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
Data Sources Regulated
Data and its protection and use being addressed in regulation in the US Supreme Court.
Food Marketing Institute Presents Arguments Before U.S. Supreme Court
April 30, Renee Sexton in the Shelby Report
The U.S. Supreme Court heard…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Much Will We Buy Using Augmented Reality?
Have experimented with AR as used by a number of companies, notably IKEA.
Will AR change how people buy products from eyeglasses to wedding rings? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
People keep a pair of eyeglasses for a long time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and AI
More on this.was a long time user of SAS in the enterprise, so the connection is interesting.
SAS Lays Out AI, Machine Learning Enhancements
The data science and machine learning platform market is much more competitive today than…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Look at the IOT
Good future look here ....
The Future of Technology With Internet of Things in Elprocus
The term “IoT” stands for Internet of Things is a most significant topic in the engineering, technology, industry, etc. It has become front…
From insideHPC
IBM Research Applies Deep Learning for Detecting Glaucoma
Over at the IBM Blog, Rahil Garnavi writes that IBM researchers have developed new techniques in deep learning that could help unlock earlier glaucoma detection. "Earlier detection of glaucoma is critical to slowing its progression…
From insideHPC
Pitt Researchers using HPC to turn CO2 into Useful Products
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are using XSEDE supercomputing resources to develop new materials that can capture carbon dioxide and turn it into a commercially useful substances. With global climate change resulting…
From insideHPC
E4 teams with bluechip Computer AG in Germany for HPC
Today Italian HPC and AI specialist E4 Computer Engineering announced a strategic partnership with bluechip Computer AG, a leading German manufacturer of server, storage, workstation and client systems. Under the agreement, the…
From BLOG@CACM
How to Reduce Long Lines at CS Office Hours in Five Tweets
Evidence-based practices that will likely reduce the long lines at the CS professor's door.
From insideHPC
European Processor Initiative: The EuroHPC Industrial Cornerstone
Mario Kovač from EPI gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "EPI will provide to the European industry and research a competitive HPC platform and data processing solutions at world class level in the best interest of data…
From Computational Complexity
The Next Chapter
From Schneier on Security
Why Isn't GDPR Being Enforced?
Politico has a long article making the case that the lead GDPR regulator, Ireland, has too cozy a relationship with Silicon Valley tech companies to effectively regulate their privacy practices. Despite its vows to beef up its…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Looking Ahead to a Bright Future for the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am more energized than ever about the work we are doing to help build the…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Looking Ahead to a Bright Future for the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am more energized than ever about the work we are doing to help build the…
From Putting People First
MacArthur Foundation’s “100&Change” competition now calling for applications
100&Change is a MacArthur Foundation competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that will make measurable progress toward solving a significant problem. 100&Change will select a bold proposal that promises…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustaining Machine Learning in the Enterprise
Talk on surveys and look at trends reported on in an O'Reilly conference. Well done, with results that are practical for strategic and operational choices in the enterprise. I like that the connection to classic analytics
Sustaining…
From insideHPC
Interview: Cray in Azure Steps up with Dedicated Supercomputing in the Cloud
In this interview, Joseph George from Cray describes the company's new offerings for Cray in Azure. "The Cray and Microsoft Azure teams have been actively working on numerous customer engagements together, in an effort to clearly…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Code 8.7: Towards a Pipeline – Technology, Techniques and Training
The following blog post was contributed by Nadya Bliss (Director, the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University & CCC Council Member) and is reposted from the Delta 8.7 website. You can view the original post here…
From insideHPC
Virginia Tech Team Using AI for Supercomputer Load Balancing
A team of researchers from Virginia Tech is helping supercomputers to work more efficiently in a novel way, using machine learning to properly distribute, or load balance, data processing tasks across the thousands of servers…
From insideHPC
Sandia Powers Breakthroughs in Neuromorphic Computing
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have collaborated with Stanford University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst to address the challenges of neuromorphic computing, which mimics the way the human brain carries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less than Full Face Recognition
Our own experiments consistently showed less than 100% for full face data, so is this data or context (lighting) dependent?
Researchers achieve 100 percent recognition rates for half and three-quarter faces by University of Bradford…
From insideHPC
NASA to Launch University of Pittsburgh Supercomputer into Space
A novel supercomputer developed by a University of Pittsburgh team is set to journey to the International Space Station on May 1. The supercomputer will serve as a research “sandbox” for space-based experiments on computing,
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanded Options for Trunk Delivery
The idea was mentioned some time ago. Appears to have somewhat limited appeal, say for ease of secure delivery while at work, but reports here of further uptake would indicate more than expected. A kind of kind of connected
Ford…
From insideHPC
Video: NAG Launches HPC Cost of Ownership Calculator
In this video, Mike Croucher from NAG demonstrates the company's new Total Cost of Ownership Calculator for HPC. "Should your next HPC procurement be on-premise or in the cloud? This is one of the questions that our clients ask…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
With Great Code Comes Great Responsibility
Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. The challenge, and grants of up to $150,000, go to universities but the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data are Important
Back to my long time look at data as an asset. "Alternative Data Sets' is a term I had not heard of mentioned here. Because of new uses of data, we do need more and more accurate data, usually in more specific contexts and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and IOT Security
Another indication that companies are serious about blockchain for some uses. Click through for the motivation in the IOT.
126-Year-Old General Electric (GE) Invests in Blockchain Cybersecurity Startup
The venture capital arm…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Influence of 5G on Cable?
A look at the emergence. Podcast and transcript. Personal and civic infrastructures that will need to be updated? " .... Expectations are riding high for the next generation of wireless technology, but is 5G ready to compete…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Chip to Push AI
More at the link, how much will it improve computing? Since the 80s it has been commonly stated that its more about the software than it is about the advances in hardware. But the task of AI via deep learning has focused the…
From Schneier on Security
On Security Tokens
Mark Risher of Google extols the virtues of security keys: I'll say it again for the people in the back: with Security Keys, instead of the *user* needing to verify the site, the *site* has to prove itself to the key. Good security…