Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommending Deep Learning for Your Company
Useful outline. With cautions.
Should You Be Recommending Deep Learning Solutions in Your Company? Posted by William Vorhies
Summary: If you are guiding your company’s digital journey, to what extent should you be advising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Underwater Street-View
Been a long time follower of underwater live cameras. A number of coastal communities support them. Maintaining them is often a problem though, the ones I track are often down. Have examined the use of them to track fish…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Well Can You Code the Projects You Assign Students?
Garth Flint had another good post today (Last Day of School And Done with Java) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes about some lessons learned. Any time a teacher learns from student projects I count that…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Possible New Squid Species
NOAA video. 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 The Eponymous Pickle
Air Force and AI and MIT
Following through other connections to DOD work:
MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
By Danny Crichton@dannycrichton / 2 weeks ago
The Pentagon is one of the largest technology customers in the world, purchasing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updated ACM Code of Ethics
Mentioned this effort last year, has been further updated. Worth looking at how it would be useful in your domain. However, at the very end there is a quote “if you can’t predict what your system will do, and you can’t…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Great Data Analytics
Good piece, which even includes the rare 'decision' aspects included. But implies the whole process is still very haphazard. Suppose you wanted the automate the whole process, where would you start?
What Great Data Analysts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Futuristic Delivery Drones
For a long time it seemed that Amazon had abandoned the futuristic idea of drone delivery. Now is it on the way? Prepare for drone filled skies in suburbia? Still some details missing? Quite a few details in the piece…
From insideHPC
Video: LUMI Supercomputer at CSC to run on Sustainable Energy
Today CSC in Finland announced that its datacenter in Kajaani will host a pan-European high-performance supercomputer. The machine will be about ten times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer currently in Europe…
From insideHPC
NEXTGenIO Project Delivers Prototype to EPCC
The EPCC supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh has installed a prototype system developed by the NEXTGenIO project. Funded by the European Commission, NEXTGenIO is an R&D project tasked with developing solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bring Your Cash
New types of regulation
Amazon Go doesn’t want to leave cash on the table In Retailwire with further expert comment
by Santi Briglia
In the face of growing criticism that cashless retail technology will leave a big portion of…
From insideHPC
Cray to build Big Red 200 Supercomputer for Indiana University
Today Cray announced that Indiana University has selected a Cray Shasta supercomputing system to advance the use of AI across diverse research fields at the university. " We’ve entered an age where AI is poised to transform the…
From insideHPC
EU Funds Eight Pre-exascale Supercomputers
The European Union has selected eight supercomputing centers to host pre-exascale supercomputers. The new systems will support Europe’s researchers, industry and businesses in developing new applications in a wide range of areas…
From insideHPC
Epic HPC Road Trip leads to Gary Grider at Los Alamos
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at LANL in new Mexico. "Our conversation started with the open question: where do you see HPC going? He’s not wild about
…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Rank Problem
More on restricted quantum circuits [ The Daily Grail ] Ken Regan just wrote about his paper with Chaowen Guan (GR). The paper is titled, “Stabilizer Circuits, Quadratic Forms, and Computing Matrix Rank.” Today I thought I would…
From Schneier on Security
iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police
"Hey Siri; I'm getting pulled over" can be a shortcut: Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." Then the program pauses music you may be playing, turns…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation On Various Systems
It is common in software to need random integers within a range of values. For example, you may need to pick an object at random in an array. Random shuffling algorithms require such random integers. Typically, you generate a…
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019
Today is the second day of the twelfth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, which I am hosting at Harvard University. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security…
From insideHPC
Michael Zentner to Lead SDSC Sustainable Scientific Software Group
Today the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced the appointment of Michael Zentner as director of Sustainable Scientific Software, effective immediately. "Having worked with Michael as a co-PI of SGCI since 2016, I’m…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Models of Social Contagion
During our earliest looks at word-of-mouth interactions, aimed at things like advertising, we examined the structure of customer interaction. Also that context drives this kind of interaction. This overall is a very technical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Working Together
Google blog talks working together. Not unexpected. Much more at the link.
Working together when we’re not together By Veronica Gilrane, People Analytics Manager
As the manager of Google’s People Innovation Lab (PiLab) team…
From insideHPC
Atos to Deploy Most Powerful Supercomputer in Norway
Today Atos announced a 4-year contract to deliver a BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer to Uninett Sigma2, the national e-infrastructure provider in Norway. As the most powerful supercomputer in Norway, the AMD-powered system will…
From insideHPC
Kmesh.io – Multicloud Lustre-as-a-Service
Vinay Gaonkar from Kmesh.io gave this talk at LUG 2019. "The need for cloud-based Lustre, he explained, is driven by both technological and business factors. In the end, this all adds up to a trend in which the cloud world is…
From insideHPC
Pricing American Options with the NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine
The Aldwin division of ANEO is now working together with NEC to leverage the leading-edge vector technology of SX-Aurora TSUBASA for porting and optimizing Aldwin’s in-house software for American option pricing. The code is implemented…
From Computational Complexity
What Happened to the Surprising Theorems?
Twenty-five years ago Peter Shor presented a polynomial-time factoring algorithms for quantum computers. For Peter, it was a simple translation of a quantum algorithm due to Dan Simon. For the rest of us, it was a shock, while…
From insideHPC
The Convergence of HPC & AI: Why it’s Great for Supercomputing and the Enterprise
By the end of 2019, worldwide AI spend is expected to reach $35 billion and more than double by 2022, according to IDC. While AI market projections may be speculative, there's a general consensus the investment will be significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Home Deliveries
Having this robot show up at the front step seems a bit scary, but I like the logic of its use. Good additional details here from IEEE Spectrum.
Ford Self-Driving Vans Will Use Legged Robots to Make Deliveries
Agility Robotics…
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
Citing security concerns, the Chinese military wants to replace Windows with its own custom operating system: Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7 leaks, Beijing officials are well aware of the US' hefty arsenal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI will Improve Networks
Extensive first piece, more to follow, by Cisco on Networks and AI. Click through below.
Enterprise Networks
Improving Networks with Artificial Intelligence
John Apostolopoulos, Ph.D.
June 5, 2019
Artificial intelligence is changing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
W. Brian Arthur Podcast
We connected with Arthur about modeling economies and enterprises at the SFI.
The Autonomous Economy HBR Podcast
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