Communications of the ACM
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April 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising on Amazon
New to me: Digiday, with some interesting thoughts. Amazon owns some increasingly important channels, need to understand them
‘We are competing against them’: Some retailers are averse to advertising on Amazon
by Ilyse Liffreing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US, China Innovation
It has been about innovation for some time, saw it starting in our visits to China in the late 90s. We saw their innovation work and we presented ours. Impressive all around.
Why the U.S.-China ‘Trade War’ Is Really About…
From Schneier on Security
The Digital Security Exchange Is Live
Last year I wrote about the Digital Security Exchange. The project is live: The DSX works to strengthen the digital resilience of U.S. civil society groups by improving their understanding and mitigation of online threats. We…
From insideHPC
Video: The Convergence of HPC and Deep Learning
Axel Koehler from NVIDIA gave this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "The technology originally developed for HPC has enabled deep learning, and deep learning is enabling many usages in science. Deep learning is also helping…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tom Lehrer At 90
It makes a fellow proud to be a nerd Tasmanian Archive source Tom Lehrer is Emeritus Lecturer in Mathematics at Cowell College of the University of Santa Cruz. He is listed not in the Mathematics Department but in Humanities,…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Best ACM-W Officer Nominations Open!
Do you have a fantastic officer in your ACM-W Student Chapter? Nominate them for our best officer contest! Nominations are now open for our ACM-W Best Officer contest! The officer selected for the award wins up to $2000 in funds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HPe Sponsors a Science Fiction Writers Look at Robotics, Assistants
Eminds me of an era past. Yes, the predictions look similar some are starting to work out.
My friend, the robot,
Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction author David Gerrold was spot-on in his 1999 predictions about smartphones…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Stimulating Research Related to Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
The following is a cross-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on stimulating research related to one the NSF’s 10 Big Ideas called Navigating the New Arctic (NNA). It invites proposals in FY 2018 that will advance NNA research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BioMimicry in Robotics
Like the fact that this is being looked at broadly.
Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox
The latest in weird and potentially useful robots from German automation giant Festo By Evan Ackerman
We love Festo…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Barnes & Noble Crowdsources Reading with Browsery
Been a while that I have heard much from B&N, so this is interesting, can it recreate the bookstore virtually? Can this alter the nature of reading, book selection? With come expert comment:
Barnes & Noble’s crowdsourcing app…
From insideHPC
Supermicro RSD 2.1 Pools All-Flash NVMe Composable Storage
Today Supermicro announced their new Rack Scale Design (RSD) 2.1 with pooled all-flash NVMe composable storage support for applications like high throughput ingest, HPC, data analytics, video streaming, CDN, and software-defined…
From insideHPC
Video: State of Containers and the Convergence of HPC and BigData
Christian Kniep from Docker Inc gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. "This talk will recap the history of and what constitutes Linux Containers, before laying out how the technology is employed by various engines
…
From insideHPC
DK Panda Launches X-ScaleSolutions Startup for HPC Applications
In this video, DK Panda from X-ScaleSolutions describes how the company optimizes and supports open source software for HPC. “At X-ScaleSolutions, we align cutting edge technology into a convergent trajectory so that business…
From insideHPC
Accelize Launches App Store for FPGAs
While FPGAs have been renowned for how hard they are to program, help may be on the way. Today Acceliz launched an App Store marketplace called AccelStore for FPGA applications. Currently, the marketplace hosts accelerator functions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
False Choice Between Automation and Jobs
On Automation vs Jobs. We are seeing the need for some adaptation. Well put, in the HBR. What we need to consider:
The False Choice Between Automation and Jobs
By: James Manyikais the San Francisco-based director of the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stricter Regs for Small Drone Operators
Just completed a book that looks at how tech like drones are used to interact with process. Changing regulations will change the longer term value of their use.
Alphabet, other companies want strict drone rules to apply to everyone…
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity
DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS (Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security), and they're holding a proposers day in a week and…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: 2018 Perth HPC Conference
The 2018 Perth HPC Conference has announced their Call for Submissions. Hosted by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, The event takes place August 28-29 in Perth, Australia. "The second annual HPCAIAC Perth Conference will bring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zanzibar Scans Objects and Brings them into VirtualReality
For games and toys, certainly, but also for design of objects and how they live in spaces.
Microsoft’s object-detecting playmat brings toys to life
Project Zanzibar looks like more than a kids toy.
David Lumb, @OutOnALumb in Engadget…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub Roundtable- The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts
The South Big Data Hub’s next Data Science Roundtable called The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts will be held Thursday, April 12th from Noon – 1:15 PM EST. As technological innovation rapidly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Adding Pickup Towers
Makes sense, See also comments in Retailwire. The in-store location of the towers are criticized.
Walmart Is Adding Hundreds More Pickup Towers to Its Stores By Jonathan Vanian in Fortune.
Walmart is adding hundreds of more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Talk on How Small are our Big Data
The 27th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff/Milton J. Schloss Memorial Lecture on the Practice of Business Analytics
Wednesday 04/18, 2018, 6:00-6:45PM
Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center (Ballroom on the 2nd Floor)
University of Cincinnati…
From insideHPC
Python Can Do It
"Python remains a single threaded environment with the global interpreter lock as the main bottleneck. Threads must wait for other threads to complete before starting to do their assigned work. The result of this model is that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Mix Optimization Using Bayesian Networks
A long time challenge in the enterprise. I note this seminar on the topic. I am about to review. Remember very well the causal assumptions applied and challenged.. Please do follow up if you have any comments, especially…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Programmers Need To Ask Questions
I keep seeing suggestions that people don’t need to learn programming because computers will do it better. I am skeptical. In part I am a skeptic because I have been hearing this sot of thing for scores of years and I don’t think…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Workshop Returns to ISC 2018
The eighth international Women in HPC Workshop will be held June 28 at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity and also to provide early…
From insideHPC
Iceland’s Verne Global Steps up to run HPC & AI Workloads in the Cloud
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Bob Fletcher from Verne Global discusses why more and more HPC & AI workloads are moving to the company's datacenters in Iceland. “Today’s computational environments are changing…
From insideHPC
Video: Demystifying Parallel and Distributed Deep Learning
Torsten Hoefler from (ETH) Zürich gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. "Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming an important tool in modern computing applications. Accelerating their training is a major challenge…
From insideHPC
DOE Issues RFP for Exascale Supercomputers
Today Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced the DOE has issued an Request for Proposal for 2-3 Exascale machines. "Called CORAL-2, this RFP is for up to $1.8 billion and is completely separate from the $320 million allocated
…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at HPC Highlights from the GPU Technology Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the HPC highlights of the GPU Technology Conference. "From Rich's perspective, the key announcement centered around new NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer with the NVSwitch interconnect…