Communications of the ACM
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September 2016
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identity Graphs for Marketing
Admit I had not heard the term 'identity graph' in terms of marketing before, but now I am intensely interested in the graphical implications. Still considering that. Where do you start?
Marketers Need 'Identity Graphs,' but…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will be Whispering in your Ear
Interesting point about the the recently announced Dash earbuds for iPhone. Is this really a play to get AI in your ear? You could suggest that this is a better way to deliver AI than Echo or Cortana, by making their sideIn…
From Schneier on Security
USB Kill Stick
It costs less than $60. For just a few bucks, you can pick up a USB stick that destroys almost anything that it's plugged into. Laptops, PCs, televisions, photo booths -- you name it. Once a proof-of-concept, the pocket-sized…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium Evaluation Survey
Over the past two years, theComputing Community Consortium(CCC)has organized 19 visioning workshops on a wide range of topics, and also funded a number of other events to help serve the computing research community. Please help…
From insideHPC
DOE Funds Asynchronous Supercomputing Research at Georgia Tech
"More than just building bigger and faster computers, high-performance computing is about how to build the algorithms and applications that run on these computers, said School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Associate…
From insideHPC
Measuring HPC: Performance, Cost, & Value
Andrew Jones from NAG presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "NAG experts have practical experience in procuring large supercomputers and associated support services, as users of HPC in industry and academia, as…
From insideHPC
EU Funds BSC Researcher to Develop New Aircraft Simulation Tools
BSC researcher Xevi Roca will receive a one of the European Unions most prestigious research grants for a project to create new simulation methods to respond to the aviation industrys most pressing challenges. Roca, who has been…
From insideHPC
Examples of Deep Learning Industrialization
Humans are very good at visual pattern recognition especially when it comes to facial features and graphic symbols and identifying a specific person or associating a specific symbol with an associated meaning. It is in these…
From insideHPC
Funding Boosts Exascale Research at LANL
"Our collaborative role in these exascale applications projects stems from our laboratorys long-term strategy in co-design and our appreciation of the vital role of high-performance computing to address national security challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Much Data? First Use Right Measures
In era of hunger for bigger data, we can still get it wrong. Its more important to have the right metrics. Via Think with Google:
Weekly Thought-Starter
Too much data can make for muddled metrics. To drive business growth, focus…
From insideHPC
Radio Free Looks at Exascale Application Challenges in the Wake of XSEDE 2.0 Funding
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent news that Intel has sold its controlling stake in McAfee and that NSF has funded the next generation of XSEDE.
The post Radio Free Looks at Exascale Application Challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preparing for More Computational Thinking
Never heard precisely of 'computational thinking' , but as an engineer have done it for years. Stephen Wolfram describes it in much detail using their systems. Our past has been computational still, but now many more people…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking First Impressions
How to Make a Great First Impression by Rebecca Knight In the HBR
The saying You only have one chance to make a first impression holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. How can you make sure that you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Road Map for Digital Sales Organizations
In McKinsey:
To realize the full value potential of digital, successful sales organizations reorganize top to bottom, front end to back end. Heres their road mapfor digital sales.
From Phys.org Technology News
New drone technology will uncover secrets of Amazonian tribes
Experts hope to uncover the hidden secrets of ancient Amazon tribes and their effect on modern vegetation using revolutionary new drone technology.
From Schneier on Security
Malware Infects Network Hard Drives
The malware "Mal/Miner-C" infects Internet-exposed Seagate Central Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and from there takes over connected computers to mine for cryptocurrency. About 77% of all drives have been infected.…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 September 2016
Is everyone back at school now? After a couple of short weeks school happens all five weekdays this week. I think Im ready for a full week. Getting back into the full swing of things takes me a while. Looking around school I …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC
Brought to my attention for retail inventory applications.
" ... Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC (COSY) is a spinout of UPenn's GRASP Laboratory. The company focuses on leveraging University research for enabling industry
COSY…
From insideHPC
European SAVE Project Streamlines Data Intensive Computing
A consortium of European researchers and technology companies recently completed the EU-funded SAVE project, aimed at simplifying the execution data-intensive applications on complex hardware architectures. Funded by the European…
From insideHPC
EU HPC Strategy and the European Cloud Initiative
Leonardo Flores from the European Commission presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Cloud Initiative will make it easier for researchers, businesses and public services to fully exploit the benefits of Big Data by making…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Cognitive Tech Affect Your Organization?
How Will Cognitive Technologies Affect Your Organization?
Big Idea: Data & AnalyticsBlog
Sam Ransbotham MIT Sloan
Our once-subservient machines are encroaching on tasks that have been firmly in the human domain.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms Failing in Context
I have seen many articles lately saying our world is driven by algorithms. Algorithms have been my stock and trade, each constructed and employed for a particular purpose. To perform a task, and do it better, faster and cheaper…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology and Skills
In Medium: A look at how technology is influencing our skills. Technology has always moved skills to new places. Retraining takes time and experience. So there will always be be gaps for individuals to exploit.
From Phys.org Technology News
Emirates bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on its planes
Civil aviation authorities in the Emirates have banned the use of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on all its national carriers because of the risk of batteries exploding in the "phablet" smartphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Layoffs Hurt Companies
The cost of layoffs to companies. In Knowledge@Wharton:
' ... Contrary to popular belief, theres not much evidence that layoffs are a cure for weak profits, or, to use the current euphemism, that they reposition a firm for growth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Event Processing
I was reminded of complex event processing (CEP). The WP has a good overview with resources:
" ... Event processing is a method of tracking and analyzing (processing) streams of information (data) about things that happen (events)…
From The Noisy Channel
No objection from me there.
From updated sporadically at best
A Small Reading List for New PhD Students
It's my first semester being on the other side! Giving advice is so fun because it validates all of my life choices! I put together a list of reading for my own students and thought others might find it useful too.
You and Your…
From The Noisy Channel
Agreed. Perhaps my biggest take-away from this experience is to have a much stronger reaction to
any behavior that gives me a bad feeling — and especially to make sure all such reactions are cumulative.
From insideHPC
Video: Japans Post K Computer
Yutaka Ishikawa from Riken AICS presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Slated for delivery sometime around 2022, the ARM-based Post-K Computer has a performance target of being 100 times faster than the original K computer…