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 Putting People First
Invito: DesAlps design thinking workshop per la tua startup
Hai una startup? Hai mai pensato ai benefici che potrebbe trarre dal Design Thinking? Questa è l’opportunità per scoprirlo! DesAlps Workshop #2: Il Design Thinking per la tua startup! Giovedì 28 giugno 2018 – dalle 9:30 alle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Synapses
Synapses are where the learning takes place. Energy efficient is good, learning faster and more useably, better yet.
AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses By Technology Review
Neural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Universe
And how can we simulate business process? We did, but not enough.
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It In Quanta Magazine
In the early 2000s, a small community of coder-cosmologists set out to simulate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Home now Handles Three Requests at Once
Assistants getting more capabilities to multitask. Another step towards more complex conversations and dialog. How much will this be used? Looking towards more conversational memory and context awareness.
Google Home now
Multitask…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CSIG Talk on Predicting Surgical Outcomes
Collecting Movement Data and Predicting Surgical Outcomes in the Age of Deep Learning
Talk Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221 June 14, 10:30 AM EDT
Slides and Talk Recording: http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2018 NAACL Student Research Workshop
Sam Bowman from New York University provided contributions to this post. The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contract
Part of a larger look at Blockchain: in O'Reilly
The concept of smart contracts in O'Reilly.
While the initial blockchain implementation (bitcoin) wasn't intended to deliver a smart contract platform, it inherently contained a…
From insideHPC
Working with the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting in Austin, Garima Kochhar from Dell describes how the company works with customers at the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab. "The HPC Innovation Lab gives our customers access…
From insideHPC
Maximizing Performance of HiFUN* CFD Solver on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor With Intel MPI Library
The HiFUN CFD solver shows that the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor enhances single-node performance due to the availability of large cache, higher core density per CPU, higher memory speed, and larger memory…
From insideHPC
HP-CAST Returns to Franfurt for ISC 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will host HP-CAST once again this year at ISC 2018. The event takes place June 22-23 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Look at Microsoft Teams
Would think that Teams would be a good thing to connect to Skype, Linkedin and Office tools. Is it becoming that?
Microsoft Teams: Its features, how it compares to Slack and other rivals
Microsoft's latest entry in the crowded…
From insideHPC
Energy Companies Embrace Deep Learning for Inspections, Exploration & More
This is the second 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 learn how energy companies are embracing deep…
From insideHPC
NEC and Quobyte team up for HPC Storage
Today Quobyte and NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a partnership to develop a complete HPC storage solution stack based on NEC HPC hardware and Quobyte’s Data Center File System software. "Quobyte’s full stack Data Center File
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reflections on Programming and Teaching
Mark Guzdial has an interesting post called Reflections of a CS Professor and an End-User Programmer in which he compares end-user programming and professional programming and how.if/what we teach for the two. I started a comment…
From Schneier on Security
New iPhone OS May Include Device-Unlocking Security
iOS 12, the next release of Apple's iPhone operating system, may include features to prevent someone from unlocking your phone without your permission: The feature essentially forces users to unlock the iPhone with the passcode…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Machine Learning and their role in Automation
Very thoughtfully done piece. Its not all about Machine Learning. ML is usually just a focused element of the overall goal. A key question that should be asked: What is the local definition of automation? How is it embedded…
From insideHPC
SMART Global Holdings Acquires Penguin Computing for $85 Million
Today SMART Global Holdings, Inc. announced that it has acquired HPC vendor Penguin Computing. "Penguin will continue as a standalone operation being the first part of a new business unit, SMART Specialty Compute & Storage Solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Deals with Carrefour Retailer to Sell Groceries Online
We worked with Carrefour in our innovation spaces and in France and China. Looks like Home and Google Assistant will be utilized. Emphasis on fresh foods. Competition seems to be driving this. Amazon has just announced rollout…
From insideHPC
ISC Travel Grant brings Young HPC Leaders to Conference from Nepal and Botswana
Today ISC 2018 announced the winners of the ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program. Designed to enable university students and young researchers to attend the conference in Germany, the ISC Travel Grant was introduced this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Memories by Electrical Reintroduction
Thanks For The Memories By Joe Dysart in CACM
Researchers have found a way to boost memory in the human brain by digitally recording memories…
From insideHPC
ThinkparQ Teams with QCT to Demonstrate BeeGFS
Today ThinkParQ announced that the company is working with Quanta Cloud Technology on a prototype HPC system to demonstrate the power of their combined technologies. Using the BeeGFS parallel file system, the demo cluster will…
From insideHPC
Video: Researchers Step Up with the New Summit Supercomputer
"The biggest problems in science require supercomputers of unprecedented capability. That’s why the ORNL launched Summit, a system 8 times more powerful than their previous top-ranked system, Titan. Summit is providing scientists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Testing Smart Contracts and Oracles
Been looking for more reviews in this area. Following this in Reddit as well.
MIT Researchers Test Oracles and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Lightning | by Kent Weare in InfoQ
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Appointment of Dr. Rance Cleaveland as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dear CISE Community,…
From insideHPC
New eGuide: Practical Considerations for Embracing AI in Your HPC Environment
The advent of AI is creating new possibilities to tackle increasingly complex research beyond the traditional HPC analytics, modeling, and simulation workloads. This guest post from Intel highlights key points from its new eGuide…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
School Year is Over, Time to Get Ready for Next Year
It is teacher wrap up day at Bishop Guertin. The warning bell for homeroom just rang but of course the students were done on Friday so there are no students coming into my room. It feels a bit off.
I started planning for nextI've…From Schneier on Security
Router Vulnerability and the VPNFilter Botnet
On May 25, the FBI asked us all to reboot our routers. The story behind this request is one of sophisticated malware and unsophisticated home-network security, and it's a harbinger of the sorts of pervasive threats from nation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Driving Dataset
As in all intelligent learning situations, you need lots of data to define the context, more than you think you need. But smaller amounts can help you start defining the process.
How Do Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Drive? Download…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Key AI for Smarter Phones
A good forward look about how smart phones are evolving to an expectation of smarter phones and telecom in the near future. Conversation, value driven services, increased awareness, integration of user and use history and deeper…
From Computational Complexity
How the Villarino-Gasarch-Regan paper came about
(This post overlaps a prior one here. The paper I am blogging about was also blogged about by Lipton here. The paper itself is on arxiv here. My slides for a talk I will be giving on this material are here)'
Todays post is…