Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering the Smart Home
Interesting thoughts here. We are discovering. After reading this I scanned my Alexa app and there were twenty of so 'smart' things. There were about half as many in Google Home. And I am still discovering, while they
Benedict…
From insideHPC
Excelero Powers AI as a Service with Shared NVMe at InstaDeep
"InstaDeep offers a pioneering AI as a Service solution enabling organizations of any size to leverage the benefits of AI and Machine Learning without the time, costs and expertise required to run their own AI stacks. Excelero…
From insideHPC
General Atomics Fabricates First ITER Central Solenoid Module for Nuclear Fusion
Engineers at General Atomics have completed fabrication of the first ITER Central Solenoid Module for nuclear fusion. When the ITER fusion energy project in France powers up in 2025, its first operations will be enabled by the…
From insideHPC
Video: Shaping the Future of Finance with HPC
In this video, Mao Ye from the University of Illinois describes how his high performance computing computing is shaping the future of Finance. "Ye's research lies at the intersection of big data, high-performance computing and…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches Liquid Cooling Solution for Intel Server System S9200WK
Today CoolIT Systems announced an integrated liquid cooling solution to support the Intel Server System S9200WK. "The Intel Server System S9200WK uses CoolIT’s innovative Rack DLC coldplate solution, featuring patented Split-Flow…
From insideHPC
AMD to Power Exascale Cray System at ORNL
Today AMD announced a new exascale-class supercomputer to be delivered to ORNL in 2021. Built by Cray, the “Frontier” system is expected to deliver more than 1.5 exaFLOPS of processing performance on AMD CPU and GPU processors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Reporting Data
Have been involved in several projects where this considerably effected the accuracy of results of the model constructed. Personal data is often misreported. Hardly hidden, but rather behavioral expected misstatements.
Everybody…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualitities of Effective Bots
Nicely done, list at the link is a good start when considering a Chatbot option for customer service.
Few important qualities of highly effective bots By Juned Ahsan - in CustomerThink
Bots are gaining popularity because
As…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics at the Edge
Some introduction thoughts. Analytics (Or AI) should have as an option the ability to execute close to the edge (the delivery point) of its implementation. This is not always necessary, but should clearly be an option.
Data…
From Schneier on Security
Locked Computers
This short video explains why computers regularly came with physical locks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The one thing the video doesn't talk about is RAM theft. When RAM was expensive, stealing it was a problem....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Tech Drives Faster Smart Home Adoption
Clearly the case, with some motivation and stats:
Voice Technology Is The Key To Faster Smart Home Adoption
By Meenakshi Tiwari, Forecast Analyst in Forrester
Smart speakers continue to sell like hotcakes and create ripples of…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Network Coding Conjecture Is Powerful
More hard Boolean functions Peyman Afshani, Casper Freksen, Lior Kamma, and Kasper Larsen (AFKL) have a recent paper which we just discussed. Today Ken and I will update our discussion. Their paper assumes the network coding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Works Better with Windows 10
Indications that Windows is increasing it cooperation with Alexa in latest adjustments to make the Windows 10 PC work like a voice activated speaker. Note this allows direct competition with Cortana for music and basic assistance…
From Computational Complexity
Thoughts on the recent Jeopardy streak (SPOILERS)
James Holzhauer has won 22 consecutive games of Jeopardy and has made around 1.6 million dollars. Nice work if you can get it. Here are some thoughts no this
1) Before James H the records for number of consecutive games was…
From Schneier on Security
First Physical Retaliation for a Cyberattack
Israel has acknowledged that its recent airstrikes against Hamas were a real-time response to an ongoing cyberattack. From Twitter: CLEARED FOR RELEASE: We thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implementing Guidelines for AI
Good thoughts by fellow CACM blogger Ryan Carrier, with links to lots of practical things underway.
Implementing Guidelines for Governance, Oversight of AI, and Automation By Ryan Carrier
Communications of the ACM, May 2019…
From insideHPC
OSS rolls out GPUltima Rugged Rack-Scale AI Solution
Today One Stop Systems announced plans to demonstrate its award winning AI on the Fly system platforms at the Sea-Air-Space 2019 conference in Maryland. The company’s AI-system platforms accelerate autonomous vehicles, record…
From insideHPC
DDN Moves Closer to the Edge with Nexenta Acquisition
Today DDN announced its intent to acquire Nexenta, the market leader in Software Defined Storage for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT). “Our clients benefit from the flexibility and performance of Nexenta’s robust SDS solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space
Finally got to see this talk, given late last year:
How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space By Anamita Guha Slides Talk
Lead Product Manager, IBM Watson Developer Offerings AI & AR/VR
[email protected] @anamitag
Background info…
From insideHPC
Jülich installs first Cluster Module for DEEP-EST Exascale Project
Researchers at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre have installed the first-ever Cluster Module from MEGWARE as part of the European DEEP-EST project for Exascale computing. The Cluster Module consist of a single rack with 50 Intel…
From insideHPC
Video: How to Scale from Workstation through Cloud to HPC in Cryo-EM Processing
Lance Wilson from Monash University gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "Learn how high-resolution imaging is revolutionizing science and dramatically changing how we process, analyze, and visualize at this new scale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tensorflow 2.0
Introduction to the announcement, not too technical.
Now TensorFlow 2.0 and its high-level APIs (via TF Dev Summit '19)
With TensorFlow 2.0, we are consolidating our APIs and integrating Keras across the TensorFlow ecosystem. In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Drones Very Popular
Very popular, you see their evidence everywhere. How soon will the sky fill up? Some statistics.
Commercial drones are way more popular than the FAA expected
Expected growth: 44 percent. Actual growth: 170 percent.
By Holly Brockwell…
From insideHPC
‘AI on the Fly’: Moving AI Compute and Storage to the Data Source
The impact of AI is just starting to be realized across a broad spectrum of industries. Tim Miller, Vice President Strategic Development at One Stop Systems (OSS), highlights a new approach — 'AI on the Fly' — where specialized…
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
I don't have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there's nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others. Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ONNX: Open Neural Network Exchange Format
I was just exposed to this. I will post an introductory presentation on this here when it shortly becomes available. Great idea. Their site has lots more:
Open Neural Network Exchange Format
The New Open Ecosystem for Interchangeable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Technical paper on machine learning and linear algebra. Looks to have considerable promise for faster training and retraining systems by using compression techniques and then operating on the compressed data. I often mention…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast.ai Students Show Us How to De-Crapify
Some very intriguing image and video filtering and improvement results, with lots of images and audio. Join their newsletter.
From Fast.AI
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational AI
Conversation is the ultimate kind of collaboration. It establishes, augments, supports and delivers intelligence.
The Impact and Ethics of Conversational Artificial Intelligence in InfoQ by Gillian Armstrong
As we use…
From insideHPC
XSEDE Teams with Cal State for Advanced Computing Training
The need for more young people in STEM careers in a growing concern for the HPC community. Along these lines, more than 70 undergraduate and graduate students participated in the recent XSEDE/DIRECT-STEM training workshops at…