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
Univa to host Breakfast Briefing on HPC in the Cloud at ISC 2018
Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC in the Cloud at ISC 2018. "You are invited to attend this briefing on HPC in the Cloud at ISC 2018. A panel of product executives from Amazon Web Services and Nvidia will join Univa…
From insideHPC
Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addessing Causation vs Curve Fitting
The below comes from Inference.vc It addresses some of the comments by Judea Pearl's recent post commented on here. Beyond the first few paragraphs it is thoughtful but very technical.
ML beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindfulness
In Knowledge @ Wharton:
How Companies Can Instill Mindfulness
Mindfulness and meditation have made deep inroads into the corporate world. The benefits are proving out, notes this opinion piece by Christian Greiser and Jan-Philipp…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gigaom Continues Voices in AI
Voices in AI – Episode 44: A Conversation with Gaurav Kataria
Byron Reese in GIgaOM
In this episode, Byron and Gaurav discuss machine learning, jobs, and security.
Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm. I am…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
It's not very good, but it has a squid in it. 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 Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)
I'm at Carnegie Mellon University, at the eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro…
From insideHPC
Interview: What’s in store for SCinet at SC18
In this interview from the SC18 Blog, Jason Zurawski describes what's in store for the SCinet high performance show network at the SC18 conference. "In November, SCinet will bring the world’s fastest and most powerful network…
From insideHPC
Video: Andrew Ng on Deploying Machine Learning in the Enterprise
Andrew Ng from Deeplearning.ai and Landing.ai gave this talk at Intel AI DevCon. "Artificial intelligence already powers many of our interactions today. When you ask Siri for directions, peruse Netflix’s recommendations or get…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn Like a Child
Learn the way a child does? Tabula Rasa? A very old idea that has not seen much success over decades. Is this a new hybrid neural approach?
How Researchers Are Teaching AI to Learn Like a Child In Science Mag
Researchers…
From insideHPC
DDN’s Yvonne Walker joins CRN’s 2018 Women of the Channel List
Today DDN announced that CRN has named Yvonne Walker, DDN’s partner and customer relations manager, to its prestigious 2018 Women of the Channel list. The professionals who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing…
From insideHPC
Advanced Networking: The Critical Path for HPC, Cloud, Machine Learning and More
Erez Cohen from Mellanox gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "While InfiniBand, RDMA and GPU-Direct are an HPC mainstay, these advanced networking technologies are increasingly becoming a core differentiator to the data…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research to host Annual HPC Market Update Breakfast at ISC18
Hyperion Research will host their Annual HPC Market Update Breakfast at ISC18. "We look forward to seeing you at our annual HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing at the ISC conference. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convincing Customers to Share Data After GDPR
Good look at the general idea of sharing under GDPR
How to Convince Customers to Share Data After GDPR By Einat Weiss in the HBR
In recent years, marketers have lived through the Era of Big Data, and the Era of Personalization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GDPR is Here
Been following for some time, made adjustments to my blog. Blog visits are up rather than down so far. Thought more from Asia. Here is a quick overview from Technology Review. Click through to get more information. What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa adds Better Smart Meetings
Probably essential if they hope to have a credible Alexa for business. Will be testing. Most of my issues were regarding the voice to text, rather than the appointment entering.
Alexa gets smart meeting scheduling, a boost to…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Get there (#CSforAll) From Here?
When I was in high school (I graduated in 1971 so this was a while ago) there was a computer in the building. If you got an A in Calculous as a junior you could take the computer class as a senior. With 5,000 students in theSome…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saving Lives with Swarms of Drones
Self assembling and autonomous drones for safety and rescue platforms.
Saving Lives with Aerial Drones in CACM
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory have created…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Interesting research: "The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics," by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots for Setting up and Maintaining Meetings
For some time have been using assistants on Siri, Alexa and Google to manage meetings. And several times its been suggested that this kind of very common activity should be done by a meeting chatbot. I agreed, but quickly
Read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey AI Frontier: 400 Use Cases
Mostly non-technical:
McKinsey: Notes from the AI frontier: Applications and value of deep learning
An analysis of more than 400 use cases across 19 industries and nine business functions highlights the broad use and significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchains Talking to Each Other
For backups, and for other housekeeping and updating functions? For assembling contracts among component pieces? Smart Contracts are mentioned as a form of Blockchain architecture being enabled.
How to get blockchains to talk…
From The Eponymous Pickle
When to Hold Em, When to Compete
Nash Equilibrium's use in Competitive Situations is re-examined, with hope for its use in competitive behavior situations. We looked at it for that and found no golden egg, but it doesn't mean others couldn't find it. A reexamination…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Gender and peer review
Modern science works in the following manner. You do the research. You write a paper. You publish the paper. For historical reasons, “publishing the paper” typically means “submit it to a committee of your peers and get their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dysfunctional Relationship with AI
Nice thoughts on our relationship with Analytics and ultimately AI. But its not new, its been changing since the industrial revolution. The details are just getting more and more buried into the complexity.
It’s Me, Not You…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Graph algorithms and software prefetching
A lot of data in the real world can be represented as graphs: you have nodes connected through vertices. For example, you are a node in a graph where friendships are vertices. I recently met with professor Semih Salihoglu, an…
From insideHPC
The Effects of Flash Storage on Storage Infrastructure
Flash storage has attained significant market growth over the years, with enterprise SSD revenues nearly quadrupling between 2012 and 2017. In this guest article, HPE explores how flash storage is changing the landscape of storage…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Don’t Universities Require Computer Science?
We talk a lot about requiring computer science as a high school graduation requirement. It is an issue that is not without controversy. (Should Palo Alto students be required to study computer science?) While discussing thatWhy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contract Guardian Acquired
A company to look at to understand the value basis of simple agreements, and where this can be taken beyond for much more value. Note the inclusion of risk assessments, a good start beyond simple contract expirations and renewals…
From insideHPC
Video: Intel to Bring AI Technology to future Olympic Games
Today Intel announced a partnership with the International Olympic Committee to use the company's leading technology to enhance the Olympic Games through 2024. Intel will focus primarily on infusing its 5G platforms, VR, 3D and…