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 Schneier on Security
Kidnapping Fraud
Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here they have been involved in some…
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding and Voice Interfaces
On the surface, using a voice interface for search doesn’t seem that different from typing text into a search box.
Converting speech to text and vice versa is a mostly solved problem.
Speech recognition, while still not perfect…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford and Smart Digital Mobility
Last week heard Ford give an excellent talk on their advances. Especially about data gathered in cars. Autonomous cars will gather up to 4 Terabytes per hour.
How Ford Is Thinking About the Future By Mark W. Johnson in HBR…
From My Biased Coin
Sympoisum on Simplicity in Algorithms, 2019
Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, the second year of this new endeavor. It's nicely co-located with SODA, and the submission deadline is August 16.
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2018, Early Reg Deadline
Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1. Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really want to also make your hotel reservation -- the conference hotel special rate is (only)
So…
From insideHPC
Prof. Dieter Kranzlmueller to showcase SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer at Event in Caserta
Prof. Dieter Kranzlmueller from LRZ will give a talk entitled "Smart Scaling for High Performance Computing: SuperMUC-NG at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre." The event takes place Monday, June 4 at the University of Campania…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why AI Will Create Jobs
Continued look at jobs vs more autonomous technologies, including AI.
Why AI Will Create Jobs by Peter Schwartz in Strategy-Business
Even in a world of robots, continuous education can keep people employed.
A growing number of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Examines Bias on the Web
An interesting and considerable look at many kinds of bias and how they are ultimately combined in algorithmic bias used in 'AI' in subtle ways. Good starting point. Excerpt:
Bias on the Web By Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Communications…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Greater speed in memory-bound graph algorithms with just straight C code
Graph algorithms are often memory bound. When you visit a node, there is no reason to believe that its neighbours are located nearby in memory. In an earlier post, I showed how we could accelerate memory-bound graph algorithms…
From insideHPC
Call For Presentations: MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2018)
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2018) has issued its Call For Presentations. The event will take place from August 6-8 in Columbus, Ohio. "MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Albert' Digital Autonomous Marketing
Brought to my attention, we did minor bits of this for years, this takes it much further. Especially with regard to being autonomous and value driven. Formerly called Adgorithms and mentioned here. See also the linked to
Albert…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Aiding Retail
Its all about finding and leveraging the patterns from the data.
How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers By Dave Sutton in HBR
When Naomi Simson founded RedBalloon, an online gift retailer that sells personal experiences…
From insideHPC
High-Performance Big Data Analytics with RDMA over NVM and NVMe-SSD
Xiaoyi Lu from OSU gave this talk at the 2018 OpenFabrics Workshop. "The convergence of Big Data and HPC has been pushing the innovation of accelerating Big Data analytics and management on modern HPC clusters. Recent studies…
From insideHPC
Inference systems: The 2nd Piece of the Deep Learning Puzzle
Frameworks, applications, libraries and toolkits—journeying through the world of deep learning can be daunting. If you’re trying to decide whether or not to begin a machine or deep learning project, there are several points that…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Rationalizes GPDR Regulations
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at ramifications for the European GPDR laws, which went into effect May 25, 2018. "The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Sleeve Communicates Emotions through Touch
Sounds remarkable, good article. Had a long time look at how people reacted emotionally to product.
Gadget Communicates Human Emotions through Touch , by Elizabeth Stinson on Wired.
ASK ENGINEERS WHAT the future of communication…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Robots Better at Jobs?
BBC Looks at
Are intelligent robots better at our jobs?
With advances in technology robots are increasingly being used to do human jobs.
But are they actually better at doing them?
Will Gompertz goes to the exhibition exploring
…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Assumptions, Misunderstandings, and Programming Decisions
My beginning students have big problems with writing decision statements. Boolean expressions are a real problem. Most of the time it is because they expect the syntax of a programming language to be close to how they express…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Can Agile Teams Work Together
How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together By Alia Crocker, Rob Cross, Heidi K. Gardner in the HBR
Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Agriculture Weed Management
Been involved in agriculture and horticulture operations. And if this works commercially, it will be a huge breakthrough. The AI part, distinguishing between planted crop and weeds, should be 'easy', the mechanical and navigational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Working on BlockChain Related Technology
With some cautions on its use.
Google Is Working on Its Own Blockchain-Related Technology
Bloomberg By Olga Kharif; Mark Bergen; Joe Mayes In Bloomberg
Google researchers are developing blockchain-related technology to support…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Manager of HPC at New York University
New York University is seeking an Manager of High Performance Computing in our Job of the Week. "You will manage the day-to-day operations of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) team and support the research computing needs
…
From insideHPC
Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability Assessment for French Scientific Community
Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Deception Detection
See other models, for example the U of MD, which also been working on this. Of course lie detection using biometics has been around for a long time, but is still not generally accepted in US courts of law. Will this be treated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soft Robotics
Had looked at some examples for manufacturing line handling applications, has advanced considerably.
Soft Machines By University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have combined
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's and Storytelling
Had previously mentioned how Jungle Jims did this. Also saw at the recent UC Business Summit saw presentations about their approaches. More to follow on that.
Macy’s latest acquisition is all about STORYtelling by Georgein…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Touch for Future Auto Plants
Will be looking forward to see how collaborative works in the near future and beyond. Is there any human initiative, or is it fully automated with human and machine assistance?
The auto plants of the future may have a surprisingly…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 26th, 2018)
Teicholz argues that Nutrition Science is Not Up to the Task: Despite methodological advances, nutritional epidemiology remains fundamentally limited by its observational nature. Guidelines relying on this circumstantial evidence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serving the B2B Buyer
Have not seen too much advice about the details of selling B2B. Here from ThinkwithGoogle
3 insights that will help you serve today’s B2B buyer By Sarah Travis
The way B2B buyers research and shop has changed dramatically…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Views for IOT
Data Science for Internet of Things - The Big Picture in DSC See the diagram at the link. Posted by ajit jaokar
This big picture view lays the foundation of our book Data Science for the Internet of Things. (Co-authored by…