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 insideHPC
Addressing Computing Challenges at CERN openlab
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe speaks with Dr Maria Girone, Chief Technology Officer at CERN openlab ahead of her keynote presentation at ISC High Performance. "The challenge of creating…
From insideHPC
Abstractions and Directives for Adapting Wavefront Algorithms to Future Architectures
Robert Searles from the University of Delaware gave this talk at PASC18. "Architectures are rapidly evolving, and exascale machines are expected to offer billion-way concurrency. We need to rethink algorithms, languages and programming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morse Code is still Here
Remember being trained on Morse, then it seemed to go away ... but no, it still has assistant applications beyond being a (now) obscure point on mystery theater. Now yet more inspirational!
Making Morse code available to more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RapidMiner Embeds Machine Learning
Over the years we actively used RapidMiner for analytics. Good to see them advancing their connected capabilities. Will followup to examine.
Press Release:
RapidMiner announces new program to embed machine learning
New partner…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford AI Recreates Periodic Table
Fascinating example. Could this kind of structure be sought elsewhere? Thinking it.
Stanford AI recreates chemistry’s periodic table of elements
In a first step toward generating an artificial intelligence program that can find…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Scientist for HPC at Intel Labs
Intel in Silicon Valley is seeking a Research Scientist for HPC. "Intel Labs is seeking motivated researchers in the area of parallel and distributed computing research applied towards high performance computing and machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Description of Enterprise Blockchain
To the point and non-technical.
The blockchain beyond bitcoin
Taking blockchain technology private for the enterprise. By Jim Scott in O'Reilly
Check out Jim Scott’s session “Using the Blockchain in Enterprise” at the Strata Data…
From insideHPC
IO500 List Showcases World’s Fastest Storage Systems for HPC
In this video from ISC 2018, John Bent and Jay Lofstead describe how the IO500 benchmark measures storage performance in HPC environments. "The IO500 benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 21st, 2018)
It seems that something called “Cartesian Genetic Programming” could be a match for Deep Learning. If you look at the best paid individuals in most fields, most of them are men. Why is that? There are many possible explanations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superminds and the Nature of Work
Interesting piece which uses my alma mater Procter & Gamble, as an example. We struggled with some of these problems, linking human capabilities and artificial augmentation. Early on we talked to Tom Malone on related topics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Breadth of Machine Learning
Some useful and in my experience correct ideas. Its still hard to produce and learn general intelligence. What worked for us was to be as narrow as possible, with rules or by neurons. Narrow is also useful too for maintenance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Supply Chains
Useful examples, more detail would be useful. We note that CPG company Unilever's was best.
In Supply Chain Digest
Another View of the Best Supply Chains by Dan Gilmore
Different Methodologies of Course Lead to Different Results…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Mind and Abstract Thought
What is abstrsact thought, and how do IQ tests track that? Closer to what we might call common sense, or really uncommon?
DeepMind AI Takes IQ Tests to Probe Its Ability for Abstract Thought
in New Scientist By Jacob Aron
Google…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dead Squid on Prince Edward Island
A beach on Prince Edward Island is littered with dead squid. No one knows why. 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 posting guidelines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
PwC Looks at the Job Market under new AI
AI Won't Kill the Job Market but Keep It Steady, PwC Report Says
In Forbes By Parmy Olson
A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) researchers of wide-ranging economic trends to better predict how artificial intelligence (AI)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Models a Quantum System
Had a brief connect with DWave for applications in business. Continue to think possible applications areas. Especially combinatorially complex possibilities. Good to see an apparent move forward.
D-Wave’s quantum computer
System…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let's Try to See Clearly on Blockchain for Advertising
Have been asked to examine this. Of interest.
Blockchain is simply too slow to work for the real-time aspects of our programmatic trading world,
By Jaisimha Muthegere
The release of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Blockchain…
From insideHPC
From Weather Dwarfs to Kilometre-Scale Earth System Simulations
Nils P. Wedi from ECMWF gave this talk at PASC18. "The increasingly large amounts of data being produced b weather and climate simulations and earth system observations is sometimes characterised as a deluge. This deluge of data…
From insideHPC
NEC Accelerates Machine Learning with Vector Computing
In this video from ISC 2018, Takeo Hosomi from NEC describes how vector computing can accelerate Machine Learning workloads. "Machine learning is the key technology for data analytics and artificial intelligence. Recent progress…
From insideHPC
ECP Launches ExaLearn Co-Design Center
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project has initiated a new Co-Design Center called ExaLearn. Led by Principal Investigator Francis J. Alexander from Brookhaven National Laboratory, ExaLearn is a co-design center for Exascale Machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jaron Lanier on Behavior Modification
We connected with Lanier long ago on and in virtual worlds. He does not like it when people he doesn't agree with seem to be keen on altering his behavior. Or are not part of his tribe. Don't disagree we should all consider…
From Computational Complexity
CRA Snowbird 2018
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| Marios Papaefthymiou (UC Irvine), Michael Franklin (U. Chicago), Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern) and me. |
From Schneier on Security
New Report on Chinese Intelligence Cyber-Operations
The company ProtectWise just published a long report linking a bunch of Chinese cyber-operations over the past few years. The always interesting gruqq has some interesting commentary on the group and its tactics. Lots of detailed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Piviots to Deep Learning
I doubt if Microsoft is playing this wrong. I agree though that other forms of intelligence are also worth investing in, like better ways of providing intelligent conversations and linking that to knowledge infrastructure.
Why…
From The Noisy Channel
I’d hope that a job description would align with these kinds of questions.
I’d hope that a job description would align with these kinds of questions. It’s one of the reasons to publish questions — the interviewing process shouldn’t be a big secret. It should focus on the kind of work the job requires…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Marketing Driving Growth
Something we looked at in some detail, starting long ago.
How Emotional Marketing Can Drive Business Growth in K@W
An image of an elegant Vermicular-brand Japanese rice cooker flashed on the screen at the Wharton Customer Analytics…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Removal of Deadlines for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program
The following is a cross-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on the removal of deadlines for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program. Dear Colleague: The Directorates for Computer and Information Science and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DigitalOcean
Have an idea? plug it into a Cloud. Anything that simplifies things is good.
DigitalOcean: Very interesting idea, pointed out to me ...
Meet DigitalOcean
We're on a mission to simplify cloud computing so developers and their
Tell…
From The Noisy Channel
Interview Questions for Search Relevance Engineers and Product Managers
Technical interviewing is hard, and it’s a subject I’m very passionate about personally.
But this post isn’t about technical interviewing in general. It’s specifically about questions I’ve used to interview candidates for search…From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Speaker Series: Digital Workers and Role of Meta in Digital Services
Via Sorin Ciornei, Series Chair, Cisco Systems
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The digital worker and technological implications: The critical role of "meta" in digital services innovation and employment
Speaker: Stephen F
When…