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
China Infuses the Corner Store with AI
Of interest, a move ahead in China that should be watched.
China's AI-infused corner store of the future in Axios
China’s take-no-prisoners Big Tech war is playing out in An Huang's little family grocery in Hangzhou, a three-hour…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Businesses Can Get Inside the Minds of Their Competitors
If we could, perhaps we could make a better use of game dynamics. Or just simulate their behavior under multiple contexts.
How Businesses Can Get Inside the Minds of Their Competitors
Wharton's Anoop Menon and Jaeho Choi discuss…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Swarms Hard to Stop
As one might expect, the additional complexity makes it difficult/
Think One Military Drone is Bad? Drone Swarms Are Terrifyingly Difficult to Stop ... " By Joel Hruska in Extremetech
From XRDS
Evolution of NLP Techniques based on the Google Books Corpus
Great Ideas in current Computer Science Research Computer Science (CS) Research is an emergent and exciting area. Classical parts of CS are being reshaped to fit a more modern concept of computing. One domain that is experiencing…
From insideHPC
Advanced Computing: HPC and RDS at University of Bristol
Simon Burbidge from the University of Bristol gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Our research focuses on the application of heterogeneous and many-core computing to solve large-scale scientific problems. Related research
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From insideHPC
Wave Computing Acquires MIPS for AI on the Edge
AI startup Wave Computing announced this week that it has acquired MIPS. "The acquisition of MIPS allows us to combine technologies to create products that will deliver a single ‘Datacenter-to-Edge’ platform ideal for AI and
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Transmission from ETH
This, from ETH, seems quite the breakthrough. What will this ultimately mean for computing, encryption, combinatorial computation? Beam me up?
Quantum Transfer at the Push of a Button
ETH Zurich By Oliver Morsch
Scientists…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congressional App Challenge 2018
One of my students won for her district last year. She found it a very valuable experience. I highly support this challenge. Share it with high school students you know.
What is the Congressional App Challenge?
The Congressional…From insideHPC
Intel to Showcase AI and HPC Demos at ISC 2018
Today Intel released a sneak peek at their plans for ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. The company will showcase how it's helping AI developers, data scientists and HPC programmers transform industries by tapping into HPC to power the AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Knowledge Catalog
During our earliest look at Watson, we asked, how do we get our knowledge into the system? Update it? Set up maintenance? Obvious question. Too hard, expensive. Especially information that was the result of other analytics…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Solutions Engineer at Mathworks
Mathworks in Massachusetts is seeking a Software Solutions Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are a team of product proficient engineers with application and software industry experience. Alongside MATLAB Application Deployment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance Cameras Talking to Smartphones
Interesting, but perhaps spooky application. Your smart city talking to you individually. Advertising next?
System Allows Surveillance Cameras to 'Talk' to the Public Through Individual Smartphones
in Purdue University News
Purdue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Tags as Sensors
MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
MIT News
By Jennifer Chu
Researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Lab have developed an ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Company Towns
Been a follower of the topic. Starting with towns built around railroads and their workers. The technology of past days.
Silicon Valley’s company towns are doomed
Facebook and Google want to build planned communities. A brief…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detemining the Cause of War
In my early days at the Pentagon, working for the Joint Chiefs, we built and ran conflict simulations. But we were less interested in causes than we were in outcomes. At the time we would have said the causes are too many, too…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of the Financial Robo Advisor
Much interested in the dynamics of how systems will dynamically and perceptively give advice. In this blog have called them 'Assistants'. How will they disrupt in giving financial advice?
The Rise of the Robo-advisor: How…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 20 Python Data Science Libraries from DSC
Extensive sets with good descriptions.
Top 20 Python libraries for data science in 2018
Posted by Igor Bobriakov
Python continues to take leading positions in solving data science tasks and challenges. Last year we made a blog…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Week on Science Friday
It's Cephalopod Week! "Three hearts, eight arms, can't lose." 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 here....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 15th, 2018)
The market for artificial-intelligence chips could reach $30bn by 2022. My guess is that NVIDIA (a graphics card maker) is the big winner, their tag line is now “Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership”. Multiple sclerosis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Autonomous Store
More complete piece by Jon Stine on Amazon Go, and the more general topic of autonomous stores. In US and China. In the Intel IT Peer Network
Lots of comment about the Amazon Go store. And the ten variants of ever-more autonomic…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emojis, Java and Strings
Emojis are funny characters that are becoming increasingly popular. However, they are probably not as simple as you might thing when you are a programmer. For a basis of comparison, let me try to use them in Python 3. I define…
From insideHPC
Atos Quantum Learning Machine Comes to SURFsara in the Netherlands
Dutch researchers have a new opportunity to experiment with Quantum Computing with the new Atos Quantum Learning Machine at SURFsara. The Atos Quantum Learning Machine is a complete on-premise quantum simulation environment designed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals of Disruption
Have been involved in several meetings to determine and evaluate such signals. See below a bare outline from MIT/Sloan. May sound simplistic but there is much more at the link to flesh it out. This is more of a risk analysis…
From insideHPC
UberCloud Publishes Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies
Our friends at the UberCloud have published the 2018 edition of their Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies. "The goal of the UberCloud Experiment is to perform engineering simulation experiments in the HPC cloud with real engineering…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2018
The Dell EMC HPC Community has published their Speaker Agenda for meeting at ISC 2018. The half-day event takes place June 24 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The Dell EMC HPC Community event will feature keynote presentations by HPC
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From insideHPC
Video: Caligo Technologies Demonstrates Posit Computing Implementation
Anantha Kinnal from Calligo Technologies gave this talk at the ConGA conference for Next Generation Arithmetic. "CalligoTech, based in Bangalore - India, built and demonstrated World’s First Posit-enabled System at the CoNGA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Guide to Smart Manufacturing
Downloadable at the link:
Manufacturing
How to Evolve your Manufacturing Environment to an Ultimate State
By Eric Ehlers -
Cisco Live just wrapped this week, and we had a lot of great conversations with customers who are looking…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connection – June 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Professional Chapters News from ACM-W Student Chapters Welcome from the ACM-W Chair Regular readers of this newsletter are aware that ACM/ACM-W are partnering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levels of Customer Engagement with Retail IOT
I see that Intel Director Jon Stine, who we worked with at innovation centers, comments on Amazon Go and IoT in retail.
IoT Is Building Higher Levels Of Customer Engagement
Forbes Insights With Intel IoT Connecting The Unconnected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imagine a World Based on a Picture
Applications? Imagining this. Maybe a new kind of creativity?
DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture
Artificial intelligence can now put itself in someone else’s shoes. DeepMind has developed a neural network…