Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2017
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Cancer Data for Treatment Clues
In this video, researchers use TACC supercomputers in war against cancer. "Next-generation sequencing technology allows us to observe genomes and their activity in unprecedented detail," he said. "It's also making a lot of biomedical…
From insideHPC
X-ISS Powers Cloud HPC with Dell EMC
In this video, Deepak Khosala describes how X-ISS delivers Cloud HPC with the help of Dell EMC. "Our role in working with customers is to integrate, manage, and maintain HPC cluster systems, as well as monitor, report, and deliver…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISAV 2017 Workshop at SC17 in Denver
The ISAV 2017 Workshop has issued their Call for Participation. Held in conjunction with SC17, the In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization Workshop takes place, Sunday, November 12 in Denver…
From insideHPC
Video: Storage Aware Job Scheduling
"In any HPC environment, storage is an integral and often unaccounted performance component of the infrastructure alongside compute. The health and performance of the overall infrastructure can be highly dependent on storage.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and ERP Analytic Collaboration
Interesting thought. It reminds me of a thought presented years ago, that once we had complete detailed and immutable information about what happens in a company and it's suppliers and customers, we could better improve it…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is the purpose of a computer science education?
One of my former students posed that question. He then asked if it were:
- Building computer scientists
- Building software engineers
- Building citizens
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence
I was reminded of this today, much more at the link.
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Our aim at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence is to bring together…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistants for Retiree Communities
Had thought these devices could be good for retired communities. Here is an example from Technology Review.
" .... A community of San Diego retirees is using the personal-assistant gadget to listen to audiobooks, keep current…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Does Logic Apply To Hearings?
The problem of mining text for implications 2016 RSA Conference bio, speech Michael Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee the other day about President Donald Trump…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Design
Intrigued by the concept of voice design in bots. We worked with bots, but never got a chance to design voice to improve the User experience (UX) in this way. Starts to enter the idea of designing the conversation itself. Powerful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Data and Store Operation
An interesting thought. In the past rating was also done by knowledgeable employees in the store. Now just organize it better. My own retail experience makes it seem obvious. But probably late.
Will Amazon’s use of data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee on Weaving the Web
Good piece and video on Tim Berners-Lee in the CACM. We experimented with the idea of hyperlinks in the 80s for knowledge capture and delivery. But the broader linkage to docs anywhere. created by anyone, took more time to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Highlights and video of selected presentations from the May 16-18 BD2K-LINCS Data Science Symposium are now available on the BD2K…
From insideHPC
OCF Becomes Elite Partner with NVIDIA
Today OCF in the UK announced it has achieved Elite Partner status with NVIDIA for Accelerated Computing, becoming only the second business partner in Northern Europe to achieve this level. "For customers using GPUs, or potential…
From insideHPC
How Charliecloud Simplifies Big Data Supercomputing at LANL
“Los Alamos has lots of supercomputing power, and we do lots of simulations that are well supported here. But we’ve found that Big Data analysis projects need to use different frameworks, which often have dependencies that differ…
From insideHPC
Cray to Offer Multi-Level Security Solutions with Leidos
Today Cray announced a strategic alliance with Leidos to develop, market, and sell Multi-Level Security (MLS) solutions that include the Cray CS series of cluster supercomputers to Federal and commercial customers. "We look forward…
From insideHPC
Finding the Right Solutions with Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Onur Celebioglu describes the Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab, where his team does all of the integration testing and benchmarking for high performance computing systems. "Every…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Honda and Autonomous Driving
Does seem there has been relatively little word from Honda in this area. This article provides considerable detail. In particular regarding levels of autonomy. In the Verge.
Honda reveals its plans for autonomous vehicles
Level…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debt in Machine Learning
The term was new to me, but O'Reilly discusses how this complexity measure changes and how to address it. This reminds me of complexity measures in retail. Could it be that autonomous AI systems will ultimately solve this?
What…
From insideHPC
Multicore Performance Challenges for Game Developers
Game developers face a unique challenge – how to make their graphics-heavy applications perform well across a very wide spectrum of hardware devices, not just high-end systems. So while an early version of a game might have been…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR As Retail Training Tool
Its been commonly suggested training is ideal method for training, and Wal-Mart is testing. But not yet likely by itself. People react differently to things in a VR space, and real face to face should still be emphasized.
Will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Driving Truck News in Supply Chain
Via Supply Chain Digest summarizes:
Supply Chain News: Lots of News in Self-Driving Truck Sector
Google Parent Jumping in Mix; Uber Kills Otto Brand among Legal Issues; Autonomous Trucks to Cause Massive Driver Job Losses, New
SCDigest…
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2017
In the fall we point to theory jobs, in the spring we see who got them. Like last year and years past I created a fully editable Google Spreadsheet to crowd source who is going where. Ground rules:
I set up separate sheets for…
From Schneier on Security
Safety and Security and the Internet of Things
Ross Anderson blogged about his new paper on security and safety concerns about the Internet of Things. (See also this short video.) It's very much along the lines of what I've been writing....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards the AI Data Center
GPU's may soon rule, but the models still need to be built correctly.
Nvidia Steps Up AI Data Center Push
By Jon Markman , Contributor in Forbes
Analyzing tech stocks through the prism of cultural change.
Recently, Nivida unveiled…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personality Type for Entrepreneur
We used the Myers-Briggs personality classification frequently in the enterprise to adjust writing and interaction. But were carefully warned that it was NOT suitable for narrow classifications, or adapted classifications,
Myers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Watson and AI
In Chief Marketer.
IBM's Iwata on the Future of Watson and AI
by Beth Negus Viveiros
Sure, chatbots are great, but AI and machine learning hold much greater potential for marketers.
“AI is more than just speech-to-text conversational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evaluating Cognitive Systems
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others,
This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series, on Thursday, June 8, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT). Our speaker is Jose Hernandez-Orallo from the Universitat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Announces ML Library for Spark
More Open Source releases for data science, here via Microsoft.
Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Announcing Microsoft Machine Learning Library for Apache Spark
June 7, 2017 by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What CS Should a Student Know Before High School
Recently a middle school teacher asked what computer science knowledge would high school computer science teachers like their incoming students to know. The first answer was the obvious “send them with enthusiasm and we’ll work…