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
Whats Your Data Worth?
Further look at the value of data in context.
What’s Your Data Worth?
James E. Short and Steve Todd in SloanReview
Many businesses don’t yet know the answer to that question. But going forward, companies will need to develop greater…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Clouds
Was just asked to define the whys and whens about hybrid clouds and this article was useful. Hybrid cloud (Mix of Public+Private) is around for some of the same reasons that Edge computing is.
True hybrid cloud moves into the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF FY 2019, FY 2020 Budgets, and the NSF Convergence Accelerator
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From Computational Complexity
An Interdisciplinary approach to P vs NP
I have a grant with some brain scientists on the following exciting approach to P vs NP.
We want to prove:
There is no algorithm for SAT in P
This seems hard. So lets scale down our goals to…
From Schneier on Security
Recovering Smartphone Typing from Microphone Sounds
Yet another side-channel attack on smartphones: "Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones," by Ilia Shumailov, Laurent Simon, Jeff Yan, and Ross Anderson. Abstract: We present the first acoustic side-channel…
From insideHPC
Podcast: How the EZ Project is Providing Exascale with Lossy Compression for Scientific Data
In this podcast, Franck Cappello from Argonne describes EZ, an effort to effort to compress and reduce the enormous scientific data sets that some of the ECP applications are producing. "There are different approaches to solving…
From insideHPC
Video: Defining A New Efficiency Standard for HPC Data Centers
Björn Brynjulfsson from Etix Everywhere gave this talk at CloudFest 2019. "Benefiting from very favorable ambient conditions and drawing on a background of designing, building and operating both high end facilities and super
…
From insideHPC
Video: Prepare for Production AI with the HPE AI Data Node
In this video from GTC 2019 in San Jose, Harvey Skinner, Distinguished Technologist, discusses the advent of production AI and how the HPE AI Data Node offers a building block for AI storage. "The HPE AI Data Node is a HPE reference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Intent
Deriving intent, goals is still hard. Especially in multiple component conversations.
Machine Learning, Natural Language Meet to Understand Intent By Mark Jewett, VP, product marketing, Tableau Software in InformationWeek…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Breakthrough Result Of 2019
Our nomination for best result of the year Cropped from source Faadosly Polir has had an incredible year of research success. A year ago we covered his research on universal information entropy in baseball. This led to uncredited…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Sentiment Analysis Does not Work?
A classic analysis that points to indicators of behavior.
Research findings send automated sentiment analysis to the trash bin.
The age of social media has opened up exciting opportunities for researchers to investigate people…