Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM AI Open Source Tool Explainability Talk
Upcoming talk, looks to be quite interesting regarding AI explain-ability open source method. The talk will be recorded and I will post its location afterwards.
CSIG (Cognitive Systems Institute Group) Talk - Thursday Sep 5,…
From insideHPC
IBTA Celebrates 20 Years of Growth and Industry Success
"This year, the IBTA is celebrating 20 years of growth and success in delivering these widely used and valued technologies to the high-performance networking industry. Over the past two decades, the IBTA has provided the industry…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 31st 2019)
The Conboy laboratory in Berkeley is responsible for some of the best work in aging research. In 2005, they showed that by connecting the blood vessels of an old and a young mice, they could rejuvenate the old mice (via a process…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computational Fluid Scientist at ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is seeking a Computational Fluid Scientist in our Job of the Week. "We are looking to hire candidates to work on challenging practical fluid mechanics problems within our upstream business that focuses on exploration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finnair Approach to Data as an Asset
Part of a recent scan of how companies are looking at data as an asset
Finnair Unlocks the Business Value of Data with Data Catalog
by Ron Powell in b-eye Network
This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Minna…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Framework for Driverless Cars
Late to this, but a question about driver-less had someone send this to me. Useful thoughts about the how and what kind of data is being gathered.
Framework for AI Driverless Cars: The Big Picture
Dr. Lance Eliot, CEO, Techbrium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM and Their Learning Center
It has been a while since I have promotionally mentioned the ACM:
Association for Computing Machinery
Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession. (and as avid users of computing technology!)
We see a world where computing
I…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Why Mexican Jumbo Squid Populations Have Declined
A group of scientists conclude that it's shifting weather patterns and ocean conditions. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can scancount be?
In an earlier post, I described the following problem. Suppose that you have tens of arrays of integers. You wish to find all integer that are in more than 3 (say) of the sets. This is neither a union nor an intersection. A simple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on North's Focals Smart Glasses
More updates on North's Focals Smart Glasses. Now more closely connected to typical smart phone OS. At this only to the Android. Will this mean that we will soon see these as more common as a replacement for the smartphone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Softness
We were in a consumer space that had as one of it measures softness. So the measurement and creation of softness was key.
How to simulate softness by University of California - San Diego
UC San Diego researchers specially
What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waterloo Develops Faster 5G for IOT
Implications of 5G for broader more effective IOT?
Waterloo Researchers Develop 200X Faster, Low-Cost Network for 5G Connectivity
International Business Times
Soorya Kiran
August 29, 2019
Researchers at the University of Waterloo…
From insideHPC
Intel Ships First 10nm Agilex FPGAs with Integrated Arm Processors
Today Intel announced that it has begun shipments of the first Intel Agilex field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to early access program customers. In what may be a surprise to many, F-Series variant of the chip family also…
From insideHPC
Video: Mellanox Rolls Out SmartNICs
In this video, Mellanox CTO Michael Kagan talks about the next step for SmartNICs and the company's newly released ConnectX-6 Dx product driven by its own silicon. "The BlueField-2 IPU integrates all the advanced capabilities…
From insideHPC
Rosa M. Badia from BSC receives Euro-Par Achievement Award
Rosa M. Badia from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre has received the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2019. Euro-Par is a major series of European conferences on parallel processing. The Euro-Par Steering Committee has granted the…
From insideHPC
The Confluence of HPC and AI – Intel Customer Use Cases
Vikram Saletore from Intel gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "Intel collaborates with customers and partners worldwide to build, accelerate, scale and deploy their AI applications on Intel based HPC platforms. We share…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Putting Alexa in the Car Seriously Now
Just put one in my own car and am starting to understand how it interacts with the smart home experience. Its started to roll more broadly now as I hear colleagues chime in. In this case Amazon is well behind, with the usual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Influencers and Beauty Marketing
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing by Dina Gerdeman in HBS
From Schneier on Security
Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave
Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. And there are no security…
From insideHPC
Appentra Releases Parallelware Trainer 1.3
Appentra has released Parallelware Trainer 1.3, an interactive, real-time code editor with features that facilitate the learning, usage, and implementation of parallel programming by understanding how and why sections of code…
From insideHPC
Baidu to Speed Services with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Today Intel announced Baidu is architecting the in-memory database of its Feed Stream services to harness the high-capacity and high-performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC persistent memory. Paired with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon…
From insideHPC
Tachyum Joins CXL High-Speed Interconnect Consortium
Today Tachyum announced it has joined the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium, a group of companies dedicated to advancing a new, open-industry standard interconnect designed to address the increasing demands of high-performance…
From insideHPC
Chapel Comes of Age: a Language for Productivity, Parallelism, and Performance
Brad Chamberlain from Cray gave this talk at the HPCKP'19 conference. "Though Chapel has been under development for some time now, its performance and feature set have only recently reached the point where it can seriously be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Morning For Aerospace Supply Chain
Just brought to my attention:
Robot Morning
Building the automated aerospace supply chain
Robot Morning creates software that automates and analyzes the data exchanged between customers and suppliers.
DEMANDLINE CLIENT
The DemandLine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart, Facebook and Digital Tokens for Inclusion
Fascinating piece on the notion of 'Financial Inclusion' and its use by retailers of both products and of marketing data, like Wal-Mart and Facebook. Meaning of this discussed in the Gartner Blog. Does this mean that companies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collecting Soil Samples
More autonomous, continuous and precise means of gathering data to make decisions.
Autonomous robots collect precise soil samples, help farmers improve yields, reduce environmental impact by Drew Schumacher, Purdue University…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Danny Cohen Passed Away
Not a theorist but … [ Internet Hall of Fame] Danny Cohen was a pioneer who advanced many areas of computer science. He made contributions to computer graphics, networking, and flight simulation, and much more. Today I want to…
From Schneier on Security
AI Emotion-Detection Arms Race
Voice systems are increasingly using AI techniques to determine emotion. A new paper describes an AI-based countermeasure to mask emotion in spoken words. Their method for masking emotion involves collecting speech, analyzing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar: Mixed Integer Programming plus Machine Learning
Highly recommended! We used Mixed Integer Programming optimization methods for many years in the enterprise. Used it every day to solve tough problems. It was our horse for optimization problems. Especially for complex
Title…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ring/Amazon Reveals How its working with Police in the US
Been a member since the network has been established, great idea.
Working Together for Safer Neighborhoods: Introducing the Neighbors Active Law Enforcement Map by Jamie Siminoff
At Ring, we believe that when communities work…