Communications of the ACM
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April 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Unintended Circumstances
There are always unintended consequences, but what are their risks? Always suggest a risk analysis to understand precise nature and magnitude over time.
Unintended Consequences By Vinton G. Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Diamond Provenance with TrustChain
Readily understandable proposition in Fortune.
IBM Blockchain Is Tracking Diamond Rings Across the Globe
By Jeff John Roberts in Fortune
Couples who pick out an engagement ring will soon be able to trace its history from the
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CEOs and Machine Learning
Good piece, wordy but useful description. A set of charts or infograpics might be better.
How CEOs Can Decode The Alphabet Soup Of Machine Learning By Mike Salvino in Chief Executive.
Two words that are spoken in every leadership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Enterprise Blockchain
Nicely done, well-explained, non-technical.
Supply Chain
Enterprise-ready blockchain brings transparency to supply chains
Written by: Todd Scott
Categorized: Blockchain Explained | Conference | Supply Chain
There are over 17 million…
From insideHPC
Pawsey Centre receives $70 Million for Supercomputing Down Under
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced it has received $70 million in funding for a new supercomputing infrastructure. "This is a reflection of the government’s understanding of the value that the Pawsey Supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Folding Origami
Consider the materials implications.
CMU Researchers Create Self-Folding Origami, Try for Pasta That Shapes as it Cooks
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
BY Aaron Aupperlee
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU's) Human-Computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Providing How-tos
Visual how-to videos, to be delivered by a number of small screen devices. Similar and competing with the Amazon Show. Have been testing the Show, Google Home and Echos for how to's for time.
Google already has this content…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Research
Pointed out to me from HWK
Working Knowledge
Business Research for Business Leaders
Of special interest among new research papers, case studies, articles, and books released this week by Harvard Business School faculty .... "
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bizarre Contorted Squid
This bizarre contorted squid might be a new species, or a previously known species exhibiting a new behavior. No one knows. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maersk Shipping on Blockchain
More on this example, previously reported:
Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry By Bloomberg
Maersk, APL, Hyundai race to build paperless cargo system
Adoption of blockchain could generate $1 trillion in
…
From insideHPC
RStor Startup Launches Multicloud Platform for Enterprise Performance Computing
Today the RStor startup launched a "hyper-distributed multicloud platform" that enables organizations to compute, connect, and operate above the cloud. "
The legacy model of the consolidated data center with its thousands of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Routines for Process
Have now created a few. The basic idea is good. You don't invoke one thing, but give an assistant a stream of things to do, but only their things. So a bunch of things might be tasks that comprise a job to do. Both Alexa…
From insideHPC
Solarflare X2 NICs Deliver Super Low Latency
Solarflare has announced the general availability of X2, its second generation of XtremeScale NICs. "For modern data centers, X2 lays a new foundation for NIC-based network virtualization needed for their highly distributed applications…
From insideHPC
Daniel Reed to Keynote Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego
Today the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit announced that Daniel Reed from the University of Iowa will keynote the conference with a talk on the convergence of academic and research collaboration. Registration is now open for the…
From insideHPC
Speakers Announced for PASC18 in Basel
The PASC18 conference has posted their conference speaker agenda. Registration is now open for this HPC event, which takes place July 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland. "PASC18 offers three days of stimulating technical sessions with…
From insideHPC
How Exascale will Move Earthquake Simulation Forward
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, David McCallen from LBNL describes how exascale computing capabilities will enhance earthquake simulation for improved structural safety. "With the major advances occurring in
…
From Schneier on Security
TSB Bank Disaster
This seems like an absolute disaster: The very short version is that a UK bank, TSB, which had been merged into and then many years later was spun out of Lloyds Bank, was bought by the Spanish bank Banco Sabadell in 2015. Lloyds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa to Sport a Bigger, more Conversational Brain
A good direction, needs to be continued. Some very interesting details in the blog post.
Alexa’s bigger ‘brain’ is getting new skills, natural conversation, and memory By Clayton Moore in DigitalTrends
The digital assistant
These…
From Putting People First
Essay: On Weaponised Design
On Weaponised Design is an excellent, very well-informed essay by Cade, published in February 2018 on the Our Data Our Selves site of the Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based non profit dedicated to privacy, digital…
From Putting People First
Essay: On Weaponised Design
On Weaponised Design is an excellent, very well-informed essay by Cade, published in February 2018 on the Our Data Our Selves site of the Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based non profit dedicated to privacy, digital…
From Putting People First
Impact through Design – Event in Turin, Italy
(Scroll down for English) Come può il design generare impatto? In continuità con il summit International Days of Deans and Experts: Impact Through Design (Barcellona, aprile 2018) Torino ospita il primo evento dedicato alla prospettiva…
From Putting People First
Impact through Design – Event in Turin, Italy
(Scroll down for English) Come può il design generare impatto? In continuità con il summit International Days of Deans and Experts: Impact Through Design (Barcellona, aprile 2018) Torino ospita il primo evento dedicato alla prospettiva…
From Putting People First
The case for hiring a ‘Digital Anthropologist’
James Ingram, chief executive officer of visual content creation company Splashlight, explains why we need digital anthropologists to handle handle, interpret and apply cultural analysis to data and arrive at consumer insight…
From Putting People First
The case for hiring a ‘Digital Anthropologist’
James Ingram, chief executive officer of visual content creation company Splashlight, explains why we need digital anthropologists to handle handle, interpret and apply cultural analysis to data and arrive at consumer insight…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science K-12: Imagining the possibilities!
My friend Doug Bergman has a new book out called Computer Science K-12: Imagining the possibilities!
I reviewed drafts of the book while it was being written and I can tell you there is a lot of good stuff in it.
For teachers new…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where IFTTT is Going
Looking for a business model, and things to attract businesses. I suggest that they think of how they can introduce business rules and machine learning to add to their capabilities. Find real value in the streams of data. …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Posts Interactive Map of 765 U.S. HPC Sites
Today Hyperion Research today launched an information-rich, interactive map of 765 HPC sites in the United States. "The mapped sites include government, academic and industrial HPC data centers, along with HPC vendors. This powerful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualization vs Personalization
Will Gen Zers push personalization toward individualization? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
According to a study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, Gen Zers find value provided at an individualized level — such as when
The…
From insideHPC
23 HPC & AI Workshops coming to ISC 2018 in Frankfurt
Today ISC 2018 announced that the conference will host whopping 23 HPC & AI workshops this year. Registration is now open for the conference, which takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "Chaired by John Shalf from LBNL…