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
Beauty Marketing
Its about the dimensions of digital, and the better ability to manipulate those dimensions. Digital and thus numerical, can be sliced, attached, personalized, measured and valued.
Via Think with Google:
A century-old brand shows…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers – Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing
Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in their upcoming Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing…
From insideHPC
Video: Xtreme Stargate Launches at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme-D demonstrates XTREME-Stargate, a solution that combines Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and an HPC gateway appliance to deliver a new way to access and manage…
From Schneier on Security
Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor
Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now form the basis of all account access at Google. "We have had no…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Writing about software and building software are different jobs
Code taken from a blog post is meant to illustrate an idea. Blogging is literature, not engineering. Don’t build production systems by copying and pasting random code form the Internet. It will not end well. A reader commented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kuri Rolling Assistant Stops Manufacturing
The family friendly rolling assistant Kuri has stopped manufacturing and is refunding new orders. Was called 'adorable' by some. Have followed it here since its inception. The supporting company Bosch, apparently has…
From insideHPC
Cray XC50 Supercomputer Powers National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Today Cray announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The supercomputer, nicknamed NS-05 “ATERUI II,” provides more than 3 peak petaflops
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Understanding
Good and broad look at data understanding.
Sharpening your Data Instincts By Peter Gleeson in Medium
Writer on topics in data science, statistics and programming
How to sharpen your data instincts ... "
From insideHPC
Professor Steve Furber Joins Tachyum Board of Advisors
Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. announced that Professor Steve Furber, the highly regarded original designer of the world’s leading embedded processor, the ARM microprocessor, has joined its Board of Advisors. In this…
From insideHPC
Next Generation Data Management Requirements
Next generation workloads in High Performance Computing involve more unstructured data than ever before. In this edition of Industry Perspectives, HPE explores the next generation of data management requirements as the growing…
From insideHPC
AMD steps up to HPC Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Derek Bouius from AMD describes how HPC users can take advantage of new AMD EPYC processors and Radeon GPUs to accelerate their applications. "With the introduction of new EPYC processor based servers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Adds AI to G Suite
More assistant services, in places that make sense. Have used Suite for university group interactions.
Google adds AI features to G Suite, including ‘Smart Reply’ for Hangouts Chat in ComputerWorld
The company also touted new
SAN…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass is Back, AI on the Factory Floor
Like the direction of this, it is where we experimented with the idea. Look forward to seeing this in action. Like the connection to the notion of an 'Assistant', with eyes and ears and everywhere connections to knowledge
Google…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ethics, Accessibility, and Security–Condiment or Ingredient
Too often people think of ethics, accessibility, and security as condiments; something to add at the end rather than ingredients essential from the beginning.
Last night was the latest #EthicalCS Twitter chat and as usual it got…From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: The Fourth Age by Byron Reese
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity: by Byron Reese
Good book. I have been an explorer and practitioner in this space for decades. He covers the space well. First, I much
like the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientific Paper is Obsolete
Should the scientific paper be a distributed 'package' of statements, data, descriptive need for advances, collaborative linkages, proposed tests, results? ....
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Wants Research into Resilient Anonymous Communications
DARPA is funding research into resilient anonymous communications systems....
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Board Meeting
From the ISSIP Board meeting today See ISSIP.org
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip), is a 501 (C) (3) professional association co-founded by IBM, Cisco, HP and several
Service…
From Schneier on Security
Major Bluetooth Vulnerability
Bluetooth has a serious security vulnerability: In some implementations, the elliptic curve parameters are not all validated by the cryptographic algorithm implementation, which may allow a remote attacker within wireless range…
From insideHPC
Video: Intro to OpenMP
In this video, Markus Eisenbach and Dmitry Liakh from ORNL present: Intro to OpenMP, Part 1. "This video was recorded as part of the "Introduction to HPC" workshop that took place at ORNL from June 26-28. This is video 1 of 2…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supporting Multiphysics Application Development
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Computational scientist Ben Bergen of Los Alamos National Laboratory describes the Advanced Technology Development and Mitigation (ATDM) subprogram‘s Flexible Computational Science Infrastructure…
From BLOG@CACM
Discussing Empirical Answers to Questions of Software Engineering
Focusing on what helps software developers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Figure Eight and Google for AutoML Training
Yes, this is the Grail ... good training data, initially and ongoing, is essential. Also sufficient contextual metadata. We had projects fail because we did not consider these issues. Was much impressed with a Figure Eight…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It is more complicated than I thought: -mtune, -march in GCC
My favourite C compilers are GNU GCC and LLVM’s Clang. In C, you compile for some architecture. Thus you have to tell the compiler what kind of machine you have. In theory, you could recompile all the code for the exact machine…
From insideHPC
Biocomplexity Institute moves forward with HPC and Dell EMC
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Kevin Shinpaugh from Virginia Tech describes how Dell EMC works with the Biocomplexity Institute. "The Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech's IT group provides the infrastructure…
From insideHPC
Performance in the Datacenter
Many modern applications are being developed with so called run-time languages, which are compiled at execution time. The performance of these applications in cloud data centers is important for anyone considering moving their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skim view or Deep Dive?
I like Mckinsey's new method of providing a 5 minute overview of a technical topic, and the ability to take a fifty minute look at the same topic. You choose the path through the information, in infograpic and text snippets…
From Computational Complexity
Need EASY approaches to getting unif random from non-random sources
Teaching crypto for the first time next semester I am looking into lots of stuff I always meant to look into but now I have to. NOT a complaint- good to be forced to expand my horizons (within TCS).
I"m also finding out that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Private Label
Watched this early on and it seemed the were digging deeply here.
Supermarket chains can breathe easy — for now, at least — about Amazon’s grocery push on one front: private label. in Supermarket News
Of Amazon’s roughly 7,000…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic IOT Stickers
Simple, cheap?. Easily attachable and removable. Sensing contextual environment. Security?
Electronic stickers on a set of blocks. Electronic Stickers to Streamline Large-Scale 'Internet of Things'
Purdue University News
Purdue…