Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2018
From insideHPC
Video: Benchmarking as the Answer to HPC Performance and Architecture Questions
"This presentation offers an impartial look at benchmarking of HPC systems by Andrew Jones (@hpcnotes), NAG VP Strategic HPC Consulting & Services. This is described as a must-see for anyone involved in high performance or scientific…
From Schneier on Security
Ray Ozzie's Encryption Backdoor
Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. It's a weird article. It paints Ozzie's proposal as something that "attains the impossible" and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Focusing in Business
Yes, probably is moving that way, so it can make a profit. And today advanced tech shows up in business and for the consumer.
Microsoft needs to prove it’s not another IBM
Build is a good opportunity
By Tom Warren @tomwarren …
From insideHPC
DNN Implementation, Optimization, and Challenges
This is the third in a five-part series that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores DNN implementation, optimization and challenges.
The post DNN Implementation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Smart City
Alphabet and Toronto to design a better Smart. Starting with a blighted and underused area.
A Smarter Smart city
An ambitious project by Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs could reshape how we live, work, and play in urban neighborhoods…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foundational Knowledge Graphs
As humans we are always thinking about context, and intelligence in its basic sense needs to know the context about which it is reasoning.
Why Knowledge Graphs Are Foundational to Artificial Intelligence By Jim Webber in Datanami…
From Putting People First
Human-centered building design
Putting people at the centre when designing and delivering buildings of the future is crucial to unlocking the potential of new technologies, according to the third installment of Buildings of the Future paper (pdf) released
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From Putting People First
Human-centered building design
Putting people at the centre when designing and delivering buildings of the future is crucial to unlocking the potential of new technologies, according to the third installment of Buildings of the Future paper (pdf) released
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultimate Selfie Sculpture
" ... Renovated Convention Center Features “Ultimate Selfie Machine” Digital Sculpture
Dubbed the “ultimate selfie…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Seasoning Research
Was for some time involved deeply in the manufacturing of CPG food. Blending commonly used foods from agricultural commodities. Also have been a cook for a long time. So attuned to the use and usage trends in ingredients…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing How Cancer Spreads through Superdiffusion
Over a the University of Texas at Austin, Marc Airhart writes that researchers are using TACC supercomputers to better understand the physics behind the spread of cancer. "Having a physicist working on cancer can provide a new…
From insideHPC
HPC in Ontario, Canada
Dr. Chris Loken gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "We collaborate with our partners to centralize strategy and planning for Ontario’s advanced computing assets, including hardware, software, data management, storage, storage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Edge Improvements
Considerable detail, images and video at the link. A space we worked in for years at Innovation center and in this blog. Increased visual scale of displays makes lots of sense.
Grocery Store Shelves Go Digital with EDGE April…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Alexa for Business
Been asked to look at AWS/Alexa for Business. A considerable description at the link. With a number of business case studies. Initial looks had me think that the voice processing is still not good enough. Fine for casual
Alexa…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Best-Buy Coopetition
Best Buy and Amazon expand their coopetition by George Anderson in Retailwire
Best Buy may not be an Amazon.com killer, but in recent years the consumer electronics chain has earned praise for its ability to hold its own against…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Steps to Automobile Autonomy
Worthwhile classification of levels of autonomy. How might these also be linked to risk assumption and intelligence?
Steps to Autonomy
In Cars by Benedict Evans
The standard way to talk about autonomous cars, shown in this diagram…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fairness in Decision Making: Deferring to Humans
Intriguing effort. We worked with systems that ultimately required high level executive agreement. how might those decisions be trained for fairness? And consider the inherent risk involved in such approaches. Uncertainty…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Battery IOT Smart Microchip
Quite interesting capability for IOT systems
Low battery icon NUS Engineers Invent Smart Microchip That Can Self-Start, Operate When Battery Runs Out In AlphaGalileo
National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 5th, 2018)
Oculus, a subsidiary of Facebook, has released its $200 VR headset (the Oculus Go). You can order it on Amazon. The reviews are good. It is standalone and wireless which is excellent. The higher-quality Oculus Rift and its nifty…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New Proof Of An Ancient Result
Triangulating proofs to seek a shorter path Cropped from 2016 Newsday source Mehtaab Sawhney is an undergraduate student at MIT. His work caught my eye on finding his recent paper with David Stoner about permutations that map…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to TeamOps
Long ago west coast Wiki connect and innovator, Ross Mayfield, talks TeamOps. A more structured Slack? It could use that. Examining.
Ross Mayfield: CEO & Co-founder of Pingpad. Previously LinkedIn, SlideShare, Socialtext…
From The Eponymous Pickle
WEF: Cutting Through Blockchain Hype
Useful reports and discussion from the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Blockchain Beyond the Hype
This common sense and practical framework is designed to assist executives in understanding whether blockchain is an appropriate and…
From insideHPC
Quobyte Joins STAC Benchmark Council to help Financial Services Solve Storage Challenges
Today hyperscale storage provider Quobyte announced that it has accepted an invitation to join the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council, an influential group of technologists in the finance industry.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercializing Discovery
Events yes, and needed process also.
Most Science Startups Fail. Here's Why
We need to get a lot better at bridging that gap between discovery and commercialization By Greg Satell in Inc.
" ... The gap between discovery and commercialization…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Quantitative Software Engineer for High Frequency Trading
Two Sigma Investments in New York is seeking a Quantitative Software Engineer for High Frequency Trading in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking leading software engineers to join our dynamic, fast-paced high frequency team.
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Analytics Summit May 14-16 Registration
I plan to be at part of these sessions, invite me to a meet up - Franz
Analytics Summit Training, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data
Analytics Summit 2018 May 14-16
Training Highlights
DATA MINING: Dr. John Elder of Elder…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: US Army Developing 3D-Printable Battlefield Robot Squid
The next major war will be super weird. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Amazon Need to have a Home Robot?
Maybe not, but it has the architecture and might as well experiment. See also Kuri, mentioned here.
Does Amazon need a robot? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
Amazon.com is developing its first consumer robot product, and it could
Known…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Kinds of AI Value and Decision Problems
Nicely done view of the space and it takes it beyond JUST hard quant pattern problems, and on to the kind of the decisions involved. Lots of work yet to do, but this helps segment them. Rwaad the whole piece for more detailed…
From insideHPC
BSC to host the RISC-V Workshop on the Road to European Processor Initiative
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host the RISC-V Workshop next week, a gathering the open source processor design community to share RISC-V updates, projects and implementations. Founded in 2015, the RISC-V Foundation…