Communications of the ACM
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July 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Alibaba Works with Retail Data
Via O'Reilly.
How Alibaba does retail data
What does it take to compete in a global market in which retail and the cloud are increasingly intertwined? Alibaba says it's domain-specific data science and machine learning for theHere's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM And Automation Anywhere Partner to Produce BPM Bots
I had been wondering for some time how IBM might be integrating business process management (BPM) and their cognitive methods to approach improving real business process. Always seemed they had rule based systems, so why not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Min Basadur's Simple Question
A former colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble, Min Basadur's work is described. Clever and very simple use of the question "How Might we ... ?" is mentioned. Remember hearing of its use as a tool upon arrival at the company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Journals its AI/Machine Learning Efforts
Apple has started blogging to draw attention to its AI work : Sorry, it’s a ‘Journal’ by James Vincent@jjvincent in theVerge:
" ... The company’s new website, titled “Apple Machine Learning Journal,” is a bit grander than a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Claude Shannon
Great to see this article about Claude Shannon, who is little mentioned these days, but truly was a key element of understanding the value of knowledge in systems of information. Had never heard the 'work habits' angle.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Better for Business Applications
To put it simply, Google Glass just looks more business-like than Augmented Reality Goggles. It at least implies that you are still attached to solving problems in the real world. Even better focused than you would be with…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GP–A General Purpose Block Programming Language
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Hot Interconnects Conference in Santa Clara
The Hot Interconnects conference has posted their program Agenda. The event takes place Aug. 28-30 in Santa Clara, California. "Join us for our 25th year of an information-packed three-day Symposium about the latest in High Performance…
From Schneier on Security
Password Masking
Slashdot asks if password masking -- replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them -- is on the way out. I don't know if that's true, but I would be happy to see it go. Shoulder surfing, the threat is defends…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Signature of Chaos in Ultracold Reactions
Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium atom, opening the door to new controlled chemistry experiments…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Core Program Solicitations Released
Three divisions at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) have just released new solicitations for their core programs. Computing and Communication Foundation…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Gains Momentum in HPC at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Rick Koopman from Lenovo describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC. "Lenovo recently announced the delivery of one of the most powerful systems – among the first in the world based on Intel…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: Sustainable Software Development in Computational Sciences
"PASC has recently formed collaborative partnerships with a number of scientific journals. In this panel discussion, representatives from these journals are invited to express their thoughts regarding publication practices in…
From insideHPC
Brazil-Based AMT to Resell Bright Computing Software
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller agreement with AMT. "We are very impressed with Bright’s technology and we believe it will make a huge difference to our customers’ HPC environments," said Ricardo Lugão, HPC Director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CMO's Preparing for the Future
Former colleague of mine is interviewed. Business, now more than ever, is about prediction.
How CMOs Can Prepare For The Future: A Q&A With 'Predicting The Turn' Author Dave Knox
by Jennifer Rooney
Dave Knox regards and engages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Business of AI
Right now, for the second time in a long career, am involved directly in making AI part of a business. So was struck by this view.
HBR: On the business of AI. ...
".... What can AI do Today?
The term artificial intelligence was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multisensor Interfaces Reference
Of technical interest:
Announcing: The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations. Volume 1
Eeditors: Oviatt, Sharon; Schuller, Bjorn; Cohen, Philip R; Sonntag,
P…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL Pursuing Meaningful Actions in Support of Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community for pursuing meaningful actions in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Innovation Cultures
Amazon, 3M, and Google All Have This Invisible Advantage
These five steps can help any organization gain an unseen edge over the competition.
By Soren Kaplan Author, The Invisible Advantage @sorenkaplan
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for September HPC User Forum in Milwaukee
Hyperion Research has posted the preliminary agenda for the HPC User Forum Sept. 5-7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "The HPC User Forum community includes thousands of people from the steering committee, member organizations, sponsors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Wants to Install Smart Homes
Recall that Amazon just also announced a smart home consultation service, apparently aimed at getting their devices installed. Probably a requirement for typical aftermarket installations of Smart Homes. For the 'non digital…
From insideHPC
ANSYS Scales to 200K Cores on Shahin II Supercomputer
Today ANSYS, Saudi Aramco, and KAUST announced a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS Fluent to nearly 200,000 processor cores – enabling organizations to make critical and cost-effective decisions faster and increase…
From insideHPC
BSC Comparing Algorithms that Search for Cancer Mutations
Eduard Porta-Pardo from BSC has undertaken the first ever comparative analysis of sub-gene algorithms that mine the genetic information in cancer databases. These powerful data-sifting tools are helping untangle the complexity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jumping Robotics
A small scale, jumping robot. Quite impressive in details and related efforts.
Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We've Ever Seen, By Evan Ackerman
Salto-1P uses a small motor and a system of linkages and gears to jump…
From insideHPC
Dell Builds Bracewell Supercomputer for Bionic Vision Research at CSIRO in Australia
Today CSIRO, Australia’s top science agency, announced deployment of a new Dell EMC supercomputer, kicking off a new generation of research in artificial intelligence. "This new system will provide greater scale and processing…
From insideHPC
Red Hat Showcases ThunderX 2 Development Platform for HPC
In this video, Jon Masters from Red Hat describes the company's multi-architecture solutions that were on display at ISC 2017. "Developing new and adapting existing highly scalable applications to take advantage of the new technological…
From insideHPC
Petabyte-Scale Active Archive in Private Object Storage
In big data science, storage archives protect massive volumes of research-critical content. Scientists at the University of Warsaw (UW) Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) rely on a petabyte…
From BLOG@CACM
Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
From Schneier on Security
Many of My E-Books for Cheap
Humble Bundle is selling a bunch of cybersecurity books very cheaply. You can get copies of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Cryptography Engineering -- and also Ross Anderson's Security Engineering, Adam Shostack's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lucy from Equals 3
An example of Watson AI.
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