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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why a touch of secrecy can help creative work
Though I am a long-time blogger and I spend most of my day talking or writing to other people… I am also quite secretive about the research that I am doing. There are reasons to be secretive that are bogus. The primary one is…
From insideHPC
Altair Releases PBS Works 2018 for Cloud Friendly Secure Workload Management
Today Altair released PBS Works 2018. Built around the company's PBS Professional core HPC workload manager and scheduler, the new PBS Works user environment streamlines enterprise access and management of on-premise and cloud…
From Computational Complexity
The 8 digit number I asked for
(On June 29th, co-located with STOC, there will be a workshop to celebrate Vijay Vazarani's 60th birthday. See here. As computer scientists shouldn't we use 64 as the milestone?)
At Gathering for Gardner 13 Peter Winkler gave…
From insideHPC
Why Use Containers for HPC on the NVIDIA GPU Cloud?
"Containers just make life easy. So one of the things that people have issues with running bare metal is from time to time their libraries change, maybe they want to try the new version of CUDA, the new version of cuDNN, and
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giant Touchpads
Talked to office furniture manufactures about some of these methods.
A coat of conductive paint can transform regular walls into giant touchpads In Digital Trends By Luke Dormehl
The late Mark Weiser, the former chief scientist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freeing Your Metadata
Late reported to me, but of interest. An area I worked on in the enterprise. Needs more application of analytical methods.
26 April 2018 noon US Eastern for 60 minutes
Mandy Chessell & John Mertic “Enabling Your Products for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Tests Productivity Bot
Another example of augmenting work, the paper mentioned
Microsoft looks to bots to make employees more productive
Microsoft is continuing its quest to try to make workers more productive via a variety of bots, including SwitchBot…
From Schneier on Security
New NSA/Cyber Command Head Confirmed by Senate
It's Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone. I know nothing about him....
From insideHPC
How DMTF and Redfish Ease System Administration
In this video from the Dell HPC Community meeting, Alan Sill from Texas Tech University describes how DMTF and the Redfish project will ease system administration for HPC clusters. "DMTF’s Redfish is a standard API designed to…
From insideHPC
Introducing the Cambridge Data Accelerator
In this video from the Dell HPC Community meeting, Alisdair King from Cambridge University describes the new Cambridge Data Accelerator. "The Cambridge Data Accelerator is an open source software package for building Burst Buffers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Material Science
More about augmenting experimentation. In a predictively generate plus test kind of approach.
How AI is helping us discover materials faster than ever
We can predict which compounds can create materials before setting foot in…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt Receives Strong Ally Award at ACM CHI 2018!
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally award yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada. From the ACM CHI website…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Functional Programming
Had not heard of this in a long time. We examined the possibilities. But is it enough? Isn't it time to take a greater leap ahead to real intelligence-task level capabilities, and paste them together like Legos? I know,
Using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speech Emotion Recognition
Björn Schuller discusses "Speech Emotion Recognition: Two Decades in a Nutshell, Benchmarks, and Ongoing Trends," a Review Article in the May 2018 CACM. https://vimeo.com/262450110
Speech Emotion Recognition from CACM on Vimeo…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Introducing the First UA Ambassadors
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the UASG The issue of Universal Acceptance of all domain names and all email addresses is well understood by members of the UASG (all software should accept all domain names and all email…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Control Drones with a FlyJacket
In IEEE Spectrum. With Images and video. Impressive, integration with virtual reality?
FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your Body
EPFL's FlyJacket exosuit allows you to embody a fixed-wing drone, making it feel like you're…
From insideHPC
ScaleMP Powers Largest Shared-Memory Systems in Canada
ScaleMP announced that the government of Canada has extended the contract for its large shared memory systems acquired from Dell. These SMP systems use vSMP Foundation to aggregate more than 64 Intel Xeon processors each, totaling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Do their own Experiments
There are robots as we typically interpret that term. There is also robotic process automation (RPA). Which does not have to look anything like a 'robot'. And further just automation, such as in a manufacturing line, which…
From insideHPC
ISC 2018 is Now Open for Registration
Registration is now open for ISC 2018 at Early Bird discounted rates. The event takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt. "Various topical and interest-specific Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the fast-paced Vendor Showdown, and the
…
From insideHPC
DDN Powers Data Solutions for AI at the GPU Technology Conference
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company delivers high performance data solutions for machine learning and AI applications. "DDN customers are leveraging machine learning…
From insideHPC
Fireside Chat: Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on how AI will revolutionize Medicine
In this video from the World Medical Innovation Forum, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA discusses the revolution of AI and Medicine with Keith Dreyer, Chief Data Science Officer at PHS. "Medical imaging researchers have discovered the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on Use of Machine Learning in Retail
Informative piece.
[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] Machine Learning: The Differentiator Retailers Have Been Seeking
It’s virtually impossible for retailers of any size to compete with the dominant online platforms based on pricing.
To maintain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rand Says AI Could Protect the World
Used to have good connections to Rand Corp, but not so in recent years. Liked some of their work regards design and risk. Some remarkable statements quoted here. Will look into how to reconnect. See full Rand Corp article…
From Schneier on Security
Two NSA Algorithms Rejected by the ISO
The ISO has rejected two symmetric encryption algorithms: SIMON and SPECK. These algorithms were both designed by the NSA and made public in 2013. They are optimized for small and low-cost processors like IoT devices. The risk…
From Putting People First
Ambient contextuality, the next big game-changer in technology interface
Jim Hunter, chief scientist and technology evangelist at Greenwave Systems, predicts in TechCrunch that the next big game-changer in technology interface is ambient contextuality. “Ambient contextuality hinges on the idea that…
From Putting People First
Ambient contextuality, the next big game-changer in technology interface
Jim Hunter, chief scientist and technology evangelist at Greenwave Systems, predicts in TechCrunch that the next big game-changer in technology interface is ambient contextuality. “Ambient contextuality hinges on the idea that…
From Putting People First
Two reports on people’s attitudes and understanding of digital technologies
Doteveryone, a UK think tank that champions responsible technology for the good of everyone in society [similar to Milan’s newly founded Digital Culture Center], published two reports this year: the first one, The Digital Attitudes…
From Putting People First
Two reports on people’s attitudes and understanding of digital technologies
Doteveryone, a UK think tank that champions responsible technology for the good of everyone in society [similar to Milan’s newly founded Digital Culture Center], published two reports this year: the first one, The Digital Attitudes…
From Schneier on Security
Baseball Code
Info on the coded signals used by the Colorado Rockies....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Mobile Checkout
This could get lots of people trained in the idea of mobile checkout, beyond just Wal-Mart. Check out the full article
Walmart’s mobile checkout trial is a major advance By Evan Schuman, Contributing Columnist, Computerworld…