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
Call for Lustre Presentations: LAD’18 in Paris
The Lustre Administrators & Developers group has issued their Call for Presentations. Registration is now open for the LAD'18 event, which takes place Sept. 24-25 in Paris. "We invite community members to send proposals for presentation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmentarians
And on the same topic. How much is it augmenting, diminishing, replacing jobs and how much is the replacement of component skills?
On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now:
For a couple of days…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Steps up to HPC & AI Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Perry Hayes and Martin Galle from Supermicro describe the company's latest innovations for HPC and AI workloads. "Supermicro delivers the industry's fastest, most powerful selection of HPC solutions…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting in Ohio
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2018) has published its Speaker Agenda. The event will take place from August 6-8 in Columbus, Ohio. "MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators…
From insideHPC
Univa Brings Navops to HPC at ISC 2018
In this video, Gary Tyreman from Univa describes how the company is helping HPC users move their workloads to the Cloud with their Navops products. "Univa is the leading innovator in workload management and orchestration solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skills that are Hard to Automate
A thoughtful piece, that also creates a challenge for those looking at these kinds of things.I found myself thinking in each case. Why and then How? Think also about the demand for each skill in changing contexts.
From insideHPC
Materials Science Modeling with VASP
In today’s world where science and engineering depend on the simulation of new materials and their behavior is of critical importance. New materials are constantly being designed and brought into product design in order to create…
From Schneier on Security
Installing a Credit Card Skimmer on a POS Terminal
Watch how someone installs a credit card skimmer in just a couple of seconds. I don't know if the skimmer just records the data and is collected later, or if it transmits the data back to some base station....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cameras Detecting Emotions and Implying Threat
Good piece in the BBC on detecting emotions and implying threat. Background and current state. Here again an algorithm will deliver a likelihood level of threat So accuracy implications. Privacy of emotions. Risk of false…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Intelligence Fresh
From Recorded Future, Podcast of interest.
How to Keep Finished Intelligence Fresh By Amanda McKeon
Our guest today is Storm Swendsboe. He’s an analyst services manager at Recorded Future, leading a team of intelligence
…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is This The Future?
Narrator: Alfred Thompson, you’ve just attended an amazing CSTA Conference. Now what?
Alfred: I’m going to Disney World!
And so I did. I just got home from about 5 days at DisneyWorld with my family. It was a great time and IIt…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Model for Large-Scale 3D Facial Recognition
Can information in other dimensions include other useful business components of an image?
New Model for Large-Scale 3D Facial Recognition
By University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia researchers have developed…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Finding CCC’s Resources in YOUR Area of IT
The Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) mission is broad. Our mission is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. CCC conducts…
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Enhances Tape Library Offerings
Today Spectra Logic announced a set of updates to its enterprise tape libraries. The enhancements benefit customers in government, scientific research, high performance computing, media and entertainment, and public cloud environments…
From Computational Complexity
The Mystical Bond Between Man and Machine
You just can't watch a movie these days without being inundated with trailers. First came Axl, a movie about a boys love for a military robotic dog.
"It's only a robot," says his father. "It's an intelligent robot" replies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Byron Reese: The Fourth Age, Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity
Currently reading, especially interesting regards the influence of smart systems on jobs and work. What will be out new role in this new age be? Should we embrace or feat the age? Nicely done
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots,…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Optimizes Data Intensive Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Laura Shepard and Jason Coari from Quantum Corp. describe how the company's high speed storage solutions power AI & HPC applications. "At ISC, Quantum highlighted end-to-end storage capabilities for…
From insideHPC
SUSE offers Optimized HPC Modules at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Jeff Reser from SUSE describes how the company's software enables High Performance Computing with HPC Modules, lower costs, and support for ARM. "SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing…
From insideHPC
Davidovits and Middleton Share 2018 Howes Scholar in Computational Science Award
A theoretical plasma physicist and a computational biologist are co-winners of the 2018 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science Award. "The honorees are Seth Davidovits, now a Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy…
From insideHPC
OpenACC Helps Scientists Port their code at the Center for Application Readiness (CARR)
In this video, Jack Wells from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and Duncan Poole from NVIDIA describe how OpenACC enabled them to port their codes to the new Summit supercomputer. "In preparation for next-generation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Open Data
Brought to my attention: Microsoft Open Data. Their blog post about it.
A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research to advance state-of-the-art research in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concept and History of Algorithms
In my executive interactions since the beginning, the definition of algorithm is often brought up. Somehow it always seems mysterious. Her a look at the definition and history of the idea. Its just a description of the statement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of Digital Life
Have seen several stark examples of this of late. And the integration of smart things will make this more important yet.
Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life
By Pew Research Center
Over the years of canvassings
…
From Schneier on Security
Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon is Convenience
Convenience and consistency of results. And over a relatively short period of time, re-setting expectations of delivery and immediate gratification.
How Amazon Delivers on Its Core Product: Convenience
Wharton's Katja Seim discusses…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 15th, 2018)
The majority of people dying are 80 years old or older. A heart-disease drug can partially reverse type 1 diabetes. We can at least partially reverse age-related immune-system decline using drugs. Senescent cells are old cells…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Allies itself with Alexa
Alexa for PC invades your notebook, signs a truce with Cortana in DigitalTrends
Alexa on the PC. Competing with Cortana, or just connecting to the increasing number of devices in the home and even office that new are working…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Design with Machine Learning
More on drug design and machine learning. New methods being tested at MIT.
MIT researchers automate drug design with machine learning
Their model can generate molecules that could be used for therapeutics.
Mallory Locklear, @mallorylocklear…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu and Intel Team up for Autonomous Driving
More autonomous driving, Chinese efforts.
Intel and Baidu team up to make autonomous driving even smarter, safer By Stephen Edelstein
Two of the biggest names in autonomous driving are teaming up. Intel and Baidu announced an…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics Announces Commercial Release
I had reported on this earlier. We had experimented with immersing decision makers in data. See my tag links below for an image of our experiment. This is finally what looks to be a good commercial implementation of the idea…