Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2017
From insideHPC
Anaconda Open Data Science Platform comes to IBM Cognitive Systems
Today IBM announced that it will offer the Anaconda Open Data Science platform on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI software distribution for machine learning and deep learning that makes it…
From insideHPC
DOE’s INCITE Program Seeks Advanced Computational Research Proposals for 2018
Today the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program announced it is accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad…
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Developer Congress Event to Focus on Machine Learning
Today IBM announced that the first annual OpenPOWER Foundation Developer Congress will take place May 22-25 in San Francisco. With a focus on Machine Learning, the conference will focus on continuing to foster the collaboration…
From insideHPC
Baidu Deep Learning Service adds Latest NVIDIA Pascal GPUs
"Baidu and NVIDIA are long-time partners in advancing the state of the art in AI,” said Ian Buck, general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. “Baidu understands that enterprises need GPU computing to process the massive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing Neural Nets Getting Smarter
We experimented with a similar ideas, using simulation and evolutionary methods to rate alternate neural network designs. Considerable improvements since then. Net architecture still contains much art. The 'art' we talk about…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAS Releases Information Technology and The U.S. Workforce Report
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Information Technology, Automation, and the U.S. Workforce released a report last week called Information Technology and the US Workforce: Where are we…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance and our Insecure Infrastructure
Since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent of the NSA's global surveillance network, there has been a vigorous debate in the technological community about what its limits should be. Less discussed is how many of these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Looks at Robots and Workers
Rise of the robots: What advances mean for workers By Tim Harford .... No details here, but an interesting set of examples from the BBC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Count Down to Jambaar Time
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From insideHPC
Podcast: How AI Can Improve the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
In this AI Podcast, Mark Michalski from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science discusses how AI is being used to advance medicine. "Medicine — particularly radiology and pathology — have become more…
From insideHPC
Lenovo HPC Strategy Update
Luigi Brochard from Lenovo gave this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "High performance computing is converging more and more with the big data topic and related infrastructure requirements in the field. Lenovo is investing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Immersive Star Wars Land
Been reading Brian Jay Jones biography of George Lucas: A Life. I am a long time fan of digital cinema and further how it can be made more immersive, so seeing that evolution in our lifetime is particularly interesting. It…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obituary: Robert Taylor, Computing Pioneer
I never met Computing Innovator Robert Taylor, but through connections at the Pentagon, ARPA and PARC heard of his innovative management that led to advanced computing and networking. Notable too for his work on the Alto, progenitor…
From The Noisy Channel
A Non-Adversarial Ad-Supported Model
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I’m not a big fan of ad-supported business models. It’s not just that I find ads annoying; I also see them as economically inefficient. I’m excited to see technology favoring ad…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Surveillance Teams
Researchers link robots into surveillance team By Bill Steele
Rod Kurcoba, Cornell Engineering Communications
Seeing many possible views of the same area from fixed and mobile cameras could be confusing to a human, but a computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passive RFID Detects Cracks
A kind of sensor we examined for a packaging quality control application, continues to evolve.
Passive RFID Tracks Changes in Structural Micro-Cracks
Dai Nippon Printing has developed a passive adhesive sheet with a built-in Identiv…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning on the SaturnV Cluster
"The basic idea of deep learning is to automatically learn to represent data in multiple layers of increasing abstraction, thus helping to discover intricate structure in large datasets. NVIDIA has invested in SaturnV, a large…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for June Teratec Forum in France
The TERATEC Forum has posted their Agenda for their upcoming June meeting. With technical workshops, plenary sessions and a vendor exhibit, the event takes place June 27-28 at the Ecole Polytechnique campus in Palaiseau, France…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics: Immersing Yourself in Data
Have been taking a look at Virtualitics, a means to immerse yourself with and collaborate with complex data using VR. Clever idea we experimented with before VR was easier to do.
" ... In SiliconAngle: Based out of Pasadena,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go
Has been a while since I have heard much about Amazon Go, which is a very limited test to create no-checkout retail. This was one of the top of mind approaches discussed in our innovation centers. No doubt this will ultimately…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Omni Channel Data-Driven Retailer
Interesting retail from Ronald van Loon ... Red through for the suggestions.
How to Become an Omni-Channel Data-Driven Retailer
Everyone's Blog Posts - DSC. by Ronald van Loon
In today’s digital age where customers are as…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chilean Squid Producer Diversifies
In another symptom of climate change, Chile's largest squid producer "plans to diversify its offering in the future, selling sea urchin, cod and octopus, to compensate for the volatility of giant squid catches...." As usual,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proposed, An AI Index to Track Automation
See some of our previous look at Job and task analysis. See the O*Net tag below, and the associated online resource here. A place to start for this kind of analysis. But it is still hard to get precise breakouts of jobs to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Machine Learning Training
In CACM. A kind of crowd sourcing of training.
Google Tests New Approach to Training Machine Learning Models in eWeek
Google is testing a new collaborative machine-learning training method in which training data is diffused…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 14th, 2017)
I announced last week that Tesla, the electric car company run by Elon Musk, had surpassed Ford in value. This week, we learned that Tesla has surpassed General Motors. Tesla is the most valuable American car maker. Suppose I…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Epidemics from Cell Data
If you have followed this blog for a long time, we looked at how to predict epidemics through OTC drug purchase data. Here is a related idea that might be combined with earlier work.
Using Cell Phone Data to Predict the Next…
From insideHPC
A PCIe Congestion-Aware Performance Model for Densely Populated Accelerator Servers
"MeteoSwiss, the Swiss national weather forecast institute, has selected densely populated accelerator servers as their primary system to compute weather forecast simulation. Servers with multiple accelerator devices that are…
From insideHPC
Engility Pursues NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract
Today Engility that the company will bring its world-class high performance computing capabilities to bear as it competes to win NASA’s Advanced Computing Services contract. "HPC is a strategic, enabling capability for NASA,”…
From CERIAS Blog
Purdue CERIAS Researchers Find Vulnerability in Google Protocol
[This is posted on behalf of the three students listed below. This is yet another example of bad results when speed takes precedence over doing things safely. Good work by the students! --spaf]
As a part of an INSuRE projectRobert…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi Processor Intel AVX-512 Programming in a Nutshell
In this special guest feature, James Reinders discusses the use of the Intel® Advanced Vector Instructions (Intel® AVX-512), covering a variety of vectorization techniques available for accessing the performance of Intel AVX-512…