Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI Now Does Twitter Analytics
Been looking at the analysis of twitter streams lately, new from MS Power BI. A campaign management solution template.Microsoft Power BI BlogaAnnouncing the brand & campaign management solution template for Twitter Justyna,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FindFace at Large
Was reminded by the Economist: Frankenstein's Paperclips. of the rogue Russian face recognition system called FindFace. Can we expect AI from beyond our regulated world to create new dangers? Yes, we can. Introduction in Kaspersky…
From insideHPC
Speakers Announced for HPC User Forum in Beijing
IDC has announced the featured speakers for the next international HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 22 in Beijing, China.
The post Speakers Announced for HPC User Forum in Beijing appeared first on insideHPC.
…From Schneier on Security
Confusing Security Risks with Moral Judgments
Interesting research that shows we exaggerate the risks of something when we find it morally objectionable. From an article about and interview with the researchers: To get at this question experimentally, Thomas and her collaborators…
From insideHPC
Report: Using HPC for Public Policy Analysis & Water Resource Management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and LLNL have joined forces to combine HPC with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex issues such as water resource management. By using supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Phytium from China Unveils 64-core ARM HPC Processor
This week at the Hot Chips conference, Phytium Technology from China unveiled a 64-core CPU and a related prototype computer server. "Phytium says the new CPU chip, with 64-bit arithmetic compatible with ARMv8 instructions, is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned & Best Practices Workshop
From September 11-17, 2016, data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from across the globe will convene in Denver, Colorado for the first ever International Data Week (IDW). Organized by the Research Data Alliance…
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech to Offer Clusters with Intel HPC Orchestrator
Today Nor-Tech announced the imminent rollout of clusters integrated with the Intel HPC Orchestrator. HPC Orchestrator is a licensed, value-add version of OpenHPC that will be supported by Intel and Nor-Tech.
The post Nor-Tech…From insideHPC
Machine Learning and the Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"The Intel Xeon Phi processor, together with tuned libraries, can accelerate the gains the ML applications promise. The second generation Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is a multicore processor that is available as a self boot system…
From Computational Complexity
1956 Was a Fine Vintage
Bill sends me an email last week with the subject "Our field is getting old!" and talks about upcoming 60th birthday/retirement conferences he's invited to, all of which I've been invited to as well. Bill's subject line should…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Language Modeling a Billion Words
This is a technical, but interesting, tutorial on how to use noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) to train a multi-GPU recurrent neural network language model on the Google billion words data set.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not all Data Created Equal
Interesting piece that gets to my mantra of data assets. And combining data for additional and profitable leverage. Requires free registration.Some of the most profitable decisions are made by combining data in novel ways, but…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's and Mall Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet IoT everywhere
In ReadWrite: Good review, nontechnical and even addressing part of the CPG space:" ... The Internet of Things is taking over the world. Well, maybe not in a literal global domination kind of way, but just about every “thing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Click Product Placement
When I first read this I was confused. What does this mean? We had studied product placement approaches since Soap Boxes in the silent era. And the general idea has existed for a long time. But now take it further and make…
From insideHPC
Spack Tool Eases Transition to Next-Gen Scientific Simulations
"Spack is like an app store for HPC,” says Todd Gamblin, its creator and lead developer. “It’s a bit more complicated than that, but it simplifies life for users in a similar way. Spack allows users to easily find the packages…
From Putting People First
New Human Centred Design toolkit launched for African context
Future by Design, a Human Centred Design (HCD) and customer-centricity consultancy focused on the African continent, has produced an HCD Toolkit (download link) that’s especially appropriate for an African context, and intended…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell Routledge, December 2016 536 pages With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers…
From insideHPC
Video: Exploring I/O Challenges at Exascale
"Clear trends in the past and current petascale systems (i.e., Jaguar and Titan) and the new generation of systems that will transition us toward exascale (i.e., Aurora and Summit) outline how concurrency and peak performance…
From insideHPC
Finalists Announced for Gordon Bell Prize in HPC
"High performance computing continues to underwrite the progress of research using computational methods for the analysis and modeling of complex phenomena,” said Vint Cerf and John White, ACM Award Committee co-chairs, in a …
From insideHPC
Mellanox Open New Singapore Headquarters to Strengthen HPC in Asia
Today Mellanox announced the opening of its new APAC headquarters and solutions centre in Singapore. The Company’s new APAC headquarters will feature a technology solution centre for showcasing the latest technologies from Mellanox…
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Internet-Based Investigative Techniques
In this article, detailing the Australian and then worldwide investigation of a particularly heinous child-abuse ring, there are a lot of details of the pedophile security practices and the police investigative techniques. The…
From insideHPC
The Evolution of HPC
When the history of HPC is viewed in terms of technological approaches, three epochs emerge. The most recent epoch, that of co-design systems, is new and somewhat unfamiliar to many HPC practitioners. Each epoch is defined by…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cutler-Bell Scholarship Deadline November 1 2016
Dave Cutler and Gordon Bell have funded an amazing CS competition for American high school students. Last year’s winners had some truly impressive projects. Do you have a student doing some out of the box thinking and building…
From Phys.org Technology News
Researchers work to predict the future of transit
Haris N. Koutsopoulos believes that our ability to predict the future has the potential to enable various innovations in public transit. The short-term future, that is.
From Phys.org Technology News
Refugee who made it returns with drone to halt drownings
Standing on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, Mehdi Salehi searches for a good spot to set his drone loose.
From Phys.org Technology News
Bags don't fly free: Charges have boosted airlines' departure performances, study finds
When most major airlines began charging flyers for checked bags in 2008, travelers grumbled. Southwest Airlines—one of the most successfully run airlines in history—even resisted and seized a new marketing slogan "bags fly free…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Snooping in Practice
Good piece on the topic, though I had never called it that. Thought it was something about security. Another example of the lack of standards in the industry. Too many terms have come from different disciplines. Here described…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Quantum Computing
In the Edge, a conversation with Seth Llyod, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Author, Programming the Universe.Non technical, practical and thoughtful…
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel Alliance Delivers New Centers of Excellence for HPC
Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently created two new Centers of Excellence (CoE) to help customers gain hands-on experience with High Performance Computing (HPC). This plus collaboration with customers on …