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
GCS in Germany Appoints Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller as Chairman of the Board
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Germany announced the appointment of Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller as its new Chair of the Board of Directors. "As we advance towards the exascale threshold of computing and an era…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Liinux Hyperledger for Supply Chains
Reported earlier this year. Finally getting to its implications in supply chain. Smart Contracts
Linux Hyperledger to Give Developers Supply Chain Building Blocks
in Computerworld By Lucas Mearian
The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning for Time Series and Signal Processing
We researched the topic of using deep learning to replace forecasting time series applications in the enterprise, for faster and more accurate results, but were never successful. The need to segment many small time steps…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Purdue Hummingbird Drone
Flight bio-mimicry and the potential for swarming task completion. AI being used to determine useful patterns supporting flight.
Tiny drone uses A.I. to learn from nature’s best pilot, the hummingbird By Georgina Torbet
One…
From insideHPC
Software-Defined Visualization with Intel Rendering Framework – No Special Hardware Needed
This sponsored post from Intel explores how the Intel Rendering Framework, which brings together a number of optimized, open source rendering libraries, can deliver better performance at a higher degree of fidelity — without
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From Schneier on Security
Reverse Engineering a Chinese Surveillance App
Human Rights Watch has reverse engineered an app used by the Chinese police to conduct mass surveillance on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. The details are fascinating, and chilling. Boing Boing post....
From Computational Complexity
Ronald Graham's other large number. Well---- it was large in 1964 anyway.
Graham's number (see here) was at one time the largest number to appear in a math proof.
a) GN was an upper bound on a problem in Ramsey theory. There are now better upper bounds, see here. These better upper bounds are still…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Moves with MindMeld
Have we seen the emergence of a new general assistant? I remember the acquisition of Mindmeld, but did not expect this direction. Don't expect a device to follow, but likely a business oriented conversational AI and assistance…
From insideHPC
Design Work Completed for SKA Telescope Supercomputer
An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope. When complete, the SKA will enable astronomers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes its Smart Device Cooperation
Saw evidence of this when the ability to link with IFTTT ended, now a much broader set of changes will remove some of the cooperative capabilities among smart home systems. From the customers perspective would like to see much…
From insideHPC
Video: Jupyter as the Interface to High Performance Computing
In this video, researchers describe how the Jupyter notebook has become one of the tools of choice for the data science and high-performance computing communities. "This webinar will provide an overview of why Jupyter is gaining…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Follows Demographics
Was may own impression from some time ago that they did much better in leveraging demographics both in inventory and physical design of their retail spaces.
How Walmart stays ahead by following demographics
The rise of big data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price and Demand
A simple yet useful example of revenue - price elasticity. With a full Python code example We used to run these models in SAS in big CPG for every product we sold, advertised or proposed. Despite all the fancy things being…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Service Help and AI Agents
Inclined to agree, with only the most difficult examples handed over to groups of human or specialty agents.
How will AI powered Customer service Help Take over Support? in MarutiTech Blog
Automation of services has picked up
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Dash Buttons, Gone but not Forgotten
Used them from the beginning, from beta on to the regular use of a dozen of them on the frig. We discussed the concept years before. Still has a place I believe, they are a part of a consumer IOT that connects people directly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Inertia
Never heard it called this, but makes sense. And a precise measure? intriguing work to evaluate the introduction of new or related products.
Consumer Inertia and Market Power by Alexander MacKay and Marc Remer
Consumers are…
From insideHPC
Stony Brook University Launches New Institute for AI Discovery
Today Stony Brook University launched the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation to advance AI research and apply the transformative power of innovation driven by AI across disciplines. The AI Institute will focus on…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking an Application Engineers for our Technical User Support group on our Centralized SuperComputing Facility (CSCF) High Performance Computing…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 11th 2019)
Bone marrow transplanted from young mice to very old (almost dying) mice extended the life of the old mice by 30%. The authors conclude that bone-marrow transplantation affects the intrinsic aging mechanism. Artery calcification…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Appreciation Society Event
Last Wednesday was a Cephalopod Appreciation Society event in Seattle. I missed it. 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 posting guidelines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Situational Design for Alexa Assistance
In once sense, its all about situations. e.g. context. So this is good. Though its also about how the context is described (in storyboards) and how it varies with more descriptive information. The latter evolution is most…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: When AI Meets Medicine
Once your expand the context of medical AI beyond 'simple' pattern recognition and include the patient and professional, it gets complex.
When AI Meets Medicine
Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Census Data
R based capabilities. More hints in this short article at the link. I found myself needing this in a project where it could have been useful.
Making maps to visualize census data Posted by Mab Alam in DSC
Visualizing census…
From insideHPC
HPE BlueData Appliance Accelerates AI and Data-Driven Innovation
Today HPE announced a powerful new appliance for AI and data driven-innovation based on the HPE BlueData software platform and HPE Apollo systems. "To stay a step ahead of the competition, enterprise organizations in every industry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Maps its Global Architecture
An interactive map of Amazon's AWS general and global location architecture. No exact locations, but an indication of its breadth. More in TheVerge.
From insideHPC
Univa to Host HPC Cloud Breakfast Briefing at ISC 2019
Our friends at Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC Cloud Efficiency at ISC 2019. The meeting takes place June 19 at 8:00am - 10:00am in Frankfurt, Germany. "Migrating workload to a hybrid cloud comes with expense and
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From insideHPC
NVIDIA Builds First AI Platform for NHS Hospitals in the U.K.
Today NVIDIA and King’s College London announced they are partnering to build an AI platform designed to allow specialists in the U.K.’s National Health Service to train computers to automate the most time-consuming part of radiology…
From insideHPC
Video: The Exascale Computing Project and the Future of HPC
Doug Kothe from ORNL presented this ACM Tech Talk in April, 2019. "The ECP is designing the software infrastructure to enable the next generation of supercomputers—systems capable of more than 1018 operations per second—to effectively…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants for the Workplace
While Alexa continues to add many new but still narrow skills to choose from. Still want to see more things that will enhance business and home office context. Cortana and Google assistant are now providing more basic intelligence…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Elections Safe
A new proof that MAJORITY is not in . [ Rich DeMillo ] Rich DeMillo is a strong leader, a famous researcher, and a long-time best friend. Proof: He was the first CTO at HP and was the Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech; He helped…