Communications of the ACM
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May 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's VPS uses Tango and Lens
Google's new Visual Positioning System takes learning, Navigation to new Levels.
By Brad Bourque
Google has unveiled its Visual Positioning System, which could usher in new ways for navigating the world and learning
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lens
An impressive next step for machine vision on the phone. Which then permits you go perform tasks that have as an element the recognition of an image.
Google Lens Will Bring Vision-Based Object Identification to Your Phone
Posted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant on iPhone
In Computerworld: With some cautions.
Google Assistant for iPhone: An enterprise perspective
What you need to know ...
" .... You can use it to make calls, send messages and emails, set reminders and events, play YouTube music…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA’s Discover DSO Day (D3)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a Discover DSO Day (D3) on June 15, 2017, to familiarize attendees with DSO’s mission and research areas of interest, promote understanding…
From insideHPC
Avere Systems Powers BioTeam Test Lab at TACC
"In cooperation with vendors and TACC, BioTeam utilizes the lab to evaluate solutions for its clients by standing up, configuring and testing new infrastructure under conditions relevant to life sciences in order to deliver on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brian Christian:The Computer Science of Human Decisions
From the UC Analytics Summit Tomorrow
Keynote 1 Friday, 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Title: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Abstract: Many of the decisions we face in our everyday lives run deeply parallel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Research Understanding Dialog
Pointing towards Facebooks interest in AI and chatbots. Dialog understanding is hard.
The long game towards understanding dialog
By: Alexandre Lebrun, Antoine Bordes, Leon Bottou, Marco Baroni
Building an effective dialog system…
From insideHPC
Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenACC – Part 2
In this video, Michael Wolfe from PGI continues his series of tutorials on parallel programming. "The second in a series of short videos to introduce you to parallel programming with OpenACC and the PGI compilers, using C++ or…
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys 600 Teraflop Cluster at University of Bristol
OCF in the UK has deployed a new 600 teraflop supercomputer at the University of Bristol. Designed, integrated, and configured by OCF, the system is the largest of any UK university by core count. "Early benchmarking is showing…
From insideHPC
Transcoding for Optimal Video Consumption
Video streams may constructed using various standards, which contain information such as resolution, frame rate, color depth, etc. It is the job of the transcoder to take in one format and produce another format that would then…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forecasting and Machine learning
Very nice piece on the SAS blog. Which naturally points out a number of SAS tools and their connection to what are now called AI. Am a long time practitioner of forecasting methods.
Straight talk about forecasting and machine…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases HPC as a Service at GTC 2017
In this video from GTC 2017, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the company's new HPC as a Service offering. As makers of high density GPU expansion chassis, One Stop Systems designs and manufactures high performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vulnerability of the Electric Grid
A long time interest, both regard to cyber attack, and Solar events. Which is more dangerous?
Patching the Electric Grid
Our electric supply is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack, and new technologies aim to sound the alarm…
From Computational Complexity
The Optimizers
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From ACM on Huffington Post
Blockchains Could Add Trillions of Dollars to the Global Economy
By Toufi Saliba, CEO of PrivacyShell and Chair, ACM Practitioners Board Conference Committee Imagine if the entire global
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making AI Work for Everyone
Attended the Google I/O conference today. Very well done. Their CEO talks about how they hope to make AI work for everyone. From mobile first to AI first. A big challenge. A long article from their blog.
Making AI work
Sundar…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces New HPC Innovation Awards for Data Centers
Hyperion Research, the new name for the former IDC HPC group, today announced it is adding two new categories to its global awards program for high performance computing innovation. Both new categories are for innovations benefiting…
From Schneier on Security
The US Senate Is Using Signal
The US Senate just approved Signal for staff use. Signal is a secure messaging app with no backdoor, and no large corporate owner who can be pressured to install a backdoor. Susan Landau comments. Maybe I'm being optimistic,…
From My Biased Coin
Last Week For STOC Sign-Ups
A reminder that this year's STOC is supersized, with (completely in the STOC package) multiple workshops, tutorials, and special speakers. But for those of you (like me) who put these things off until the last minute, the last…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Program Solicitation on Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
The following is a guest blog post by Mitra Basu, Program Director, and Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation. The…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Educational backgrounds of the CEOs of the top 5 corporations in the US
Apple is the most valuable company in the US. The CEO is Tim Cook who has a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Auburn University. The chairman is Arthur D. Levinson who has a degree in molecular biology from the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Marketing
I like the point made about data. AI (aka Augmented Intelligence). Is just a better way to make decisions based on data. Difficult problems in changing contexts need lots of data to tease out patterns. Thus new analytical…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Blue Sky Papers at RSS 2017 Conference
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Material Robotics (MaRo) – Bridging Materials Science and Robotics Workshop on July 15, 2017, which is part of the 2017 Robotics:…
From insideHPC
HPE Introduces the World’s Largest Single-memory Computer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today introduced the world’s largest single-memory computer, the latest milestone in The Machine research project. "The prototype unveiled today contains 160 terabytes (TB) of memory, capable of simultaneously…
From insideHPC
DEEP-ER Project Paves the Way to Future Supercomputers
"The DEEP-ER project has created far-reaching impact. Its results have led to widespread innovation and substantially reinforced the position of European industry and academia in HPC. We are more than happy that we are granted…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Lands $50M Funding for Next Generation Quantum Computers
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has received up to $50 Million in funding from PSP Investments. This facility brings D-Wave’s total funding to approximately US$200 million. The new capital is expected to enable D-Wave
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From insideHPC
Why the OS is So Important when Running HPC Applications
This is the fourth entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. This series, compiled in a complete Guide available, covers cloud computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Quantum Computing is Useful for Business
A long time interest of mine. We re getting closer.
It’s time to decide how quantum computing will help your business
As the tech advances and investments grow, what seemed out of reach is now possible
By Sharon Gaudin ....…
From Schneier on Security
Keylogger Found in HP Laptop Audio Drivers
This is a weird story: researchers have discovered that an audio driver installed in some HP laptops includes a keylogger, which records all keystrokes to a local file. There seems to be nothing malicious about this, but it's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Platform for Dialog Research
Brought to my attention. Facebook is doing lots with dialog and hybrid interactions, so its a natural place for this kind of research. Essential for chatbots. Have yet to see their Facebook M. Note the use of Mechanical…