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
5G and IoT Security
Will 5G play a role in IoT security? in 7wdata?
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow as more and more devices, sensors, assets, and other "things" are connected and share data. Still, many remain concerned about the
Can…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Than One Way To Code a Solution (to a programming project)
Garth Flint has an interesting post about grading programming projects (It is never easy) in which he talks about the interesting solutions students come up with. It struck a cord with me on a couple of levels. Yes, it makesI…
From insideHPC
Taurus Europe Acquires ClusterVision
The Taurus Group in the Netherlands has acquired European HPC specialist ClusterVision. "The ability to bring ClusterVision into the portfolio is very important for our HPC strategy and future growth, "says "We have a long history…
From insideHPC
Video: High Performance Computing on the Google Cloud Platform
"High performance computing is all about scale and speed. And when you're backed by Google Cloud’s powerful and flexible infrastructure, you can solve problems faster, reduce queue times for large batch workloads, and relieve…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TensorFlow
Was asked this question recently. Here a quick, non technical answer. But does also include code, which is by its nature technical.
What is Tensorflow?
ODSC https://opendatascience.com/
It would be a challenge nowadays to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Panic about the Digital Revolution
I like to think about the future as having a history, that way we can connect it to other (past) history. Will we be able to find patterns in each to prepare?
Don’t Panic: The Digital Revolution Isn’t as Unusual as You Think …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Military Aviation Automation Operations
Though we are still working with pilots interacting with systems, as apparently happened in the recent 737 systems. We will soon have to consider many such collaborative systems.
Aviation Automation Climbs New Heights With ALIAS…
From BLOG@CACM
Soundness and Completeness: Defined With Precision
The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 20th 2019)
Early-career setback cause a performance improvement among those who persevere. This is related to the observation that immigrants are four times more likely to become millionaires. In biology, that is called hormesis: by challenging…
From insideHPC
Video: Why Not all NAS Architectures can keep up with HPC
In this video, Curtis Anderson from Panasas describes how different NAS architectures optimize data flow to bring competitive advantage to your business. "You have a vision: to use high performance computing applications to help…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking and HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Ideal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wing Delivers from Drones in Australia
Have not seen it in the US except for specialty examples, but Alphabet is doing it in Australia.
Wing Officially Launches Australian Drone Delivery Service in IEEE Spectrum
After years of testing, Wing is now offering consumerBy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Impact on Demand Forecasting
Good short piece, makes good points about what is needed, and should be expected. I have taught forecasting in the enterprise, and its more about how the forecast is used than what it is. You would love to have it perfect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overpromise of AI for Healthcare?
IBM has created lots of interesting pieces of the solution, but not the harder solution of the broader process involved. Can these be connected into big value? And Hype has an element as well. Not too dissimilar from what…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Need Processes with RPA
An outline of the use of RPA in Contact centers. A natural place because the customer establishes themselves as needing help. But its use goes far beyond, to most any process. Also clearly useful in an attentive assistant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Focusing Context of Need Curation with Assistants
Is everything in Google turning into an ad-oriented assistant? Into product curation? Yes, see how their fundamental service, search, has already turned that way. I ask for help, it gives me good results and then sets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Device Discovery in Smart Home Skills
Turned out this problem occurred recently in related applications. Not fixing this kind of problem can lead to large scale problems. Ultimately its all about seamless integration of knowledge and skills. When you talk to
4…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is AI Saving SAP
Had worked with them in the enterprise, and itt had come to mind that some of what SAP did could be done with clouds and automated efficient pattern analysis. But the article does not really make the case that SAP is in trouble…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species off the New Zealand Coast
There's a new diversity of species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qubic for Process Anyone?
Am looking to do an application that will insert 'smart contract' type specifications to observed business process, focused by business process models. Anyone used IOTA's Qubic? Qubic is still in development I know, but any…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grief Examination via Interactive VR
Might we use gaming, or interactive storytelling to interact with our history? Not a bad look at what exists,perhaps not enough usage to contextual use details. The source code of a set of Iranian cyber-espoinage tools was leaked online....
Afterlife Is A Hard Hitting VR
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clash of the Digital Platforms
The Clash Of The Digital Platforms: The 5-year Update
By James L. McQuivey, Vice President, Principal Analyst Forrester
On March 7, 2014 I wrote
Marketers…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects Conference in Silicon Valley
The Hot Interconnects conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 14-16 in Silicon Valley. "Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware…
From insideHPC
Dr. Lin Gan Reflects on the SC19 Theme: HPC is Now
In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Charity Plata from Brookhaven National Lab catches up with Dr. Lin Gan from Tsinghua University, who's outstanding work in HPC has been recognized with a number of awards including…
From insideHPC
Dr Debora Sijacki wins 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that Dr Debora Sijacki from the University of Cambridge will receive the 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding contributions to and impact on high performance
…
From insideHPC
Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Science
Rahul Ramachandran from NASA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. ESD delivers…
From Schneier on Security
Iranian Cyber-Espionage Tools Leaked Online
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Reason Why Circuit Lower Bounds Are Hard
And a possible approach to avoid this obstacle Valentine Kabanets is a famous complexity theorist from Simon Fraser University. He has been at the forefront of lower bounds for over two decades. Today we draw attention to this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Graph Algorithms Book
My favorite analytics methods.
Graph analytics use relationships to reveal structural and predictive insights hiding in your data. Whether you are building dynamic…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is in a name?
It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my students are having the most trouble with naming things. Specifically, they seem to haveFor…