Communications of the ACM
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July 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Selves vs Better Bots
In Linkedin:
'Multiple Selves,' Not Better Bots, Is AI's 'Personal Productivity' Future
Published on April 3, 2017 Featured in: Big Ideas & Innovation, Productivit
y, Technology
by Michael Schrage, visiting fellow at imperial
MIT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EBay Looks at AI
We had some interactions with eBay in their early days. Now Forbes does a quick look at how they are aiming to use AI methods to produce better focused personalized experiences. Not a bad place to start, you already have…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach Me How To Teach
Garth Flint hits it out of the part with It is not about coding
Key issue?
"Although both camps were for teachers neither dealt with any pedagogy on how to teach coding or programming. Both stressed syntax and how to read theThis…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- 35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels are Winning
The next WATCH talk, called 35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels are Winning is Thursday, July 20th, from 12 PM-1 PM ET. The presenter is Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue) from IBM. Cris has an uncanny ability to link disparate events…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Google PAIR Effort: People+AI
As important as how smart the methods will be, will be the means by which we collaborate with them. Thinking about this as a team, beyond just a person using a machine, will also be key.
Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple vs Google Maps
In Flowingdata:
In Google and Apple mapping approaches. I have looked at both of these for years now on the IOS smartphone. A close comparative look at different mapping approaches. Variation in data and design. Choices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pharma and the Sharing of Data in Drug Discovery
Not quite what I call crowdsourcing, but rather a means to make it easier to share and fund expensive research efforts. Ultimately the very expensive genomic research efforts have to be funded too. Good to see this direction…
From insideHPC
Exaflow: Collaborating on the Computational Challenges of CFD
"Fluid Dynamics (FD) simulations provide a powerful tool for the analysis of such fluid flows and are an essential element of many industrial and academic problems. The complexities and nature of fluid flows, often combined with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Emergence
Complete article at the link in DSC:
The E-Dimension: Why Machine Learning Doesn’t Work Well for Some Problems?
by Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei, Ph.D.*
Principal Data Scientist, Intertrust Technologies.
Introduction
Machine Learning (ML)…
From insideHPC
Fostering Diversity in HPC at Lenovo
"Lenovo is an interesting company in that they started in China and the founders realized they need to become diverse in culture and every other way. So what we've found is that they've become a multi-cultural company very, very…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Power New Servers from Advanced Clustering Technologies
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced new systems based on the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors. "Integrating this new breakthrough generation of Intel Xeon processors into our systems means we can provide our customers…
From insideHPC
Video: Supermicro Showcases HPC Solutions at ISC 2017
In this video, Peter Maas from Supermicro gives us a tour of the company's exhibit at ISC 2017. "Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest selection of HPC Solutions in the industry, including 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U SuperServers, FatTwin…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Big News in Graph Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer. After that, they cover a series of IT developments that go…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will People Interact with Machines
I see my former collaborators at IFTF have been working on this problem:
Forecasting How Humans Will Interact with Machines by 2030
By: Chris Preimesberger | July 12, 2017
The Dell-IFTF report forecasts that emerging technologies…
From Computational Complexity
89944 Hat Problems
I've blogged about different hat problems a few times (see here). The question arises: How many hat problems are there? The answer is really infinite (literally) but I will list some parameters and bound them reasonably to get…
From Schneier on Security
Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption
News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. Law enforcement agencies would need warrants…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Share your Model instead of your Data!
Our paper "Share your Model instead of your Data: Privacy Preserving Mimic Learning for Ranking", with Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke, has been accepted at Neu-IR: SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing and Marketing Deep Learning
In Zdnet:
Automating automation: a framework for developing and marketing deep learning models
Are you sold on the benefits of adding automation to your stack, but put off by the high entry barrier to this game? The NeoPulse Framework…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Kitchen Tile Catalog Complete
All tessellating convex polygons found Cropped and combined from src1, src2. Michaël Rao and Marjorie Rice are linked in this month’s news. Rao has just released a paper (see also slides and code here) completing the catalog
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant Mission Creep
When I read recently that a virtual assistant had called 911 in the US to report a crime in progress, my immediate reaction was: No that will not work, for a number of reasons. Technical and regulatory. And that was confirmed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Bot Examples
Systems that do sales bot interactions. In cnbc:
" .... Here's how it works: When a company signs up with Conversica, they get to pick the name, gender and title of their new assistant. As leads come in, the AI assistant gets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imagine a Future of Infinite Computing Power
Quite a way to go, but following how assistants can, learn, gather information, analyze and deliver. I think its less about the speed of hardware and software, and more about how we model intelligent memory, data assets and…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: Beyond Moore’s Law
"Shrinking the feature sizes of wires and transistors has been the driver for Moore’s Law for the past 5 decades, but what might lie beyond the end of current lithographic roadmaps and how will it affect computing as we know
…
From insideHPC
Interview: John Gustafson on the Evolution of Supercomputing
In this MacObserver podcast, John Martellaro discusses the evolution of HPC with John Gustafson, Visiting Professor at NUS in Singapore. “Known by many as the father of Gustafson's Law, Dr. John Gustafson is a professor of computer…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2017–Some Thoughts
Normally I write several blog posts during a CSTA Annual Conference. Not this year. Why? Too much going on! The sessions I attended were very good and my time not at sessions was never boring. Lots of great conversations connecting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart IOT Patent for Replenishment
Noted this before, worth taking another look. Note the implication of inclusion within the product. Via CBInsights:
Walmart’s IoT Patent Application Takes Aim At Amazon Dash
" ... The system is reminiscent of Amazon Dash —
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is “modern” programming?
As a young teenager, I dabbled with basic and some assembly. Things got serious when I learned Turbo Pascal. “Now we are talking”, I thought. Turbo Pascal offered one of the earliest examples of Integrated Development Environment…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing RNA Structure at Argonne
Over at ALCF, Joan Koka writes that researchers at the National Cancer Institute are using Argonne supercomputers to advance disease studies by enhancing our understanding of RNA, biological polymers that are fundamentally involved…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kasparov on Intelligent Machines
Kasparov talks from a unique perspective about machines and their intelligent use.
Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them | Garry Kasparov TED Talk.
We must face our fears if we want to get the most out of technology…
From insideHPC
Asetek Announces Regional OEM HPC installation
Today Asetek announced an order from a new European OEM customer to service demand for an HPC (High Performance Computing) installation. "The order is for Asetek’s RackCDU D2C (Direct-to-Chip) liquid cooling solution and is valued…