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
Misinformation and the Wikipedia
Been a longterm Wikipedia fan. And have also been directed to many, many examples of misinformation there. But still use it daily. So whats the solution? Apparently Youtube planning to resource credibility with WP articles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tags in this Blog
This blog contains tags at the end of each post which lead to related posts. I do go back selectively and update these tags, especially as they relate to my current research, interests or work. The tags can't be complete,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
(Updated) Optimization using Genetic Methods
In our earliest days, addressing supply chain and blending type manufacturing problems, we were an optimization shop. Using the math structure of difficult combinatorial problems to find best solutions based on known goals
In…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leprechauns Know What It Feels
To be human, that is Neil L. has graced these pages many times before. Every eve of St. Patrick’s Day he has visited Dick. Sometimes Dick has been hard to find, but Neil has always managed. Today we relate some medical news while…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Staff Data Scientist at GE
GE in San Ramon, California is seeking a Data Scientist in our Job of the Week. "We are looking for a Data Scientist to work in Deep Learning(DL) to assist and build deep learning algorithms using imaging and non-imaging data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentier Strategic Consulting
Sentier Strategic Resources conducts custom research that helps our clients better understand and respond to the behavior, perceptions, and expectations of their market.
The Sentier team is comprised of experts in cognitive science…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Power and Peformance Optimization at Exascale
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Tapasya Patki of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory dicusses ECP’s Power Steering Project. "As we push the limits of supercomputing toward exascale, resources such as power and energy
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Beauty by Modiface at L'Oreal
An area we did lots of research and development on. Now based on this piece, it seems that the tech has finally caught up to the needs. But will it practically work as a marketing, sales and operational tool? Remains to be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Iterative Random Forests
New Learning Method: Sees the Forest and the Trees
".... Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of California, Berkeley have created a novel machine learning…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 16th, 2018)
From the beginning of the 20th century to 2010, the life expectancy at birth for females in the United States increased by more than 32 years. The 3 major causes of death for females in 1900 were pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Pickup Service in Whole Foods
Witnessed the set up of this in a nearby Whole Foods today. No additional crowding as yet. Can see it as a specialized service offering, volume involved unclear. Other uses when the infrastructure is operating?
Amazon/Whole…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered in Australia
A new species of pygmy squid was discovered in Western Australia. It's pretty cute. 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…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for GlobusWorld 2018 in Chicago
The good folks at GlobusWorld 2018 have posted their speaker agenda. The meeting takes place April 25-26 in Chicago. "Our theme for 2018 is Connecting your Research Universe. When it's easy for researchers to move and share data…
From insideHPC
Singularity: The Inner Workings of Securely Running User Containers on HPC Systems
Michael Bauer from Sylabs gave this talk at FOSDEM'17. "This presentation will provide an in-depth look at how Singularity is able to securely run user containers on HPC systems. After a brief introduction toSingularity and its…
From insideHPC
Asetek Announces Ongoing Collaboration with Intel on Liquid Cooling for Servers and Datacenters
In anticipation of forthcoming product announcements, Asetek today announced an ongoing collaboration with Intel to provide hot water liquid cooling for servers and datacenters. This collaboration, which includes Asetek’s ServerLSL…
From insideHPC
Bill Magro from Intel to Keynote OpenFabrics Workshop
Bill Magro of Intel Corporation will kick off the OpenFabrics Workshop with a keynote speech, “Software Foundation for High-Performance Fabrics in the Cloud.” The event takes place April 9-13 in Boulder, Colorado. "This talk
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Ring and Amazon
I am a user of the Ring Doorbell, have been since their beginning. So intrigued by the implications. New kinds of image data collection? Amazon Key service has been covered here. Privacy of behavior in the home.
What does …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Marketing Measurement
Always have been impressed by Google's aim at better measurement, it is foundational, and not paid enough attention to. Here some of their latest:
Measurement matters: Laying a foundation for better measurement, today and tomorrow…
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Article on Marcus Hutchins
This is a good article on the complicated story of hacker Marcus Hutchins....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Impressive High School Computer Science Students–Made or Born?
ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) announced the winners of the 2017-2018 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing recently. Five students from four schools were given this award this year. One of theWhat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human in the Loop Machine Learning
Attended a very good webinar today in the DSC series. Strongly recommend joining DSC and taking advantage of their free resources.
This Webinar answers the question you will have as a data scientist. Where will I get the data…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM and CSTA Announce 2017-2018 Cutler-Bell Prize Student Winners
Some cool projects which you can read about here.
For more information about ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing, visit http://www.csteachers.org/CutlerBell or http://awards.acm.org/cutler-bell/.
ACM and the Computer…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Releases PGI 2018 Compilers and Tools
Today NVIDIA announced the availability of PGI 2018. "PGI is the default compiler on many of the world’s fastest computers including the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PGI production-quality compilers are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Support for Health Data
Good overview talk this morning on the complexity of gathering and analyzing health data for decision support. With some emphasis on dementia data. 'AI' is used here as a description of the analytcs used, as well as the direct…
From insideHPC
Univa Open Sources Project Tortuga for moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud
Today Univa announced the contribution of its Navops Launch product to the open source community as Project Tortuga under an Apache 2.0 license. The free and open code is designed to help proliferate the transition of enterprise…
From insideHPC
FPGA Programming Made Easy
In the past, it was necessary to understand a complex programming language such as Verilog or VHDL, that was designed for a specific FPGA. "Using a familiar language such as OpenCL, developers can become more productive, sooner…
From insideHPC
Whurley Keynotes SXSW: The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing
William Hurley from Strangeworks gave this talk at SXSW 2018. "Quantum computing isn’t just a possibility, it’s an inevitable next step. During his Keynote, whurley discusses how it will forever change the computing landscape…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Sensing Form and Depth
Will this drive us to better augmented reality shopping? At IKEA a few days ago I used some of their on floor furniture placement and design Apps, nicely done, but could have used better space understanding capabilities. What…
From Schneier on Security
Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing the Usefulness of Chatbots
Still awaiting reasonably adept and useful chatbots that can do real conversation. So below starts some key thoughts. Tracking what the base of their knowledge looks like, and how they are being effectively used. And howcommon…