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
Job of the Week: HPC Computational Scientist at the American University of Sharjah
The American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an HPC Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "AUS is seeking a highly motivated senior programmer with proven experience in developing
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation Requires Lifelong Learning
Agreed, most important will the kind of learning and training that will be required, which will also be a dynamically changing target. Our own look at tasks that comprised jobs, and the continual redefinition of jobs, made…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence vs Operations Intelligence
Had heard the Operational Intelligence term, but was not often mentioned in the enterprise. This piece defines both methods and how they interact. OI could be a place to start when you are trying to define and model specific…
From insideHPC
How to Prepare Weather and Climate Models for Future HPC Hardware
Peter Dueben from ECMWF gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "Learn how one of the leading institutes for global weather predictions, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), is preparing…
From Computational Complexity
Kolmogorov Complexity and Causation
From insideHPC
Fujitsu to build 4 Petaflop Supercomputer for Hokkaido University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order from the Information Initiative Center of Hokkaido University for an interdisciplinary, large-scale computing system with a theoretical peak performance of 4.0 petaflops,
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From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE to keynote PASC18 in July
Today PASC18 announced that Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE will deliver a keynote presentation on scientific computing. Registration is now open for the conference, which takes place July 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland. "Traditionally,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the Bento Browser
Makes much sense if you do organize the information well.
Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
By Carnegie Mellon University, original article.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have developed a new…
From Schneier on Security
Font Steganography
Interesting research in steganography at the font level....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Summary of AI in Retail
Been asked to look at this, here is a start. And the continued moves in the smarter home, and as assistants.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retail Market to hit $8bn by 2024 Posted by Sagar in DSC.
Artificial Intelligence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Wants AI Features in all of its Devices
I was was recently shopping for new home appliances, and paid attention to what the major players had in terms of integrated 'smart' capabilities. I noted that Samsung was mentioning their Bixby assistant language in their
Samsung…
From insideHPC
How Intel will deliver on the Promise of AI
In this video, Naveen Rao keynotes the Intel AI DevCon event in San Francisco. "One of the important updates we’re discussing today is optimizations to Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These optimizations deliver significant performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benchmark Suite for Assessing Machine Learning
Ultimately key to making this work. Measuring the results, starting with benchmarks.
How to Evaluate Machine Learning? U of Toronto Research Supports Latest Benchmark Initiative
U of Toronto News By Nina Haikara
An industrial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and WPP Collaborate for Disruptive Tech
Unilever and WPP Launch Collaboration in Singapore
SINGAPORE – Unilever and WPP have established an in-house collaboration with Unilever Foundry and its start-up community.
The partnership, which involves a flexible new Team Unilever…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Authentic Emotional Intelligence
Can they be separated? Can deep learning be yet more precise in making a distinction? In some early work with MIT Media lab we tried to detect emotion and engagement when people interacted with product. Can artificial neurons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahold Delhaize Focusing Digital Efforts
Have been impressed wth AHold efforts over the years, now with a lab for Digital:
Ahold Delhaize focuses its digital efforts
By Rachel England, @rachel_england in Progressive Grocer
Ahold Delhaize is launching a new department…
From insideHPC
Supercomputer Simulations help fight Dengue Virus
Researchers are using supercomputers to combat the Dengue virus and related diseases spread by mosquitos. "Advanced software and the rapid calculation speeds of both Comet and Bridges made the current simulations possible. In…
From insideHPC
Mark Stickells appointed Director of Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced the appointment of Mark Stickells as the new Director of the Centre. "Mark’s experience with government, industry, research and technology will bring synergy to Pawsey, and will…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Terri Quinn on Hardware and Integration at the Exacale Computing Project
In this podcast, Terri Quinn from LLNL provides an update on Hardware and Integration (HI) at the Exascale Computing Project. "The US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories will acquire, install, and operate the nation…
From insideHPC
Prof. Yutong Lu from China will Chair ISC 2019
Today ISC announced that Prof. Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China will be the ISC 2019 Program Chair. This new appointment begins a new journey for ISC High Performance, which has only seen
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Counterfeit Goods Detector
We worked on the detection of counterfeit goods for some time, this would have been very useful. Will take a deeper look.
IBM built a handheld counterfeit goods detector
The AI tricorder knows those aren't official Yeezys.
By Rachel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Pauses on Scan & Go
Been following for a while. Tested many checkout options. Seems to work better at Sam than Wal-Mart.
Walmart drops Scan & Go tech – again by George Anderson in Retailwire
Walmart’s self-checkout Scan & Go technology has…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Through Stories
This time of year I think a lot about how I teach. There is something about the end of the year and evaluating how much my students have (or have not) learned that causes me to think about how much of what they learn (or don’t)…
From Schneier on Security
Supermarket Shoplifting
The rise of self-checkout has caused a corresponding rise in shoplifting....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Does 1 Times 1 Equal 2?
A diversion in mathematical consistency Cropped from source Terrence Howard is an actor and singer who has been in a number of films and TV series. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the movie Hustle & Flow…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
U.S. Department of Energy Request for Information on Machine Learning for Geothermal Energy and the Geosciences
The following is a Request for Information (RFI) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking About Virtual Worlds
Even a simple mirror can create a virtual world. I remember when we experimented with data immersion using VR in virtual worlds, it was remarkable to see how hard navigation was. To the point that you often had to go back to…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Releases Cuda 9.2 for GPU Code Acceleration
Today NVIDIA released Cuda 9.2, which includes updates to libraries, a new library for accelerating custom linear-algebra algorithms, and lower kernel launch latency. "CUDA 9 is the most powerful software platform for GPU-accelerated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laser Power Insect Robotics
Having very small flying robots that can be tasked to jobs, alone or in groups, will change many things. We examined how tasks and services might be solved by such methods. There continue to be updates.
Laser-Powered Robot
Everything…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplified Machine Learning
Simplified and non-technical view:
Machine learning: A quick and simple definition
Get a basic overview of machine learning and then go deeper with recommended resources. By James Furbush in O'Reilly
The following overview covers…