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
AI and the Future of Work
In the SAS Blog, some notes about AI, Jobs and an inevitable future to consider.
Optimistic about AI and the future of work
by Randy Guard. in the SAS Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle
Separating Better Data from Big Data
Interesting Podcast and transcript that leads towards operational considerations for analytics:
Separating Better Data from Big Data: Where Analytics Is Headed
Wharton's Eric Bradlow, Peter Fader and Raghuram Iyengar discuss what's…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Manuela Veloso Joins JPMorgan Chase & Co. as Head of AI Research
In July, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Manuela Veloso will join JPMorgan Chase & Co. as head of artificial-intelligence research. She is currently the head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Links to Ocado
In FMI Daily Lead:
Meet Ocado, Kroger's Newest Weapon in Its Grocery Delivery War with Amazon and Walmart
Kroger to become exclusive US licensee of Ocado technology
In Fortune.
Kroger has forged a deal with British online…
From insideHPC
Quantum Storage Solutions Power Self-driving Cars for AutonomouStuff
Today Quantum Corporation named AutonomouStuff LLC as its primary partner for storage distribution in the automotive market, enabling them to deliver Quantum's comprehensive end-to-end storage solutions for both in-vehicle and…
From insideHPC
iRODS Consortium adds Members and Joins OpenSFS
iRODS is taking an active role in Lustre community. The iRODS Consortium recently signed on to the Open Scalable File Systems, Inc (OpenSFS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of the Lustre file system, an open…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon SageMaker
Brought to my attention. Scale being the most interesting claim.
Amazon SageMaker
Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists…
From insideHPC
Equus Compute Solutions Named Intel 2018 Cloud and HPC Data Center Specialist
Today Equus Compute Solutions announced that Intel has identified Equus as an Intel Platinum 2018 Technology Provider. Furthermore, Intel has distinguished Equus as both a Cloud Data Center Specialist and an HPC Data Center Specialist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convergence of Analytics Products, Services
Below contains a link to a complimentary report. Inescapable direction. Few would buy a single capability.
Continued Convergence Of Analytics Products And Services
By Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst
I’ve been
On…
From insideHPC
ReFrame: A Regression Testing Framework Enabling Continuous Integration of Large HPC Systems
"Scientifico ReFrame is a new framework for writing regression tests for HPC systems. The goal of the framework is to abstract away the complexity of the interactions with the system, separating the logic of a regression test…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coresight and Retail Robotics and AI Conference
Via Pratt Retail Institute
KEY POINTS
The Coresight Research team recently attended the Retail Robotics & AI Conference on April 26 in San Francisco. Here are our top takeaways from the event:
As consumers increasingly rely on technology…
From insideHPC
DDN and Parabricks Accelerate Genome Analysis
Today DDN announced a Parabricks technology solution that provides massive acceleration for analysis of human genomes. The breakthrough platform combines GPU supercomputing performance with DDN’s Parallel Flash Data Platforms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Based Recommendation Engines
Makes much sense to broaden the approach. Link to PDF.
Recommendation Engine Based on AI: High Revenue Margin by 2022
By Akshita Banker in Linkedin
With the help of Recommendation engine more than 100 business logic and personalization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphene Feeling Sensor
Another example of connecting a new kind of sensor to gather new data, which can then be connected to machine learning methods. The value of a sensor is then if it can produce data that is useful for training.
Graphene-Based…
From Computational Complexity
The Complexity of the Firm
In 1937, a year after Turing had his seminal paper, Ronald Coase published a paper The Nature of the Firm to give a framework to why we have companies and how large they become. In a perfect market economy we shouldn't need a…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can I Plan For Next Year Yet?
My school has a couple of weeks left but it’s getting close. My Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students have taken their AP exam. My own exam for them is next week. My underclassmen have a bit more to do and I…
From Schneier on Security
White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Position
The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling: The Last Mile of Analytics
In Today's Summit Meeting, this presentation ultimately poses the challenge: How do we effectively convey something that is inherently usually very boring? Make it into a story that conveys some result, and makes you remember…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Food Safety Safety Strategy
Surprising perhaps, but good direction given all the systems in place.
Amazon plans to become the fresh food safety leader by Ron Margulis in Retailwire.
When it comes to food safety innovation, not many industry experts would…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: Democratizing AI Through Open Data
Cognitive Systems Institute Talks:
17 May 2018: 10:30 AM, ET Access Instructions below.
Talk by: Michael Henretty
Title: “Finding our Common Voice: Democratizing AI through Open Data” Mozilla
Abstract:
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From The Eponymous Pickle
International Institute of Analytics
Brought back to my attention, the IIA, International Institute of Analytics
IIA is the authority on analytics maturity and best practices.
Founded in 2010 by Jack Phillips and Thomas H. Davenport, the International Institute for…
From insideHPC
Nimbix to Host the 2018 HPC Cloud Summit on June 6 in Silicon Valley
Today HPC Cloud provider Nimbix announced that their 2018 HPC Cloud Summit will take place June 6 in Silicon Valley. "We are bringing together the best and brightest minds in accelerated computing at the Computer History Museum…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to the 2017-18 ACM-W Student Chapter Excellence Award Winners!
We want to offer a huge congratulation to two ACM-W chapters that were winners of the 2017-2018 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards. The Community Service Award was given to the College of William & Mary ACM-W chapter and the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Science Nation Highlights CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s Ubicomp Lab
Shwetak Patel, from the University of Washington, contributed to this post. Would you like to know how much energy your living room TV is using when it is running? What about when how much it uses while still plugged in and…
From insideHPC
Video: Women and Open Source
"Women are becoming a driving force in the open source community as the industry becomes more diverse and inclusive. However, a recent study found that only 3% of contributors in open source were women. As a community of women…
From insideHPC
Asetek Receives Order For New HPC Cluster From Fujitsu
Today Asetek announced an order from Fujitsu, an established global data center OEM, for a new High Performance Computing system at a currently undisclosed location in Japan. This major installation will be implemented using
…
From insideHPC
Pawsey Centre adds NVIDIA Volta GPUs to its HPC Cloud
One year after launching its cloud service, Nimbus, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has now expanded with NVIDIA GPU nodes. The GPUs are currently being installed, so the Pawsey cloud team have begun a Call for Early Adopters…
From insideHPC
Red Hat’s AI Strategy
"The impact of AI will be visible in the software industry much sooner than the analog world, deeply affecting open source in general, as well as Red Hat, its ecosystem, and its userbase. This shift provides a huge opportunity…
From insideHPC
Celebrating 20 Years of the OpenMP API
"The first version of the OpenMP application programming interface (API) was published in October 1997. In the 20 years since then, the OpenMP API and the slightly older MPI have become the two stable programming models that
…
From insideHPC
BioScience gets a Boost Through Order-of-Magnitude Computing Gains
Intel is working with leaders in the field to eliminate today’s data processing bottlenecks. In this guest post from Intel, the company explores how BioScience is getting a leg up from order-of-magnitude computing progress. "Intel…