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 The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Autonomous Drones
I have mentioned a number of times our proposal for swarms in places like yards and warehouses. Both drones and rolling robots. We were ahead of our time, but there were few of the navigation capabilities in place yet. Yet…
From insideHPC
Optimizing Performance with the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Onur Celebioglu describes his work at the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab. "Bringing together HPC operational excellence and expertise, it is staffed by a dedicated group…
From insideHPC
SC18 Preview: Bryan Catanzaro on “Applying Deep Learning”
SC18 is starting their series of Invited Talk Previews this week with AI luminary Bryan Catanzaro. Now at NVIDIA, Catanzaro is one of the most respected (and entertaining) speakers in the field of Machine Learning. "I will discuss…
From insideHPC
How Red Hat Powers the #1 Summit Supercomputer
In this video from ISC 2018, Yan Fisher from Red Hat and Buddy Bland from ORNL discuss Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer. Red Hat teamed with IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA to provide users with a new level of performance
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From insideHPC
Video: ECP Project for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale
In this video, Jakub Kurzak, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee’s Innovative Computing Laboratory, discusses the Software for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale (SLATE) project. "The objective of SLATE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Reports
Figure Eight has their Data Science Report out. A 33 page report.
Also some other interesting eBooks are made available. Registration information required.
" ... Machine learning projects are proliferating, and more and more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spending Innovation Budgets
I just was able to review how we did this some years ago in the AI space. Rings true. I add: Spend what you can manage rather than looking for home runs was our take. Manage expectations of decision makers. Hype can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Create Pull for Analytics
Makes sense. Look for the needs, and also create them by letting people understand the possibilities. I also like the fact that they are calling it 'decision sciences', rather than data science, because it's about the decisions…
From Schneier on Security
How the US Military Can Better Keep Hackers
Interesting commentary: The military is an impossible place for hackers thanks to antiquated career management, forced time away from technical positions, lack of mission, non-technical mid- and senior-level leadership, and staggering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Commerce Direct Delivery by 'Kroger Ship' Launched
Another channel opens by a major player. Was alerted to this today. I see its in the local market, will be giving it a try to see how the curation works. In our market they are offering 15% off and free shipment for
Kroger…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Encourage US High School Students to Apply for 2018-2019 ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize
Do you know a student working on an amazing computer science project? Maybe they need some recognition to take them to the next level. The Cutler-Bell Prize may be just what they need.
Every year, the ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bedtime Stories from Alexa
Cheaper, yes, and probably very nicely done. But where is the parent telling a story to the child? Seems like once again, we have forgotten the most important process segment. With the highest return.
Amazon’s kid-friendly storytelling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shiseido: Predicting Intent, Driving Beauty Growth
In Think with Google, predicting future behavior.
How one beauty brand is predicting intent to drive growth
Alessio Rossi, global chief digital officer at Shiseido, says that to truly grow, brands must stop reacting to customer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Tests Blockchain on Baby Food
Looks like a typical use, control and track the hand off of product in a supply chain to transparently and control order hand-off and quality. Note here Nestle is also tracking supplier sources.
Nestle tests blockchain technology…
From insideHPC
Video: Large Scale Training for Model Optimization
Jakub Tomczak from the University of Amsterdam gave this talk at PASC18. "Deep generative models allow us to learn hidden representations of data and generate new examples. There are two major families of models that are exploited…
From insideHPC
HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference Returns to Perth Aug. 28-29
The HPC Advisory Council has posted the Agenda for their upcoming meeting in Perth, Australia. Hosted by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the event takes place August 28-29. "The Conference highlights Western Australia’s relevance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sero! Concept Mapping for Learning and Knowledge Assessment
Brought my attention by Brian Moon, a practitioner we have worked with. I am a longtime proponent of concept mapping, we developed thousands. Can this finally be a way to efficiently use such mapping to learn and analyze.?…
From insideHPC
Red Hat’s Relentless Focus on Open Source Software Challenges Status Quo in Supercomputing
In this guest article, Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Chris Wright explores how his company's focus on open source software is challenging the status quo in HPC and supercomputing. "In collaboration with our partners, Red Hat…
From insideHPC
Spurring Diversity and Innovation at OSCON 2018
In this video from OSCON 2018, Program Chair Rachel Roumeliotis describes how the conference strives to encourage diversity among participants and how Open Source spurs innovation. "At O'Reilly, we believe that true innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Extrapolates
Powerful idea, requires some underlying 'physics' to be in place. Could that base information be the business process, or some other grounding rules? As I see it this also increases interpretability because of the rules involved…
From Schneier on Security
Using In-Game Purchases to Launder Money
Evidence that stolen credit cards are being used to purchase items in games like Clash of Clans, which are then resold for cash....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data, Better Analytics?
Good thoughts, always see the data in terms of its business goals first.
Big data doesn’t lead to better data analytics in BusinessDaily
Data science is not necessarily improved by lots of data but by analysis that draws out
In…
From Putting People First
[Report] Reclaiming the Smart City
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Reclaiming the Smart City: Personal Data, Trust and the New Commons Why and how city governments are taking a more responsible approach to the collection and use of personal data By Theo Bass, Emma Sutherland, and Tom Symons
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From Computational Complexity
Three trick questions in Formal Lang Theory
There are three questions I ask in my Formal Lang Theory class that even the very best students get wrong. Two I knew were trick quesions, the other I was surprised by
1) If w is a string then SUBSEQ(w) is all strings you can…
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ on Quantum Key Distribution
The UK's GCHQ delivers a brutally blunt assessment of quantum key distribution: QKD protocols address only the problem of agreeing keys for encrypting data. Ubiquitous on-demand modern services (such as verifying identities and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Partners with FraudWatch
I see that Recorded Future, who we worked with early on, is partnering with a company doing 'Brand Protection'. Which is the place we had originally tested a concept. In our case both the security of brands due to competitive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storyline Builds Alexa Skills without Coding
Storyline. Creates Alexa skills without coding ...
There's no way to create Amazon Alexa skills unless you're a good engineer. Storyline makes it easy with a visual drag-n-drop interface. ...
Video Demonstration: https://www…
From insideHPC
vScaler unlocks the benefits of Virtualization for GPU Power Users
vScaler has rolled-out native Virtual GPU (vGPU), empowering customers with the ability to split a single physical GPU up in to a number of smaller virtual GPUs. This approach offers greater cost-efficiency for those that don…
From insideHPC
Interview: Constantia Alexandrou on the Challenges of Quantum Chromodynamics
In this video from PASC18, Constantia Alexandrou from the University of Cyprus discusses her domain of expertise – quantum chromodynamics. "Many – if not most – fields in physics employ high performance computing, yet quantum…
From insideHPC
Fayetteville State University Moves to Bright Cluster Manager 8.1
Today Bright Computing announced that its Bright partner Data In Science Technologies has successfully implemented Bright Cluster Manager 8.1 for Fayetteville State University. "Bright Cluster Manager is the obvious choice for…