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 insideHPC
The OpenMP API Celebrates 20 Years of Success
OpenMP is a good example of how hardware and software vendors, researchers, and academia, volunteering to work together, can successfully design a standard that benefits the entire developer community. Today, most software vendors…
From Blog@Ubiquity
Is Computing in Reverse the Next Big Thing?
Some computer scientists and physicists are looking beyond the limits of current computing to “reversible computing.”
The post Is Computing in Reverse the Next Big Thing? appeared first on BLOG@UBIQUITY.
From insideHPC
How DDN Technology Speeds Machine Learning at Scale
Today DDN announced that large commercial machine learning programs in manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, medical research and natural-language processing are overcoming production scaling challenges with DDN’s…
From insideHPC
Exxact Powers HPC & Deep Learning at the GPU Technology Conference
In this video from the 2017 GPU Technology Conference, Jason Chen from Exxact Corporation describes the company's innovative GPU solutions for HPC & Deep Learning workloads. "Exxact Corporation is a global, value-added supplier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IMotions
Was brought back to my attention. Biometrics typically need multiple dimensions and laboratory style data handling environments.
Scalable Biometric Research Solutions
Since 2005 iMotions has developed our software platform that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Incentivizing Self-Checkout
We supported a number of experiments with self-checkout. Including ones that included this idea.
Discussion.
How should self-checkout be incentivized? by Tom Ryan
In the U.K., Asda’s customers, at least in some situations, have…
From Computational Complexity
Graduation from the Other Side
I've attended many graduations in my time, mostly as faculty, a couple of times as a student or a brother. This last weekend I attended my first university graduation as a parent as my daughter Annie graduated from Brandeis…
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware and the Internet of Things
As devastating as the latest widespread ransomware attacks have been, it's a problem with a solution. If your copy of Windows is relatively current and you've kept it updated, your laptop is immune. It's only older unpatched…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Analytics into Applications
Nice piece. Good idea. At one level a very obvious idea. All analytics should be embedded into business applications. And those applications are always a kind of business process, else they are not worth doing. Sometimes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber Freight
New steps in supply chain. In Technology Review:
Uber Freight Is the First Step to Automating Away Truckers
First: matching haulers to jobs. Next: leveraging that network to build out fleets of autonomous 18-wheelers. ...."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tensorflow Cook book
Nick McClure has released the companion materials for his book TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook on GitHub. Some very good information here for a number of stat and machine learning methods. Via O'Reilly.
From BLOG@CACM
St. Petersburg ITMO Team Wins First Place at ICPC World Finals
St. Petersburg ITMO University, a perennial contender in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), won the 2017 World Finals on Wednesday in Rapid City, South Dakota. The university's team has won the prestigious…
From BLOG@CACM
Ten Years at the Helm of <i>Communications of the ACM</i>
In January 2007, I undertook the task of revitalizing Communications of the ACM. Now, after 10 years at the helm of Communications, it is time for me to move on and for the magazine to get new leadership.
From insideHPC
RoCE Initiative Launches Online Product Directory
Today the RoCE Initiative at the InfiniBand Trade Association announced the availability of the RoCE Product Directory. The new online resource is intended to inform CIOs and enterprise data center architects about their options…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Letter to the Community- FY 2018 Budget Request
The following is a letter to the community from Jim Kurose, Assistant Director (AD) and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy AD of the National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Big Book of Dashboards
Brought to my attention. I have heard this praised. One of the authors, Jeffrey Shaffer, spoke at our analytics summit last week.
The Big Book of Dashboards presents a comprehensive reference for those tasked with building or…
From Putting People First
A human-centric trust model for the Internet of Things
“Technologists have done a terrible job with security technology so far”, writes David Maher, and “now we are about to impose those failures onto the physical world on a scale that only ubiquitous, pervasive, even invasive computing…
From insideHPC
Behind the Curtain of Backblaze Hard Drive Stats
In this video from the MSST 2017 Mass Storage Conference, Andrew Klein from Backblaze presents: Behind the Curtain of Backblaze Hard Drive Stats. "For the last four years, Backblaze has collected and reported on the failure rates…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases Powerful GPU Solutions at GTC 2017
In this video from GTC 2017, Rudolfo Campos from Supermicro describes the company's innovative solutions for GPU-accelerated computing. "Leveraging our extensive portfolio of GPU solutions, customers can massively scale their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to Azure and Bots
At the UC Analytics summit last week
From insideHPC
Eric Barton Joins DDN as CTO for Software-Defined Storage
Today DDN appointed Eric Barton as the company’s chief technology officer for software-defined storage. In this role, Barton will lead the company’s strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for DDN’s newly…
From insideHPC
Moving Toward the Cloud & Seamless HPC
This is the fifth and final entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud and how this move can help create seamless HPC. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, covers cloud computing for HPC,…
From BLOG@CACM
Nerves Run High on Eve of ICPC World Finals
Competitors for the 2017 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) expressed nervousness, excitement, and resolve as they prepare for the World Finals competition Wednesday.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 May 2017
It’s been a while since I posted one of these collections. And I’ve been blogging a lot less lately. Call it a sort of blogging vacation. I just needed to prioritize other things for a while. We’ll see how things are going forward…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Fingerprint Readers with Master Prints
There's interesting research on using a set of "master" digital fingerprints to fool biometric readers. The work is theoretical at the moment, but they might be able to open about two-thirds of iPhones with these master prints…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Fashion and Technology
Good piece in Engadget on movement in wearables, fashion and Technology. Continues to evolve, and you can never predict fashion well, but the business side will require some value proposition. Is it enough just to keep your…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Releases Guidance on Computing and Network Security
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council issued a set of guidelines for organizations to protect the security of their computing and network systems. In its Statement on Computing and Network Security, the Council identified nine principles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Data on Demand
Google announces Marketing Data on Demand via Twitter. In Think with Google.
" ... Get excited, marketing gurus! Today we’re rolling out a brand new (and super cool) data on demand service that will do exactly that—give you…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Stopped Watches and Data Analytics
Is this a new or old paradox? UK Independent source—and “a gentle irony” Roger Bannister is a British neurologist. He received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy for Neurology in 2005. Besides his
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gillette Replaces Dad with Assistant
In Fastcompany, by Jeff Beer. Includes video of Ad:
Most Men Ask Their Phone For Advice Before Dad, So Gillette Made An App For That
The brand’s new Father’s Day ad, “Go Ask Dad” is most definitely trying to make grown men cry…