Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2018
From insideHPC
Video: Deploy HPC Applications Faster with NVIDIA GPU Cloud
The HPC application containers available on NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) drastically improve ease of application deployment, while delivering optimized performance. The containers include HPC applications such as NAMD, GROMACS, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informal Review of Mc'Donalds In-Store Ordering Kisoks
We did lots of work with kiosks, standard and novel, in our innovation centers. And I am always ready to try them as they appear. Most recently McDonald's has been experimenting. Here is a review in Business Insider. Lots…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Interpret-ability and Explanation as Components of our Brain
Modeling the apparent structure and resulting operation of the brain is difficult .... We have lots of neurons gathering data, and interacting in ways we do not fully understand. And that result in high level cognitive concepts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weaponization Moment for Computer Science
I worked at the Pentagon in early years, so understand the direction. Your 'competitors' are doing it, so you have to consider it also. Even then there were capabilities floated that demonstrated potential destruction. Brought…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Launches Org to Focus on AI
Another push on AI. So then its not Hype? Because a big company that knows what computing is, supports it? That gets back to what AI is. If its a new kind of analytics, along with new kinds and volumes of data, that will…