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
Jacquard Devices
Notes on new ways to place wearable, immersive computing. Well beyond the loom.
Jaquard Device Turns Houseplants into Keyboards in Ideaconnection
Designer Ivan Poupyrev discusses his Jacquard device, which can turn everyday objects…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DSC Plain Language Statistics Series
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32 Statistical Concepts Explained in Simple…
From Computational Complexity
NSF Panels
The government shut down in January led to delays at the National Science Foundation and only recently announcing decisions on grants submitted last fall. For those who successfully received awards, congratulations! For those…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: Get on Big Iron with the ALCF Data Science Program
The ALCF Data Science Program at Argonne has issued its Call for Proposals. The program aims to accelerate discovery across a broad range of scientific domains which require data-intensive and machine learning algorithms to address…
From insideHPC
Univa Navops Launch Speeds HPC Workload Migration to the Cloud
Today Univa announced its latest version of Navops Launch, version 1.1, which offers enterprise users the ability to migrate their HPC workloads and processes to the cloud with higher efficiency and agility. "The Univa team designed…
From insideHPC
Epic HPC Road Trip Continues to NREL
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NREL in Golden, Colorado. "When it comes to energy efficient computing, NREL has to be one of the most advanced facilities…
From insideHPC
Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologies
Sergio Maffioletti from the University of Zurich gave this talk at the hpc-ch forum on Cloud and Containers. "Reproducing published experiments or extending existing data analysis pipelines is a challenge that is becoming increasingly…
From insideHPC
Texas A&M to launch new HPE Center for Computer Architecture Research
Today the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station announced the creation of the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise Center for Computer Architecture Research. Made possible with a donation from HPE, the center’s mission is to lead…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Today and Planning For Tomorrow
It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use projects rather than an exam because I think students learn more from projects. Writing an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Gets Cleaner
Quite a step forward, if it delivers. Its like they have done the easy stuff, now work on harder problems for the smart home. And cooperates with other devices to get it done.
iRobot’s new cleaning robots can team up to vacuum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Your Future
Design, Benchmark and then deliver your own future.
Foresight Mindset™
The Art & Science Of Designing Your Future ...
Future Benchmarking [VIDEO] by Mario Herger
What is Future Benchmarking and why is it important for organizations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Repairing a Satellite with Deep Learning AI in Space
By predicting lost data from other existing sources using deep learning. Note the alternative uses of the approach, say in the case of solar storms. Considerable complexity with varying goals.
IBM helped NASA fix one of its
How…
From Schneier on Security
Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Really interesting talk by former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos about the problems inherent in content moderation by social media platforms. Well worth watching....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lens Translation Filters Roll
Much enjoyed Google Lens, now if it could be used for learning-ready data acquisition. Nice idea, also will be available on IOS photos Translation is a great idea, but I also want direct identification examples, like for…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Have an Impact on U.S. Science Policy, Attend CRA’s CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute!
The following is a guest blog post by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. It was originally posted on CRA’s Computing Research Policy Blog. Every two years as part of it’s mission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EchoLocation as Biometric Activity Data
A reminder that any kind of data that results from interaction with its environment can be probed for pattern. And thus provide learnable details.
This AI Uses Echo Location to Identify What You are Doing in Wired by Sophia
GUO…
From insideHPC
MEGWARE Powers HPC Cluster for Agriculture Landscape Research at ZALF
MEGWARE has deployed a new HPC cluster at The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Germany. The cluster is powered by 125 compute nodes equipped with latest Intel Xeon Scalable 6138 processor technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Goes Mobile First
Trying to understand the full implications of this. Will it necessarily lead to better results for the customer of not? Assume this was determined with the test examples chosen by Google. What if a site does not have a mobile…
From insideHPC
On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis reflects on how a recent film about Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a gender equality lesson for us all in high performance computing. "There’s a real argument that creating a more
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation for Training
Simulation was a favorite method for analyzing alternatives in the enterprise. Of course every simulation also created new data. Now that data can be used for finding operational patterns and examples in the real world. Would…
From insideHPC
Excelero Integrates NVMesh and BeeGFS for Accelerated I/O
Today Excelero and ThinkParQ announced benchmark results from their combined technologies for HPC, AI, ML, and analytics. "With Excelero’s NVMesh, our customers have access to an ultra-low latency, high performance approach to…
From insideHPC
Video: The Kokkos C++ Performance Portability EcoSystem for Exascale
Christian Trott from Sandia gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "The Kokkos C++ Performance Portability EcoSystem is a production-level solution for writing modern C++ applications in a hardware-agnostic way. We'll…
From Schneier on Security
First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak
Krebs on Security is reporting a massive data leak by the real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. "The title insurance agency collects all kinds of documents from both the buyer and seller, including…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA EGX Accelerates AI on TYAN Edge Server
Today TYAN announced that it is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA EGX platform with its Thunder SX TN76-B7102 edge server, completing TYAN’s GPU server product line. "NVIDIA EGX provides the missing link for low-latency…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semi supervised learning
Brought to my attention, explanation in DataRobot, much more at the link.
Semi-Supervised Machine Learning
What is Semi-Supervised Machine Learning?
Semi-supervised machine learning is a combination of supervised and unsupervised…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Drone Draffic
Likely to continue to become more important.
Managing Drone traffic in Cities
NASA's first-of-kind tests look to manage drone in cities
by Scott Sonner
In this May 21, 2019 photo, a drone flies over downtown Reno, Nev., before landing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Launches IoT Chip
Low power, 60 mile range, but just in Japan for now. Seems would be ideal for Smart city applications. Most notable a new means to gather data and deliver applications remotely.
Sony built an IoT chip with a 60 mile range
ItBy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pervasive Intelligence Signals
Everywhere, thus most importantly in context, on the edge. It is getting there.
Pervasive intelligence
Smart machines everywhere
By David Schatsky, Jonathan Camhi, Aniket Dongre Deloitte
Everything is getting smarter, as
ADVANCES…
From Computational Complexity
separating fact from fiction with the 56% of Americans say Arabic Numerals should not be taught in school
On the excellent TV show Veep there was a subplot about a political candidate (who himself had failed algebra in HS) objecting to Algebra since it was invented by the Muslims. I don't recall the exact line, but he said something…
From insideHPC
Unleashing the Next Wave of HPC Breakthroughs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives
In the face of unrelenting data growth, rising numbers of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are memory bound. Caught between the high cost and limited capacity of DRAM and the lower performance of 3D NAND SSDs, HPC users…