Communications of the ACM
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May 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training a Final Machine Learning Model
Been enjoying some of Jason Brownlee's straightforward instructional material. Here is an example of perhaps one of the most important steps, how do I predict on new data? Read at the link:
How to Train a Final Machine Learning…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Unveils GPUs with Volta Architecture
This week at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Wednesday launched Volta, a new GPU architecture that delivers 5x the performance of its predecessor. "Over the course of two hours, Huang introduced a lineup…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Alexa Assistants placed Everywhere
Certainly seems they are. You can make a good argument that Google and Microsoft have better AI in their labs. But is it ultimately the quality of intelligence that is most important, or just that you have a little box in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPU Technology Conference
The keynote of the GPU Tech conference was brought to my attention. Truncated from Engadget, below. It has long been known that GPUs could be used for analytics, its only most recently that the application has exploded. There…
From insideHPC
C++ Parallel STL Introduced in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta
Parallel STL now makes it possible to transform existing sequential C++ code to take advantage of the threading and vectorization capabilities of modern hardware architectures. It does this by extending the C++ Standard Template…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative Networks
Its all about learning. But learning does not just mean saving away information. Its about constructing an architecture that allows that information to be accessible and and used in context. Ontologies are one such approach…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Predicting Smell
An area we worked in for years when in the coffee business. Were pitched a number of solutions to replace human abilities to taste and smell. None were ever successful. Is this finally the solution? I continue to follow.…
From Computational Complexity
How to Solve It
Today a guest post from Periklis Papakonstantinou, coincidentally not unrelated to Bill's post earlier this week. I'll be back with a special post on Sunday.
I'm teaching in an undergrad program that is half computer science…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using Virtual Reality for Teaching Computer Science
Maybe you can help me? My gut tells me that virtual reality or even mixed reality can be useful for teaching computer science. How to do that is the question. I don’t want it to be just another device that students program. That…
From Schneier on Security
Interview with Ross Anderson
Cybersecurity researcher Ross Anderson has a good interview on edge.org....
From Mostafa Dehghani
Ridho's Thesis Cover
I've designed another thesis cover for Ridho Reinanda, one the ILPSers who just defended his thesis on "Entity Associations for Search". He is going to joint Bloomberg in London as a data scientists. Here is the thesis cover…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excel 2016 Cheat Sheet
More like a good description of what is new, and even what is old and interesting. A cheat sheet should be glanced at, not read. They have done a good job of hiding the complexity. And there is lots of that. Finding the right…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harman-Cardon Announces Invoke Virtual Assistant
In a press release: Harman-Cardon releases many more details of the Cortana-Powered assistant Invoke with partner Microsoft speaker .
" ... STAMFORD, CONN. – HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google, Linked Data and Ontologies
Very good piec, have spent a long time thinking about getting the semantics of data arranged for search and analytics.
Via Dean Allemang
Principal Consultant at Working Ontologist, LLC
One of the best short articles on this subject…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pricing Bots
Saw this experimented with. With electronic shelf labels.
Are pricing bots a boon or bane for consumers? by George Anderson and Discussion.
It’s a common plot twist — a scientist invents a new medicine or technology intended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Strategy
Useful piece, but not sufficiently practical.
strategy+business: Corporate Strategies and News Articles on Global Business, Management, Competition and Marketing
A Strategist’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
As the conceptual
by…
From Schneier on Security
Securing Elections
Technology can do a lot more to make our elections more secure and reliable, and to ensure that participation in the democratic process is available to all. There are three parts to this process. First, the voter registration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Realtime Powerpoint Translation
Saw this live, impressive capability in real-time. In Engadget:
Microsoft PowerPoint adds real-time presentation translation
The new add-in shows off the company’s Cognitive Services AI tools.
If you were impressed by Skype's real…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Markable Content Placement
Commercializing all Visual Content
Markable.AI
powered by computer vision AI technology. We help you place Your Products in popular content across digital platforms, achieving branding and marketing in the most beautiful way.…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing High Energy Cancer Treatments
Over at TACC, Aaron Dubrow writes that researchers are using TACC supercomputers to improve, plan, and understand the basic science of radiation therapy. "The science of calculating and assessing the radiation dose received by…
From insideHPC
OpenHPC: A Comprehensive System Software Stack
Bob Wisniewski from Intel presents: OpenHPC: A Cohesive and Comprehensive System Software Stack. "OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required
…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF IIS Division Director Position Available
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just published the job description for the open Division Director position in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) in the CISE Directorate. IIS supports the study…
From insideHPC
Living Computers Museum Adds Two Iconic Cray Systems
Today the Living Computers: Museum + Labs added a pair of Cray supercomputers to its permanent collection. The Cray-1 supercomputer went on display at Living Computers this week and will be joined by the Cray-2 supercomputer
…
From Blog@Ubiquity
How to Deal with Post-truthism
The very definition of post-truth implies rejecting fact-based logic. Too few possess the skill of distinguishing between self-serving claims, and reliable, well-grounded facts.
The post How to Deal with Post-truthism appeared…From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 Release Sets New Standard for Automation
Today Bright Computing announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 and Bright OpenStack 8.0 with advanced, integrated solutions to improve ease-of use and management of HPC and Big Data clusters as well as private and…
From insideHPC
BSC and NVIDIA Showcase Interactive Simulation of Human Body
This week at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia and Barcelona Supercomputing Center demonstrated an interactive visualization of a cardiac computational model that shows the potential of HPC-based simulation codes and GPU-accelerated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Replacing, Restructuring Professionals
Very likely that the basic research and analysis work will be done by systems within a few decades. How this restructures professional jobs is still unclear. See some of our work on O*Net regarding this structure.
Gartner Says…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE on Digital Industrial Transformations
Considerable detail at the link, including a blog. Looking forward to see their talk relating to this next Friday. Considerable detail at the link below:
Digital industrial transformation is a process – a road we travel on…
From My Biased Coin
Super-Important Things to Do Right Now for STOC 2017
STOC 2017 is just around the corner, which means that several deadlines are just around the corner.
The student travel support request deadline is this Thursday, May 11. Here's the link to the application.
The hotel reservation…
From Schneier on Security
Criminals are Now Exploiting SS7 Flaws to Hack Smartphone Two-Factor Authentication Systems
I've previously written about the serious vulnerabilities in the SS7 phone routing system. Basically, the system doesn't authenticate messages. Now, criminals are using it to hack smartphone-based two-factor authentication systems…