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
New Book: Artificial Intelligence in Practice
Just starting to read Bernard Marr's just released: Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Companies used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems.. A company by company view of how they are using AI today. I will follow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serious Games Grad Program
Key areas mentioned are of interest. Good to follow for new developments.
UC Santa Cruz Launches First Graduate Program in Serious Games
University of California, Santa Cruz
Tim Stephens; James McGirk
The University of California…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing the Odds in Quantum Games?
These scenarios make me worry about quantum computing and other uses of entanglement. What's a poor dice thrower to do? How do we understand entanglements? Are they just another kind of context we need to detect, measure,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Negatives on Assistants
It's been a fast uptake. They seem to be used by most everyone. In the home and moving to the store and the office the car. Yet there are still some real problems. Trust and security issues still linger. Voice interpretation…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 22nd 2019)
An implemented chip can improve long-term memory. It is currently impractical, but a start-up company will try to bring this technology to market. Never before so many simultaneous and distinct new approaches have been in development…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC for Instabilities in Aerospace Propulsion Systems
Thierry Poinsot from Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute gave this talk at PASC19. "This talk focuses on aerospace propulsion where optimization often leads to the occurrence of instabilities where combustion couples with acoustics…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Director of the Center for Research Computing at the University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is seeking a Director of the Center for Research Computing in our Job of the Week. "This position will have oversight responsibility for the strategic planning, development, and delivery of an enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RPA Scaling Operations
Thoughts on 'Robotic Process Automation' , which reminds me of the considerable effort we did with 'knowledge systems' to improve process and results in the enterprise. Trouble was, the approach became unwieldy to create and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVidia Announces AI Edge Platform
Just starting to take a closer look at this:
Nvidia announces its first AI platform for edge devices By Mike Wheatley
Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Tea Bags
It's pu'er tea -- from Japan. 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
MIT Tech Review Chain Letter on Facebook and Libra
MIT's Blockchain newsletter takes a good look at Facebook and their activity with the Blockchain Libra. Also a pointer to Facebook's 29-page paper on the topic. Reading now. More is sure to follow. Again I recommend signing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Streetview AI to Inventory Infrastructure
This came to mind once as a means to check our business locations for infrastructure regulation and compliance. Though it was noted that we would be reliant on Google for updates of the images involved. Still a good thought…
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Built into Android Firmware
In 2017, some Android phones came with a backdoor pre-installed: Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor preinstalled on Android devices before they left the factories of manufacturers, Google researchers confirmed…
From insideHPC
HPE teams with Qumulo for On-Prem and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Today Qumulo announced that it has expanded its strategic partnership with HPE to encompass both on-prem and hybrid cloud-based storage solutions. "No matter where an organization is in its journey to the cloud, HPE and Qumulo…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraud Detection with AI
And even the predictive risk of the exposure to financial crimes.
How AI Can Help with the Detection of Financial Crimes
Paige Dickie develops artificial intelligence (AI) and digital strategy for Canada’s banking sector at the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots in a Store Near You
Including interesting statement from Wal-Mart, which has now emerged as the leader in brick and mortar grocery robotics .... Talk and link to transcription:
Groceries And Gadgets: The Robots Coming To A Supermarket Near You
With…
From insideHPC
Optics for the Cloud – A New Approach to Data Centre Technology
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche from Microsoft gave this talk at PASC19 in Zurich. "At Microsoft Research Cambridge, we are exploring optical technologies across the three primary resources, networking, storage, and compute. In this…
From Schneier on Security
Fake News and Pandemics
When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The second is new, and one you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning Cities of the Future with AI
Like to see much more about this.... planning is tough, and rarely done completely. Analytic and AI methods require considerable attention to detail and process. Doing planning well with these methods is probably difficult…
From Schneier on Security
How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works
Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple's new "Find My" feature works. If you haven't already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase the question you ought to be asking: how is this system going…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real time Drone detection of Forest Fires
More extension of sensors, with direct connection to humans.
Drones for Early Detection of Forest Fires
Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid
June 17, 2019
Researchers at Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain are collaborating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Autonomous Vans for Middle-Mile
Not fully autonomous, and with fixed routes, will this simplify the approach and make it safe enough to decrease on-road issues in the early days of on road autonomy?
Will autonomous vans help Walmart win the middle mile logistics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernizing Marketing
And even poorly understanding the current processes being used to utilize markets and data.
Six governing considerations to modernize marketing in McKinsey
Legacy structures and operations are keeping companies from taking full…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Services in Japan and France
Continuing to gather information on the use and greater implications of driverless. My experience is mostly in the supply chain space, but the changes this will produce will be very broad. Consider too the required data generation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA as a delivering Foodchain
Never thought of the nearby IKEA as a food chain. Although have always known about the meatballs.
Ikea is now the world’s 6th largest food chain, and it’s testing delivery to your door
Call it GrübHüb: The Swedish giant is reportedly…
From Computational Complexity
The Urban/Rural Collegiality Divide
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Wireless Spectrum
Technical view of controlling spectrum. A broad and technical look at the history and future of the use of electromagnetic spectrum to communicate and now directly deliver capabilities anywhere.
If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will
DARPA…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Hardware Security Modules
Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation targets an HSM manufactured by a vendor whose solutions…
From insideHPC
Video: Panasas Delivers Frustration Free HPC Storage at ISC 2019
In this video from ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Dale Brantley from Panasas describes how the company delivers a frustration-free HPC storage environment. "Panasas delivers HPC data storage solutions that support industry and research…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Rocks the TOP500 with Ethernet and InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that the company’s InfiniBand solutions accelerate six of the top ten HPC and AI Supercomputers on the June TOP500 list. The six systems Mellanox accelerates include the top three, and four of the top…