Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and SmartReply in YouTube
Been following the use of replies on YouTube, which are very good overall, here a new extension. More from the Google AI blog.
Google brings its AI-powered SmartReply to YouTube By Kyle Wiggers
Google today brought SmartReply…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Data Preparation for Machine Learning
Just saw this announcement from Jason Brownlee. Have read some of his previous works, nicely done. This intro starts where it should, at data preparation and understanding. Much more, including examples at the link.
Data
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Necklace Reminds You not to Touch Your Face
Clever idea, in a long ago virus example we looked at, we estimated that approximately 75% of transfer opportunities were initiated by face touches.
NASA Necklace Fights Coronavirus by Reminding You Not to Touch Your Face
CNet…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado-Boulder is the new Chair and Dan Lopresti from Lehigh University…
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC Podcast: New Top on the TOP500
We have a new #1 on the TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers. Big gets bigger by a factor of 2.8x as Fujitsu’s “Supercomputer Fugaku” tops the list at 415 PFlops. There are also an additional three new entries in the
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Math Aware Search
Interesting idea, and in some cases could be useful. Perhaps search for similar math stated algorithms as starting points for analysis?
RIT Researchers Create Easy-to-Use Math-Aware Search Interface
Rochester Institute of Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reduced Attack Surfaces
Quite a term: ... Attack Surfaces ... so government .... but a real issue now. A former connection, 'Recorded Future' does a good job of talking it in the article pointed to below:
Reducing the Remote Education Attack Surface…
From Schneier on Security
Securing the International IoT Supply Chain
Together with Nate Kim (former student) and Trey Herr (Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative), I have written a paper on IoT supply chain security. The basic problem we try to solve is: how to you enforce IoT security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Adoption in a New Retail World
Was pointed out to me this was posted and updated:
Robot Adoption Trends in a New Retail World
The Retail Analytics Council (RAC) recently hosted a roundtable discussion regarding the state of robot adoption trends in this new
Eight…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and ECP’s Doug Kothe Talk Exascale, Containers of the Future and Multiple Machine Coordination
As director of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Doug Kothe leads one of the United State’s most important strategic computing efforts, one that promises significant impacts on scientific research and national competitiveness…