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
Is it still about Paper Coupons?
Worked with paper coupon redemption analytics from the very beginning at very big CPG. Is it about their physical nature? Will there always be room for the paper coupon? Would not have guessed it, but the statistics still…
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi as Hospitality, Retail Value
Now having experienced Wifi in Hospitality since its inception, I recall having a conversation with a Hotel Chain innovation group. At the time they were unconvinced that Wifi had value, and there too many dangers. Things…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Recommender Systems: A Healthy Obsession
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Barry Smyth, the Digital Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin and the Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Dr. Smyth was one of the Computing Community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DJ's Spin Code
I changed the title, they will likely not write code in the future, they will create algorithms by some interface other than 'writing code'. Coding, as it has developed, is far too inefficient and error prone.
DJs of the Future…
From insideHPC
Video: Managing large-scale cosmology simulations with Parsl and Singularity
Rick Wagner from Globus gave this talk at the Singularity User Group "We package the imSim software inside a Singularity container so that it can be developed independently, packaged to include all dependencies, trivially scaled…
From insideHPC
Video: The Human Side of AI
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the human impact of AI with Greg Schmidt from HPE. The industry buzz about artificial intelligence and deep learning typically focuses on hardware…
From insideHPC
Sign up for ISC STEM Student Day
Young people looking to further their careers in HPC are encouraged to sign up for the ISC STEM Student Day program. As part of the ISC High Performance Conference coming to Frankfurt in June, this program offers undergraduate…
From insideHPC
Making Python Fly: Accelerate Performance Without Recoding
Developers are increasingly besieged by the big data deluge. Intel Distribution for Python uses tried-and-true libraries like the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL)and the Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library to make
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Spying on Your Smart Home
Have now had a smart home lab for a long time. Could have used this for some time, in particular to understand how the home interacts with external contexts, like the car, the store, the Internet. Like the idea. So many things…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Surveillance is Data
Not an unexpected thing. Its another form of data and is naturally part of efficiency considerations. Even its 'architecture', like those mentioned in recent silo readings, can be important to the accuracy of decisions being…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silo Syndrome
Its really always about silos. The silos are formed in part by the data that exists within them. But also more fundamentally by the trust that exists within decision making. I have trust within a silo that makes decisions…
From Computational Complexity
Physics of Everday Life
Based on Scott's review, I read through Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now. I can't top Scott's exposition of the book, but it is pretty incredible how far humanity has gone when you step back to look at the big picture.
One…
From Schneier on Security
New DNS Hijacking Attacks
DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of espionage…
From Apophenia
Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation
On April 17, 2019, I gave a talk at the Digital Public Library of America conference (DPLAfest). This is the transcript of that talk. I love the librarian community. You all are deeply committed to producing, curating, and enabling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Machine Learning with Azure
This example was sent to me, a straight forward example of using Azure. Always looking for useful examples of better automating at least initial tests of a machine learning example. Big proponent of quick, early, cheap tests…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster and Smaller Neural Nets
Fascinating development. Smaller usually means faster with training nets. Smaller can also mean easier implementation at the IOT edge. Now will they be as accurate? It is all about more efficient perception. Closer to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing short hexadecimal strings efficiently
It is common to represent binary data or numbers using the hexadecimal notation. Effectively, we use a base-16 representation where the first 10 digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and where the following digits are A, B, C,…
From insideHPC
Adaptive Deep Reuse Technique cuts AI Training Time by more than 60 Percent
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique that reduces training time for deep learning networks by more than 60 percent without sacrificing accuracy, accelerating the development of new artificial…
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic and Arcitecta team up for Genomics Data Management
Spectra Logic is teaming with Arcitecta for tackling the massive datasets used in life sciences. The two companies will showcase their joint solutions at the BioIT World conference this week in Boston. "Addressing the needs of…
From insideHPC
DUG Installs Immersive Cooling for Bubba Supercomputer in Houston
Today DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced that tanks are arriving at Skybox Houston for "Bubba," its huge geophysically-configured supercomputer. "DUG will cool the massive Houston supercomputer using their innovative immersion…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Envisioning the Future of Cloud Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Industry Collaboration working group recently released the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Interim Report. This report outlines a number of emerging trends…
From insideHPC
Jack Dongarra Named a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society
Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee has been named a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society, joining previously inducted icons of science such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. "This…
From insideHPC
Vintage Video: The Paragon Supercomputer – A Product of Partnership
In this vintage video, Intel launches the Paragon line of supercomputers, a series of massively parallel systems produced in the 1990s. In 1993, Sandia National Laboratories installed an Intel XP/S 140 Paragon supercomputer,
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From Schneier on Security
A "Department of Cybersecurity"
Presidential candidate John Delaney has announced a plan to create a Department of Cybersecurity. I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with Internet -- and especially Internet-of-Things -- security. The devil…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Distributed Ledger as new Enabler
Bold claim here in Supplychain Brain.
Why Supply Chain Technology Needs Blockchain
Jon Kirkegaard, SCB Contributor
Blockchain: A New Enabler
" ... What’s encouraging is a growing wave of awareness of blockchain and distributed ledger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Futurithmic
New, brought to my attention, short non-tech articles on advancing tech. With some interesting embedded links.
How AI will change your shopping habits By Christine Persaud
Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing everything…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Teaching
Nice thoughts here. If we can learn we should be able to teach.
Deep Teaching: The Sexiest Job of the Future
Carlos E. Perez in Medium
Microsoft Research has a recent paper (Machine Teaching: A New Paradigm for Building Machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation is Very Useful for Analytics Validation
I am a long time proponent and practitioner of simulation methods. We simulated plant design and process, warehouse operations, woodland growth and management, consumer in aisle behavior, coffee roasting, advertising selection…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google has an AI Cloud Platform. Lets link it with BPM
Quite some detail for making AI applications work with the cloud in this new production factory for AI in the Cloud. I like the idea of standardizing such learning projects and installed solutions. I would also like to see this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mathematica Expands
Been a long time since I worked with Wolfram's Mathematica. Was always impressed with what the package provided. Especially useful for people that already have a math background. Also good to let people/students with a strong…