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 insideHPC
New NVIDIA EGX Platform Brings Real-Time AI to the Edge
Today NVIDIA announced NVIDIA EGX, an accelerated computing platform that enables companies to perform low-latency AI at the edge. “The combination of high-performance, low-latency and accelerated networking provides a new infrastructure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Reports on Shareholder Vote Amazon on Rekognition
Shareholders vs government regulation. Intriguing details from the UK, where advanced camera surveillance is ubiquitous. Advanced automation of these systems will quickly follow.
Amazon defeated Rekognition revolt by a large…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Key Look at the Meaning and Value of Blockchain
A favorite commenter of mine talks about the Blockchain. Who we worked with at IBM. With some great additional references. Recommended read and reference.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A collection of observations, news and resources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation ROI
Perspectives on value measurement, when and how.
Measuring Automation ROI by Deloitte
Maximizing your mileage...
Taking a strategic, holistic approach to automation ROI during the planning phases helps to build a more robust business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware of Giant Underwater Volcanoes and Seismic Hums
The planet is alive.
Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World By Laura Geggel in Livescience
From insideHPC
Dell HPC Community Meeting returns to Frankfurt for ISC 2019
Dell EMC will once again host the HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2019. "The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers…
From insideHPC
Cybersecurity and Risk Management for HPC
Henry Newman from Seagate Government Solutions gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. "Cyber attacks and security breaches have become commonplace with explosion of data. More often than not, these breaches could have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What do the Amazon Star Product Ratings Mean? Can we get Transparency?
Well they are just an average of all the individual ratings, no? Well that approach would be very manipulable, and you see right away that they place more weight to people that have bought the product. Turns out it's much
What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Control for all Your Gadgets
Hands free is good though perhaps not necessary. Gesture, which we also looked at, has emerged much less.
One Day your Voice will Control all your Gadgets, and they will Gontrol you in Technology Review
Everything you own in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memory Lane by Accenture
Nice idea, I have some colleagues that are working on related problems, will bring this up.
Accenture Interactive creates 'Memory Lane' AI project to tackle elderly loneliness By Imogen Watson in theDrum
Accenture Interactive
Following…
From insideHPC
Video: Kubernetes for Biomedical Analysis
Kevin Sayers from the University of Basel gave this talk at the hpc-ch forum. "The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics BioMedIT project is developing the computing infrastructure which will enable biomedical analyses on sensitive…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) invites applications for a full-time HPC Systems Administrator to join our Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. "The MSOE community is guided by six values – collaboration…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Selected Papers at CCC 2019
Some papers from the accepted list of this year’s Computational Complexity Conference [ UB CSE ] Alan Selman is a long-time friend of Ken and I, and is a long-time researcher in complexity theory. Alan was the first president…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 25th 2019)
Oculus released the Quest, its latest VR goggles. It requires no wiring, no PC. It supports six degrees of freedom, so it is “true VR”. They cost less than $600. The reviews are critical. The goggles still weight too much for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition in Retail
An expert discussion of the use vs risks of facial recognition in retail.
Do the benefits of using facial recognition in retail outweigh the risks? by Mark Ryski inRetailwire
Facial recognition technology has many practical applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinds and Channels of Chat for Customers
Good thoughts about what customers need and the variety of chat channels.
Live chat and customer anxiety By Niamh Reed in Customerthink
Customers come in all moods and mindsets. Some are confident, some are angry, some are calm…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Aims Assistant at Conversation
Have been impressed recently by Google's advances in assistance.
Google's AI Assistant aims to transcend the smart speaker in Techexplore by Rachel Lerman
... At the time, Amazon had been selling its Echo smart speaker, powered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Manufacturing Defects with AI
Descriptive largely non technical article that explains potential.
How to Detect Manufacturing Defects Using AI in Nanalyze
While most consumers don’t often see the process of manufacturing their products, they are most certainly…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More Materials Science from Squid Skin
Article: "How a Squid's Color-Changing Skin Inspired a New Material That Can Trap or Release Heat." 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…
From Schneier on Security
NSA Hawaii
Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening post on Oahu. Not a whole lot of actual information. "We're…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Driverless up to the Doorstop
Most interesting is that the computing power for the 'robot' will be from the vehicle. Good now, but I wonder if advances will make this unnecessary. The wheel-less stork like Digit is different too.. First time I have seen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI More Human by Adding Dilemma
Wondering if the Prisoners Dilemma is the right thing to use here, but agree that showing typical human emotions can bring sympathy to a machine as it can to humans. Context dependent though, and the PD is an contrived context…
From insideHPC
HPC Powers Evolution of Defects for Superconductors
Researchers are using supercomputers to introduce and assess the impact of different configurations of defects on the performance of a superconductor. "When people think of targeted evolution, they might think of people who breed…
From insideHPC
New Blueprint lays out Strategic Research Agenda for HPC in Europe
The European ETP4HPC initiative has published a blueprint for the new Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing. "This blueprint sketches the big picture of the major trends in the deployment of HPC and HPDA methods…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Estate Investment Support via Blockchain
Brought to my attention to support a potential project, examining motivation of block chains, their architecture and integrated smart contact use.
For Real Estate, Blockchain Could Unshackle Investment
A special interest groupBy…
From insideHPC
Colombian and Botswana Researchers Awarded ISC Travel Grant
Today ISC 2019 announced the recipients of the ISC Travel Grant this year will be from Columbia and Botswana. The winners will each be awarded a grant of 2500 euros to cover travel expenses and boarding. ISC High Performance
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From insideHPC
Video: The First Catalan Quantum Computer
Pol Forn from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre gave this talk at the BSC Annual Meeting. "QUANTIC is a joint venture between the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the University of Barcelona. The research directions are
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deriving Scent from DNA?
Way back when we were looking at scent and flavor in consumer products, we talked to scientists about the possibility of extracting these measures from DNA of component natural plants and flowers. Were told no it was not
Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Puppets the Human Face
With lots of interesting video examples at the link. From Samsung's AI group. Fascinating and also a scary. When will we not need actors at all? First I had seem the term 'puppeting'.
Oh no, Samsung’s AI lab can create a…
From Schneier on Security
Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand, basically outlawing strong end-to-end encryption. Anyone not…