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
Imagining Large Human Spaces by Satellite
Impressive patterns revealed.
Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery Data Visualization and Statistics by Nathan Yan
Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the only thing left to do is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Flower is now Figure Eight
Formerly Crowdflower has been renamed Figure Eight, with a new web presence. Impressed by what I have seen there so far. Putting humans in the loop of machine learning ...
" .... Figure Eight is the essential Human-in-the-Loop…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Micro:Bits and Teaching Networking
This year i taught advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with a mix of high school juniors and seniors. Because of the schedule I had the juniors for several days after the seniors were done. The challenge was to come…
From insideHPC
Canada’s CDRD to use AI for Drug Discovery
Today Canada’s National Centre for Drug Research and Development announced a collaboration with Schrödinger Inc to use artificial intelligence to help facilitate the development of new therapeutic antibodies. "We’re excited to…
From insideHPC
Collaborating for Innovation in the Dell EMC HPC Community
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Adnan Khaleel from Dell EMC describes how the company works with partners to deliver high performance solutions. "It's really the conversations that we have in the corridors…
From insideHPC
New Rev-Sim.org Portal to help Democratize Simulation
Today a new web portal called Rev-Sim.org was launched to support a growing industry-wide movement to make engineering simulation more accessible, efficient, and reliable; not just for CAE experts but also for non-specialists…
From insideHPC
Squeezing Light could be key to Quantum Computing
"Scientists at Hokkaido University and Kyoto University have developed a theoretical approach to quantum computing that is 10 billion times more tolerant to errors than current theoretical models. Their method brings us closer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake Wines (and other drinks/foods/products?)
Can complex, pricey wines be replicated far more cheaply by recreating them with equivalent mixtures of tastes using chemistry? A similar approach was used when we analyzed component green coffees in blends for well known tastes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Socially Assistant Robotics
Upcoming and of interest, a favorite topic we looked at for years. More detail at the link:
Title: Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) (Registration)
Date: Monday, June 04, 2018
Time: 02:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour…