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 insideHPC
Podcast: One Big Debate over OneAPI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Intel's oneAPI project. "The OneAPI project is a highly ambitious initiative; trying to design a single API to handle CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and other types of processors. In the
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Accelerator
Amazon seeks more startups for Alexa:
Alexa Fund Opens Virtual Startup Accelerator Applications
Eric HAL SCHWARTZ in Voicebot
Amazon announced a new startup accelerator program as part of the Alexa Fund on Monday. Alexa Next Stage…
From insideHPC
Benchmarking CPUs at Shell
Ronald Cogswell from Shell gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "In this presentation we will compare the benchmarking results from the latest 2 generations of CPU hardware from AMD and Intel. The benchmarks were
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IRI Offers Updating Retail Oriented Virus Information
IRI Market Research offers resources (via Retailwire)
The coronavirus is top of mind for all right now, and understandably so. There remain a lot of unanswered questions about how bad things may get and how long it will take for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reproducibility on Machine Learning
In The Gradient ....
Reproducibility and Machine Learning
Peer review has been an integral part of scientific research for more than 300 years. But even before peer review was introduced, reproducibility was a primary component…
From insideHPC
Case Study: Magseis Fairfield Uses a Sea of Data to Support Environmentally Responsible Energy Exploration
This whitepaper contains a compelling HPC data storage solution case study highlighting the use of Panasas ActiveStor® by Magseis Fairfield, a geophysics firm that specializes in providing seismic 3D and 4D data acquisition services…
From insideHPC
ICHEC to Bring European Quantum Technologies Conference to Dublin
Over 500 global experts in quantum technologies will descend on Dublin in November this year for the European Quantum Technologies Conference (EQTC). Taking place Nov. 23-27 in Dublin, the event is the flagship event of the European…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and NanoIndentation
What appears to be a novel application of machine learning which uses the sensory gathering of large numbers of inputs.
Deep learning for mechanical property evaluation
New technique allows for more precise measurements of deformation…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Announces Leap-2 and Discusses it and Matching with Machine Learning
Fascinating progress here. We have followed D-Wave Quantum computing here since our original conversations with them. Excellent update here.
D-Wave: Quantum computing and machine learning are ‘extremely well matched’ By Emil…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideal Glass
For the material scientist in me, a fascinating piece in Quanta Magazine
Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All
Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made of disordered molecules like a liquid. To understand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring Virus Patients by Phone
With an expectation of a certain degree of violation of privacy and the need for regulating that.
Israel Takes Step Toward Monitoring Phones of Virus Patients
Associated Press
By Josef Federman
March 15, 2020
Israel's government has…
From BLOG@CACM
Getting a Program Right (9) (last)
A correct program is one that works in all cases.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning New Ways to Continually Learn
Not quite I think of when I think of AGI (Artficial General Intelligence). But sequences of useful tasks/learning can be seen as what humans do, provided they pay attention to both existing context and the changes in context…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 1
Well, we’ve started. Today we only had half the classes in the rotation meet. Tomorrow we will have the second half. It’s all about getting adjusted to the new way of school. I started with my advisory period (home room to many…
From insideHPC
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Can Sniff Out Hazardous Chemicals
Researchers have demonstrated how neuromorphic chips can mimic olfactory senses for use in industrial and medical applications. "In a joint paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell…
From insideHPC
Meero offers free large file transfers to make working from home easier
In order to facilitate the remote working required by the recent developments of COVID-19 worldwide, Meero is increasing the storage capacity and validity duration of files shared via MeeroDrop, with up to 10 Gigabytes and 3
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Launches Interactive COVID-19 Map
Instructive map, do wonder how up to date it is.
Microsoft Bing launches interactive COVID-19 map to provide pandemic news
But it’s struggling to provide relevant updates
By Jon Porter @JonPorty in TheVerge
Microsoft has launched…
From Schneier on Security
TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater
The TSA is allowing people to bring larger bottles of hand sanitizer with them on airplanes: Passengers will now be allowed to travel with containers of liquid hand sanitizer up to 12 ounces. However, the agency cautioned that…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 will run as a Global Virtual Conference
You are cordially invited to attend Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 conference which this year will take place on March 23-25 in virtual space "everywhere around the globe." Both the speakers, and the audience will be connected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation vs AI
Some useful observations and possible application to work and tasks emerging.
Automation and AI sound similar, but may have vastly different impacts on the future of work... in Brookings.
Last November, Brookings published a report…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Physiotherapy
An example of using feedback to get real results.
Physiotherapy Could be Done at Home Using VR
University of Warwick
February 28, 2020
Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing Group of the U.K.’s University of Warwick have combined…
From insideHPC
Precision Medicine pushes demand for HPC at the Edge: AI on the Fly ® Delivers
In this special guest feature, Tim Miller from One Stop Systems writes that by bringing specialized, high performance computing capabilities to the edge through AI on the Fly, OSS is helping the industry deliver on the enormous…
From insideHPC
EU Funds Exscalate supercomputing platform to fight coronavirus
Today the European Commission allocated new funding to the Exscalate (E4C) consortium for projects to counter the Coronavirus pandemic and improve the management and care of patients. As part of the effort, the E4C consortium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airport Facial Recognition
More examples of regulating facial recognition in new contexts.
ACLU is suing the US gov for blocking airport facial recognition probe
By Ryan Daws Editor at TechForge Media.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing
Homeland…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post Google Economics
Blog: Man on the Margin
Classical Economics in a Quantum World By Michael Kendall
Brought to my Attention by the book: 'Life After Google', by George Gilder
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slowing Down for Decisions in Crisis
Sensible, but depends on the flow of risk as well.
Slow Down to Make Better Decisions in a Crisis by Art Markman in HBR
The news about the spread of COVID-19 is changing fast — and people are trying to make decisions about everything…
From BLOG@CACM
Getting a Program Right (8)
The power of loop invariants.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Voice Synthesis for Business
API from Amazon AWS to synthesise speech in multiple languages to communicate and persuade in varying real and artificial personas.
Simple-to-Use API
Amazon Polly provides an API that enables you to quickly integrate speech synthesis…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Number of atoms in the universe versus floating-point values
It is estimated that there are about 1080 atoms in the universe. The estimate for the total number of electrons is similar. It is a huge number and it far exceeds the maximal value of a single-precision floating-point type in…