Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Customer Analytics Accelerator Challenge
FYI much more detail at the link.
ANALYTICS ACCELERATOR CHALLENGE
Data problems? We can help.
The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative is looking to provide implementable solutions to companies who are ready to bring their most…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases Composable Infrastructure for GPU Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the company's HPC systems and new composable infrastructure solutions. OneStop also showcased a wide array of its high-density NVIDIA GPU-based appliances…
From insideHPC
Video: Asetek Advances Liquid Cooling at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Steve Branton from Asetek describes the company's wide array of liquid cooling solutions for HPC. "With 11 systems the TOP500 including the 9th fastest HPC installation in the world, Asetek’s RackCDU…
From insideHPC
Verne Global Steps up to G-10 Framework for Scientific Computing in the UK
Today HPC Cloud provider Verne Global announced that it has been approved by the Crown Commercial Service as a UK government supplier under the G-Cloud 10 (G10) framework. "From advances in AI and machine learning right through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Persons Emerge Again
Recall our long look at using digital personas to represent brand equities, including integrating a chatbot to represent useful information to the consumer. Our consumers reacted well to this, but the interest faded. That …
From Schneier on Security
Recovering Keyboard Inputs through Thermal Imaging
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, are able to recover user passwords by way of thermal imaging. The tech is pretty straightforward, but it's interesting to think about the types of scenarios in which it might…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teachers Association announces CSTA+
One of the big announcements at CSTA today was a new premium level of membership in CSTA. There is and will continue to be a free membership. This new premium membership offers some additional benefits and will also provide money…
From Computational Complexity
Soliciting answers for THIRD survey about P vs NP
I have done two surveys for SIGACT NEWS Complextiy Column (edited by Lane Hemaspaandra)
on P vs NP and related topics. Lane has asked me to do a third. I annouced it in my open problems column here. For those who don't read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Parallel Sampling Algorithm for Speed
Nice to see all of the algorithm research does not have to be AI based. Note the sampling approach. A sort of computationally-crowd-sourced idea? The below links through to a full paper, examining.
Breakthrough' Algorithm…
From The Noisy Channel
You’re welcome, Dima!
You’re welcome, Dima!
The best technique I know for encouraging users to enter natural language searches is to promote them through autocomplete. For example, on an ecommerce site, as people type in “jea”, you could suggest “jeans…From insideHPC
September HPC User Forum to focus on Exascale, AI, Smart Manufacturing, and Clouds
Registration is now open for the next HPC User Forum. The meeting takes place September 4-6 in Dearborn, Michigan. Key topics include AI and other advanced analytics, automated driving systems a.k.a. self-driving vehicles, additive…
From insideHPC
Jean Sorensen Joins Hyperion Research
Today Hyperion Research announced that Jean Sorensen has joined the company in the newly created position of full-time business manager. "Jean Sorensen’s expertise and organizational skills made her an integral part of Hyperion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Potential AI Disruption in Industries
A good set of examples in industries. Not very much detail, in fact speculation as to direct use in many cases. Still useful to think about their implications. Even if AI, in the sense of Machine Learning, cannot address
A…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Moving on Pharma
The next step, the next category, in this case a very big one. With expert comments.
Amazon lowballs CVS and Walgreens on OTC med prices by George Anderson in Retailwire
A comparison of private label over-the-counter (OTC)
A…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH Blog – Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
The following is a blog post from ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today that considers some potential flaws in emerging software mitigations of Spectre-V1 attacks. Earlier this year, Mark Hill, Chair of the Computing Community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another look at the IFTTT Platform
Remain intrigued by the broader potential for using IFTTT as a broader intelligence platform. Anyone looked at that? An editable rule base? Driven learning from IFTTT data? What would it take to test? Have used IFTTT since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Governance Strategy
Not much detail here, but governance in this space is important, regarding the data and results from the analyses. And how it relates to ongoing maintenance of solutions. In particular we found maintenance one of the biggest…
From Schneier on Security
PROPagate Code Injection Seen in the Wild
Last year, researchers wrote about a new Windows code injection technique called PROPagate. Last week, it was first seen in malware: This technique abuses the SetWindowsSubclass function -- a process used to install or update…
From insideHPC
Accelerate Your Applications: CesgaHack returns to Spain in September
The Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) and Appentra Solutions will host the third edition of the hackathon at the Galicia Supercomputing Center, in Santiago de Compostela, from 24th to 28th September 2018. "CESGAHack 3 will…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning Open Source Framework Optimized on Apache Spark*
Intel recently released BigDL. It’s an open source, highly optimized, distributed, deep learning framework for Apache Spark*. It makes Hadoop/Spark into a unified platform for data storage, data processing and mining, feature…
From insideHPC
Video Highlights from ISC 2018
In this video, Steve Conway from Hyperion Research provides a summary of the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. "The ISC High Performance conference attracted 3,505 attendees from over 60 countries, as well…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buying By Voice Hard Sell for Consumers?
Thoughtful piece. Yes, it does create a nervousness about making a mistake. But if enough capabilities are included to attest to the credibility of a request, say with a pin number, and clear repetition of the proposed purchase…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pictures From #CSTA2018
Before I get into some pictures of the exhibit hall et me tell you that there are a lot of people here. This was lunch on Sunday.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Duplex AI and the Call Center
Google is for now denying that Duplex will take over the enterprise call center. And you should ask if just sounding and acting like a human is enough to make such a chatbot more valuable. As I have often said, having a memory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: System for Generating New Service and Business Models
Please join us for the next ISSIP Digital Transformation Speaker Series (see details below, or click here).
via Sorin Ciornei, Series Chair, Cisco Systems
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Edu4Inno: A service system for generating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Machine Learning
Good thoughts, always read this, worth subscribing to at the link:
Ways to think about machine learning By Benedict Evans
I work at Andreessen Horowitz ('a16z'), a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that invests in technology…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
And it begins–#CSTA2018
Yesterday opened the CSTA Conference with afternoon workshops. And there was a nice reception put on by Google. For me it was a travel day and a getting settled day for the most part. Thant and a lot of opportunities to have
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continued Conversations in Google Assistant
Gets the assistant closer to a true 'conversation'. Just enabled it and tested, works well. Still does not have memory from previous conversation, or setting up an ongoing context, like a human would, that's what I want to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Sifter
Brought to my attention: LegalSifter
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contracts that Learn
A very useful next step, examining,
Smart Contracts that Learn by Michael Slinn in InfoQ
Micronautics Research Corporation
View Presentation, talk
Michael Slinn discusses Smart Contracts, what they are, various implementations,…