Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2020
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity Law Casebook
Robert Chesney teaches cybersecurity at the University of Texas School of Law. He recently published a fantastic casebook, which is a good source for anyone studying this....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Virtue of Closed Problems
A new condition in property testing Composite crop of src1, src2 Maryam Aliakbarpour and Sandeep Silwal are PhD students at MIT. They have a joint paper titled, “Testing Properties of Multiple Distributions with Few Samples.”…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geofencing Warant Policing
Had not heard the term 'Geofence' in law before, passed this along to lawyers I know to get their opinion on the current uses of this idea.
Google location data led police to investigate an innocent cyclist
The incident shows the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in AI/ML
Fairly good broad view of trends in progress. All worth understanding in more detail than is presented here.
3 important trends in AI/ML you might be missing By Sudharsan Rangarajan in Venturebeat
According to a Gartner survey…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring a Complex System Over time for Patterns
Brought to my close attention because this is in the astronomy space. A long time academic interest. But then it came to mind that any system be observed in this way over time. Then examine the data for anomalies, patterns…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning
Was just reminded of CDML, recently established. Would further continue to like to see more about the practical deployment of related and integrated processes for practical decision making.
The MIT Center for Deployable Machine…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Select Solutions for HPC
In this podcast, Brock Taylor from Intel outlines the current portfolio of Intel Select Solutions for HPC: Simulation & Modeling, Simulation & Visualization, Genomic Analytics and HPC & AI Converged Clusters. "These solutions…
From insideHPC
Video: HAWK Supercomputer Installation at HLRS
In this video, technicians install the new Hawk supercomputer at HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany. "At time of installation, Hawk is among the fastest high-performance computers in the world and the fastest general-purpose machine
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Moving CS Education Online
Covid-19 is motivating schools all over the world to close. Many other schools are looking at options in case they have to close their facilities. My own school has been looking at options to try to continue teaching in the event…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recidivism Prediction
An example of comparison between human and machine solution.
Algorithms are Better Than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says
Berkeley News
Edward Lempinen
A study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case for Open Data in Fight Against COVID-19
The case for open data for AI in the fight against COVID-19
Posted by ajit jaokar in DSC ....
COVID-19
2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE
This is the data repository for the 2019…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging with Sensitive Metadata
Its all about the metadata, that is the context, of information being gathered.
MIT News
Rob Matheson
February 26, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a scalable metadata-protection scheme
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as Workplace Disrupter
Expected for jobs that require high skills, but these same jobs will morph to related tasks as well. Being better skilled usually means you have the ability to re-train. And today there are many more ways to re-train and become…
From insideHPC
Video: Next Generation AMD CPU and Accelerator Technologies
Forrest Norrod from AMD gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "As the definition of High Performance Computing expands to include Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI, a more scalable, powerful, and secure
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 7th 2020)
The benefits of flu vaccines in healthy adults is modest. They do not reduce neonatal death, hospitalisations, or working day lost. It does not seem more helpful in older adults. While in 1970, only 1% of the American population…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Network and Data Specialist at William & Mary
"William & Mary University in Virginia seeks qualified applicants for the position of Research Computing (RC) Network and Data Specialist to be responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance and hardware support for all networking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Random Numbers
A new means I had not head of, how random, repeatable is the result?
Scientists Use Crystals to Generate Random Numbers
Popular Mechanics
Courtney Linder
February 19, 2020
Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow in the U.K…
From Putting People First
The State of User Research Report 2020
UserInterviews asked over 300 user researchers globally what their research practices looked like, how their teams were laid out, and what they earned. The data gives us an excellent idea of best practices in the field.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Effect of Noise on Squid
Two articles. 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
Honeywell Introduces a Quantum Computer
Somewhat unexpected, but the announced major client makes it seem serious. Trading strategies are a kind of process and decision making approach that will be good to follow to see ow Quantum will help.
Honeywell to Roll Out Quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial AI Enabled Devices
Informative look at AI uses in Industry.Which brought to my attention a number of companies involved in manufacturing. More detail at the link.
SparkCognition and Sight Machine Take Top Spots in ABI Research assessment
SINGAPORE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apparel Blockchain Tracking
The application here looks at tracking in the supply chain. Linking to RFID efforts is also interesting.
Nike, Macy’s Run Blockchain Trial With Auburn’s RFID Lab in Coindesk
Mar 6, 2020 at 06:00 UTC
Blockchain might help major apparel…
From BLOG@CACM
Getting a Program Right (5)
Are we there yet?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Responsible Virus Charting
Click through for an interesting links to data visualization of virus data:
Responsible coronavirus charts via FlowingData
Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Datawrapper
Speaking of responsible visualization, Datawrapper…
From insideHPC
Finnish researchers demonstrate how noise impacts quantum computing
A team of researchers from three Finnish institutions (CSC, Aalto University, and Abo Akademi University) and their collaborators from Boston University in the USA have for the first time demonstrated how the noise impacts a
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show Your Robots How to do Your Chores
The ultimate desire. Or perhaps have someone else show a robot how to do your chores better. And archive the results for use. Much like the inclusion of 'planning with uncertain specifications' ... the humanlike planning ability…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Tech Talk: Michael Jordan on Decision Making
Of particular interest to me, how do we integrate decision making with machine learning? Plan to attend.
March 25 Talk on Machine Learning and Decision Making with ACM Fellow Michael I. Jordan
Register now for the next free ACM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transportation Updates
Bottom line, lots of work yet to do in completely autonomous cars. The number of miles driven in CA seems impressive.
Some excerpts from Wired Transportation. Worth subscribing to, links to full articles.
At some points three…
From insideHPC
Speeding up Programs with OpenACC in GCC
In this video from FOSDEM 2020, John Hanley from ECMWF presents: Speeding up Programs with OpenACC in GCC. Weather forecasts produced by ECMWF and environment services by the Copernicus programme act as a vital input for many…
From insideHPC
Intel Demonstrates Industry-First Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch
Today Intel announced that it successfully integrated its 1.6 Tbps silicon photonics engine with its 12.8 Tbps programmable Ethernet switch. The co-packaged switch optimized for hyperscale data centers brings together the essential…