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: Applying Deep Learning to Extreme Weather
"A research team from Rice University utilized three supercomputers (TACC’s Stampede 2, Wrangler, and Pittsburg Supercomputing Center’s Bridges system) to see if data on heat waves and cold spells could be predicted by analysis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Could We Forgive a Machine?
Still at the edge of real life considerations. It is really still an exploration. But even in the last era of AI, we looked at aspects of fault and liability. We built some simple causal models to help management understand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey: COVID-19: Implications for Business
Good, detailed piece about this, worth a look:
COVID-19: Implications for business
March 2020 | Executive Briefing
By Matt Craven, Linda Liu, Mihir Mysore, and Matt Wilson
The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Powered Contract Management
Another example in the legal space, here specifically looking at contracts, and the management of related data. Much more at the link. Note machine learning training by lawyers. Check out the tabs to find much more in the…
From Computational Complexity
The Importance of Networking
People skip conferences because of the coronavirus or for global warming or just because conferences are too expensive and time consuming. I'm certainly no fan of the current conference structure but I would never want to virtualize…
From insideHPC
Latest Release of Intel Parallel Studio XE Delivers New Features to Boost HPC and AI Performance
Intel Parallel Studio XE is a complete software development suite that includes highly optimized compilers and math and data analytics libraries, along with comprehensive tools for performance analysis, application debugging,…
From Schneier on Security
The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations
This is a big deal: Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the "safest place on the Internet," left years of users' most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Psychology of Pandemics
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This book describes the psychological reactions to pandemics, including maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and defensive reactions, and reviews the psychological vulnerability factors that contribute to the spreading of disease…
From insideHPC
Schneider Electric Introduces Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling Solution
Today Schneider Electric introduced its first-ever first rack mounted data center cooling solution. The Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling 3.5kW, DX solution addresses the escalating demand for rack-based cooling for micro data centres…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Compile a Day
There is a lot of talk about teaching debugging going on there days. Amy Ko of the University of Washington did a podcast a short time ago on the subject. Amy Ko on teaching debugging. and that started some conversation on social…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W March Wikipedia Campaign
To celebrate International Women’s day, we will start a Wikipedia campaign that will aim to add as many Wikipedia articles about women that are in computing, and from as many European countries as possible.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Call for Hosting Proposals for womENcourage 2021
Wish to organize womENcourage 2021? Submit your Expression of Interest by 30 April 2020.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Blog Series: Reflections on womENcourage 2019
This month, we are hosting Gunay Abdullayeva, who got her master’s degree at the University of Tartu and specialized in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Neural Networks.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
womENcourage 2020 preparations in Baku, Azerbaijan are going full speed!
womENcourage 2020 will be held at 24-24th of September 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling up Digital and Analytics Results in Consumer Goods
Thoughtful formulation here.
Solving the digital and analytics scale-up challenge in consumer goods in McKinsey
" ... Many consumer-goods companies have entered the digital and analytics race, but very few are scaling impact. Here…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for the Real World
Conceptually reinforcement learning should work well, but in practice it can be problematical. Like that it is being considered for business applications. Which are about making decisions. But you do also have to formulate…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova. It is important for the computing research community to be aware of this opportunity in light of the current situation…
From insideHPC
Adding Ultra Low Latency to PanFS for AI and HPC
Curtis Anderson from Panasas gave this talk at SC19. "Panasas PanFS, the operating environment for the Panasas ActiveStor architecture, delivers superior performance for today’s demanding workloads. A scale-out object back-end…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Farming
Interesting development, maps with my background in this area. Could have used this in forestry and vineyard applications.
Arable launches a new generation of IoT tools for data-driven farming By Dean Takahashi
Arable is moving…
From Schneier on Security
LA Covers Up Bad Cybersecurity
This is bad in several dimensions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been accused of deliberately keeping widespread gaps in its cybersecurity a secret from regulators in a large-scale coverup involving the city's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goggle Assistant Adds Support for Passive Sensors
As I read this quite interesting, but the Dash buttons of Amazon, now discontinued, did a similar thing. But this appears to do things with more general sensors. Look to examine this in more detail with my own Assistant
Google…
From insideHPC
UC Riverside to help develop scalable quantum computers
The University of California, Riverside, has won a University of California Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training Award of $3.75 million that will allow the campus to focus on enabling scalable quantum
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Acceptance of AI as a creative Inventor
In Forbes, more examples in the space, here using a zero-knowledge approach.
Ernst & Young Doubles Down On Its Bet With Ethereum
Ben Jessel Contributor
Crypto & Blockchain
I write about fintech and enterprise adoption of blockchain…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputers Drive Ion Transport Research
In this TACC podcat, host Jorge Salazar discusses ion transport research with Amir Haji-Akbari, an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering at Yale University. "Scientists are using supercomputers to help…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
History of ACM-W Scholarships with Elaine Weyuker
This month we take the opportunity of the remodeling of the ACM-W newsletter to discuss a little of the history of the program of scholarships and its committee. There is no one better to describe the program and history that…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences Winners
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
From insideHPC
JUSTUS 2 Supercomputer from NEC Deployed at University of Ulm
NEC has deployed a new supercomputer at the University of Ulm in Germany. With a peak performance of 2 petaflops, the 4.4 million euro JUSTUS 2 system will enable complex simulations in chemistry and quantum physics. "JUSTUS
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Legal Discovery
More developments for the textually and logic intense world of Law. How much of legal tasks be replaced by systems? Following this.
Everlaw announces $62M Series C to continue modernizing legal discovery By Ron Miller@ron_miller…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana Going Away
At least as a standalone assistant for the home. Now linking to their business systems, yet have yet to find it useful there.
Cortana, say goodbye
The digital assistant isn’t entirely going away, but we’re near the end of the
By…
From insideHPC
NEC X and VACO Partner on AI/ML Solution using Vector Computing
Today the NEC X innovation accelerator announced a new reference design and services offering with VACO that enables enterprises to more confidently comply with personally identifiable information (PII) data governance regulations…