Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Market
Quite a claim, often mentioned in early AI 'tests'? Can it work? Is simulation sufficiently complex proxy for the market?
AI stock trading experiment beats market in simulation by Chinese Association of Automation in TechExplore…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Back to the Future for Dialogue Research
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Philip Cohen, Professor (adj) of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and President of Multimodal Interfaces, LLC. Cohen was one of the…
From insideHPC
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand: The Key to Success for Supercomputers Around the World
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand delivers the interconnect industry’s highest data throughput, extremely low latency and world-leading performance to HPC systems across the globe. With a foundation based on HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand, high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa now has a Everywhere Intercom Feature
Been a long-time user of Alexa as an intercom, but you had to select a destination. Now this new capability is nice, specially useful if you have a large multi-floor house or connected outside space. Previously you could broadcast…
From Schneier on Security
"Sign in with Apple" Vulnerability
Researcher Bhavuk Jain discovered a vulnerability in the "Sign in with Apple" feature, and received a $100,000 bug bounty from Apple. Basically, forged tokens could gain access to pretty much any account. It is fixed....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Unlabeled Data
The first step in using data is to make sure we know what the data is. Surprisingly this can often be an issue. Seen it a number of times in the real world. How was the data gathered, protected, updated, maintained, shared…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research on Human - AI Teaming
Good piece on the topic. Not too different from teaming with other methods, like analytics But here there may be higher expectations and hints of expected 'autonomy'. I would suggest and add that there should be more embedded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Astronomy Methods for Business Analytics?
Brought to attention by some of my astro colleagues, the effort is considerable. Could businesses also construct such a 'survey' of how they operate? Which could lead to a determination of where data might be used, needed?…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Human Impacts of AI Symposium June 11th
Join the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows for a virtual symposium on Living with AI: The Human Impacts of AI on June 11 from 9:00 AM ET- 4:30 PM ET. Please register here! Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of China AI
ACM OPINION
The Art of AI
By Project Syndicate
Kai-Fu Lee.
Sinovation CEO and chairman Kai-Fu Lee says the best role for artificial intelligence in the future is to free humans and resources for well-paying jobs in care-giving and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Technology Adoption
On tech adoption, measurement and useful stage models of prediction diffusion.
Technology Adoption
By Peter J. Denning, Ted G. Lewis
Communications of the ACM, June 2020, Vol. 63 No. 6, Pages 27-29
10.1145/3396265
Technology adoption…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Medical Virtual Assistant
An example of assistants for healthcare.
Healthcare AI Startup Phelix.ai Raises $1M for Medical Virtual Assistant
By Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Healthcare AI developer Phelix.ai has closed a $1 million seed round of funding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Machine Learning DevOps
Aiming at a higher level of automation for quicker and more reliable for development and delivery. Really not all that different from the use of emergent analytical technology.
How AI and Machine Learning are Evolving DevOps
Artificial…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report: HPC and AI for the Era of Genomics – Part 2
This special report sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes a deep dive into HPC and AI for life sciences in the era of genomics. The report also highlights a lineup of Ready Solutions created by Dell Technologies which are highly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention, the use of smart contracts as is foreseen in the IOTA system we have been examining for use. Most of the detail is at the link.
Introduction to IOTA Smart Contracts
I want to thank my colleagues in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gap Adding More Robots
Warehouse Robotics expands.
Gap Rushes in More Robots to Warehouses to Solve Virus Disruption By Reuters
Gap Inc. is deploying warehouse robots more quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in more online orders…
From Schneier on Security
Password Changing After a Breach
This study shows that most people don't change their passwords after a breach, and if they do they change it to a weaker password. Abstract: To protect against misuse of passwords compromised in a breach, consumers should promptly…
From Putting People First
[Book] New Laws of Robotics
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AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation.