Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2018
From insideHPC
Podcast: Enabling Developers for the Persistent Memory Revolution
In this Chip Chat podcast, Jennifer Huffstetler speaks to the key benefits that Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will deliver to end users and how Intel is working to support the development community to enable best use of this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Names in Speech Recognition for Assistants
An example of the complexity of natural language understanding in assistants. Accuracy gets more essential in business applications. Likely technical. Usually all slides and recordings are placed in the site at the bottom within…
From insideHPC
David Bader on Real World Challenges for Big Data Analytics
In this video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech summarizes his keynote talk on Big Data Analytics. "Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Powers High Performance Computing at HPC Wales
In this video from ISC 2018, Biagio Lucini from Swansea University describes how Dell EMC is working with Supercomputing Wales on advanced computing projects including the Bloodhound Supersonic car. "Bloodhound is a global Engineering…
From Schneier on Security
SpiderOak's Warrant Canary Died
BoingBoing has the story. I have never quite trusted the idea of a warrant canary. But here it seems to have worked. (Presumably, if SpiderOak wanted to replace the warrant canary with a transparency report, they would have written…
From insideHPC
NSF STAQ Project to devise First Practical Quantum Computer
To accelerate the development of a practical quantum computer that will one day answer currently unsolvable research questions, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15 million over five years to the multi-institution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Robotics Initiative
Via The Platt Research Institute:
Retail AI Lab and Retail Robotics Initiative Announced by Retail Analytics Council
The Retail Analytics Council is pleased to announce the Retail AI Lab on Northwestern University's Evanston, Ill…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing a Neural Network
Another excellent piece from Jason, suggest you join up with his service:
Jason Brownlee writes: What neural network is appropriate for your predictive modeling problem?
It can be difficult for a beginner to the field of deep…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next for Apple?
Interesting podcast addresses Apple's direction. Platforms and Ecosystems that support their goals are key.
Crossing $1 Trillion: What’s Next for Apple? in K@W
Former Apple CEO John Sculley and Erik Gordon from the University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Will get back to you on that
Its unclear what is happening here. Is the delay because it is computationally intensive? More accurate? Comes from slower sources? The answer depends on information that will only be known (accurately enough) in the future…
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks Shawn!
Thanks Shawn! I think that Amazon was the first place that I saw this flow, and it certainly inspired my team’s work at LinkedIn. Amazon’s price sort can still a bit stochastic, but I do appreciate that it continues to do relevance…
From Computational Complexity
The Future of TCS Workshop, celebrating V Vazirani 60th, now online
On June 29, 2018, a workshop was held, in conjunction with STOC 2018, to celebrate the accomplishments of Vijay Vazirani on the occasion of his 60th birthday, organized by his PhD students, Aranyak Mehta, Naveen Garg and Samir…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Resources Page
The following is from Sonynka Ngosso from the Office of Strategic Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing the new Big Data to Knowledge Reserouces Page. Dear Colleagues, Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Testing Bitcoin
No mention, but will they integrate more general blockchain experiments? Could be good to follow.
Starbucks prepares for a Bitcoin future with comments by Retail Experts by George Anderson in Retailwire
Starbucks is not jumping…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Digital Transformation
Today Dell EMC announced new Ready Solutions for AI. With specialized designs for Machine Learning with Hadoop and Deep Learning with NVIDIA, the Dell EMC Ready Solutions simplify AI environments, deliver faster, deeper insights…
From insideHPC
OSS Brings ATTO 32 Gb Fibre Channel to Ion Accelerator Flash Storage Array
Today One Stop Systems introduced an ATTO Technology 32 Gb (gigabit) Fibre Channel option for its Ion Accelerator 5.0 Flash Storage Array product line. "ATTO designs some of the best, most reliable and fastest Fibre Channel host…
From insideHPC
OSC Hosts MVAPICH Users Group this week
A broad array of HPC enthusiasts have gathered at the Ohio Supercomputer Center this week for the sixth meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group (MUG). "The Network-Based Computing Research Group is lead by DK Panda, a professor and…
From insideHPC
Machine Learning with Python: Distributed Training and Data Resources on Blue Waters
Aaron Saxton from NCSA gave this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "Blue Waters currently supports TensorFlow 1.3, PyTorch 0.3.0 and we hope to support CNTK and Horovod in the near future. This tutorial will go over the minimum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
By 2020, 1 in 5 Healthcare Orgs will Adopt Blockchain
Quite a strong prediction, which they claim gets back to the drive of having only one, verified version of the truth. Also the natural need for a completely connected health IOT needing new kinds of security. Makes a point…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning TV Upside Down
By former colleague Bob Herbold. On a major change of business model that changes marketing. We have seen it happen, but what does it mean?
Bob's Gutsy Leadership Blog
Netflix: Turning TV Viewing Upside Down
Completely changing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Engineering
Al engineering should be data driven.
Metrics in Context for Data-Driven Engineering Leaders
GitPrime uses data from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket—or any Git based code repository—to help engineering leaders move faster, optimize work…
From Schneier on Security
Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions
Interesting research: "Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions": Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security is critical to thinking about when, why, and how to recommend…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Start with Why
Good thing, easy to remember.
Starting with “Why” By Bob Apollo in CustomerThink
In September 2009, Simon Sinek took the stage at a TEDx event and delivered an 18-minute presentation that has now been viewed around 50 million…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Testing Bot System to Fill Orders
Robotics continue to advance in fulfilling orders. A considerable move forward in using Bots for consumer goods.
Walmart tests automated system to help fill online grocery orders
Alphabot will retrieve and transport items to employees…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Device Identifies Objects at Speed of Light
Quite an impressive statement. And delivery method. much more at the link.
UCLA-developed artificial intelligence device identifies objects at the speed of light
Public Release:
The 3D-printed artificial neural network can be…
From The Noisy Channel
I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data.
I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data. If you look at one my “shopping is hard” post, you’ll see that my top recommendation for improving ecommerce search is to invest in associating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperledger Fabric for Smart Contracts
A technical look at Hyperledger Fabric Open Source Project for possible use. This is one of the applications I have started to examine for agreement level contracts. Bottom line from this is that the technology is immature…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: As We May Hear: Our Slaves of Steel II
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Mark Bernstein, the chief scientist at Eastgate Systems, Inc. Mark was one of the winners at the recent Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Depends on Trust, Sometimes
Good piece. Though it depends on our own analyses of trust and risk. Sometimes very inaccurate. Highly dependent on context. If we doing something of low risk, look up some trivia online, or getting the current weather,…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Desperately Seeking Integers
A few twists on Turing’s proof of undecidability of predicate calculus Princeton thesis source Alan Turing presaged Stephen Cook’s proof of -completeness of Turing reduced the halting problem for his machines to the decision…