Communications of the ACM
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August 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions to Guide a Digital Transformation
Simple questions, would like to have more process detail to lead some goals, assume its in the book, but a good start.
What questions should guide a digital transformation? Knowledge@Wharton staff
Presented here for discussion…
From insideHPC
Student Teams Step up to 2018 APAC HPC-AI Student Competition
Today the HPC-AI Advisory Council announced the winning teams of the first Asia-Pacific HPC-AI Competition during a live award ceremony in Singapore. The award ceremony recognized the top three winners and meritorious performers…
From insideHPC
How Dell EMC Powers HPC at Paypal
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Venkatesh Ramanathan from Paypal describes how HPC innovation is helping the company invent new ways to make money safe and accessible for all. "Venkatesh is a senior data…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Programming with Blocks vs. Teaching with Text-based Languages
Blocks or text? Which should I use with beginners? On one hand, I read research backed articles like Mark Guzdial’s High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages, and the impact is greatest for…
From insideHPC
New Frontera supercomputer at TACC to push the frontiers of science
Today the National Science Foundation announced a $60 million award to TACC for the deployment of Frontera, a new machine that will be one of the fastest supercomputers ever available to academia. "The new Frontera systems represents…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empowering Multimedia Search
Spent lots of time looking at how corporate files containing multimedia could be stored and effectively searched, and included in other systems. The emergence of AI image pattern recognition has started to enable this. Could…
From Schneier on Security
CIA Network Exposed Through Insecure Communications System
Interesting story of a CIA intelligence network in China that was exposed partly because of a computer-security failure: Although they used some of the same coding, the interim system and the main covert communication platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Revolutionizing Manufacturing
From IoTCentral.io
Here's How the IoT Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
The internet of things (IoT) is much more than the next step in consumer technologies — it also represents a significant leap forward for industries of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Puls Puts Technology Assistants in Homes
Not a bad idea. Though spanning the breadth of electrician to software may be hard to deal with. Never seen much of Geek squad in the Neighborhood, do they advertise that?
Puls Technologies raises $50 million to do tech support…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Systems Talk: Machine Learning in a Snap
Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institute Group Webinar
Please join us for this call and invite your contacts - e.g., at universities, partners & clients. The call is in a series - and you can see the series here http…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Does Supercomputing Genomics Down Under
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research has selected Dell EMC to deliver an HPC system for Garvan’s Data Intensive Computer Engineering (DICE) group, designed to push scientific boundaries and transform the way genomic research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Cashierless Store in Seattle
More testing of the cashier-less model, would seem to be an indication of success. Most interesting would be to see how shopper behavior differs in such a setting.
Amazon has a second Go at cashierless convenience store in downtown…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What HBR Gets Wrong About Algorithms
I linked to the HBR article here, this reply is thoughtful ...
What HBR gets wrong about algorithms and bias in O'Reilly
The Harvard Business Review recently published an article, "Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms,"
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Publix Healthcare Kiosks
Worked at Publix in my early days. Later looked at how kiosks interact with consumers in Grocery.
Publix pioneers an easier way to see the doctor by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
Healthcare in the U.S. is changing, and retailers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Touch Planning: Human Error and Supply Chains
Remember that planning means predicting, forecasting and analyzing risk in context
The route to no-touch planning: Taking the human error out of supply-chain planning
Slow, manual supply-chain planning processes can be a thing
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blurring the Lines Between Virtual and Reality
In EPFL News. Could be a way to transfer gaming, and thus gaming engagement to real spaces. Say offices, but perhaps also to industrial spaces. Possible then also for use with data, or analytic solutions to data. We examined…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Specialist at New York University
New York University Arts and Science is seeking a talented HPC Specialist to join their Department of Biology in our Job of the Week. "This individual will provide technical leadership in design, development, installation and…
From Schneier on Security
NotPetya
Andy Greenberg wrote a fascinating account of the Russian NotPetya worm, with an emphasis on its effects on the company Maersk. BoingBoing post....
From insideHPC
Generative Models for Application-Specific Fast Simulation of LHC Collision Events
Maurizio Pierini from CERN gave this talk at PASC18. "We investigate the possibility of using generative models (e.g., GANs and variational autoencoders) as analysis-specific data augmentation tools to increase the size of the…
From Computational Complexity
Is Trivium (the Stream Cipher) used?
This Fall I am teaching the senior course in Crypto at UMCP. Its a nice change of pace for me since REAL people REALLY use this stuff! Contrast to last Spring when I taught
Ramsey Theory and its `Applications'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enabling Reliable Data science and ML Projects
By my own experience, agreed. Enterprise Data Science is rarely done very carefully, leading it open to error.
Enabling reliable, secure collaboration on data science and machine learning projects A conversation with Paul
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Smart Home Market
New look at the direction of Smart Homes. But it does depend upon how your define a smart home. Mine is still quite simple in what it includes,would it be defined as such?
Smart Home Market Analysis – Expectations vs. Reality…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
Check out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) GCTC-SC3 Cybersecurity and Privacy Meeting Part 1 on Oct 3, 2018, in San Jose, California GCTC-SC3 Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee (AC)…
From insideHPC
Under New Management, Penguin Computing is Coming Back to HPC in a Big Way
Today Penguin Computing announced that it is expanding its global headquarters in Fremont, California to become a two-building campus with a new, state-of-the art production facility, along with creation of both a benchmarking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zippin Combines SmartShelves and Cameras
Zippin with another approach to 'no checkout', but with claims of combining shelf and camera sensors to increase accuracy. Note also the SRI connection, who we also talked to about shelf tech.
Can Zippin zip past where Amazon…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing “Northern Lights” on Other Planets
Researchers are using Argonne supercomputers to better understand how charged particles emanating from Jupiter’s magnetosphere power a celestial version of the Aurora Borealis on northern and southern lights on Ganymede, Jupiter…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keynote Talk on Democratizing Data
Useful overview of the idea.
Democratizing data Keynote from the O'Reilly conference
Tracy Teal explains how to bring people to data and empower them to address their questions.
Tracy Teal is a co-founder and the Executive Director…
From insideHPC
Video: Overview of Machine Learning Methods
"Machine learning enables systems to learn automatically, based on patterns in data, and make better searches, decisions, or predictions. Machine learning has become increasingly important to scientific discovery. Indeed, the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Background Information on IOTA
Good, short, largely non-technical view of IOTA method vs Blockchain
IOTA - David Sonstebo (IOTA Co-Founder) Interview | Part 1/4 - 4.4
How to install Wallet & buy IOTA: https://iota-support.com
IOTA Guide & FAQ | Step by step Tutorials…
From Schneier on Security
Future Cyberwar
A report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at surprise and war. One of the report's cyberwar scenarios is particularly compelling. It doesn't just map cyber onto today's tactics, but completely re-imagines…