Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2018
From insideHPC
Minsky at Murex: GPUs for Risk Management
Pierre Spatz from Murex gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "Murex has been an early adopters of GPU for pricing and risk management of complex financial options. GPU adoption has generated performance boost…
From insideHPC
Why IMC Is Right for Today’s Fast-Data and Big-Data Applications
IMC is being used for a variety of functions, including fintech and ecommerce to telecommunications and IoT, as it becomes well known for success with processing and analyzing big data. Download the new report from GridGain,…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teacher as Unicorn
From Schneier on Security
New Data Privacy Regulations
When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. Right now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Hunts for Signals
Good, short, relatively non-technical view, but from a distinctly computer science perspective. Which answer the questions that many of us have. Why are we here, now, and did not achieve this two decades ago? And where should…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Publishes its AI Principles
On their blog, Just the intro, there is much more at the link. Well stated. Though as a former defense department employee I wonder what their definition of benefit ultimately is. Does it contain elements of 'Defense', and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Identifying optimal navigation schemes by merging tools from computer science, physics, and biology
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Orit Peleg an Assistant Professor of Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Peleg was one of the participants at the recent Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Robotic…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Vectorizing random number generators for greater speed: PCG and xorshift128+ (AVX-512 edition)
Most people designing random number generators program using regular code. If they are aiming for speed, they probably write functions in C. However, our processors have fast “vectorized” (or SIMD) instructions that can allow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Checkout-free Will be in Chicago
Will a good opportunity to see it in action. Will do a comparison with some of our own experiments, but wonder how realistic it will be in a high tourist and trial environment setting. How different will shopping choice be
Two…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Process with Human Operators
Integration of human and AI learning processes. A kind of focused crowdsourcing, where the operator scores machine learning and gets collaborative assistance from the machine based on context? A good direction.
Self-Learning…
From insideHPC
Pawsey teams with PRACE to promote Supercomputing
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and PRACE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the use of supercomputers to the progress of scientific and technological outcomes, and to stimulate the industry sector…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Manufacturing With IOT
Upcoming free connected manufacturing IOT Seminar by HSO and Microsoft
[LIVE WEBINAR] Getting Started with Connected Manufacturing and IoT
In this new era of manufacturing, you need to be able to work smarter - producing and delivering…
From insideHPC
Survey: Life Sciences lagging behind in AI development
The Pistoia Alliance has released results of a survey that found that 72 per cent of science professionals believe their sector is lagging behind other industries in the development of AI. "Spaces to virtually collaborate, like…
From insideHPC
ScyllaDB Announces Support for IBM Power Systems for Real Time Big Data
Today real-time database company ScyllaDB announced a new Scylla Enterprise release with optimizations for IBM Power System Servers with the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture. By combining Scylla’s highly performant, close-to…
From insideHPC
Video: Dell EMC Innovation for the Oil & Gas industry
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting in Austin, David Holmes from Dell EMC describes how the company is bringing technical innovation to the Oil & Gas industry. "We partner strongly with Intel and Nvidia and
…
From insideHPC
Cybersecurity: Why We Need IT Management Professionals More Than Ever
As we spend more time and share more information online than ever before, cybercrime is also on the rise. This guest article from Keypath Education explores the important role of IT management professionals in ensuring cybersecurity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA and Sonos Prototyping Smart Speaker
Its just a prototype, but interested in IKEA's connection. Would think they would be more interested in links to existing systems like Amazon's or Google. Just looked at Sono's connections to Alexa. Following.
IKEA and Sonos…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Human Expertise
Some of the earliest things we examined with AI were how to enhance the use of current and past knowledge and resources in a company to make decisions more efficient. More tools are popping up now, how do we best use them?
How…
From Schneier on Security
An Example of Deterrence in Cyberspace
In 2016, the US was successfully deterred from attacking Russia in cyberspace because of fears of Russian capabilities against the US. I have two citations for this. The first is from the book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Successful Scaling of Analytics
Ultimately we did this in another era, now the tools and computing are different. Scaling is the most important thing. Scaling means both size and connecting to new contexts. And now scaling also means embedding in systems…
From Computational Complexity
I tell my class that P is important because... but is that really true?
When teaching P vs NP the questions arises (and if not then I bring it up) what if you have algorithm in P that takes n^{100} time?. Or even n^{5} time which might be too long.
I have given the following answers for years;
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back At APCS Principles–My First Year
During a conversation with my dean, he said it takes about three years to really get teaching an Advanced Placement course down pat. I don't know if that is the right number but it is surely more than one. This past school year…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Princeton Is Invariant
Workshop happening this week—anyone can view it live IAS Weyl bio source Hermann Weyl was one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He made important contributions to many fields and even more…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Dell EMC Powers Artemis 3 Supercomputer at University of Sydney
In this podcast, Dr. Jeremy Hammond from the University of Sydney and Andrew Underwood from Dell EMC describe the new Artemis 3 supercomputer. The new Dell EMC system will power world-leading research and academic programs. "This…
From insideHPC
TCS and Intel to Establish Center for Advanced Computing for HPC in India
Today Tata Consultancy Services announced plans for a new Center for Advanced Computing to develop advanced solutions in the areas of HPC, High Performance Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. The new Center at TCS' Super…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing how Fish Save Energy Swimming in Schools
Over at CSCS, Simone Ulmer writes that researchers at ETH Zurich have clarified the previously unresolved question of whether fish save energy by swimming together in schools. They achieved this by simulating the complex physics…
From insideHPC
Koen De Bosschere receives ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
Today ACM announced that Koen De Bosschere from HiPEAC has won the Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award. Recognized for outstanding service in the field of computer architecture and design, Professor De Bosschere was…
From insideHPC
The Simulation of the Behavior of the Human Brain using CUDA
Pedro Valero-Lara from BSC gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "The attendees can learn about how the behavior of Human Brain is simulated by using current computers, and the different challenges which the implementation…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp Joins iRODS Consortium
Today Quantum Corp. announced the company has joined the iRODS Consortium, the foundation that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS). "Quantum is a leader in scale-out storage and they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity of Contracts
This came up in a conversation about the complexity of agreements, and in particular how these might be embedded in smart contracts, and how disclosure terms might be part of that. Has a link to full doc on the study. What…