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
Assistants at Work
Good though skeptical view of voice assistants at work. I was involved with designing and testing an effort. Agree that there appears to be relatively little work underway. Opportunities exist. In its current state I can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo-Ants from Switzerland
Yet more smaller robotics, with claim of some ability to work together. Note in particular the integration of sensor and autonomous capabilities..
Robot Ants Robot-Ants Can Jump, Communicate, and Work Together
Ecole Polytechnique…
From Schneier on Security
Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
Boeing left its software unprotected, and researchers have analyzed it for vulnerabilities: At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
The Next Generation of Developers Set Their Sights on a Multilingual Internet
By Harish Chowdhary, UA Ambassador and Technology Analyst for the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) Twenty-four developers, a group with a unique role to play in ensuring the successful expansion of the Internet to non…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Enabled Gadgets for Teaching and Fun
Ultimately assistants are about engagement. Sometimes to get work done. Sometimes for fun. Sometimes to engage with others. Some narrow goals, some very broad. Right now it organizes and delivers my music. Controls aspects…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predicting Chess and Horses
Using predictivity both to sharpen and cross-check models Cropped from article source Patrice Miller and Jeff Seder look under the hide of horses. Their company EQB does predictive modeling for horse racing based on biometric…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain Surveys Digital Transformation Leaders
Been on my mind lately ... in the midst of reading Tony Saldanha's recent book on the topic and noting how it applies to these survey findings. Instructive.
Learning from the Digital Leaders
Our annual executive survey throwsNate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics for Data Science with VR
Have often mentioned Virtualitics here.
NVIDIA: the AI podcast with Aakash Indurkhya
Listen to Virtualitics' very own Aakash Indurkhya (Head of Machine Learning Projects) featured on "The AI Podcast" brought to you by NVIDIA. Tune…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free eBook on TensorFlow in the Enterprise
Should you use TensorFlow in your enterprise? via O'Reilly
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The question…
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Train Safety Yet on Navigation Apps
Useful for integration with in-vehicle systems.
Navigation apps still lack railroad safety info the NTSB requested
Apple, Google and Microsoft haven't complied with a 2016 safety recommendation.
By Amrita Khalid, @askhalid in Engadget…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK NHS Sets up National AI Lab
More AI aimed at Healthcare.
NHS to Set Up National AI Lab
BBC News
James Gallagher
August 8, 2019
The U.K. National Health Services (NHS) is launching a national artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory to enhance the care of patients…
From insideHPC
Altair PBS Works to Optimize Gadi Supercomputer at NCI
Supercomputing in Australia is slated to get a major boost this November with the deployment of the Fujitsu-made “Gadi” supercomputer, estimated to be 10 times faster than its predecessor. NCI will use Altair’s PBS Works software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New ACM IOT Publication
Internet of Things (TIOT)
publishes novel research contributions and experience reports in research domains whose synergy and interrelations enable the IoT vision
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT) is a new ACM journal…
From insideHPC
Video: Cray Steps up with 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors for HPC
In this video, from Forrest Norrod from AMD welcomes Peter Ungaro from Cray to discuss how 2nd Generation AMD EPYC processors with drive new levels of performance for HPC. The AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors are the first x86…
From insideHPC
Trilce Estrada wins 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Today SIGHPC announced that Trilce Estrada is the 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Estrada is an associate professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of New…
From insideHPC
Nimbix Launches HyperHub Catalog of Cloud-enabled Applications
Today HPC cloud provider Nimbix announced the launch of HyperHub, a point-and-click catalog of HPC and accelerated applications. With the new self-service marketplace, engineers and scientists can select from a growing ecosystem…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Memory-Driven Computing
In this podcast, HPE Distinguished Technologist Kim Keeton describes the concept of Memory-Driven Computing and how it relates to traditional high performance computing. In terms of application areas, Kim also explains her perspective…
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature
Apple's FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim's phone by putting it in front of his face while he's sleeping. That feature has been hacked: Researchers on Wednesday during Black…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assignments and More
Here is something I was not expecting. Google sets up a system called 'Assignments' which works in combination with Learning Management Systems (LMS). Was unaware they were doing this. Its workflow management for teachers…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Expands Altus Product Family with AMD EPYC 7002
Penguin Computing just announced the availability of AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors for Penguin Computing’s Altus server platform. AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors are expected to deliver up to 2X the performance-per-socket and…
From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks
Several high-security electronic locks are vulnerable to side-channel attacks involving power monitoring....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Governance in the Age of AI
Have been asked to look at governance issues. ( see governance piece below from yesterday) Data being used, Algorithms and resulting decisions and their results as seen by goals. Here an HBR podcast of interest:
Governance…
From insideHPC
Singularity Desktop Beta comes to macOS
Today Sylabs announced Beta 1 release of Singularity Desktop for macOS, which allows Linux containers to be designed, built, tested, and signed/verified on macOS. Designed to meet the needs of High Performance Computing, Singularity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Glasses of the Future
Considerably less intrusive smart glasses by Snap. Will this be the future? I think enough interesting social functionality will draw people to smart glasses. Replacing bulky phones will also help.
This is the computer?…
From insideHPC
Volkov and Demmel Paper on GPUs Wins SC19 Test of Time Award
Today SC19 announced the winners of the Test of Time Award. The annual award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. We are pleased to announce the selection of the SC08 paper, “Benchmarking…
From insideHPC
Video: NVIDIA Accelerates Conversational AI
In this video, NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro explains how recent breakthroughs in natural language understanding bring us one step closer to conversational AI. "Today NVIDIA announced breakthroughs in language understanding that allow…
From insideHPC
Podcast: ExaStar Project Seeks Answers in Cosmos
In this podcast, Daniel Kasen from LBNL and Bronson Messer of ORNL discuss advancing cosmology through EXASTAR, part of the Exascale Computing Project. "We want to figure out how space and time get warped by gravitational waves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Observability
A new term to me, but apparently in use to understand how a system operates to work with it or debug systems. The description makes logical sense, the details are more complex.
Software Engineering: Observability
Observability…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whitepaper: Data Governance, Knowledge Graphs
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Language of Mind
More about AI .... an interview. Towards General Intelligence (GA) and what it may need, and mean.
The Language of Mind, In Edge
A Talk By David Chalmers [8.8.19]
Will every possible intelligent system somehow experience itself…