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
Internet Intelligence Map Shows Live Attacks
Interesting visual, to what degree can it be used to plan for and address possible attacks?
Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map presents a real-time view of online threats By Kyle Wiggers in Venturebeat
Distributed denial of service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT on EOS Blockchain
MIT Technology Review now has an excellent newsletter that touches on many emergent technology topics, most recently the topic was a blockchain called EOS , more suitable for Smart Contract operations. You can subscribe to this…
From Computational Complexity
Hoteling
My office has an awesome view of Midtown Atlanta. Midtown has seen considerable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships DeepLens
This intrigues me. A means to get data for prototype vision-centric machine learning. A way to generate test data that will be needed. The article includes a hands-on test and it takes it further on to their Sagemaker system…
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding and Chatbots
In this series, I’ve focused on the context of traditional search applications, which are the main beneficiaries of better query understanding. But given the rapid emergence of chatbots as alternatives to traditional interfaces…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Builds Big Recommendation Engines
Breadth and particular participants were surprising. How these operate essentially acts as the 'algorithm' for suggestion based upon data. How well they work, and how this is perceived by the customer, is a key aspect of
From…
From insideHPC
Video: AMD HPC Update
Jay Owen from AMD gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "With the introduction of new EPYC processor based servers with Radeon Instinct GPU accelerators, combined with our ROCm open software platform, AMD is ushering…
From insideHPC
NEC starts HPC sales operations in the UK
Today NEC announced that NEC Deutschland GmbH is starting High Performance Computing sales operations in the United Kingdom. This business expansion in the UK, one of Europe’s most important high-tech regions, is in addition
…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Opens AI Research Lab in Toronto
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Gavriel State writes that the company has opened a new AI Research Lab in Toronto. The AI Research Lab will be led by computer scientist and University of Toronto professor Sanja Fidler. "With the new…
From insideHPC
Intel Stratix FPGAs Power Innovation for the Dell HPC Community
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Chris Branch from Intel describes how FPGAs deliver speed and efficiency for technical computing. The two companies are working together to bring new FPGA solutions to market…
From insideHPC
Why Demand for In-Memory Computing Platforms Keeps Growing
The demand for in-memory computing (IMC) and new IMC platforms continues to grow. What's pushing this growth as new products like the GridGain in-memory computing platform hit the market? Download the new white paper from GridGain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Trying Cashierless
Another company trying the space, Will it be a common thing very soon? I recall seeing an example at Microsoft's retail innovation space, but did not know they were emphasizing that space any more.
Microsoft reportedly has
Reuters…
From Schneier on Security
Thomas Dullien on Complexity and Security
For many years, I have said that complexity is the worst enemy of security. At CyCon earlier this month, Thomas Dullien gave an excellent talk on the subject with far more detail than I've ever provided. Video. Slides....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity of Taste Expertise
Learned the complexity of this in the favor space for roasted coffee. Some people just cannot do it. How do you make machines do it?
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
by Kathryn A. Latour and John A. Deighton in HBS Working knowledge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Statistics for Anyone
Nicely done! A first job in the enterprise was informing decision makers about hard topics like statistics and analytics. This would have been useful. Its about beliefs and decisions and certainty! In Towardsdatascience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Codes
As the volume and complexity increase, and as we try to improve more complex processes we need more high performance computing (HPC). Its a complex thing to build code that we know will operate correctly and predict well at
'A…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Automates with Algorithms
Most companies that have gone deeply digital have or are starting to automate some of these processes, especially in areas like supply chain and other operations that are already heavily digitized. These can be driven by algorithm…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to our Best Facebook Post Winner!
We are happy to announce the winner of our best Facebook post contest is the ACM-W Chapter at the University of Central Florida. This chapter designed a team-building exercise that sounds like loads of fun: a CS-themed escape…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to our Best Officer Winner!
Congratulations to Sukriti Paul from Manipal University, Manipal, India, for winning our best officer contest for 2018!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Acquires AI for Data Understanding
Makes sense to integrate visualization with analytical methods and AI methods. Visualization is a form of human understanding, AI augments these human methods. Look forward to seeing how this works, was a long time user of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to Game Theory
We used Game theory linked methods to try to understand competitive activity. We used these methods not necessarily to solve for a best strategy, but to think about how to gather data about the underlying competitive process…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for ExaComm 2018 Workshop in Frankfurt
The ExaComm 2018 workshop has posted their Speaker Agenda. Held in conjunction with ISC 2018, the Fourth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale takes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Re-imagining Post-Amazon
Interesting Podcast and transcript:
Retail Reimagining: Why Being Great Is no Longer Good Enough
The retail industry is undergoing a major repositioning as legacy stores and brands that were once customer favorites fall victim…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Surprising Security Benefits of End-to-End Formal Proofs
The following is a guest blog post by Adam Chlipala, associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many discussions of computer security adopt metaphors from war or biology. There is an…
From insideHPC
MareNostrum 4 Adds POWER9 Racks with Volta GPUS for AI Research
The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre has augmented their hybrid MareNostrum supercomputer with the new racks of IBM AC922 servers. This upgrade makes BSC becomes the first center in Europe to offer access to the same technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI Need for Forgetting
Hackernoon discusses the need for forgetting.
Forgetting. A long time concept, and true in its essence, but forgetting needs to be in context, like remembering, and we do too little remembering of conversational context today,…
From insideHPC
Improving Deep Learning scalability on HPE servers with NovuMind: GPU RDMA made easy
Bruno Monnet from HPE gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "Deep Learning demands massive amounts of computational power. Those computation power usually involve heterogeneous computation resources, e.g., GPUs…
From insideHPC
GE’s Flow Simulator Software Now Available Exclusively from Altair
Today Altair announced that the company has added GE’s Flow Simulator software to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) and offer direct licenses to Altair customers. Flow Simulator is an integrated flow, heat transfer, and combustion…
From insideHPC
How Do I Network vSAN Ready Nodes?
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are built on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers that have been pre-configured, tested and certified to run VMware vSAN. This post outlines how to network vSan ready nodes. "As an integrated feature of the ESXi…
From Schneier on Security
Russian Censorship of Telegram
Internet censors have a new strategy in their bid to block applications and websites: pressuring the large cloud providers that host them. These providers have concerns that are much broader than the targets of censorship efforts…