Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2019
From insideHPC
Optalysys launches FT:X 2000 – The world’s first commercial optical processing system
Today Optalysys announced the FT:X 2000, the world’s first optical co-processor system for Ai computing. "It is a really exciting time in optical computing," said Dr. Nick New, Optalysys CEO and Founder. “As we approach the commercial…
From insideHPC
Accelerating Machine Learning on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs
Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at Stanford HPC Conference. "This session introduces machine learning on vSphere to the attendee and explains when and why GPUs are important for them. Basic machine learning with Apache…
From insideHPC
NREL Chooses Qumulo’s File Storage for Eagle Supercomputer
Today Qumulo announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected Qumulo’s file storage solution for its Computational Science Center. "With the impact of climate change, it's crucial for organizations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sams Can Scan Product as Opposed to Barcodes
Different than Amazon Go, probably will not get the same same exposure.
Sam’s Club Files Patent for Scan & Go Technology
Retailer's members will begin testing the new app this spring By WGB Staff
Walmart's Sam’s Club division…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Enhanced Discovery and Optimization
A.I enhanced molecular discovery and optimization By Flawnson Tong in BlogUseJournal
We’re on the verge of a new scientific method, one that utilizes the power of artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Assistants
Opinions from the IBM Think Conference:
Future of Digital Assistants By Rob Enderle
The IBM Think Conference showcases some fascinating human enhancements that will shortly begin our evolution from human to hybrid-human to and…
From Schneier on Security
Letterlocking
Really good article on the now-lost art of letterlocking....
From CERIAS Blog
The RSA 2019 Conference
I have now attended 13 of the last 18 RSA Conferences (see some of my comments for 2016, 2015, and 2014). Before there were RSA conferences, there were the Joint National Computer Security Conferences, and I went to those, too…
From CERIAS Blog
The RSA 2019 Conference
I have now attended 13 of the last 18 RSA Conferences (see some of my comments for 2016, 2015, and 2014). Before there were RSA conferences, there were the Joint National Computer Security Conferences, and I went to those, too…
From CERIAS Blog
The RSA 2019 Conference
I have now attended 13 of the last 18 RSA Conferences (see some of my comments for 2016, 2015, and 2014). Before there were RSA conferences, there were the Joint National Computer Security Conferences, and I went to those, too…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duplex Makes Real Reservations
Google Duplex gets closer to what we would call a human assistant. You give it a task by voice, with Google assistant, and it does the work. Here the work is making calls to restaurants to ensure reservations. The AI
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Will Recommend by Product Attribute
Note the inclusion of natural language to enable online reviews. And multi-dimensional attributes. Will embrace this kind of advanced interaction?
Will attribute-based product recommendations be a game changer for Walmart?…
From insideHPC
Video: Access the Future Today with Quantum Computing
Dr. Dario Gil gave this talk at the IBM Think conference. "For two years now, IBM has enabled more than 100,000 people around the globe to access quantum computers for learning, research, and tackling new problems. IBM’s Dario…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Interim Report released by the CCC
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Industry Working Group has released their Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Interim Report. In 2015, the CCC sponsored an industry round table that produced…
From insideHPC
ScaleMP teams with AMD for Scale-up EPYC Servers
Today ScaleMP announced that it has partnered with AMD to enable AMD server OEMs to create systems with 4, 8, and up to 128 processor sockets, up to 8,192 CPUs and 256 terabytes of shared memory. “Through this collaboration,
…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Powers Massive HPC Cloud Service for DownUnder Geosolutions
Today DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced that the company has chosen leading Ethernet supplier Mellanox Technologies to supercharge their massive exascale-focused HPC facility. "DUG’s ambitious cloud service, DUG McCloud,…
From insideHPC
Interview: HPC User Forum in Santa Fe to look at Supercomputing Technology Trends
Hyperion Research will host the next HPC User Forum April 1-3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now in its 20th year, the HPC User Forum has grown to 150 members from government, industry, and academia. To learn more, insideHPC caught…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of Possible Minds
A most interesting collection of minds talk about how we can look at AI
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI in The Edge
Lightning talks by thirteen “Possible Minders” at the Brattle Theatre—a Harvard Bookstore Event…
From Schneier on Security
Digital Signatures in PDFs Are Broken
Researchers have demonstrated spoofing of digital signatures in PDF files. This would matter more if PDF digital signatures were widely used. Still, the researchers have worked with the various companies that make PDF readers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots Falling Short of Expectations
Interesting stats. Chatbots clearly need to be better, more empathetic, more contextually focused, with better memories and links to required and up to date metadata. When required with links to sensors as part of an IOT digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Launches Blockchain Testing Service
In a further indication that major computing services companies believe in its usefulness. In particular when they can be delivered securely.
Secure blockchain technology and the connected infrastructure
Related Blog
Build, implement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Visual Shopping Design from Google
In the Google Blog, new ways to visually shop, with a number of impressive visual examples:
Connecting you to visual shoppers with new ad formats on Google Images
By Surojit Chatterjee Vice President, Product Management, Shopping…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New White House Science Head Bullish on Information Technology Research
The following blog post is from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kelvin Droegemeier recently gave his first speech as the Head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Doubles Quantum Speed, But Reveals Key Issues
Performance aspect is interesting, but the inherent noisiness of quantum is troubling. The notion that quantum switches could act at a distance, as was presented to me, made me wonder how such noise could be dealt with. Had…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Talks Finding, Sharing Open Data
Good talk on the issues, perhaps not enough on protecting the data, defining its ownership responsibly.
Doing our part to share open data responsibly
Daphne Luong Director, Software Engineering
Charina Chou Global Policy Lead…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for Dell EMC Community Event in Austin
The Dell EMC Community Meeting has published their preliminary speaker agenda. The event takes place March 25-27 in Austin, Texas. The Dell HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that facilitates the exchange of ideas among…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serious Games, AI and Training?
So can we train via AI in complex world environments, and can those environments be mapped into the real world to become 'Serious'? Open AI takes a look.
OpenAI Launches Neural MMO to Train AI in Complex, Open-World Environments…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Today Hyperion Research today invited members of the worldwide high performance computing community to submit entries for the next round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. "The program's main goals are to showcase scientific…
From insideHPC
Video: Why InfiniBand is the Way Forward for Ai and Exascale
In this video, Gilad Shainer from the InfiniBand Trade Association describes how InfiniBand offers the optimal interconnect technology for Ai, HPC, and Exascale. Transcript: insideHPC: Hi, I’m Rich with insideHPC. We’re here…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should our kids use pencils or keyboards?
In Montreal, most kids have to write on paper using a pencil. They have paper dictionaries. My kids have spent an enormous amount of time learning to write in cursive using pencils, and no time at all (in school) learning toContinue…