Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Content Marketing in the Era of Voice-Controlled Devices
A number of interesting retail marketing examples are shown in this medium.
Content Marketing in the Era of Voice-Controlled Devices in Flipboard
By Dawn Papandrea/Aug 9, 2017
Via John Frazier BBA News - BizBuzz America
Voice-controlled…
From updated sporadically at best
Guest Post: The Real Problem Isn't Gender; It's the Modern Media
This guest post by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz was adapted from a comment he wrote on a Facebook post of mine sharing this essay.
While gender in tech is certainly an issue, a lot of the controversy over it is unnecessary. WhatGoogle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Fracking Dark Data
Found this to be an interesting, the idea of 'Data Fracking' ... a means of finding the right data. Better way to find and use your data assets? Improving access to the right data. Broadly using the oil drilling method as…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Corps
Contributions to this post were provided by Joanna Chan, the Big Data AAAS Fellow in the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The National Science Foundation (NSF)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Can Humans Keep Control of AI?
This starts with a clear understanding of what AI's, or anything that appears to be autonomous in any way, is operating, and why it is operating as it does. This has happened since the dawn of computing. What is new is the…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Modeling Reality
A surprising theorem about differential equations Composite of src1, src2. Olivier Bournez and Amaury Pouly have proved an interesting theorem about modeling physical systems. They presented their paper at ICALP 2017 last month…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essence of Voice Interfaces
Very good piece here, what is the difference and essence of having voice interfaces? Or even interfaces that are partially voice? This is not necessarily AI but it is closer to cognitive than we had before. Remember too, that…
From insideHPC
Micron Unveils Flagship NVMe SSD Family
"The Micron 9200 Series of NVMe SSDs are specially designed to deliver the blazing fast speeds, low-latency, and high-capacity needed to handle massive files, images and multimedia assets created by today’s complex application…
From insideHPC
Wow! Nimbus Data Unveils 50 Terabyte ExaDrive SSDs
"With an interface and form factor identical to HDDs, but with vastly more capacity, ExaDrive will accelerate flash adoption in the data center. Viking Technology and SMART Modular Technologies recently began shipping 50 TB and…
From insideHPC
Gen-Z Multi-Vendor Technology Demo Speeds Memory-Centric Computing
Today the Gen-Z Consortium announced the world’s first Gen-Z multi-vendor technology demonstration, connecting compute, memory, and I/O devices at Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. "The demonstration utilizes FPGA-based Gen…
From insideHPC
Rescale to Enable Fast and Secure Data Transfer to the Cloud with Equinix
"Although many enterprises have already made the move to cloud for certain data services, many are reluctant to make the move for one of their largest investments: on-premise, high-performance computing,” said Tyler Smith, Head…
From insideHPC
Video: Benchmarking AMD EPYC on Memory-Bound HPC Applications
In this video, Joshua Mora demonstrates how the new AMD EPYC processor delivers excellent performance for memory-bound HPC workloads including ANSYS and FLUENT. "EPYC strikes the perfect balance of cores/threads, memory, I/O
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Versustech
Recenty looked at efficiency delivery in healthcare systems. Here is one company that links location to efficiency. Versustech. Real time location system (RTLS) a part of Midmark.
From insideHPC
How to Avoid Storage Bottlenecks in the Flash Era
Businesses with I/O-intensive computing environments run into new software challenges almost daily – and many of these concerns today revolve around storage as data continues to grow. DDN is working to help solve one of the challenges…
From Schneier on Security
More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks…
From Putting People First
ServDes 2018, the Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation
ServDes, the Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, is the premier international research conference exploring service design and service innovation. The Call for Papers is now open. Submitted contributions are
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From BLOG@CACM
SIGIR 2017 Day 1: Neural Networks For IR
Blog on a one-day tutorial on Neural Networks at SIGIR 2017.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo in Physical Store
Amazon Echo used in Physical Store for Customer Engagement
In LSN Global:
4. Tuft & Needle embraces Amazon
Seattle – The mattress start-up, which reportedly gets 25% of its sales through Amazon, will open its first physical store…
From The Eponymous Pickle
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From CERIAS Blog
A Blast from the Past
In December of 1988, I was invited to speak at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) about the Morris Internet Worm that had been released about six weeks before. The invitation was to speak on computer security in general,…
From CERIAS Blog
A Blast from the Past
In December of 1988, I was invited to speak at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) about the Morris Internet Worm that had been released about six weeks before. The invitation was to speak on computer security in general,…
From CERIAS Blog
A Blast from the Past
In December of 1988, I was invited to speak at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) about the Morris Internet Worm that had been released about six weeks before. The invitation was to speak on computer security in general,…
From CERIAS Blog
A Blast from the Past
In December of 1988, I was invited to speak at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) about the Morris Internet Worm that had been released about six weeks before. The invitation was to speak on computer security in general,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Deep Learning Book Completed
Data Science Central points to a free book on deep learning by the MIT press. Ultimately very technical, but the introductions are useful for anyone interested in the topic. Table of contents and links to all sections at
Free…
From My Biased Coin
Shout-out to Meena Boppana
For some reason (Google*), I found myself thinking of former Harvard student Meena Boppana this week, and thought I'd link to some things, focusing on things she said and did regarding women in math (and computer science) at
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From BLOG@CACM
CSTA: Computer Science Education, Equity, and the Future Workforce
The Big IDEA and the PD Pipeline are two examples of industry-changing initiatives launched by the Computer Science Teachers Association over the past two years.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
How do we forge a new frontier in advanced computing?
How do we forge a new frontier in advanced computing? With Stampede 2! Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded a new super computer called Stampede 2, which will advance the nation’s science and engineering agenda…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pop-up Stores to Tell CPG Brand Stories
Was involved in several such efforts, in CPG, but not food. Brands were new. The approaches were first mocked up in laboratory settings. Did not see specific financial outcome estimates. More discussion at the link
Why is…
From BLOG@CACM
Learning Programming at Scale
I summarize my first three years of research as an assistant professor on studying and building tools to support people who are learning computer programming.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Research Writes about Progress in Deep Learning
Recently have used deep learning from IBM to solve a difficult classification problem.
From IBM AI Research:
New IBM Research distributed deep learning software achieves record performance for large neural network, large data…