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
USPS Tests Self Driving Trucks
Not home delivery yet, but trucking.
USPS starts testing self-driving trucks
The US Postal Service has begun a two-week test using self-driving trucks to transport mail between Phoenix and Dallas. The startup that developed the…
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting iPhones
This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Adherence Measures in Medical Regimens
Had not heard the term adherence used before, but see the measure including a combination of compliance and persistence. We typically used compliance by itself to bundle both, but I like thinking of both as measures.
Improving…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Using Gamification in Warehouses
Had not heard of this, but always looking for ways we can augment work by tweaking behavior. Like adding some elements of fun. Don't know if it actually works in practice, but it is worth the try.
‘MissionRacer’: How Amazon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of AI and Machine Learning
This looks quite good, reading now. Figure-eight deals with the most important part of the problem: Where do you get the right data to support the learning you need? The right Data is used to teach the method used, the inclusion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Networking for Everywhere
What are the implications for new infrastructure of Wifi Networking Everywhere?
Enterprise Networks in Cisco Blog
Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure for Intent-based Networking Everywhere By Anand Oswal
We’ve come to expect…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request Comments on Draft: A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US
CCC Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Vice Chair Liz Bradley, and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis provided significant contributions to this post. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) requests comments by May 28, 2019 on a draft…
From insideHPC
GCS Sponsors University Teams for ISC19 Student Cluster Competition
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing is sponsoring the two German student teams for the Student Cluster Competition at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. The teams, representing the University of Hamburg and Heidelberg University, are among…
From insideHPC
Forum Teratec to Spotlight HPC, AI, and Digital Transformation in Europe
Registration is now open for the Forum Teratec in France. The event takes place June 11-12 in Palaiseau. "The Forum Teratec is the premier international meeting for all players in HPC, Simulation, Big Data and Machine Learning…
From insideHPC
GPU Hackathon gears up for Future Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC recently hosted its first user hackathon to begin preparing key codes for the next-generation architecture of the Perlmutter system. Over four days, experts from NERSC, Cray, and NVIDIA worked with application code teams…
From insideHPC
Catalyst UK Program Fosters Arm-based HPC Systems
"Clearly Arm will fit in as part of a broader HPC ecosystem, as we move towards systems that involve multiple chip architectures. In terms of scientific research, it may mean we run one stage of a simulation workflow on an Arm…
From insideHPC
The Pending Age of Exascale
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at advances in exascale computing and the impact of AI on HPC development. In March it was announced that a new exascale system was on the horizon…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Up Tests
It’s harder to make up tests than to take them [ Recent photo ] Ken Regan has been busy these last few days working on making a final exam, giving the exam, and now grading the exam. Today Ken and I want to talk about tests.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Needs to Invest for Machine Learning
Good piece. Yes, usually in conjunction with companies and academia. Also a way to train management and decision makers on its uses. Enterprise wants examples of off the shelf results. Also needs to be investment in understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces New Glass
Emphasis on enterprise makes sense, we looked at the early versions, and there was not enough useful business content to make these work for key applications like plant machine maintenance. Once this emerges, the demand for
Google…
From Schneier on Security
How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft
Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story; cell phone and other electronic surveillance techniques make…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telecom Customer Analytics
Good piece from DSC on definitions used for customer analytics in Telecom industry. Specifics of the definitions are interesting, and can be further considered in other industries. Need for measures and goals can be determined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Book, Slides.
Had mentioned this once before, by its nature slightly out of date but good resource. Continuing to read it now.
https://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/mlbook/
Foundations of Machine Learning
Download:
book (PDF, HTML).
lecture slides.
Hardcopy…
From Schneier on Security
The Concept of "Return on Data"
This law review article by Noam Kolt, titled "Return on Data," proposes an interesting new way of thinking of privacy law. Abstract: Consumers routinely supply personal data to technology companies in exchange for services. Yet…
From insideHPC
DDN Completes Acquisition of Nexenta
Today DDN announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Nexenta, the market leader in Software Defined Storage for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), creating the Nexenta by DDN division. "The acquisition brings three…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Retail Ethics Challenge?
From a retailers and retail expertise and their customers perspective, with further expert comments at the link:
Just How big is Amazon’s Ethics Challenge? in Retailwire by Tom Ryan
Axios Harris’ 2019 poll of the 100 Most Visible…
From The Eponymous Pickle
360 Degree AI Agent View
Intriguing idea. Many applications to maximize information. Although also likely a distraction as well. Like the idea of an 'Agent' being beyond a person with that role, but also any kind of information gathering system, human…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for PASC19 in Zurich
PASC19 has posted its Full Conference Program. The event takes place June 12-14 in Zurich, Switzerland. "PASC19 is the sixth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in
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From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT and Air Force
Examining this now:
MIT and U.S. Air Force sign agreement to launch AI Accelerator
New program will focus on rapid deployment of artificial intelligence innovations in operations, disaster response, and medical readiness.
Rob Matheson…
From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre opens Arm Centre of Excellence for HPC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Arm Research have signed a multi-year agreement to establish the Arm-BSC Centre of Excellence. The move reflects a long history of BSC pioneering Arm technologies in HPC with the
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From insideHPC
Mellanox Introduces High Speed Ethernet Cloud Fabric Technology
Today Mellanox introduced breakthrough Ethernet Cloud Fabric (ECF) technology based on Spectrum-2, the world’s most advanced 100/200/400 Gb/s Ethernet switches. ECF technology provides the ideal platform to quickly build and
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 10 – Interview with Beth Mynatt Part 2
Part 2 of the Catalyzing Computing podcast interview with Dr. Beth Mynatt is out now. Dr. Mynatt is the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), a College of Computing Distinguished Professor…
From insideHPC
Video: Exascale Deep Learning for Climate Analytics
Thorsten Kurth Josh Romero gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "We'll discuss how we scaled the training of a single deep learning model to 27,360 V100 GPUs (4,560 nodes) on the OLCF Summit HPC System using the high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better, Faster Decisions: Faster is a Context
Its all about decisions. Not only our own but also those we make based on help from systems. And, increasingly autonomous decisions. And faster may not be better without understanding risk in various contexts. And speed…
From Computational Complexity
Notorious L.A.H or Notorious LAH? OR You always need one more proofread
I noticed a while back that even on the nth proofread of a document there are still corrections. So I decided to keep track of how many corrections there are in a paper I was working on. I chose a non-technical paper so that
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