Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Decision Trees Accurate and Explainable
Explaining AI, Decision Trees
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Making Decision Trees Accurate Again: Explaining What Explainable AI Did Not By Alvin Wan
The interpretability of neural networks is becoming increasingly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Otter Transcribes Zoom Meetings, It Also Needs to Augment Them
Now take it further. Who has agreed to do what? Wat input did we not get? What resources and especially data do they need? Has the meeting met pre-stated goals? ...
This tool automatically transcribes your Zoom meetings…
From insideHPC
Altair Inspire update accelerates simulation-driven design
Today Altair updated Altair Inspire, the company’s fully-integrated generative design and simulation solution that accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
John Horton Conway Simulates Life
In the most recent Quanta Magazine, a obituary of John Horton Conway, who inspired many of us to take up his 'game of life' to simulate life-like things, called cellular automata, in a computer. Some of my earliest programming…
From insideHPC
Codeplay implements MKL-BLAS for NVIDIA GPUs using SYCL and DPC++
In this special guest feature, Rod Burns from Codeplay writes that the company has made significant contributions to enabling an open standard, cross-architecture interface for developers as part of the oneAPI industry initiative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mirror Arrays Make Augmented Reality More Realistic
Augmented reality, adding realism. Most AR systems today provide a 'gamelike' view of artificial objects. A solution.
Mirror Arrays Make Augmented Reality More Realistic
IEEE Spectrum
By Michelle Hampson
Researchers at Stanford…
From insideHPC
Altair and Cylc Take Weather Prediction by Storm
In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair explain that to keep the world’s weather sites running smoothly, Altair and the Cylc open source community have packaged an industry-leading workload manager, Altair PBS Professional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Requirements for Smart Manufacturing
Good overview out of Forrester, which links to further resources.
Smart Manufacturing Requires A Range Of Technologies To Succeed
CIO | Forrester Blogs by Paul Miller
Principal Analyst Paul Miller introduces The Forrester Tech…
From insideHPC
LeapMind Unveils Efficiera Ultra Low-Power AI Inference Accelerator IP
Today LeapMind announced Efficiera, an ultra-low power AI inference accelerator IP for companies that design ASIC and FPGA circuits, and other related products. Efficiera will enable customers to develop cost-effective, low power…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Open Data
Makes sense to have data open so it can be used to mine for solutions and alternatives. Best practices in making this data findable and easily usable is also very useful.
Microsoft Throws Weight Behind Open Data Movement
Financial…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
School Buildings Without Students are Sad
For the first time in 5 weeks I visited school today. My purpose was to clear out my personal stuff. I am retiring and I needed to get everything at some point and since today was a non-teaching day I decided to do it today.The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Automated Contact Tracing for Fighting the Coronavirus: A Short-Tem Effort with Long-Term Repercussions
The following is a guest blog post from Ran Canetti, a professor of Computer Science at Boston University and the Director of the Center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security. At the Computing Community Consortium…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Earth Day 2020: Using Computing to Address Grand Challenges Facing Our Planet
Significant contributions to this post were provided by former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and current Computing Research Association (CRA) Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota…
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Vidcast - Future Edition
Bill and Lance aim to talk about the future but can't escape the present.
From BLOG@CACM
Learning Computational Thinking to Dominate the Music Industry
Music can be a context for middle school students to learn about computational thinking and data science. In a game environment, students can play the role in which they analyze data to boost their artist's career. In contrast…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Needs Help Modeling Universe
Just mentioned related work
Wolfram, Modeling Our Universe, Needs Your Help
Popular Mechanics
By Courtney Linder
Physicist Stephen Wolfram has launched the Wolfram Physics Project to crowdsource research to model the universe's fundamental…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Covid-19 Creating Digital Brains for Analysis and Action
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Alexa's Voice, Language
Adapt the speech and language of interaction, details at the link.
How to change your Alexa device's language or accent in 5 simple steps By Ryan Ariano
You can easily change Alexa's language to the one that you are more comfortable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dopamine and Motivation Scan
We spend much time trying to understand how fmri scans could be used to judge potential engagement with product. Could this new Dopamine 'scan' be used to understand this more effectively?
How dopamine drives brain activity
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From insideHPC
IBTA Updates InfiniBand Architecture Specifications for Next-Gen HPC
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the public availability of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 1 Release 1.4 and Volume 2 Release 1.4. With these updates in place, the InfiniBand ecosystem…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Supercomputer to Power Aerospace Research at JAXA in Japan
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for a supercomputer system from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The system will contribute in improving the international competitiveness of aerospace research…
From insideHPC
Video: Why Supercomputers Are A Vital Tool In The Fight Against COVID-19
In this video from Forbes, Horst Simon from LBNL describes how supercomputers are being used for coronavirus research. "Computing is stepping up to the fight in other ways too. Some researchers are crowdsourcing computing power…
From Putting People First
Human-centered innovation in a Covid-19 world
The Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly transforming our present and our future. What are researchers and designers learning that can help companies evolve their products and services to make them more robust within this fast changing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Past CCC Council Member Daniela Rus Appointed to White House Science Council
Past Computing Community Consortium Council member Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been appointed to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science…
From insideHPC
High Schoolers from Michigan Step Up to High Performance Computing at Stanford
In this video from the Stanford HPC Conference, Surya Sanjay and Tanay Bhangale from Troy High School in Michigan describe how their proposal on combatting prion-based disease resulted in their first experiences with HPC at the…
From Schneier on Security
New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered
Last year, ZecOps discovered two iPhone zero-day exploits. They will be patched in the next iOS release: Avraham declined to disclose many details about who the targets were, and did not say whether they lost any data as a result…
From Putting People First
How to gain impactful insights with remote user research?
Experientia’s Stefano Galeazzi and Daria Cantù explore how to conduct impactful applied qualitative research remotely, when we may not be able to conduct in-person interviews - as is the case now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Immersion in a Delivery Economy
We thought we were in the delivery economy, but now we are fully immersed in it. How can companies deal with it? Its changed our behavior in ways that might not snap back. A short article that discusses this and more:
Watch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physics as Automata
Fascinating read. And as a person with background in physics and computer science I find this fascinating. Have read parts of Wolfram's 'big' book, which initially posed aspects of this solution. Admit to being somewhat…
From insideHPC
Zapata Computing opens early access to Orquestra for quantum-enabled workflow
Today Zapata Computing announced an Early Access Program to Orquestra, its end-to-end platform for quantum-enabled workflows. Providing the most software- and hardware-interoperable, enterprise quantum toolset, Orquestra enables…