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 The Eponymous Pickle
Spatial Sound for Mixed Realitites
Recall this was also talked about sounds key in making virtual worlds realistic.In the Nextweb:
" ... Fast forward to today, and it’s pretty clear there has been a lot of focus on the really cool visual stuff: the holograms, animations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Providing Career Advice
Microsoft seems to very keen to deeply chatbot based solutions. Here to advise members with their careers. Seems to be a tricky place to apply the idea, given the broad points of context that influence a career. I would test…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Horvitz, Former CCC Council Member, is New Head of Research at Microsoft
It was just announced that Eric Horvitz, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and current Co-Chair of the AI and Robotics Task Force, is the new head of Microsoft Research. Yesterday, it was announced that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic AI as the Cost of Prediction
Good thoughts below. I make only the plea that not all predictions are accurate, and how their accuracy matters depends upon how they are used. And cost includes risk as well. So do consider carefully how these predictions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Truth About the BlockChain
Another good overview of the Blockhain. Here from the HBR, via O'Reilly.
The Truth About Blockchain
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
From the January, February 2017 Issue of the HBR
Contracts, transactions, and the records of
Blockchain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cautions for Algorithmic Marketing
Cautions more that Perils. Not so much that the results are wrong, but how they are implemented. This gets back to understanding how they exist in a process, and the implications of that. Consider frequent re-tests of results…
From insideHPC
Backblaze to Report Latest Hard Drive Failure Stats at MSST 2017
At MSST 2017, Andrew Klein from Backblaze will present on what they’ve learned about hard drives over the years including failure rates by model, and the ability to predict drive failure before it happens. "Currently we have
…
From insideHPC
Boosting Manycore Code Optimization Efforts with Roofline Technology
A software toolkit developed at Berkeley Lab to better understand supercomputer performance is now being used to boost application performance for researchers running codes at NERSC and other supercomputing facilities. "Since…
From insideHPC
Turning AI Against Cancer at the Data Science Bowl
Today Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle today announced the winners of the third annual Data Science Bowl, a competition that harnesses the power of data science and crowdsourcing to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems.…
From insideHPC
Frauke Gräter to receive 2nd PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that Prof Dr Frauke Gräter from University of Heidelberg is the winner of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. It is the second time that PRACE awards a female scientist for her
…
From insideHPC
DataSite HPC Solution to use Motivair ChilledDoor Rack Systems
Today DataSite announced it will install Motivair Corporation’s ChilledDoor Rack Cooling system to accommodate a high performance computing environment for a strategic customer. "This initial engagement will officially launch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Team Productivity
Microsoft acquires the company Intentional that's about software team productivity. Likely with interaction with Skype and the acquired Linkedin?
From Schneier on Security
Fitbit Evidence Used in Murder Investigation
Fitbit evidence is cited in an arrest warrant, stating that the device monitored steps by the victim after the suspect claimed she died....
From Writing
Why Use Terraform?
I just published a blog post on the O’Reilly Radar called Why Use Terraform? where I discuss what Terraform does and how it compares to Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, and other tools.
From Writing
Why Use Terraform?
I just published a blog post on the O’Reilly Radar called Why Use Terraform? where I discuss what Terraform does and how it compares to Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, and other tools.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Use and Best Practices
Very interesting introductory piece for the newcomer to using deep learning in a professional setting. Not quite for the novice, but if you have data manipulation, problem solving and coding experience with other systems, this…
From insideHPC
Argonne to Install 1.5 Petaflop Cray CS400 Cluster
Today Cray announced a contract to deliver a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer to the Laboratory Computing Resource Center (LCRC) at Argonne National Laboratory. The new Cray system will serve as the Center’s flagship cluster,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung to Buy Harman Kardon
How does this change the imminent Microsoft-HK Cortana based assistant?
Samsung buying auto and audio giant Harman for $8 billion
It's Samsung's largest acquisition ever. ....
From insideHPC
Housing Registration Opens for SC17 in Denver
The SC17 housing reservation system is now open for business. The conference takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver.
The post Housing Registration Opens for SC17 in Denver appeared first on insideHPC.
From Computational Complexity
A Celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis's 70th Bday
My adviser Harry Lewis turned 70 recently. I blogged about how things have changed since I got my Phd in this post. I now post on
A celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis's 70th Birthday
(for video…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos Shows a Way to Connect to Data
For me, linking Domino's pizza more directly to my smart home is not a priority, but the example here is interesting. Use IFTTT to link to a stream of data to trigger other actions. Make the embedded analyses as complex as
Pizza…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Bixby Assistant is Rolling
Followed the Bixby for some time, the virtual assistant appears to be only on Samsung Smartphones for now. More at the link.
" .... Bixby starts rolling out in South Korea, but when will it hit the rest of the world? ... "
Also…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Go for Growth
In the HBR:
Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth
by Michael Mankins
" .... Today’s era of superabundant capital rewards faster growth. To thrive in this new world, leaders must overcome the obstacles to growth in their…
From insideHPC
Rescale to Offer On-Demand LS-DYNA Licenses in Europe
Today Rescale announced that hourly, on-demand licenses of the popular finite element analysis software LS-DYNA are now available in Europe on ScaleX Enterprise, Rescale’s enterprise cloud platform for big compute. The announcement…
From insideHPC
HPC Accelerating Combustion Engine Design
Sibendu Som from Argonne presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Sibendu Som is a mechanical engineer and principal investigator for developing predictive spray and combustion modeling capabilities for compression ignition…
From insideHPC
Greg Kurtzer of LBNL Launches SingularityWare, LLC
Over at the Singularity Blog, Greg Kurtzer writes that he has created a new organization, SingularityWare, LLC. In partnership with RStor, the new company will be dedicated to further developing Singularity, supporting the associated…
From insideHPC
Rock Stars of HPC: Karan Batta
From software developer at a small start-up in New Zealand, to Senior Program Manager at one of the largest multinational technology companies in the US, Karan Batta has led a career touched by HPC – even if he didn’t always
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Creative Industries
Some of the earliest objections we got to AI were: Where is the creativity? Then and now it can come from from how elements of content and value are effectively applied. The article linked to below goes to some length to explore…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Punch Cards, Comments, and Learning From the Past
Doug Peterson, whose blog always makes me think, had a post last week about internal documentation. Specifically things like comments which a lot of the popular block languages don’t really do that well. Of course this made me…
From Schneier on Security
Who is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?
There's something going on inside the intelligence communities in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it is. Consider these three data points. One: someone, probably a country's intelligence organization, is dumping…