Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Splunk and Operational Machine Data
Been a while since I looked at the Splunk language and environment. Used it in the enterprise for analyzing a stream of rapidly changing sensor measurements and adapting them for analysis. Admit I rarely see it mentioned
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Objects in Image Editing
Interesting use of the ideaof learned transformation. Could be used for example in editing images with their technical details to represent contextual details.
AI Taught to Instantly Transform Objects in Image-Editing Software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increasing complexity of Retail Interaction
Am now a more careful observer of store behavior.
What should retailers do about social distancing renegades?
by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with expert commentary.
Last week, a security guard at a Family Dollar in Michigan was fatally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
About AI and Call Centers
How much will AI and chatbots replace call centers? Will they ultimately carry on a complete and specific conversation that will solve a service problem most of the time? Will there be trust and carry through and follow up…
From insideHPC
Video: Evolving Cyberinfrastructure, Democratizing Data, and Scaling AI to Catalyze Research Breakthroughs
Nick Nystrom from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "The Artificial Intelligence and Big Data group at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center converges Artificial Intelligence and high…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 16th 2020)
Most of our processors, whether in our PCs or mobile phones, are 64-bit processors. In the case of your PC, it has been so for a couple of decades. Unfortunately, we have been stuck with 32-bit operating systems for a long time…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Storage Infrastructure Engineer at NERSC
NERSC is seeking an HPC Storage Infrastructure Engineer for its Storage Systems Group. This group is responsible for architecting, deploying, and supporting the high-performance parallel storage systems relied upon by NERSC's…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan "Squid" Made from Chickpeas
It's beyond Beyond Meat. A Singapore company wants to make vegan "squid" -- and shrimp and crab -- from chickpeas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware Solution
Quickly detects unauthorized encryption.
Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks
Southern Methodist University
May 13, 2020
Engineers at Southern Methodist University (SMU)'s Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning in Retail
Not sure how complete it is, especially with the current state of the business. More what than effetively how. I would do at least some embedded risk analysis here. And better modeling of retail key process. Still some
Complete…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald’s Publishes Playbook for reopening Restaurants
Useful thoughts from a major player. My own observation is that they have done an excellent job with the drive-through and pickup only operation.
McDonald’s publishes playbook for reopening restaurants
With discussion and 17Retailwire…
From insideHPC
Video: Nimbus Data Unveils Next-Generation Storage OS and All-Flash Array
Today Nimbus Data announced an all-new solid state storage operating system (Nimbus Data AFX), all-new enterprise support program (Tectonic), and new all-flash array (ExaFlash One). "With its versatility, federated architecture…
From insideHPC
Perlmutter Supercomputer to Include more than 6,000 NVIDIA A100 processors
From insideHPC
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs come to Oracle Cloud
Oracle is bringing the newly announced NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU to its Oracle Gen 2 Cloud regions. "Oracle is enhancing what NVIDIA GPUs can do in the cloud,” said Vinay Kumar, vice president, product management, Oracle Cloud…
From insideHPC
AMD Wins Slot in Latest NVIDIA A100 Machine Learning System
Today AMD demonstrated continued momentum in HPC with NVIDIA’s announcement that 2nd Generation AMD EPYC 7742 processors will power their new DGX A100 dedicated AI and Machine Learning system. AMD has an impressive set of HPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making the Real World Digital: AR Copy-Paste
Recall having the broad idea being brought up to transfer pieces of a real-world manufacturing plant into a process model. First for demonstration, and later even for pasting up a digital twin analytical model. Why not merge…
From Schneier on Security
On Marcus Hutchins
Long and nuanced story about Marcus Hutchins, the British hacker who wrote most of the Kronos malware and also stopped WannaCry in real time. Well worth reading....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Threat Detection
Recorded Future talks about thread detection and response. Recall we tessted some of their methods and wrote about them here in their early days. Worth a look. Much more at the link.
Automating Threat Detection and Response…
From insideHPC
Atos Launches First Supercomputer Equipped with NVIDIA A100 GPU
Today Atos announced its new BullSequana X2415, the first supercomputer in Europe to integrate NVIDIA’s Ampere next-generation graphics processing unit architecture, the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. This new supercomputer blade…
From insideHPC
Lenovo to deploy 17 Petaflop supercomputer at KIT in Germany
Today Lenovo announced a contract for a 17 petaflop supercomputer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Called HoreKa, the system will come online this Fall and will be handed over to the scientific communities…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is your School IT Department’s Mission?
My school ran a pair of online awards events yesterday. We had almost 850 people on the day time Zoom meeting and around 500 on the evening one. These are both on a par with our events in the building in previous years. But that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony AI Intelligent Image Sensors
What appears to be a considerable means of creating IOT intelligence based on such chips.
Sony Says It Created World’s First Image Sensor With Built-in AI
By Takashi Mochizuki and Vlad Savov in Bloomberg
May 14, 2020, 3:00 AM
Sony…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Personality Determine How we Interact with Future AI?
Very thoughtful piece in DSC. I am suspicious of using the Myers-Briggs model here. Read the complete article there, and join DSC for much more.
Could your personality decide how you can collaborate with AI in future jobs?
Posted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Winning in The Smart Home: Webinar
Of interest, will be attending, register at the link.
Webinar:May 21, 1PM ET How top brands win the smart home
Integration strategies from iRobot, LIFX, and Ring
In this webinar you will learn:
How smart home companies decide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors Hacking for Neural Net Activity
Thinking this. Another use of sensors to examine activity, and potentially determine 'secrets'.
Preventing AI From Divulging Its Own Secrets
IEEE Spectrum
Jeremy Hsu
North Carolina State University (NC State) researchers have demonstrated…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Innovation Fellows Program 2020
The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020. This program recognizes the significant disruption to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airports Testing Thermal Cameras
Inevitable to see this general screening, for liability and more ...
Airports are testing thermal cameras and other technology to screen travelers for COVID-19 by Hugo Martín in TechxPlore
Airports equipped with full-body scanners…
From insideHPC
Supermicro steps up with NVIDIA A100 GPU-Powered Systems
Today Supermicro announced two new AI systems based on NVIDIA A100 GPUs. NVIDIA A100 is the first elastic, multi-instance GPU that unifies training, inference, HPC, and analytics. "Optimized for AI and machine learning, Supermicro…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maintain Your Learning, the World is Chainging
This gets to my most often rant. Was making it long before recent events. Make sure your AI/ML methods include provision for continued ongoing maintenance. The world continues to shift under your feet.
Our weird behavior…
From Computational Complexity
Awesome Video from Women In Theory!
Below is an awesome video made by WIT (Women In Theory) on May 10, 2020 to celebrate the women in our field and in place of the Women in Theory Workshop that was supposed to take place
@Simons in June. ENJOY: