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 The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Captures Flying Insects
Not a thing normally in their space. No IOT dimension indicated.
Procter & Gamble Introduces Zevo™ Flying Insect Trap for 24/7 Flying Insect Protection in Your Home without Chemical Insecticides
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From insideHPC
AFRL Taps IBM to Build Brain-Inspired AI Supercomputer
Today IBM announced they are collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SiriusXM Now Streams on Amazon Echo
Full subscriptions or streaming individual shows from SiriusXM are now accessible via voice on Echo. Trial subscriptions available.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping with AR
What the best way to shop using Augmented Reality? Apple and IKEA team up. Planning for the advanced AR capabilities in future I-Phones.
Apple Team Up With IKEA To Create AR Shopping App
Apple users will soon be able to seeRebecca…
From Computational Complexity
Joan Clarke (1917-1996)
I'm in San Francisco for the ACM conference celebrating 50 years of the Turing Award. I'll post on STOC and the Turing award celebration next week. Today though we remember another member of Bletchley Park, Joan Clarke, born
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From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon High Performance Computing Research Core Facility (HPCRCF) is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. The HPCRCF is a new facility located on the campus of the UO in Eugene, Oregon.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Stop Reading Your Email for Targeting
Somewhat surprised at this. Probably the most obvious thing, after search, that Google does that is the base of much of its considerable revenue. It has been often criticized. At the same time so much indicative data has
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching How the Giants Buy AI
Below reminds me of our own attempts to buy AI during the last explosion. And we did, buying some considerable equity positions. Of course the scale was far less than Google's acquisitions. Ultimately these investments lost…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secret Algorithms and Rule of Law
Challenges posed in Technology Review. Slightly different from what was posed in the 80s. But unsolved.
Very broadly, if we don't know what an algorithm does, how do we know that it obeys laws? And in what context of data…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid Video
A paddleboarder had a run-in with an injured giant squid. Video. Here's the real story. 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 Schneier on Security
The Secret Code of Beatrix Potter
Interesting: As codes go, Potter's wasn't inordinately complicated. As Wiltshire explains, it was a "mono-alphabetic substitution cipher code," in which each letter of the alphabet was replaced by a symbol -- the kind of thing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research and NSF Big Data Hubs Collaboration Passes the One-Year Mark
The cloud computing partnership between the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) and Microsoft Research has just passed the one-year anniversary mark. In June 2016, Microsoft dedicated $3 million in cloud computing credits…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary People
We are not far from generating very convincing faces of people. And if you put these on humanoid robots? Give them Generative AI? In the Verge:
" .... As we get better at making, faking, and manipulating human faces with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Edge Computing
HPE and GE Digital try to break IT/OT silos for intelligent edge computing by R. Danes
" ... Partain in an interview at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, Nevada, Anthony Rokis (pictured, right), vice president of software engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Furnishing
I examined some early attempts at using online methods for buying home furnishing, usually with online camera interaction. The idea of selling furnishing online is reemerging. How does the Browser-Buyer change occur? Piece…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases GPU and Flash Appliances at ISC
This week in Frankfurt, One Stop Systems showcased all-new HPC Appliances at ISC 2017. "One Stop Systems offers a wide variety of GPU and Flash appliances to support a range of customer needs,” Said Steve Cooper, CEO of One Stop…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 23rd, 2017)
Elon Musk, Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species, New Space. June 2017, 5(2): 46-61. Reportedly, Ikea is working on augmented reality software that would allow you to see the furniture in your home before buying it. Current…
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Patents Measures to Prevent In-Store Comparison Shopping
Amazon has been issued a patent on security measures that prevents people from comparison shopping while in the store. It's not a particularly sophisticated patent -- it basically detects when you're using the in-store Wi-Fi…
From insideHPC
Podcast Brent Gorda on the State of Lustre at ISC 2017
In this RichReport podcast from the German Autobahn, Brent Gorda gives us a Lustre update from ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. "On the latest Top500 list, Lustre leads the pack with 9 systems out of the Top 10."
The post Podcast Brent…
From insideHPC
Kim McMahon on her role as Diversity Chair at ISC 2018
In this video, Kim McMahon describes her new role as Diversity Chair for the ISC 2018 conference. "ISC has named me the Diversity Chair for ISC18. With this comes a position on the Steering Committee. While this is really cool…
From insideHPC
HPC Vendors showcase plans for ARM products
Are you ready? ARM-based HPC systems will be available by the end of 2017. At ISC 2017, Penguin Computing and Bull both announced that they will deliver products tailored for the HPC industry. Both companies systems will feature…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Turing 50 Year Celebration Live Stream
The Association for Computing Machinery‘s (ACM) celebration of 50 years of the A.M. Turing Award is tomorrow and Saturday (June 23-24th, 2017) in San Francisco, CA. You can watch the live stream of the celebration here starting…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Oded Wins The Knuth Prize
Just announced Oded Goldreich is one of the top researchers in cryptography, randomness, and complexity theory. Today Ken and I wish to thank the Knuth Prize Committee for selecting Oded as the winner of the 2017 Knuth Prize.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML)
Brought to my attention again. Should this be the place to start for any project that claims to generate value? Even doing a simplified model can act as a prototype from which to build from. To test prototypes with people…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Wireless Communication is the Cornerstone of Smart Infrastructures
Contributions to this post were made by CCC Council member Jennifer Rexford and Mary Ann Weitnauer. Today’s wireless networks cannot meet the demands of emerging smart infrastructure, such as Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Smart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTTT Public Access Data Project
Very nice idea from IFTTT about giving access to public data across devices. I am an active IFTTT user. Plan to test with public data.
IFTTT's Data Access Project Seeks to make Public Data More Accessible By Kyle Wiggers
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Programmer Fix This Code
Recently I came across this cartoon and shared it on Facebook.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)
Similar in type to 'generate and test' methods.
GAN network Generative adversarial network Imitative.
for creating new things that are like another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_networks
are a
This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Combing Through Your Data
An approach we worked on. A kind of dynamic data mining approach. Find the best leverage, estimate value. Look for new combinations of data and analytic value. The computing power is here now.
AI Can Comb Through Your Data…
From Schneier on Security
NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden
According to a recently declassified report obtained under FOIA, the NSA's attempts to protect itself against insider attacks aren't going very well: The N.S.A. failed to consistently lock racks of servers storing highly classified…