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 The Eponymous Pickle
How To Build a CX Dashboard that Drives Performance
Some useful thoughts.
How To Build a CX Dashboard that Drives Performance By Sue Duris in CustomerThink
Organizations are always looking for that magic pill that proves a particular initiative delivers value, and, more importantly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
JP Morgan on Smart Shopping Carts
Was struck by the shopping cart mention, which we spent lots of time on. See the tag. Have not seen a real move yet, but the direction here is more of of the rolling robotics type. Note the apparent strong interest of JP
AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rolling Convenience Stores
Sounds a bit cheesy, but probably inevitable and happening. Would you have such a device installed in your car?
The Dawn of Mobile Convenience Stores and (Maybe) Free Rides By Alex Davies in Wired.
Having Cargo drivers peddle
Ride…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Expands Alexa PC Designs
Amazon’s new all-in-one and laptop designs could get Alexa into even more PCs By Shannon Liao @Shannon_Liao in TheVerge
‘Amazon has just announced four new designs for PC manufacturers to work off of, which could make it easier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meal Kit Vending Machines
Nice idea, wonder how the freshness will be maintained.
Convenience is king as new-gen vending units add meal kits by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
hew SternMeal kits, once available only by subscription online, have begun appearing…
From Schneier on Security
The Habituation of Security Warnings
We all know that it happens: when we see a security warning too often -- and without effect -- we start tuning it out. A new paper uses fMRI, eye tracking, and field studies to prove it....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Were is Siri Going in being an Assistant?
Where is Apple's assistant Siri going? Has been hard to figure that out lately. Watched for that in the recentWWDC meeting. I like the fact that they are implying Siri will follow some kind of process goal in context, like…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bonding with Your Algorithm
I have implemented many pieces of code, algorithms to improve this or that. Ans some took lots of coding time, and I felt proud of them afterwards when they worked to goals and spec. But admittedly never thought of bonding
Bonding…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects–The good, the bad, and the ugly
End of the semester project time for me. All of my programming students have been finishing up[ their self-selected projects and I have been grading. It’s always an interesting ex3ercise. None of the students have much experience…
From insideHPC
University of Pisa Extends Server Memory with Intel Optane and Dell EMC
In this video from the Dell HPC Community meeting, Maurizio Davini and Antonio Cisternino from the University of Pisa describe the work they are doing to extend server memory with Intel Optane technology. "Intel Optane technology…
From insideHPC
Case Study: Supercomputing Natural Gas Turbine Generators for Huge Boosts in Efficiency
Hyperion Research has published a new case study on how General Electric engineers were able to nearly double the efficiency of gas turbines with the help of supercomputing simulation. "With these advanced modeling and simulation…
From insideHPC
Cray Partners with UK’s Digital Catapult for AI Innovation
Today Cray announced that it has partnered with Digital Catapult and its Machine Intelligence Garage to help organizations of all sizes speed the development of machine intelligence systems. This partnership enables the Machine…
From insideHPC
Nimbix Launches JARVICE 3.0 HPC Hybrid Cloud Platform with Kubernetes
Today cloud provider Nimbix announced the Technology Preview of JARVICE 3.0, a robust HPC hybrid cloud software platform fully integrated with Kubernetes. The new container platform is designed to provide the enterprise with
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Monsanto Becomes Bayer
Historical move away from a well known name.
Post merger, the name will simply be Bayer as 'Monsanto' becomes history ....
Bayer plans to complete the acquisition of Monsanto on June 7, following the receipt of all required approvals…
From insideHPC
Opportunities Abound: HPC and Machine Learning for Energy Exploration
The is the first entry in a five-part insideHPC series that takes an in-depth look at how machine learning, deep learning and AI are being used in the energy industry. Read on to find out how machine learning is driving energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney's Stickman Robot
Quite impressive capabilities. Videos and technical discussion, where will we see this in use?
Stickman Explores the Physics of Flying Through the Air Disney Research is teaching this skinny robot how to perform a variety…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
USDA/NIFA Request for Applications on Food and Agriculture Cyber-infrastructure and Tools
Former CCC Council member and current CRA Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota provided contributions to this post. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOm Interview with Ira Cohen
Another good interview and Podcast.
Voices in AI – Episode 47: A Conversation with Ira Cohen
Byron Reese Jun 5, 2018 - 7:00 AM CDT
In this episode, Byron and Ira discuss transfer learning and AI ethics.
Byron Reese: This is Voices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Wal-Mart's Jetblack
Cost seems high based on their typical clientele and benefits. Certainly a novel approach worthy of a test. Customization of possible recommendations via demographic and shopping behavior is of interest.
Walmart launches members…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Southeby's Suggesting Taste with AI
Again, the use of detected pattern to customize, personalize. With a replacement of some kinds of expertise. Have worked with auction companies and the idea is a useful one. Could also see this setting the table with monetizing…
From Schneier on Security
Regulating Bitcoin
Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do…
From insideHPC
Cray Deploys 3 Petaflop ATERUI Ⅱ supercomputer at CFCA in Japan
The Center for Computational Astrophysics has deployed a new Cray XC50 supercomputer. With a peak performance of 3 Petaflops, the 3 Petaflop ATERUI Ⅱ system is the world’s fastest supercomputer for astrophysical simulations.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Acquires GitHub
In several projects I discovered that otherwise technical executives did not know what Github was. Might imply they would be nervous that MSFT was getting the ability to control code in new ways? How might this be leveraged
Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Call for Disaster Relief AI Code
Good effort, start with useful models of process. Patterns that achieve results.
IBM Leads 'Call for Code' to Use Cloud, AI for Natural Disaster Relief in eWeek By Chris Preimesberger
IBM, the United Nations, the Red Cross…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A History of AI
William Vorhies of DSC posted a note on the history of AI, some long ago looks at where it started. Having been involved, but not that far back, the examples are interesting and instructive regarding what could be done. And…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population
The next WATCH talk, called Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population, from John M. Abowd, Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the U.S. Census Bureau…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Video Marketing
Fascinating Ways AI is Intersecting with Video Marketing
Artificial intelligence and big data have played a major role in video marketing over the past few years. They will continue to disrupt the profession in the years to come…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing in China: Progress on a Superconducting Multi-Qubits System
Dr. Xiaobo Zhu from China’s University of Science and Technology gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory introduces quantum technology into computing sciences, aiming to manufacture…
From insideHPC
Coming to ISC 2018: Post 2020 Vision for HPC Workshop
ETP4HPC is organizing a workshop at ISC 2018 to prepare the post Horizon 2020 HPC vision and technology roadmap. The event takes place Sunday, June 24 in Frankfurt, Germany. "What will be next? What will be the role of High-Performance…
From insideHPC
Radio Free Looks at the HGX-2 Reference Platform for HPC & AI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new NVIDIA HGX-2 Reference Platform for HPC & AI. "The HGX-2 cloud server platform supports multi-precision computing, supporting high-precision calculations using FP64 and…