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 The Eponymous Pickle
May/June 2018 Issue of Analytics Magazine
The May/June 2018 issue of Analytics magazine features articles ranging from the direction of AI, turbocharging analytics adoption, analytics in marketing strategies, O.R. and advanced analytics at Chevron, and more ....
Lead
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
People and Data Analysis
Yes, obviously. And get those people involved early and often in the design, application and testing of the results. And to ensure lasting and improving results, schedule followup reviews periodically.
People relationships
Roger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Boosting Brains Memory
Related to the recent piece regards a brain pacemaker? Is this related? The enhancement seems to be small, can it be verified?
AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory
in Wired By Robbie Gonzalez
Researchers at the
From insideHPC
Fast.ai Trains Neural Net in Record Time with Super Convergence
Over at the Fast.AI Blog, Jeremy Howard writes that his Startup has achieved an amazing deep learning benchmark milestone – the ability to do an ImageNet training in 3 hours for just $25. "His recent discovery of an extraordinary…
From insideHPC
HLRS and Wuhan to Collaborate on Exascale Computing
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University have announced plans to cooperate on technology and training projects. "On April 3, HLRS took its next step in strengthening…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing – Timing is Everything
Steve Reinhardt from D-Wave Systems gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Despite the incredible power of today’s supercomputers, there are many complex computing problems that can’t be addressed by conventional systems. While…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Electronics on Skin
Researchers 3D-Print Electronics, Cells Directly on Skin
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Minnesota researchers have printed electronics on a real hand for the first time, using a customized, low-cost three-dimensional…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Thom Dunning on Molecular Modeling with NWCHEMEX
In this edition of Let's Talk Exascale, Thom Dunning from the University of Washington describes the software effort underway to for molecular modeling at exascale with NWCHEMEX. "To date, our work is focused on the redesign
…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Laptop Tampering
Micah Lee ran a two-year experiment designed to detect whether or not his laptop was ever tampered with. The results are inconclusive, but demonstrate how difficult it can be to detect laptop tampering....
From The Eponymous Pickle
AlchemAI Predicting Chemical Markets
Brought to my attention. Intriguing play. How close is the process involved in the prediction? Reminds me of work we did in simulating the chemistry inside coffee beans as they roasted, and its use to predict its behavior…
From Putting People First
[Book] Automating Inequality
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks St. Martin’s Press, January 2018 272 pages The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and…
From Putting People First
[Book] Automating Inequality
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks St. Martin’s Press, January 2018 272 pages The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Appoints Dr. Henry Kautz as Division Director for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommending, Outlier Detection
Interesting idea. Slides and later the recording will be posted at link below.
10 May 2018: 10:30 AM, ET Access Instructions below.
Talk by: Denis Vrdoljak & Gunnar Kleemann at Cisco & UC Berkeley
“Graph Databases for Dynamic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and IOT Together? Some thoughts.
Better perhaps, but still no clear binding between the particular aspects of the processes that the IOT resides in and AI. As suggested this depends upon what AI means, and what it means depends upon its context of use.
Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Crowdsourcing
Further joint research in Asia:
NTU Singapore Partners With Alibaba to Set Up Joint Research Institute for AI Technologies
Priyankar Bhunia
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and China's Alibaba Group…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Neural Networks Learn
We wrote some of our own native neural network systems to analyze specific patterns in behavioral data.
How neural networks learn distributed representations
Deep learning’s effectiveness is often attributed to the ability of neural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Skill Echo Purchasing Enabled
Will be interesting to see how this may enlarge the base with more and more complex assortments of skills. Now the incentive has been extended. Will this compete with general smartphone App capabilities? Much detail at the…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Signs X-ISS as Reseller and Services Partner
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller and services partnership agreement with X-ISS. "
X-ISS is a privately-owned company that specializes in providing management services and analytics solutions for High Performance Computing…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Code is the Same as Yours But Mine Doesn’t Work
We're all heard it from students "My code is the same as yours but mine doesn't work." The implication is clear – it is the computer's fault that the program doesn't work. Of course something is always different.
Often…From insideHPC
ACM Honors Amanda Randles from Duke University
Amanda Randles from Duke University will receive the 2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, which recognizes young researchers for major technical or service contribution to computation. A Department of Energy Computational Science…
From insideHPC
Rescale Brings NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Electromagnetic Simulation To The Cloud
Today Rescale announced that XFdtd electromagnetic simulation software from Remcom is now available on Rescale’s ScaleX platform for HPC in the cloud. The combined solutions allows engineers to quickly and easily run complex,…
From insideHPC
Iridis 5 Supercomputer to Simplify Use of HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe talks to Southampton University’s Oz Parchment about the decision-making behind installing the latest HPC system at the University. "Iridis 4 was based…
From insideHPC
Video: Scott McNealy on Why the Network is Still the Computer
In this video, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, joins the Masons Leadership Summit to back, learn, and inform the future. "Scott talked about some of the projects he’s currently involved with (curriki.org, wayin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent IOT Platform
It remains that sensors will be a key part of systems that exist on the Edge:
IBM, CISCO Collaborate on Intelligent IOT Platform in RFID Journal
A year ago, IBM and Cisco announced a global collaboration to bring business insights…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is not all Good
Cautious thoughts.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin warns the AI boom isn’t all good
Alphabet is going all in on AI. But in his company’s annual founders’ letter, Sergey Brin says there are also hazards that need to be addressed in…
From Schneier on Security
LC4: Another Pen-and-Paper Cipher
Interesting symmetric cipher: LC4: Abstract: ElsieFour (LC4) is a low-tech cipher that can be computed by hand; but unlike many historical ciphers, LC4 is designed to be hard to break. LC4 is intended for encrypted communication…
From Computational Complexity
Broader Impacts Redefined
The ACM Future of Computing Academy suggests that "peer reviewers should require that papers and proposals rigorously consider all reasonable broader impacts, both positive and negative." Here is the broader impacts section of…
From Putting People First
Invito: DesAlps innovation workshop per le PMI del territorio piemontese
Experientia è lieta di invitare le piccole e medie imprese del territorio piemontese al: DesAlps Workshop #1: Il Design Thinking per le PMI Venerdì 18 maggio 2018 – dalle 10.00 alle 17.30 @ Rinascimenti Sociali | via Maria Vittoria…
From Putting People First
Invito: DesAlps innovation workshop per le PMI del territorio piemontese
Experientia è lieta di invitare le piccole e medie imprese del territorio piemontese al: DesAlps Workshop #1: Il Design Thinking per le PMI Venerdì 18 maggio 2018 – dalle 9.00 alle 17.30 @ Rinascimenti Sociali | via Maria Vittoria…