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 insideHPC
Video: VMware Talks GPU Virtualization, Sharing for AI/ML
In this video, Mike Adams, VMware’s Senior Director CPBU, AI/ML Market Development, talks with us about a new, integrated VMware vSphere 7 feature enabling “elastic infrastructure” on-demand for AI and machine learning. VMware…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking a Power Supply
This hack targets the firmware on modern power supplies. (Yes, power supplies are also computers.) Normally, when a phone is connected to a power brick with support for fast charging, the phone and the power adapter communicate…
From Putting People First
15 years of Experientia
Today is the 15th birthday of Experientia.
The first ones to thank are all our collaborators (former and current ones), but also our clients, our partners and our network for their support and commitment. We wouldn't have reached…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Given Human Like Perception of Environment
In general, there is need for general an understanding of context, starting with physical environment.
MIT researchers have developed a representation of spatial perception for robots that is modeled after the way humans perceive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Offline Learning
Some good points made about using particular machine learning methods off-line. The point that offline could be dangerous.
D4RL: Building Better Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning
By Justin Fu By Berkeley
In the
Not…
From CERIAS Blog
Summary of July 15th, 2020 Purdue Seminar on Control System Cyber Security
Guest Blog by Joe Weiss, Applied Control Systems, Inc
Wednesday July 15, 2020 I gave a 1 hour presentation on control system cyber security for the Purdue University Summer Seminar Series.
Summary
The statistics from the…From insideHPC
Autonomous Vehicles to Race at Indy 500 Speedway
One of – if not the – most famous car races in the world, the Indianapolis 500, will take AV form a year from this fall when more than 36 universities globally will compete for $1.5 million in prize money in the Indy Autonomous…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant IOT Regulation
Specifics of the IOT aspects would seem to be beyond these, and to any assistant, depending on the definition of an IOT.
Siri, Alexa Targeted as E.U. Probes Internet of Things
By Bloomberg July 20, 2020
The European Commission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatically Generating Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Can be expected that many current machine learning techniques will move towards automation. Papers mentioned are worth looking at.
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
Kyle Wiggers in VentureBeat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Shopping Habits
An interesting peek into corporate bahavior.
Our pandemic shopping habits are here to stay. Brands are racing to adapt By Hanna Ziady CNN Business
Three days a week at 7:00 am, senior Procter & Gamble executives check in with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Industrial Internet Consortium
Was just reminded of the Industrial Internet Consortium. Has some interesting documents within.
THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET CONSORTIUM: A GLOBAL NOT-FOR-PROFIT PARTNERSHIP OF INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT AND ACADEMIA
The Industrial Internet…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Open for 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowships
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship and Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Doctoral students must be nominated by the department chair’s office in their field of study by August 14…
From Schneier on Security
On the Twitter Hack
Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Those…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Transfer Learning
Good generalized look at the concept of Transfer Learnig
Everything you need to know about transfer learning in AI in TNW
Today, artificial intelligence programs can recognize faces and objects in photos and videos, transcribe…
From insideHPC
UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Breaks Data Bottlenecks
In this compelling use case provided by our friends over at HPC storage solution provider Panasas, we look at how the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) got around a number of hurdles by deploying a Panasas ActiveStor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR Headsets
Technically interesting next step via Facebook. Still apparently in early stages.
Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR Headsets
VentureBeat
Jeremy Horwitz
Facebook has unveiled a holographic optical framework…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, CoronaVirus and Investing
I am guessing probably because most learning models depend on machine learning, and the data is not there to predict rare events. A classic caution for any AI work ...
Even the Best AI Models Are No Match for the Coronavirus in…
From Computational Complexity
Erdos-Turan for k=3 is True!
(All of the math in this post is summarized (without proofs) in a writeup by Erik Metz and myself which you can find here. It is a pdf file so you can click on links in it to get to the papers it refers to. There have been posts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sankey Diagrams for Visualization
A reader reminded me that I had posted on the Sankey Diagram, a form of 'pie' chart with room for lots of relationships. A kind of concept diagram too. Even link to a blog with lots of examples. Here is a re-post of that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Try Ons
An idea with a long history that we also examined as part of a broader smart-store effort. Would not say it has been generally successful to date, but with increased contact-less interaction? And once the consumer is comfortable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Has AI Lived up to its Hype?
I say No and Yes. No because it cannot live up to the implied magic of the term AI. People still expect it to do far more than it can do currently. I hear the equivalent of: " .. But of course AI could do that.." Without…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Agents Learning to Communicate
Machines learning and adapting using language. As suggested,the environment/context is also important.
AI agents can learn to communicate effectively by University of Gothenburg
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers frompublished…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mathematical Search
A flying start from nearby Rochester Anurag Agarwal and Richard Zanibbi are tenured faculty in Mathematics and Computer Science, respectively, at RIT. They partner with Clyde Lee Giles of Penn State and Douglas Oard of U.Md.…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction has been out for a couple of years now and it is one of those books that a lot of people reference. I finally got around to reading my copy this week. For those of you who are not familiar with it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa-Live Next Week
Am an invited remote participant at the Amazon Skill Developer event: Alexa-Live on July 22 next week. In particular to represent a project with voice assistant application potential. See more about this event. If you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capital One's AI Assistant
Had not seen this assistant example before. Much more at the link.
How Capital One’s AI assistant achieved 99% NLU accuracy
VB Staff in VentureBeat
Like almost every other bank, Capital One used to have a basic SMS-based fraud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Working Without an Office
Worth while look based on a broad survey, analysis of the results, with some surprising results.
The Implications of Working Without an Office HBR Big Idea
HBR Big Idea
By Ethan Bernstein, Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky, Wonbin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Dividend Plan
We worked on a number of projects that linked to 'data as an asset' ideas, and was reminded of this project in Wired. Its value, limitations are and issues worth re-examining.
Andrew Yang’s Plan to Pay You for Your Data Doesn't…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found on Provincetown Sandbar
Headline: "Dozens of squid found on Provincetown sandbar." Slow news day. 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 here.…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Downloading files faster by tweaking headers
I was given a puzzle recently. Someone was parsing JSON files downloaded from the network from a bioinformatics URI. One JSON library was twice as fast at the other one. Unless you are on a private high-speed network, the time…