Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2016
From insideHPC
Lustre Training Day Coming to SC16 in Salt Lake City
Coming to SC16? Intel is hosting a one-day Lustre training session on Friday November 18th, 2016 at the Sheraton in Salt Lake City. "You can expect the top Lustre experts to spend the day with on the training topics that you
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From Computational Complexity
Noam Nisan wins the Knuth Prize
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Does Open Source Deep Learning
Good to see competition at play.
Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech, competing with Googles TensorFlow
By James Risley
Amazon is making a bigger leap into open-source technology with the unveiling of its machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Review and Follower Fraud
From CMU. Tested against some very large set of Twitter data. Uses a form of Graph Analytics. Python code is available as Open Source. Uses a form of Faloutsos' NetProbe (technical paper) for the analysis.
New algorithm…
From Phys.org Technology News
US Navy gives look inside futuristic $4.4B Zumwalt destroyer
The Navy gave a first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer on Friday during the ship's first port stop at a Rhode Island naval station.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is R?
Nicely done, non-technical. Check out some examples too.
What is R? R Explained in less than Two Minutes, to Absolutely Anyone
by Bernard Marr
If you're looking at ways you can harness the power of Big Data analytics in your business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories
Enhancing Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories - Dan Tecuci, IBM Watson NLP Engineer IBM Watson Health, gave a great presentation yesterday on Enhancing Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories. as part of the Cognitive…
From The Noisy Channel
Fixed.
From The Noisy Channel
Fair point, Ive managed incredible interns myself that I have put on important prohlems.
But in this case I felt the intern’s lack of domain experience was an issue.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More Research Inspired by Squid Skin
Research on color-changing materials: What do squid and jellyfish skin have in common with human skin? All three have inspired a team of chemists to create materials that change color or texture in response to variations in their…
From Schneier on Security
Leaked Product Demo from RCS Labs
We have leak from yet another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: the Italian company RCS Labs. Vice Motherboard reports on a surveillance video demo: The video shows an RCS Lab employee performing a live demo of the company's spyware…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convetit: Real Time Problem Solving Dialogs
I recently participated in a forum on AI/Cognitive applications.
Convetit:
" ... Powered by an open platform of real world problem solvers, Convetit brings professionals together for intense dialogues in online moderated engagements…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Model Intelligence
Data Modeling intelligence. A favorite topic, have been involved in semantic knowledge graphs lately.
In O'Reilly:
Age of intelligence
Qi Lu explores data-model intelligence, the Bing Knowledge Graph, the Microsoft Graph, and Cortana…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing Companies in a Digital Era
In Knowledge@Wharton:
A Better Way to Value Companies The Digital Era Changes the Game
In a world rapidly switching to digital business models, the old ways of classifying industries and measuring business performances do not…
From Phys.org Technology News
Dutch police closes probe into fatal Tesla crash
Dutch police closed a probe Friday into a fatal crash involving a Tesla, accepting the US electric car firm's findings that the Model S sedan was not on auto-pilot when it smashed into a tree.
From The Eponymous Pickle
When to Trust Robots
In the HBR:
When to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To by Vasant Dhar
Smarter and more adaptive machines are rapidly becoming as much a part of our lives as the internet, and more of our decisions are being handed over…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Price Data
In Retailwire: With discussion.
Can crowdsourced price data change shopping habits?
Comparing prices between brick-and-mortar grocery stores isnt an exact science for even the most fastidious shopper. Even if someone is willing…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Shipping Servers with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs
Supermicros density optimized 4U SuperServer 4028GR-TR(T)2 supports up to 10 PCI-E Tesla P100 accelerators for up to 210 TFLOPS FP16 peak performance with GPU Direct RDMA support. Supermicros innovative and GPU optimized single…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisiRule for Building Intelligent Applications
Brought to my attention, a considerable update to VisiRule, Which I have followed for years. Back to making rule based expert systems easier? Links to business process modeling? Part of cognitive is logic.
Build Intelligent…
From insideHPC
Juniper Networks Powers Climate Research at NCAR
Today Juniper Networks announced it has been selected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to provide the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that will be used by researchers to predict climate…
From Schneier on Security
DDOS for Profit
Brian Krebs reports that the Israeli DDOS service vDOS has earned $600K in the past two years. The information was obtained from a hack and data dump of the company's information....
From insideHPC
Video: HPC in the Cloud
"Nimbis was founded in 2008 by HPC industry veterans Robert Graybill and Brian Schott to act as the first nationwide brokerage clearinghouse for a broad spectrum of integrated cloud-based HPC platforms and applications. Our fully…
From insideHPC
Yottabyte Powers Data-Intensive Research at University of Michigan
"With the Yottabyte Research Cloud, researchers will be able to ask more questions, faster, of the ever-expanding and massive sets of data collected for their work," said Yottabyte CEO Paul Hodges. "We are very pleased to be
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From Phys.org Technology News
Google parent Alphabet unit to drop burritos by drone
A team at Google parent Alphabet working on unmanned aerial systems this month will try out delivering burritos by drone on a college campus in Virginia.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Applications Beyond Finance
Blockchains Potential Extends Beyond the Financial Industry
September 2016 | by Jim Utsler
Many have heard about the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but few are familiar with its underlying technology, blockchain. Thanks to IBM and other…
From Phys.org Technology News
Navy's futuristic destroyer makes port call in Rhode Island
The U.S. Navy's futuristic Zumwalt destroyer has arrived in Rhode Island for its first port visit since leaving the shipyard to join the fleet.
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Shipping Platforms with NVIDIA Tesla P100 for PCIe
Today One Stop Systems (OSS) announced that its High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) and its Express Box 3600 (EB3600) are now available for purchase with the NVIDIA Tesla P100 for PCIe GPU. These high-density platforms deliver…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2016 / Spotlight on Hana Khamfroush: Research Associate in Wireless Communications and Networking
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes place September 18-23, 2016. Abel, Fields, Turing and Nevanlinna…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Cluster to Power Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Experiments
Today Fujitsu announced that the company has received an order for an experiment-analysis system from Kamioka Observatory, part of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo. The system is destined…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning with the Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"An environment that assists in deep learning usually consists of algorithms that can draw conclusions from data that is run at very high speeds. Processors such as the Intel Xeon Phi Processor that contain a significant number…