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
DDN Storage Innovations Enhance Performance and Reliability at Scale
"Today DDN announced a series of performance and reliability innovations across its storage appliances, aimed at meeting the growing demand for storage performance, simplicity and reliability at scale in a new era of data-centric…
From XRDS
Notes from IIT Kharagpur ACM Summer School on ML and NLP
Today is June 14th, so I am 14 days into summer school; 7 more days left, and we are all already feeling saddened by the idea of leaving Kharagpur soon. In India, an IIT is a dream for 90% of … Continue reading
The post Notes…From insideHPC
STULZ and CoolIT Systems Launch Liquid Cooled Micro Data Center for HPC
"The Micro DC is a compact data center that can be easily deployed in any environment while managing an incredible amount of power and performance,” said Joerg Desler, President of STULZ USA. “It’s modular system is configured…
From Computational Complexity
The Power of Economic Inefficiency
I grew up in a time when long distance domestic phone calls from AT&T costed $0.20/minute off peak ($1.30 in today's dollars). I also grew up close to AT&T Bell Labs, a mecca that claimed more PhDs than any university many doing…
From Schneier on Security
The grugq on Reality Winner, the Intercept, and OPSEC
Good commentary....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Tagging Data from Imagery
An example of how advanced deep learning methods can be used to extract information from image data. The image data is already captured and stored. And its dynamic. Could also be used with other imagery, like from store
Enhancing…
From insideHPC
Riding the Wave of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — decades-old technologies that are now electrifying the computing industry — for all intents and purposes, seem to be in the process of transforming corporate America. This article…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Furniture Creates Activity Goals
We worked with Herman Miller on testing advanced furniture. This seems like the simplest idea for office furniture. If you still spend most of your time in the office.
Herman Miller debuts new smart office furniture that sets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking and Virtual Reality
More developments in the use of biometric capabilities to better understand human reactions. Its natural to think about how VR methods technology could be linked to these. This then points to better measurement of cognitive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Stories for Digital Marketing
Seems obvious, but the details of how and why in the research may be interesting. Sign in for complete article access.
The Power of Consumer Stories in Digital Marketing
Research Highlight May 18, 2017
Renée Richardson Gosline…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Mathematical Corporation
Have not read yet, but brought to my attention because of the title. We considered our large enterprise a mathematical corporation, powered by the mathematics of analytics. Driven by intelligence of AI. Linked to the ingenuity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sky Robots
Sky Robots
From the HBR ...
If you have a robotic vacuum, thank Helen Greiner, a cofounder of iRobot. And Greiner has moved on to think about what it would mean if that robotic vacuum could fly. After leaving iRobot, she founded…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Safety and Security for Intelligent Infrastructure
As we start to embed sensing, computing, and communication into previously “dumb” infrastructure, there are clear benefits but it also creates new and challenging threats to safety, security, and privacy. How we address these…
From insideHPC
TACC to Hosts HPC for Managers Institute in Austin
Today the TACC announced that the first High Performance Computing for Managers Institute will take place September 12-14 in Austin. "With course materials by TACC and the Numerical Algorithms Group, this three-day workshop is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Homes Reprogramming You
Have seen bit of this in my own tests, but not to the extent it implies.
Your smart home is trying to reprogram you
Murray Goulden Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
A father finds out his daughter is pregnant after algorithms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battle of the AI Giants
The AI fight is escalating: This is the IT giants' next move
Google, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are all piling artificial intelligence capabilities onto their software stacks.... "
By Peter Sayer IDG…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing and AI
Intriguing piece. A major change in computing architecture should be carefully watched. Implications for an approach to more intelligent systems?
Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Posted by William…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: HPC4Mfg Program has $3 Million to Boost Supercomputing in Industry
Today the Energy Department announced up to $3 million in available support for manufacturers to use supercomputers at the department's national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges. The High Performance Computing…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Does the Day-by-Day Preview of ISC 2017
xIn this Radio Free HPC podcast, Rich gives us a day-by-day preview of the upcoming ISC 2017 conference. The event takes place June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany. "ISC High Performance focuses on HPC technological development and…
From BLOG@CACM
Toward Oversight, and More Debate, of Cyber Weaponry
Policies and strategies that may lead to or initiate acts of cyberwar should be subject to scrutiny.
From insideHPC
Intel Moves Forward with Machine Learning with Dell EMC
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Steve Stein from Intel describes the company's powerful processing solutions for Machine Learning. "With Intel technology, artificial intelligence helps businesses accelerate…
From insideHPC
Analytics for Massive Datasets Using High Density GPU Accelerators
Cloud computing providers are now allowing users t0 rent GPU power in the cloud for big data analytics instead of building or buying their own hardware. In this week’s Sponsored Post, Katie Rivera, of One Stop Systems, explains…
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaws in 4G VoLTE
Research paper: "Subscribers remote geolocation and tracking using 4G VoLTE enabled Android phone," by Patrick Ventuzelo, Olivier Le Moal, and Thomas Coudray. Abstract: VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is a technology implemented by many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Caricature Stickers from Selfies
The Allo messaging capability from Google is now capable of creating caricature image stickers from selfies. These are mostly for use within Allo, but you can snip them off and use them elsewhere. Whats most interesting is…
From Schneier on Security
Chelsea Manning Profiled in New York Times Magazine
Interesting reading....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- Confidentiality à la Carte with Cipherbase
The next WATCH talk, called Confidentiality à la Carte with Cipherbase is Thursday, June 22th, from 12 PM-1 PM ET. The presenter is Donald Kossmann is the director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond. He joined Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hashing and All that
This piece from Rice.edu is interesting. It shows how the method of 'Hashing' can be used to reduce computations in deep learning neural networks. This is probably understandable only to those with a degree or training in…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
TOC In The Future
Results of the panel at the Theory Fest Géraud Sénizergues proved in 1997 that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata (DPDAs) is decidable. Solving this decades-open problem won him the 2002 Gödel Prize. Today Ken and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart right about AR being a Sure Thing?
In RetailWire. With an interesting, ongoing discussion. Do we have ubiquity of AR coming? Replacing smartphones in five years?
Is Walmart’s innovation leader right that the AR revolution is a sure thing? by Matthew Stern
Pok…
From Computational Complexity
Climate Change: The Evolution of the Deniers/Does Paul Ryan Hate His Grandchildren?
I went to the Mach for Science and then Drumpf pulled out of the Paris Accords. Causation or Correlation? I then posted about climate change (CC). That's caustation.
1) Deniers:
The deniers have gone through several phases…