a standardized approach to classify…
From insideHPC
A Primer on Quantum Computing… with Doughnuts!
Jessica Pointing from MIT gave this talk at the IBM Think conference. "Because atoms and subatomic particles behave in strange and complex ways, classical physics can not explain their quantum behavior. However, when the behavior…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Teaching AI
New opportunities, examining.
Google wants to teach more people AI and machine learning with a free online course.
A new ‘Learn with Google AI’ site will serve as a hub for AI and machine learning resources By Chaim Gartenberg…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing and Building Reality
From Schneier on Security
GreyKey iPhone Unlocker
Some details about the iPhone unlocker from the US company Greyshift, with photos. Little is known about Grayshift or its sales model at this point. We don't know whether sales are limited to US law enforcement, or if it is also…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking Back at Useful Fundamentals of the Web
A bit of a look back historically, remembering some older aspects of the Web that are often forgotten, but fundamental and still useful.
The Missing Building Blocks of the Web by Anil Dash in Medium
At a time when millions are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tapscott on Blockchains
Somewhat overstated as to what it takes, some hype, but useful:
Short 7 minute piece overviewing Blockchain, what they claim to be, but not how it works .... and thus might be compromised ... largely correct, somewhat overplayed…