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
More Smaller, Multi Environment Robotics
Out of Harvard. Some of our earliest looks at robotics were where they might be used in varying environments. So this is always interesting. Expect them to continue to shrink. Includes video of this weird looking device.…
From Schneier on Security
Beating Facial Recognition Software with Face Makeup
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don't work with Juggalo makeup....
From insideHPC
IIT Bombay deploys Cray XC50 Supercomputer
"IIT Bombay selected Cray as a partner in extending support in quality education and research programs because of the compelling price/performance and capability that Cray systems deliver,” said John Howarth, vice president of…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA GPUs Power HPC & AI Workloads in Cloud with Univa
Duncan Poole from NVIDIA gave this talk at the Univa Breakfast Briefing at ISC 2018. "The rise of AI workloads on GPU-enabled systems like RAIDEN in Japan introduces a corresponding and compelling demand for Univa Grid Engine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying Data Science Free online Conference.
Looks to be of interest with good industry and technical speakers.
A FREE Live Online Conference for Aspiring Data Scientists & Data-Curious Business Leaders
28 Speakers • 2 Days • FREE
July 24 - July 25, 2018 10am - 5pm ET
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Compute Stick in USB Form
Considering how this would be useful for training, delivery on some devices. For taking an update to a IOT device.
Intel NCSM2450.DK1 Movidius Neural Compute Stick
4.8 out of 5 stars 12 customer reviews | 7 answered questions…
From insideHPC
Video: CoolIT Systems Enables Liquid Cooled OEM Solutions for HPC and AI Data Centers
In this video from ISC 2018, CoolIT Systems’ Patrick McGinn describes the company's latest energy efficient data center liquid cooling solutions. "As the leading liquid cooling integration partner for OEM server manufacturers…
From insideHPC
Atos Announces New Quantum Simulator with 41 Qubits
Today Atos announced the latest version of its Atos Quantum Learning Machine, the "first commercially available and ready-to-use quantum system," capable of simulating up to 41 quantum bits (Qubits). "It also incorporates world…
From insideHPC
The Colourful Theory: Visible and Invisible Matter in the Universe
In this video from PASC18, Petros Koumoutsakos from ETH Zurich interviews Constantia Alexandrou from the University of Cyprus about her domain of expertise – quantum chromodynamics. "Chromodynamics helps us understand our universe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Factor Analysis and Bayesian Networks
Factor analysis was a favorite statistical method we used to analyze complex influences. Here is a link to a Bayesian approach.
Factor Analysis Reinvented—Probabilistic Latent Factor Induction with Bayesian Networks and BayesiaLab…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST’s Unlinkable Data Challenge Features A $50K Grand Prize
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Unlinkable Data Challenge with a $50k grand prize! The challenge aims to advance approaches to differential privacy, a term introduced by Dwork, McSherry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What to do with Python
Useful starter examples.
What to do with Python
By YK Sugi Founder at CS Dojo, formerly @ Google
What exactly can you do with Python? Here are Python’s 3 main applications.
If you’re thinking of learning Python — or if you recently…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Internship at Apple
I've started an internship at Apple in San Francisco. I am working with Siri core-ML team on learning disentangled representations for natural language
From BLOG@CACM
Validating Beneficial AI
The foundational work of the first AI for Good Summit allows the AI community to work together to create an infrastructure for responsible communication, development, and trust.
From Schneier on Security
California Passes New Privacy Law
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech companies pressed to get this law passed out of self-defense.…
From insideHPC
Determining Where & How to Adopt Machine Learning Technology
The is the final entry in a five-part insideHPC series that takes an in-depth look at how machine learning, deep learning and AI are being used in the energy industry. Read on for help determining where and how to adopt machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Introduces 3D Online Shopping
Walmart kicks off back-to-school season with 3D online shopping
By Deena M. Amato-McCoy in ChainstoreAge
A discount giant is making it easier for co-eds to decorate their dorm rooms.
Walmart is enhancing its new website with two…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinode Adds New Influencer and Collaboration Features
Polinode has been frequently mentioned here, noe new features of interest. You can easily test it.
Introducing an Integrated Tool to Identify Influencers and Dynamic Collaboration Matrices By Andrew Pitts
AN OVERVIEW OF POLINODE…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing New Enzymes for Breaking Down Plastics
In this TACC podcast, Gregg Beckham from NREL and Lee Woodcock from the University of South Florida describe how they are using supercomputers to engineer an enzyme that breaks down plastic. "We used computer simulations to understand…
From insideHPC
Numeca Migrates CFD to the UberCloud with Advania
CFD solution company Numeca International is expanding HPC offerings to run in the cloud and on demand. With help from Advania and the UberCloud, this capability will make it easer for Numeca customers to tackle complex calculations…
From insideHPC
Unravelling Earthquake Dynamics through Extreme-Scale Multiphysics Simulations
Alice-Agnes Gabriel gave this talk at the PASC18 conference. "Earthquakes are highly non-linear multiscale problems, encapsulating geometry and rheology of faults within the Earth’s crust torn apart by propagating shear fracture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Robotic Process Automation with AI
Have been spending some time looking at how RPA can be derived from business process models. Its natural to think how AI/machine-Learning could also drive the associated processes from patterns found in existing or proposed
AI…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Local Hams in La Jolla
A workshop on quantum computing at UCSD Cropped from workshop poster Dorit Aharonov, David Gosset, and Thomas Vidick did standup for three-and-a-half days in La Jolla earlier this year. They are not listed among the many distinguished…
From Computational Complexity
The BREAKTHROUGH on Chromatic Number of the Plane (guest post)
(The new SIGACT News chair wnated me to post a letter he send to all SIGACT members on my blog in case you are not in SIGACT. He thinks you should be. I think so to so next year he won't ask me to do this. Here is his letter:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Assisted Interactive Labeling
Via: Karolyn Schalk, Manager
Executive and Technical Expertise, Cloud, AI and IT Operations
CSIG Talk, July 5 10:30 AM ET: Tensorboard Speaker: Francois Luus, IBM
Speaker: Francois Luus
Title: “Cognitive-assisted Interactive…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Predicting the truncated xorshift32* random number generator
Software programmers need random number generators. For this purpose, the often use functions with outputs that appear random. Gerstmann has a nice post about Better C++ Pseudo Random Number Generator. He investigates the following…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Welcomes New Leadership and Council Members!
Sunday, July 1st, was the start of a new CCC term! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now the Chair of the CCC and Liz Bradley from the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Vision Analyzes the Store Shelf
We looked at this same problem in a number of ways, but not automated the way this suggests. Note it has yet to be connected to existing cameras or robotics.
Trax raises $125 million to bring computer vision insights to retailers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Trends looks at Google Duplex
A yet closer look at the controversial approach. My opinion, this attempts to make the conversation and its components and goal directions autonomous. That is impressive. This makes it more impressive, but also more likely…
From Schneier on Security
Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active…