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
Exploring Today’s AI Resources — A Portal to a Growing Sector
When Accenture Federal Services researched how current AI technologies could be used by the U.S. federal government, Accenture documented nearly 100 use cases for AI adoption. Artificial intelligence is making a difference to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Facts over Knowledge Graphs
Considering this. Always thinking how we can best translate to more understandable forms. Both for human understanding, machine use, the establishment of context, and relationship to goals ...
ExFaKT: a framework for explaining…
From insideHPC
Podcast: The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell
n this podcast, the Radio Free HPC says goodbye to Intel’s Itanium processor. "After years of futility, Intel has finally put a stake in the heart of their Itanium processor. The final shipment will take place in 2021. The boys…
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity for the Public Interest
The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. On the other are…
From Computational Complexity
How are there 20 copies of my new book through other booksellers and why are they so highly priced
(This is about my book PROBLEMS WITH A POINT: exploring Math and computer science
by Gasarch and Kruskal, here. This post is NOT a plug.)
I often see weird pricing on amazon but don't have enough inside information to explain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insert Spreadsheet by Photograph
Would be a nice thing to be able to do at times, especially for test data.
Import Excel data just by photographing a spreadsheet
The feature is available in the updated Microsoft Excel app for Android.
AJ Dellinger, @ajdell
Microsoft…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Episode 4 – What is Thermodynamic Computing? Part 2
Last week I shared my interview with Thermodynamic Computing workshop organizers, Tom Conte (Georgia Tech) and Todd Hylton (UC San Diego) and workshop participant Christof Teuscher in What is Thermodynamic Computing? Part 1.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation Anywhere Debuts Free RPA Version
Good opportunity for introduction! We did this without such a system years ago, looking forward to a closer look.
Automation Anywhere debuts free version of its robotic process automation suite By Mike Wheatley in Siliconangle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Circular Supply Chain
Another example of transparency and reliance on shared data. Especially for small players. Involvement of Mastercard and Accenture would indicate some belief in the value of the system.
Accenture builds sustainable trade …
From insideHPC
XSEDE teams with Aristotle Cloud Federation to implement clouds on U.S. campuses
Two NSF-funded projects have joined forces to help university systems administrators implement cloud computing systems on their campuses. "Combining the consulting strengths of the XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Remember The Ladies–And Act
In March of 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband who would be the second US president “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for…
From insideHPC
A Look Ahead at Disruptive Technologies for HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at technology that could disrupt the HPC ecosystem. "As the HPC industry reaches the end of technology scaling based on Moore’s Law, system designers…
From insideHPC
Alan D. George Named Interim Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Dr. Alan D. George has been named the interim director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). "Dr. George succeeds Nick Nystrom, PhD, who has served as interim director of the PSC since 2017. Dr. Nystrom will return full…
From insideHPC
How to Design Scalable HPC, Deep Learning and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors…
From Schneier on Security
The Latest in Creepy Spyware
The Nest home alarm system shipped with a secret microphone, which -- according to the company -- was only an accidental secret: On Tuesday, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider the company had made an "error." "The on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procurement Operating Models
A need for more bots exploring and maintaining the current and predictive possibilities? Risk analyses always attached and considered.
A Next-generation Operating Model for source-to-pay By Samir Khushalani and Edward Woodcock…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusory Truth Effect
Brought back to my attention by a Wired article on Viral scares now floating about the internet, and when it makes sense to respond to them. Made me reexamine this kind of 'bias' again. The bias towards believing the familiar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guardbot
What looks to be an impressive spherical robot, suitable for all terrain applications, including water.
To me looks to be best for applications like security, tacking and surveillance in open areas. Not fenced or environments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better to Design for Multiple Senses
Nice piece in ArsTechnica which makes the point that we should be designing interactive interfaces for multiple senses, not just for the limitations of one latest, easiest one. And beyond that we should be consider the power…
From insideHPC
Big Compute Podcast Looks at HPC in the Cloud for Academia
In this Big Compute podcast, host Gabriel Broner from Rescale interviews Marek Michalewicz about the challenges of HPC in the Cloud for Academia. "ICM UW is a leading data science facility in Central Europe. High performance
…
From insideHPC
Spack – A Package Manager for HPC
Todd Gamblin from LLNL gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Spack is a package manager for cluster users, developers and administrators. Rapidly gaining popularity in the HPC community, like other HPC package managers…
From insideHPC
NREL Report Looks at Aquila’s Cold Plate Cooling System for HPC
Liquid cooling has long been an enabling technology for high performance computing, but cost, complexity, and facility requirements continue to be concerns. Enter the Aquila Group, whose cold-plate technology looks to offer the…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne
Argonne National Laboratory is seeking an Assistant Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Computational Scientist assists in the development and implementation of machine learning strategies for the development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Productive Meetings
Ultimately an important element of efficiency, but the best way is to eliminate as many as possible.
Less Fluff, More Stuff: The Science of Productive Meetings
Author Steven Rogelberg discusses how management science can help business…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 2nd, 2019)
Shapiro in his book The New Childhood argues that we should stop worrying so much about how much time our kids spend on video games and on their phone. He calls for a pivot in how we view childhood: The procedural rhetoric of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clinical Trials Bot
A new direction I have not heard as yet. Underlying architecture would be interesting. Data being gathered to construct elements of the trial?
Microsoft Built a Bot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials By Dina Bass in Bloomberg…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Record Numbers of Robots Ship in US
An increase of automation continues. As these creep toward new flexibly and new industries, expect more. Also as we start to include 'robotic', cognitive and decision-enabled, multi stage processes, in the definition with
U…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing JSON quickly: early comparisons in the wild
JSON is arguably the standard data interchange format on the Internet. It is text-based and needs to be “parsed”: the input string needs to be transformed into a conveniently data structure. In some instances, when the data volume…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid-Processing Facility
China is building the largest squid processing center in the world. 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 here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon v Wal-Mart
Can new kinds of tech partnering make the difference?
Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry is reshaping how we’ll buy everything in the future
The retail war is expanding to cloud computing, grocery delivery, and streaming video
By Nick…