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
R-Systems to Launch PWRS HPC Access Portal
Today Parallel Works Inc. announced that the company is partnering with R-Systems to launch the PWRS HPC Access Portal. The Portal will empower scientists, engineers, and data analysts with the tools to supercharge their computational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Assistants into Laptops
Seems to compete with Cortana, which I have with Windows on my laptop. Builtin capabilities making popular assistants even more common. Is the increasing number of skills driving the interest?
HP's new Envy PC is the first…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Analytics in Realtime
More operational links to real time analytics are emerging.
Reacting Faster in Retail with Real-Time Big Data
By Raluca Neagu - in Customerthink
Consider the following scenario: You are a supermarket store manager. Popcorn, pretzels…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Watson Assistant
I was an early examiner of Watson Assistant, you can even build a skill for Alexa with Watson Assistant! Useful introduction:
Integrate Watson Assistant With Just About Anything by Mitchell Mason in Medium
Additional credit to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baby Translator Predicting Autism
Another example of pattern recognition ...
Can this AI Powered baby Translator Help Diagnose Autism? By Megan Moltini in Wired
When Ariana Anderson had her first child, she was as clueless as any new parent about how to…
From insideHPC
CIARA steps up to High Frequency Trading and Blockchain with AMD
CIARA just announced new AMD-based systems for ultra-low latency, high Frequency Trading and Blockchain solutions. "With the adoption of new technologies such as large core count processors and the usage of ECC memory, the path…
From insideHPC
AI Podcast Looks at Recent Developments at NVIDIA Research
In this episode of the AI Podcast, Bryan Cantanzaro from NVIDIA discusses some of the latest developments at NVIDIA research. "The goal of NVIDIA research is to figure out what things are going to change the future of the company…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does It Matter What Programming Languages We Teach in High School
I’m tempted to just leave this post blank and see what sort of comments it gets. But I am incapable of that. Sorry.
Assuming we are preparing high school students for university and other advanced education and not for jobs right…From The Eponymous Pickle
Growing Artificial Neural Nets
Quite an impressive thought. Have them grow their own architecture?
Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike cells to find their way
By John Rennie in Wired
HAVING THE SENSE to take a shortcut, the most direct route from point…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Health Records
In the Google Blog:
Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records
Posted by Alvin Rajkomar MD, Research Scientist and Eyal Oren PhD, Product Manager, Google AI
When patients get admitted to a hospital, they have many questions about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Law Professor Looks at Driverless Cars
This can be seen further into any autonomous systems. We examined it for plant operations.
Is the Law Ready for Driverless Cars? By Ryan Calo
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 5, Pages 34-36
10.1145/3199599
I am a law professor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Winemaking
Engaging the customer.
Winemakers Engage Visitors With Virtual Reality in VR Focus
Funding from Australian Federal Government lets wineries encourage tourism using VR. By Rebecca Hills-Duty
Virtual reality (VR) has seen use
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Power Video Streaming for IOT
Ultimately could be a very big thing. Opens video sensor streaming, and IOT very broadly. Tie it to video pattern recognition advances. It further could also have many security implications.
Researchers’ low-power video …
From insideHPC
Deep Learning at Scale for Cosmology Research
In this video from Google I/O 2018, Debbie Bard from NERSC describes Deep Learning at scale for cosmology research. "Debbie Bard is acting group lead for the Data Science Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: High Performance Software Developer at The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation is Virginia is seeking High Performance Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "You will code high-performance technical computing applications in the areas of space system modeling, architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Google Duplex
In the Google AI blog. A more lengthy and technical view of getting tasks done by phone conversations.
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone
Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Etsy
Hardly opposite, but appealingly different. Refreshing to go there.
Etsy succeeds with its Amazon-opposite approach by George Anderson in Retailwire.
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and artisan goods, announced better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Federated Learning
New way to share data for training prediction models.
Google's Federated Learning Architecture Can Enhance Privacy While Ending the Centralized Dataset Analytics India By Abhijeet Katte
Google engineers recently announced…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How the Squid Lost Its Shell
Squids used to have shells. 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 The Noisy Channel
Indeed, there are lots of challenges with faceted search in practice.
Indeed, there are lots of challenges with faceted search in practice.
With regard to the three problems you raise:
1) I agree that faceted search has a way of unlocking the poverty in the data. Unless you already have robust metadata…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI Blog: Google Clips
In the Google AI blog:
A means of capturing data for AI learning input?
Automatic Photography with Google Clips
Posted by Aseem Agarwala, Research Scientist, Clips Content Team Lead
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 11th, 2018)
It looks like avoiding food most of the day, even if you do not eat less, is enough to partially rejuvenate you. Google researchers use deep learning to emulate how mammals find their way in challenging environments. We knowContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Facebook Creating a Blockchain Division
Had wondered if it made sense for some companies to create their own cryptocurrencies. Under what conditions would this make sense? Would this assume these would be liabilities? Or more like loyalty points? Could there…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bloomberg’s It’s Time for Data Ethics Conversations at Your Dinner Table
Recently, Bloomberg posted an opinion piece about data ethics. How do we as a community handle data ethically? We know that the amount of data created each day will only continue to increase. What does responsible data sharing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
(Updated) Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommender Systems and Outlier Detection
Interesting ideas Slides and recording now at link below:
Talk by: Denis Vrdoljak & Gunnar Kleemann at Cisco & UC Berkeley
“Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommender Systems and Outlier Detection”
Abstract: At Berkeley Data Science…
From insideHPC
New Update Speeds eXtremeDB Financial Edition for HPC
Today McObject announced a new version of its eXtremeDB Financial Edition for HPC database management system. Designed for speed and efficiency, the new version offers significant speed improvements, building on the performance…
From insideHPC
Neurala Reduces Training Time for Deep Neural Network Technology
Today Neurala announced a breakthrough update to its award-winning Lifelong Deep Neural Network (Lifelong-DNN) technology. The update allows for a significant reduction in training time compared to traditional DNN—20 seconds
…
From insideHPC
PASC18 Panel to Focus on Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation
Today the PASC18 conference announced that this year’s panel discussion will focus on the central theme of the conference: “Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation.” Are these two worlds evolving and converging together?…
From insideHPC
Video: Building Computing and Data Centres for Exascale in the EU
In this video from the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference, Peter Hopton from the EuroEXA project shares the problems and the solutions that are being developed in the EuroEXA co-design project. "EuroEXA hardware designers work together…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Privacy Influences Analytic Products
How to build analytic products in an age when data privacy has become critical
Privacy-preserving analytics is not only possible, but with GDPR about to come online, it will become necessary to incorporate privacy in your data…