Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU to Require Car Monitors, Limiters.
Beyond autonomous driving, to autonomously tracking and limiting behavior for safety.
EU to Require Speed Limiters, Driver Monitors in New Cars From 2022
In CNet By Jake Holmes
The European Commission (EC) has announced rules
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Launches HIPAA Compliant Med Skills
Have now worked analyzing sever health oriented data intelligence interactions. Now Amazon/Alexa makes move with skills. Restrictions in their application are interesting.
Amazon Alexa Launches First HIPAA-Compliant Medical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Techman Robot Announced
Supply chain applications are intriguing. We did much palletizing/wrapping for product protecting and shipment.
Techman Robot unveiled at Chicago Automate 2019
CHICAGO, April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The most intelligent collaborative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Resources and IBM AI
I have seen IBM do some very interesting things with. How this will change their skills and workforce will be interesting to watch.
IBM's Artificial Intelligence Strategy Is Fantastic, But AI Also Cut 30% Of Its HR Workforce…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Powers New Lab for AI Radiology
Today NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology announced a collaboration to enable thousands of radiologists nationwide to create and use AI for diagnostic radiology in their own facilities, using their own data, to meet
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From insideHPC
Time-Lapse Video: Installation of Spectra Logic Tape Robot at STFC
In this video, engineers install a Spectra Logic tape library at STFC's Scientific Data Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The new Spectra TFinity Tape Library has an initial capacity of 65PB. "This system…
From insideHPC
Excelero NVMesh comes to Lenovo ThinkSystems
Excelero is bringing its NVMesh software-defined block storage solutions to Lenovo customers and channel partners worldwide. "Already proven in Lenovo deployments at SciNet, Canada’s largest supercomputing facility, and at a
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From insideHPC
Video: ATOM Consortium to Accelerate AI in Drug Discovery with NVIDIA
The Public-private consortium ATOM has announced today that it is collaborating with NVIDIA to scale ATOM’s AI-driven drug discovery platform. “Scientists at ATOM have created a predictive model development pipeline that calls…
From Schneier on Security
Ghidra: NSA's Reverse-Engineering Tool
Last month, the NSA released Ghidra, a software reverse-engineering tool. Early reactions are uniformly positive. Three news articles....
From insideHPC
Video: New AI Hardware and Trends
In this video from the HPC User Forum, Alex Norton from Hyperion Research presents: New AI Hardware and Trends. This presentation will highlight some of the trends in emerging technologies associated with the AI ecosystem. Much…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach Programming or Teach a Programming Language
For me, teaching is all about the concepts. Programming languages change. My first programming language was FORTRAN. This was the big language with I was in university. Today? Not so much. But loops and decision structures still…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 6 – Interview with Keith Marzullo
A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now! In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Keith Marzullo, the Dean of the College of Information Studies (also known as the iSchool) at the University of Maryland…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Become a Platform Company
Even CPG companies are figuring this out now.
The platform play: How to operate like a tech company in McKinsey By Oliver Bossert and Driek Desmet
For tech to be a real driver of innovation and growth, IT needs to reorganize…
From Computational Complexity
Problems with a point- NOT a plug, just some thoughts on books and book writing
Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science by Gasarch and Kruskal, available on amazon here, came out a while back and I plugged it in my blog post here. Regan-Lipton reviewed it here.
This post is NOT a plug…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: HPC Server Market Beat Forecast in 2018
Hyperion Research has released their latest High-Performance Technical Server QView, a comprehensive report on the state of the HPC Market. The QView presents the HPC market from various perspectives, including competitive segment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI for Legal Contracts
Was just reminded of this effort:
Using Artificial Intelligence for Legal Contracts
" ... We made our first dive into how artificial intelligence is changing law practices a couple of years ago. At the time we noted that the $437…
From insideHPC
Video: Exascale Computing Project Software Activities
Mike Heroux from Sandia National Labs gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Exascale Computing Project is accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem for breakthroughs in scientific discovery, energy
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Bucketing Data Elements by Use
Further as a means to value data elements in context? We tested something similar to this, which established data in context of use.
Machine learning moves popular data elements into a bucket of their own
Counting search queries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robocall Crisis Continues
Don't like the word 'never' here, but the article does a good job of outlining the problem involved.
The Robocall Crisis Will Never be Totally Fixed by Lily Hay Newman in Wired
years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone
Finding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmos, a Blockchain to connect Blockchains
Was asked to give an opinion on this approach, a 'Proof of Stake' Blockchain approach (more below).
A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains, Cosmos Is Officially Live By Christine Kim in Coindesk
Cosmos, a highly anticipated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Happy Working Alongside Robots
A look at people working with robots. Not only the physical kind, but the 'robotic process' kind. In fact, we have been planning, creating and installing the latter for many years. Though it says 'happy', this is an likely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining of Failure
Reminds me of the AAR: After Action Review, which we did for a while. But the important thing is to gather the data consistently, often an issue.
How the data mining of failure could teach us the secrets of success in Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alberson's Wants Frictionless with Microsoft
Another partnership between retail grocery and tech.
Albertsons eyes ‘frictionless’ grocery shopping
Cloud services pact with Microsoft to power omnichannel strategy
By Russell Redman in Supermarketnews
Albertsons Cos. and Microsoft…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 6th 2019)
In a randomized trial where people reduced their caloric intake by 15% for two years, it was found that reducing calories slowed aging. This is well documented in animals, going all the way to worms and insects, but we now have…
From insideHPC
Video: Making Innovation Real – Dell EMC Update
Ed Turkel from Dell EMC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. "As data analytics, HPC and AI converge and the technology evolves, Dell EMC’s worldwide HPC and AI innovation centers provide expert leadership, test
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From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Technology Researcher at Chevron
Chevron is seeking an HPC Technology Researcher in our Job of the Week. This position will be accountable for strategic research, technology development and business engagement to deliver High Performance Computing solutions
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From The Eponymous Pickle
North Focals Smart Glasses
Digital Trends reviews. Another attempt at smartglasses. A sort of on-your-head rather than as a watch. Integrating Alexa. Need to be fitted, and are expensive at $999. No camera, and more subtle and less geeky looking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Eras of Analytics
Instructive look at the evolution of analytics. Though I disagree regarding backroom vs sexy. Informed management always knew these methods were powerful, they won the supply aspects of WWII, they were just never marketed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disposable Drones
New attempts at military supply chain delivery methods.
Disposable delivery drones pass test with US Marines
The one-time use drones can carry more than 1,000 pounds of supplies.
Amrita Khalid in Engadget
03.26.19 in Transportation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bets Big on AI Training
Not unlike what we did in the space in the 90s. Quality of customer service expectations continue to grow. Consistency,speed also expected as part of more complex customer interactions.
IBM's Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence…