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 Schneier on Security
Identifying People by Metadata
Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Measurement Strategy
Without accurate in context measurement strategy, you don't have much of anything. Here is how Google works with partners in this space. Consider how this works outside marketing as well.
Why partners play a critical role in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China to Use AI for Diplomatic Strategy
Quite intriguing, pointers to more technical background or details? Will gaming be an element? Certainly simulation. Recall we used agent based methods to simulate Chinese retail changes. (See link to Agent Model examples…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Aims to use AI as Strategy
Quite intriguing
https://m.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157223/artificial-intelligence-immune-fear-or-favour-helping-make-chinas
Artificial intelligence, immune to fear or favour, is helping to make China’s foreign policy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Out of Stocks
One of our key exploration areas. Including mobile assistance to instore personnel. How diffiecult if the problem online? Stronger communications or connections to fulfillment?
Study: Online retailers losing billions in sales…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Bill Daly from NVIDIA on What’s Next for AI
"NVIDIA researchers are gearing up to present 19 accepted papers and posters, seven of them during speaking sessions, at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference next week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining…
From insideHPC
Low-Mach Simulation of Flow and Heat Tansfer in an Internal Combustion Engine
In this video from PASC18, Saumil Patel from Argonne describes his poster on engine combustion simulation. "This work marks a milestone achievement in using Nek5000, a highly-scalable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quest For Simple Hard Statements
Made-to-order statements that are not so simple Harvey Friedman is a long-standing friend who is a world expert on proofs and the power of various logics. This part of mathematics is tightly connected to complexity theory. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Researches Data as an Asset
Data as an asset concept was a thing we looked at early on, checking this MIT work out... does it include estimates of measures about specifically how to monetize? And to include in these analyses risks as well? So does the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Patches Smartthings Security
Do to their broad capabilities in smart appliances, Samsung is likely to be a considerable player in the smarthome and with their SmartThing hub. My own experience to their TV systems has been shakey. Good to see they are patching…
From insideHPC
Enabling a Secure Multi-Tenant Environment for HPC at the Sanger Institute
Dr. Peter Clapham from the Sanger Institute gave this talk at the DDN User Group at ISC 2018. "The DDN User Group at ISC is an annual conference that brings together the best and brightest scientists, researchers and technologists…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at ANSYS
ANSYS is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The Software Developer II is responsible for assisting in the design, development and maintenance of the next generation, multi-physics coupling engine. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Amazon Go
A closer look at AmazonGo. And notes that there lots of employees at hand to show how it works. Not too different that the experience I just had at a McDonald's, where there was always employees at hand to show how the ordering…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 27th, 2018)
It is frequently argued that intelligence requires great complexity. But complex compared to what? To put things in perspective, my friend Leonid points out that tiny worms have simple brains and yet they can compute the solution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Interpreting Human Emotions
Helping Computers Perceive Human Emotions In MIT News
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that takes computers a step closer to interpreting human emotions as naturally as people do.
In the growing…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Deception
This is a fantastic video of a squid attracting prey with a tentacle that looks like a smaller squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa for Business Makes Hotel Room Calls
Hospitality by assistants expands
Alexa for Business can now Make Phone Calls in Hotel Rooms
Khari Johnson in Venturebeat
Volara, the creator of a hotel concierge service powered by AWS’ Alexa for Business, today announced it has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Video Surveillance
Inevitable.
This Japanese AI security camera shows the future of surveillance will be automated By James Vincent @jjvincent
The world of automated surveillance is booming, with new machine learning techniques giving CCTV cameras…
From Schneier on Security
New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques
According to a new CSIS report, "going dark" is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted a series of interviews with federal, state, and local law enforcement…
From insideHPC
PLDA and HPE to Develop Gen-Z semiconductor IP
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise and PLDA announced a joint collaboration to meet the challenges of next-generation connectivity for advanced workloads. Gen-Z is a new open interconnect protocol and connector developed by the…
From insideHPC
Cray Sets the Stage for Exascale at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Cray CTO Steve Scott describes how the company is moving towards providing Exascale computing capabilities for scientists and engineers worldwide. "It takes many years and many generations of technology…
From insideHPC
SIGHPC Announces Computational and Data Science Fellowships
Today SIGHPC announced the third annual recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship. Funded by Intel, the Fellowship was established to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees…
From insideHPC
How NVIDIA Powers Dell EMC Systems for HPC & AI
In this video from ISC 2018, Marc Hamilton from NVIDIA describes how the company is working with Dell EMC to accelerate AI and HPC workloads. "Dell EMC Deep Learning Ready Bundle customers include the new Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines as Better Narrators?
Perhaps then with humans editing. Examples I have seen so far would need lots of that.
Storytelling with data: Will machines become better narrators than us? in 7Wdata
The use of digital technology for storytelling is not limited…
From insideHPC
How AI & Machine Intelligence is Assisting Clinicians
According to a new Ovum white paper, sponsored by NVIDIA, there is a huge opportunity to help physicians with AI-based systems that can cut down on the workload across protocoling, imaging analysis, and automated reporting of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Minimal Coding Platforms
Particularly like the mention of direct integration of business process modeling. Makes at a more efficient application of less code for more value.
Software Without Coding By Esther Shein in CACM
With digital transformation…
From Schneier on Security
Third Annual Cybercrime Conference
Ross Anderson liveblogged the Third Annual Cybercrime Conference...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity in Oxford
Oxford, England is in the middle of a heat wave and it handles high temperatures about as well as Atlanta handles snow. But that can't stop the complexity and a wonderful workshop this past week. It's my first trip to Oxfordfive…
From Putting People First
The emerging world of healthcare communities
We are witnessing the emergence of a new phenomenon in health care: self-organizing, online communities of patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, academics, and industry, all focused on a particular disease. Patient-led…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Builds new Efficient Future Factories
It seems the new facility will be laden with technology to improve manufacturing and supply chain process.
P&G building 2.5 million-square-foot W.Va. factory
Procter & Gamble is building a 2.5 million-square-foot factory in West…