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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC@AAAS2019 – Socio-technical Cybersecurity: It’s All About People
How does social science and government policy affect technology? That was the main question the Socio-technical Cybersecurity: It’s All About People scientific session attempted to answer at this year’s American Association for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laying out the Look of Deep Learnig
A dive into the Math of Deep learning, not very deep, more like structural look, reminds me of lots of books I read back in the 90s, which laid out the structural architecture of neural networks, detailed their computational…
From insideHPC
In a boon for HPC, Founding Members Sign SKA Observatory Treaty
Earlier this week, countries involved in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project came together in Rome to sign an international treaty establishing the intergovernmental organization that will oversee the delivery of the world…
From insideHPC
Calista Redmond named CEO of RISC-V Foundation
Today the RISC-V Foundation announced that Calista Redmond has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. I’ve always understood the potential short- and long-term impact of the RISC-V license-free ISA…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Awards I Wish We Didn’t Need
Last week my school was told we had earned the College Board’s Female Diversity award for both Advanced Placement Computer Science A and Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles based on how many female students we hadWe…
From insideHPC
Swiss HPC Conference to Focus on Intersecting Interests, Industries, and Initiatives
Coming up in April, AI and HPC practitioners share passions for cutting-edge technology and breakthrough R&D in Lugano, Switzerland at the tenth annual Swiss Conference and HPCXXL User Group. The joint sessions take place at
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From Computational Complexity
Captain Einstein
If the president of the United States uses "complexity" in a tweet, I can't leave it alone.
Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the…
From insideHPC
Building the business case for Hybrid HPC Cloud
Over the past two years, we’ve seen a dramatic acceleration in cloud adoption for HPC. Intuitively cloud computing makes sense — it enables organizations to rent rather than buy expensive HPC hardware, deploy solutions faster…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Ships Move Forward
Yet larger examples of autonomy in the supply chain.
How Europe's Busiest Port is Helping Make Autonomous Ships a Reality
NBC News
By Linda Givetash
Dutch startup Captain AI is developing autonomous ships to replace traditional
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Researching Autonomous Taxis
Its likely that taxi and delivery services will commonly launch before consumer use, so do expect more of this.
Ford to expand autonomous-car research in race to launch robo-taxi service By Trevor Mogg in Digitaltrends
The Future…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Web We Wanted at 30: By Tim Berners-Lee
Have seen a number of interviews with Tim Berners-Lee out on the Web turning 30, and how it has differed from expectations. Agree too, early saw it as an internal, efficiency thing for knowledge linking and sharing, and certainly…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Age and the productivity of professors
Professors tend to earn more as they become older. Woolley believes that professor’s contributions take a sharp turn downward after a certain point. If this is correct and professors retire at an increasingly older age, we have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fintech Reality
On Fintech, hype or promise?
Wharton's Itay Goldstein and Andrew Karolyi from Cornell discuss a new research intitiative that aims to clarify where the actual promise lies regarding fintech.
Three years ago, the editors at a top…
From insideHPC
New Study: Algorithms based on deep neural networks can be applied to quantum physics
A computer science research group from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has mathematically proven that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us understand currently unreachable quantum physics phenomena. The results have been…
From BLOG@CACM
Why is Privacy So Hard?
Why is privacy so hard? Why is it, after so much negative press about it, are we still being constantly tracked on the web and on our smartphones? Why is it, after so many years of bad incidents and high profile data breaches…
From insideHPC
Video: Benchmarking Performance with Quantum Volume
"At the 2019 American Physical Society March Meeting, IBM unveiled a new scientific milestone, announcing its highest quantum volume to date. Quantum Volume is a measurement, a procedure developed by IBM, that determines how
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
On February 19-20, 2019 the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) co-sponsored the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing…
From insideHPC
Any better than Clever Hans? Putting AI systems to the test
As Machine Learning advances, how will we know that these systems are making the right decisions? In this story from the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, researchers are looking at the learning strategies of today's Ai systems…
From insideHPC
Tachyum Chip Startup gets $17 Million Capital Infusion from Slovak Government
Today chip startup Tachyum announced that it has received capital from the Slovak government of almost $17 million dollars to help build a new R&D center within the country. This funding will assist in the final development phase…
From insideHPC
Video: The Game Changing Post-K Supercomputer for HPC, Big Data, and Ai
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "Rather than to focus on double precision flops that are of lesser utility, rather Post-K, especially its Arm64fx processor and the Tofu-D network is…
From Schneier on Security
Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift
Facebook is making a new and stronger commitment to privacy. Last month, the company hired three of its most vociferous critics and installed them in senior technical positions. And on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Knowledge Management
Good non-technical piece in Forbes on elements of knowledge management that are addressed by taxonomies and ontologies.
Taxonomies, Ontologies and Machine Learning: The Future of Knowledge Management By Kurt Cagle in Cognitive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Wireless: ACM Webinar
ACM event. Register at the link, We now take this for granted, but advances in wreless communications will open many new tech possibilities. For work and for play ...
Title: The Future of Wireless and What It Will Enable
Date…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Handling Noise in Modeling
In the Statistics.com Blog. Useful piece on handling the inevitable noise with models. Directional rather than technical piece.
Handling the Noise - Boost It or Ignore It?
Posted on Mar 06, 2019 By: Peter Bruce
In most statistical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as a Buzzword of Investment Choice
Interesting piece and statistics about hype in general. Was the same back on the late 80s, when we invested in this space heavily as well. It does not mean there is nothing there, only that people will blow it up for their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inventory Optimization with Neural Nets
Areas I have spent much time in, examining this overview.
5 Easy Steps to Finally Achieve Inventory Optimization By Alex Bekker
So you’ve put your best foot forward to optimize your inventory, but it’s still anything but
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting Shoplifters Before they Steal
Bias likely? Type of training data? Ethical? Use of deep learning against video snippets is increasing.
These Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal
Bloomberg By Lisa Du; Ayaka Maki
Japanese startup Vaak has developed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crime Pattern Recogition
More on crime detection, here with occurrence patterns by location and other
NYPD analyst sitting speaking to the camera NYPD Says Its New Software Is Helping Analysts Track Crime Patterns More Quickly
The Los Angeles Times
By…
From insideHPC
Mellanox NVMe SNAP Technology to Simplify Composable Storage
Today Mellanox announced NVMe SNAP (Software-defined, Network Accelerated Processing), a storage virtualization solution for public cloud, private cloud and enterprise computing. This new SNAP technology allows customers to compose…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Persuasive?
An area we looked at in some detail. Depends in part what we mean by 'robot'. A physical representation of a person or a screen image image.
Researchers explore what makes robots 'persuasive' to humans
by University of Toronto…