Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2017
From Computational Complexity
Students try to memorize rather than understand! Who knew! (everyone)
Discrete Math. Required for CS majors, taken mostly by Sophmores. Goal is to teach them how to think rigorously. Topics are logic, number theory (not much), induction, sets, functions, relations, combinatorics (includes Pigeon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Digital Advertising
In Technology Review. Read the complete thing.
Digital Advertising Takes a Hit
Big-name advertisers have begun to question whether they’ve placed too much faith—and money—in targeted advertising. by Kate Kaye
Since its infancy…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC at NIBR
"Focused on High Performance and Scientific Computing at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), in Basel Switzerland, Nick Holway and his team provide HPC resources and services, including programming and consultancy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Facebook's Machines to Think
Building behavior Models of individuals?
Meet the man who makes Facebook’s machines think
By Alex Kantrowitz
Nearly 3,000 miles away from Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, in an old, beige office building in downtown Manhattan…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computer Scientist at Naval Air Systems Command
The Naval Air Systems Command is seeking a Computer Scientist in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Computer Scientist at Naval Air Systems Command appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Home Follows Conversational Recipes
Following a cooking recipe is a simplified kind of conversation. The assumed script is something that has been standardized over time. There are ingredient list and quantities, cooking instructions, Serving instructions.
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Block Chain Vendors
Interesting list of companies working this space, via Gartner Blog
Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Blockchain Applications
by Rajesh Kandaswamy
Blockchain can be more than a technology that solves specific problems. While it may appear…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vertex Solution Science
Brought to my attention: Vertex
" ... Every business faces challenges. There are some challenges that - if persist longer –turn into problems. So, you need solutions that can address these challenges before they turn into obstacles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Aims to Ease the Re-Order
Note that this is about a patent, so its speculative. Not unexpected that Wal-Mart would also push this. Even implies there is an automatic replenishment element. Which we note Amazon is already trying to federalize. In Reuters…
From insideHPC
Video: IBM Datacentric Servers & OpenPOWER
"Big data analytics, machine learning and deep learning are among the most rapidly growing workloads in the data center. These workloads have the compute performance requirements of traditional technical computing or high performance…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects
The 25th International Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HotI 2017) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 29-30 at the Ericsson Campus in Santa Clara, California. "Hot Interconnects is the premier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Speeding up Fortran
NASA wants to reinvent, or at least make faster, the programming language Fortran. For purposes of speeding legacy air flow simulation software they have. Surprising to some, there is still lots of valuable work that still exists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laser Branding Replaces Produce Stickers
Marking produce in grocery has long been an issue. Saw a similar approach suggested years ago. Appearance like a cattle brand. Looks like it works well on produce with big a flat surface area, like potatoes, but how about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion Detection using Machine Learning
Emotion detection regarding product impressions was a long time goal of our research.
Emotion Detection Using Machine Learning
Pulling out context from the text is one of the most remarkable procurements obtained using NLP. A few…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Voice Now?
It has caught the public imagination, though it still has some rough spots as an ideal channel.
Why Alexa and why now?
Phillip Hunter of Amazon discusses the reasons why voice-driven experiences are now more common. ... Video…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Real Challenge of Home Robotics
In Sciam. This remains a considerable challenge. Its all in the sensors.
The Life Robotic: When Autonomous Machines Can Do More Than Just Vacuum
A leading technologist imagines what will happen when home robots take on a larger…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communications
In the oval squid Sepioteuthis lessoniana, males use body patterns to communicate with both females and other males: To gain insight into the visual communication associated with each behavior in terms of the body patterning's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Analytics Summit, May 19, 2017
I will be speaking at the UC Analytics Summit: May 19, 2017
The UC Analytics Summit 2017 is May 19 @Sharonville Convention Center
Three keynote speakers, 5 all-day tracks, machine learning, predictive analytics, data visualization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Application of Contest Theory
Abstract, Video, full text in ACM digital.
Contest Theory By Milan Vojnović
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 5, Pages 70-80
10.1145/3012008
A variety of Internet online services are designed based on contests. A canonical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart, Tagging and Sensing
This is from a patent, which is always speculative, but shows Walmart is looking outward, even into the smart home. Of course manufacturers might be responsible for all this tagging and packaging. Increasing costs? Also implies…
From insideHPC
Sixteen Teams to Compete in SC17 Student Cluster Competition
Today SC17 announced that 16 teams will take part in the Student Cluster Competition. Hailing from across the U.S., as well as Asia and Europe, the student teams will race to build HPC clusters and run a full suite of applications…
From insideHPC
Podcast: PortHadoop Speeds Data Movement for Science
In this TACC Podcast, host Jorge Salazar interviews Xian-He Sun, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Computer Scientists working in his group are bridging the file system gap with…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 5th, 2017)
Lungs make blood cells: In experiments involving mice, the team found that they produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, equating to the majority of platelets in the animals’ circulation. Scientists…
From insideHPC
Nominate Your Customers for the 2017 HPC Innovation Awards
"Hyperion research (previously the HPC team at IDC) has launched a program to both collect this data and recognize noteworthy achievements using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. We are interested in Innovation and/or…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: BXI – Bull eXascale Interconnect
"The interconnect is going to be a key enabling technology for exascale systems. This is why one of the cornerstones of Bull’s exascale program is the development of our own new-generation interconnect. The Bull eXascale Interconnect…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Aleksandr's Thesis Cover
I've designed the thesis cover for one of the ILPSers, Aleksandr Chucklin who has just defended his PhD. His thesis is about "Understanding and Modeling Users of Modern Search Engines". Here is the thesis cover: and here is its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investment in the Coming Decade of AI
A view in CIO of how AI is emerging in a number of dimensions. Investments being made. Good generalized piece.
" ... in a blog last year that we are at the dawn of a new age of artificial intelligence (A.I.). And 2017 certainly…
From Schneier on Security
Why is the TSA Scanning Paper?
I've been reading a bunch of anectotal reports that the TSA is starting to scan paper separately: A passenger going through security at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) recently was asked by security officers to remove…
From Writing
The Truth About Startups
Today, I’m happy to share the video and slides of a talk I gave at the MIT Martin Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as the Trinity College Blackstone Launchpad. It’s a talk I wish someone gave me when I was in college to help…
From Writing
The Truth About Startups
Today, I’m happy to share the video and slides of a talk I gave at the MIT Martin Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as the Trinity College Blackstone Launchpad. It’s a talk I wish someone gave me when I was in college to help…