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 Putting People First
Want to craft better policy? Hire an anthropologist
In the spring of 2017 the Danish Business Authority and MindLab, a Danish policy lab, developed a methodology to quickly identify costly regulations and how they could be improved, by combining the Standard Cost Model (SCM) method…
From Putting People First
Want to craft better policy? Hire an anthropologist
In the spring of 2017 the Danish Business Authority and MindLab, a Danish policy lab, developed a methodology to quickly identify costly regulations and how they could be improved, by combining the Standard Cost Model (SCM) method…
From Computational Complexity
Wanted: An Easy Proof of a Weak Theorem in NT so that I can get another VDW--> Primes infinite proof to be really easy.
(All math in this article is here)
A while back I posted about a proof that Van Der Waerden's theorem implies the number of primes
is infinite (see the post here). That post brought up some logical issues.
More recently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Stain Detective
Have been exploring alternative skills and their distribution by type on various voice driven assistants. Found the 'Tide Stain Detective', as an Alexa Skill. Based originally in part on some content in the book: 'Clean…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging AI for Max ROI
For AI job we did with signiicant cost and potential results, we generated an ROI estimate, and also a risk model. Makes sense if you want to continue funding.
Leveraging AI for Maximum ROI in O'Reilly
In this O'Reilly RadarRachel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Shifts to Subscription for Prime Pantry
Seems more practically useful, to larger and more systematic users.
Amazon shifts to a subscription model for Prime Pantry
by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with further comments.
Amazon’s Prime Pantry service is shifting to a $5 monthly…
From Schneier on Security
Greyshift Sells Phone Unlocking Services
Here's another company that claims to unlock phones for a price....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI100 Call for Proposals
The Stanford One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, AI100, launched in Fall 2014, is an endowed, long-range investigation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It examines AI systems and the technological, ethical, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automata: States, Transitions and Context for Process
I have yet to see this directly useful, but it does teach the broad notion of automata, which is useful. Any time you are programming you are dealing with states of a device, and even states of a context you are always dealing…
From insideHPC
Call for Abstracts: FLOW-3D Users Conference in Denver
The 2018 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference has announced their Call for Abstracts. Featuring customer presentations on validations, benchmarks, and case studies, the event takes place August 7-8 at the Warwick Hotel in Denver…
From insideHPC
SXSW Podcast: Quantum Computing – Science Fiction to Science Fact
In this podcast from from SXSW 2018, Antia Lamas-Linares from TACC moderates a panel discussion on quantum computing. "Imagine a new kind of computer that can quickly solve problems that would stump even the world's most powerful…
From The Noisy Channel
Search Result Snippets
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential tool to help searchers find what they’re looking for.
SearchBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Smarter Shopping App
More on new Wal-Mart Shopping App. We looked at similar approaches which prioritized 'smart' lists and navigation ..... Tailored notification was also a means to remind people of periodic replenishment requirements. And…
From insideHPC
Maria Girone from CERN openlab to Keynote ISC 2018
Today ISC 2018 announced that Maria Girone from CERN openlab will keynote the conference on Monday, June 25. “I will discuss some of the approaches we are considering to grapple with these enormous data requirements, including…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Biology
When we were more Pharma involved we took a look at what is called 'synthetic biology'. and connected to neural models that could predict human behavior. As data access brows there is more opportunity to suggest simulation…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC looks at the Quest for Quantum Supremacy
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the big three technologies of the day on the Hype curve. "This week Google unveiled their 72-Qbit Bristlecone Quantum Chip, which they claim has them on the road to Quantum Supremacy…
From insideHPC
Xilinx Demonstrates Breakthrough Optical Networking on the road to 7 nm
Today Xilinx announced the FPGA industry’s first demonstration of breakthrough 112G PAM4 electrical signaling technology for optical networks, as well as announcing the addition of 58G PAM4 transceivers to its 16nm Virtex UltraScale…
From Schneier on Security
Two New Papers on the Encryption Debate
Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season. "Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate," R Street Policy Study #133, by Charles Duan, Arthur Rizer, Zach Graves and Mike Godwin. "Encryption Policy…
From insideHPC
Princeton Team using Deep Learning to develop Fusion Energy
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Tonie Hansen writes that Princeton researchers are using deep learning to help establish the feasibility of delivering fusion energy in the foreseeable future. "The Princeton team has scaled up the capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Robot Finds Toothpaste Ingredient
First thought this was describing a 'robot' in a general sense, and the physical implementation was also required. But consider that the term robotic can be full or partial automation.
AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart asks CPGs for higher priced products
No joke – Walmart asks CPGs for higher priced products by Matthew Stern in Retailwire with discussion.
Walmart is known for its commitment to low prices, but the company is discovering that shipping the lowest-priced products…
From insideHPC
Video: The Birth of HPC Cuba
Hector Cruz from UCLV gave this talk at FOSDEM'17. "To offer supercomputing services to all Cuban institutes of higher education, research centers and industrial partners is the mission set forth by a group of ambitious young…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blood Pressure Sensing from a Smart Phone
Was involved in defense department look at how to do inobtrusive, non mechanical blood pressure sensng. Was considered impossible at one time. The method described does not require complex calibration. Availability not mentioned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Still Need Remote Human Help. Or Concierges?
Truly autonomous cars still some time away? Will they still need rooms full of operators somewhere to take over car operations remotely in some situations? That's what dozens of companies are preparing for. Humans stay
In…
From insideHPC
Transforming Scientific Data into Immersive Visualizations
In this video, Colleen Heinemann, a Ph.D. student with the University of Illinois, describes how visualization makes scientific data more accessible and useful by transforming it into virtual objects you can see, touch and manipulate…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computer Science Software Scientist at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is seeking a Computer Science Software Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) located at Virginia Tech seeks candidates for multiple software scientist positions in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes Forward on Quantum Computing
Been following this concept since close to the beginning. Most interesting, the kinds of problems that may be best solved more quickly. Good thoughts on the testing aspects:
Google thinks it’s close to “quantum supremacy.”…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google on Future Value of Machine Learning
Google in Think With Google writes an interesting piece regarding CES conference and Machine learning:
(Below, are summaries, links to detail from the link below)
The promise and potential of machine learning
Recently at CES, marketers…
From Apophenia
You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?
The below original text was the basis for Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd’s March 2018 SXSW Edu keynote,“What Hath We Wrought?” — Ed. Growing up, I took certain truths to be self evident. Democracy is good. War…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 9th, 2018)
The Audi A8, which goes on sale this year, will be the first car to offer Level 3 autonomy, which means that as a driver, you are expected to be able to relinquish control of the car to the computer in most instances. Standard…