Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2020
From The Noisy Channel
I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces:
I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces:
- Query Understanding and Voice Interfaces
- Why Voice isn’t Selling…Yet
- Query Understanding and Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imperatives for Intelligent Organizations
Reading, not sure I completely agree with the premise. What rules really? OK, Our better understanding of the patterns in business we can leverage. Still a good piece. And from SAS/SMR , relatively quite credible. Our
How…
From BLOG@CACM
Closing the 'Trust Gap' in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
From The Noisy Channel
Search Queries and Search Intent
Mapping Search Queries To Search Intents
Evaluating and improving search experience starts with analyzing the queries searchers are making. But search queries are not the same as search intents.
I’m not talking about ambiguousI…From Schneier on Security
Smart Lock Vulnerability
Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure: Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure and versatile smart deadbolt that offers keyless entry via your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zagat Future of Dining
How much will people be comfortable with this future, and what will that imply?
Small Business Labs looks at Zagata Future of Dining Study.
Zagat's Future of Dining Study
Zagat, the restaurant review site favored by foodies, recently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Brand can Have a Voice
Way back experimented with the Mr Clean Brand using talk, voice and chat.. But the tech was not there to deliver voice and value. Much closer now. Will it work effectively to engage, sell?
Give Your Brand A Voice With Alexa…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Neural Networks on a Brain-Inspired Computer
Considerable challenge. Will the biomimicry provide enough value to adjust our methods to what we now know about the brain?
How to Optimize Neural Networks on a Brain-Inspired Computer
HPCwire
July 28, 2020
A study by scientists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reimagining Marketing
McKinsey does some of their innovative thinking. Still I think that what we have seen has been so unexpected, we will be pressed to predict the future context.
Reimagining marketing in the next normal
COVID-19 is changing consumer…
From Computational Complexity
Random Thoughts on the Pandemic
1) Contrast the following two points and, if you have an intelligent way to fill-in-the-blank for the second one, please comment.
a) When Trump says `open the schools or I will cut of funding' I disagree, or at least he should…From The Eponymous Pickle
Limiting Location Data Exposure
Basic cautions/mitigations on releasing location data. From the NSA, a considerable recent update. Instructive, but not meant to prevent data loss. Via Schneier
Limiting Location Data Exposure
Mobile devices store and share…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at the Booming RPA Market
Very detailed piece, below the introduction. Probably the most common question I get asked: What is it, how is it different than AI? People should also ask: How is it different from Business Process Modeling? The analysis…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 9th 2020)
The BBC reports that diversity and anti-bias training is of little use and may even be counterproductive if the goal is reduce biases: “The effect of bias training is very weak if you look at the long run,” says Kalev. “A company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On NIST and Quantum Cryptography
A continued interesting number of government looks at Quantum cryptography:
From Schneier on Security:
NIST has posted an update on their post-quantum cryptography program:
After spending more than three years examining new approaches…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Images and more for Data
Google is making changes about how to use their excellent image databases. We used Google images to gather to input into analytic models. The reported changes would have helped us considerably. I note in particular 'related…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Transforming Supply Chains in Disruption
Brought to my attention, not clear that this specifically considers the rare condition of pandemics and other disruption. Have not read as yet, via Informs/Analytics.
New book addresses digital supply network challenges in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Green Energy Pilot using Smart Contracts
Good piece on current use of smart contracts.
California Agency Backs Green-Energy Pilot Using RSK’s Bitcoin Smart Contracts By Nathan DiCamillo in CoinDesk
The California Energy Commission, the state’s primary energy policy and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Performance tip: constructing many non-trivial objects is slow
I started programming professionally when Java came out and right about when C++ was the “hot new thing”. Following the then-current fashion, I looked down at C and Pascal programming. I fully embraced object-oriented programming…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fran Allen: 1932-2020
We lost a great computer scientist. Frances Allen was one of the leaders who helped create the field of compilers research. Fran was an elite researcher at IBM, and won a Turing Award for this pioneering work. Allen also collected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Intelligence, the New AI
Hardly new. Computing has always augmented people doing computational and logical work. Its just that this work has now expanded to other formally human and animal insight. Like learning, pattern observation, forecasting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing the Education Revolution
Changes have occurred, will they fundamentally influence how we learn and apply emerging tech? Does MOOC need the university? How people will invent and collaborate to produce new science and its application? Work is underway…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New SQUID
There's a new SQUID: A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience…
From insideHPC
Kao Data Talks HPC-class Colocation Data Center Requirements in the UK’s ‘Innovation Corridor’
UK colocation provider Kao Data talks about the changing data center requirements of HPC organizations in the “Innovation Corridor,” between London and Cambridge. Kao Data Vice President Spencer Lamb talks with the late Rich
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From insideHPC
Mode Analytics Raises $33 Million in Series D Funding, Led by H.I.G. Growth Partners
San Francisco – August 6, 2020 – Mode Analytics, the leader in advanced analytics, today announced that it has closed a $33 million round of Series D funding led by H.I.G. Growth Partners, along with Valor Equity Partners, Foundation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Information Overload from Polarization
Although mostly we had too little data to address a problem, the idea of finding data, determining its value in context and then prepping for sub tasks involved, could lead to too much. This article excerpt intrigued me. Polarization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State and Future of IBM
Former exec and colleague Bob Herbold talks IBM in his blog:
IBM: Finally, A Bold Move Provides Some Hope
Posted on August 6, 2020 by Bob Herbold
One financial analyst calls IBM’s last ten years its wasted decade. In that period…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistant for Doctors
Podcast of interest: Patient engagement,Voice Assistant
Harjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors – Voicebot Podcast Ep 161
Harjinder Sandhu founded Saykara in 2015 but his journey into healthcare…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Intelligent Retail Clouds
More data, more interactions with parts of the business, new patterns to leverage in a changing world.
How is Artificial Intelligence Changing the Retail Landscape in Maize
Francis Oyewole heads up Business Development at Aura
How…
From insideHPC
1st Student Cluster Competition Focusing on Racial Inclusion Slated for January
The inaugural Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition to include historically black and minority universities in the supercomputing challenge arena is slated for Jan. 25, 2021. To date, participating colleges
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From BLOG@CACM
Can Research Universities Become Exponential?
We argue that exponential research and exponential teaching may exert mutual influence and foster each other, creating together the exponential research university.