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
Manipulators of the Mind
Was brought up in this same age of of behavioral economics and advertising tricks. But they never came of age until there was technology interactive enough to deliver them. Good or bad?
In News from the Edge: https://www.edge…
From Schneier on Security
Yacht Security
Turns out, multi-million dollar yachts are no more secure than anything else out there: The ease with which ocean-going oligarchs or other billionaires can be hijacked on the high seas was revealed at a superyacht conference…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Mother’s Day Cryptogram?
Or just human ingenuity at finding patterns in ‘random’ data? Cropped from source Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States. He came close to becoming the first First Gentleman—or whatever we will call the husband…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Artificial Intelligence
An interesting discussion in Infoq:
The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Recorded talk):
Participants:
Carrie Solinger is Industry Analyst, IDC. Michael Natusch is Global Head of AI, Prudential. Bhairav Mehta is Manager, Apple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning for Summarizing Text
Accurately and efficiently summarizing text has been a classic goal of AI systems, of interest that Salesforce, known for doing AI experimenting in this space, is working on it: In TheVerge: (with demo):
Salesforce created…
From insideHPC
InfiniBand Roadmap Foretells a World Where Server Connectivity is at 1000 Gb/sec
The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has updated their InfiniBand Roadmap. With HDR 200 Gb/sec technolgies shipping this year, the roadmap looks out to an XDR world where server connectivity reaches 1000 Gb/sec. "The IBTA‘s…
From insideHPC
Lorena Barba Presents: Data Science for All
"In this new world, every citizen needs data science literacy. UC Berkeley is leading the way on broad curricular immersion with data science, and other universities will soon follow suit. The definitive data science curriculum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Knowledge from Job Descriptions
Below was brought to my attention, no so much as to aid HR, but to better understand the nature of jobs and their component tasks. And how that links to augmentation and replacement. An ongoing study. In KDNuggets:
" ... We…
From Computational Complexity
William Tutte (1917-2002)
Today we celebrate our mothers of course, but also the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Tutte, best known for his role in decrypting the Lorenz cipher used by the Nazi high command. Tutte also made many important advances…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reader Agreement Update
Have followed Google book scanning project for years. Why not create the universal library? Full text would be available free only for the huge numbers of books that are out of print. Google Books exists today. https://books…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Uses Simple Text for Razor Reorder
Addressing the Razor blade club competition. Procter's Gillette is using a simple text for order and replenishment. How does this compare with approaches like Amazon Dash? Other automated replenishment methods?
In Bizjournals…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Briefing on Computer Science and STEM Education for U.S. Congress
On May 10, the ACM Education Policy Committee co-sponsored a briefing for Congress on “STEM 101: Major Policy Issues for the 115th Congress.” Organized by the STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum, the briefing featured panelists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is AI Making an Impact?
Nicely done overview, from CBInsights:
Emerging AI: 7 Industries Including Law, HR, Travel And Media Where AI Is Making An Impact
We take a look at categories where AI startups are beginning to emerge. A majority of them are in…
From insideHPC
Video: ARM HPC Ecosystem
Darren Cepulis from ARM gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "ARM delivers enabling technology behind HPC. The 64-bit design of the ARMv8-A architecture combined with Advanced SIMD vectorization are ideal to enable large scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Analytics Summit next Week!
I will be speaking at the below summit on the future of analytics and AI. Join us. - Franz
" ... Analytics Summit 2013 will be held on May 31, 8:15AM-5:00PM at the University of Cincinnati. Analytics Summit 2013 is the
The…
From insideHPC
IBM’s New PowerAI Software Speeds Deep Learning
IBM PowerAI on Power servers with GPU accelerators provide at least twice the performance of our x86 platform; everything is faster and easier: adding memory, setting up new servers and so on,” said current PowerAI customer Ari…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fluent Design System
Had head this term being used recently. In Engadget:
Microsoft's design rules push Windows 'beyond mere rectangles'
Exploring the core tenets of the Fluent Design System
by Sean Buckley, @seaniccus
Microsoft's Fall Creators Update…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Cards
In Customer Think. Are loyalty cards dead? A discussion. Hardly dead because I have several in my wallet. But the only ones that work are connected to some significant and periodic, but not annoying, promotional message…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Paths
Was reminded of Watson Path, and its use of Sankey Diagrams to communicate with medicine domain experts. Nice idea, though the term for this kind of visualization is never mentioned. Yes, that's a criticism.
" ..... The projects…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My review of Change Agent: A Novel (by Daniel Suarez)
Change Agent is a sci-fi novel still hot from the presses. It set in our near future (2049). The genre has been captured by writers who love dystopian futures. Suarez can’t quite distance himself from this trend. We are in for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Content Recognition by Microsoft
As part of Microsoft Build Meetings. Following and looking for more details.
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google and Amazon With a New Recognition Tool Reuters
Microsoft on Wednesday turned up the heat on other technology giants by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Criticizes AI
In Nextgov: Some of the cautions mentions are noted.
" ... Vint Cerf is often called the “father of the internet” and he frequently speaks about technology to large groups of people as Google’s chief internet evangelist.
He isn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Behavioral Models of People
Intriguing behavioral modeling approach.
Computers Learn to Understand Humans Better by Modeling Them
Aalto University
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland, the University of Birmingham in the U.K., and the University of Oslo…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Marc Hamilton on how Volta GPUs will Power Next-Generation HPC and AI
In this podcast, Marc Hamilton from Nvidia describes how the new Volta GPUs will power the next generation of systems for HPC and AI. According to Nvidia, the Tesla V100 accelerator is the world’s highest performing parallel
…
From insideHPC
Liqid Delivers Composable Infrastructure Solution for Dynamic GPU Resource Allocation
Today Liqid Inc., announced that the company has fully integrated GPU support into the Liqid Composable Infrastructure (CI) Platform. Liqid’s CI Platform is the first solution to support GPUs as a dynamic, assignable, bare-metal…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 12th, 2017)
The Apple watch can be used to diagnose heart disease automatically. This is not marketing talk, but hard research. And, of course, there is no reason for this kind of work to be limited to Apple products. In the near future,…
From insideHPC
Memory Driven Computing in the Spotlight at MSST Conference Next Week
The MSST Mass Storage Conference in Silicon Valley is just a few days away, and the agenda is packed with High Performance Computing topics. In one of the invited talks, Kimberly Keeton from Hewlett Packard Enterprise speak on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Cortana Everywhere
In the Build conference Microsoft stated that they want to be everywhere, and with everyone as a partner. I have had Cortana on a Windows 10 device for some time, but have found little use for it. They have finally launched the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation and Creativity
The Art of Algorithms: How Automation Is Affecting Creativity
in VentureBeat by Paul Sawyers
There is increasing cross-fertilization between art and computers, with machine intelligence and automation likely to disrupt the…
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Voice Prints
This article feels like hyperbole: The scam has arrived in Australia after being used in the United States and Britain. The scammer may ask several times "can you hear me?", to which people would usually reply "yes." The scammer…