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
Argonne to Develop Applications for ECP Exascale Computing Project
Today Argonne announced that the Lab is leading a pair of newly funded applications projects for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The announcement comes on the heels of news that ECP has funded a total of 15 application
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From The Eponymous Pickle
SmartStones Wins Singularity Grand Challenge Award
Been a while since I have mentioned Smartstones, have been slightly connected with their efforts for some time. Still awaiting some test versions of this to review.
Full Document. Worth following.
September 7, 2016
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From insideHPC
Dell & EMC in HPC The Journey so far and the Road Ahead
Ed Turkel and Percy Tzelnic from Dell Technologies presented this pair of talks at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "This week, Dell Technologies announced completion of the acquisition of EMC Corporation, creating a unique family…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Piggly Wiggly 100th Anniversary
The US grocery chain Piggly Wiggly, is said to be the creator of the modern model grocery store, where the customers walk the aisles doing self service. They celebrate their 100th anniversary. Their work was often covered in…
From insideHPC
DDN Powers High Performance Data Storage Fabric at University of Queensland
The Universitys researchers are making landmark discoveries in fields spanning human heritable disease, cancer, agriculture and biofuels manufacture and they depend on our IT team to provide them with the fastest, most efficient…
From insideHPC
New OpenPOWER Servers Accelerate Deep Learning with NVLink
Today IBM unveiled a series of new servers designed to help propel cognitive workloads and to drive greater data center efficiency. Featuring a new chip, the Linux-based lineup incorporates innovations from the OpenPOWER community…
From Schneier on Security
Apple's Cloud Key Vault
Ever since Ian Kristi, Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, presented the company's key backup technology at Black Hat 2016, people have been pointing to it as evidence that the company can create a secure backdoor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Technological Hype Cycle
I was sent Baseline Magazines's summary commentary on the Gartner Hype Cycle report and asked to comment on it. As usual an interesting document. Reasonable forecasts, but there may well be unexpected disruptive competitive…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- The Weakest Link
The next WATCH talk, called The Weakest Linkis Thursday, September 15th, from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter,Kelly Caine, is a researcher and professor working at the intersection of people and technology. She directs the Humans…
From Phys.org Technology News
Pride, not money, the spur to eGames King
Golf has the Ryder Cup, tennis the Davis Cup and now the fast-growing eSports will have the eGames in Pyeongchang in 2018, the main mover behind it, Chester King, told AFP.
From Phys.org Technology News
US rules for targeted killing using drones need clarifying, RAND report asserts
Current U.S. policies on using drones for targeted killing are characterized by ambiguities in interpretations of international law and too many generalities, despite recent efforts by the Obama administration to clarify the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Movidius Acquired by Intel
Autonomous devices will require vision as their most important sense. In January, 2016 the company announced a partnership with Google. Movidius has been active in the Google Project Tango project
Movidius + Intel = Vision for…
From BLOG@CACM
Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Star Trek has inspired generations to pursue science and technology careers, not a few of whom have transformed part of it into technological and commercial fact.
From updated sporadically at best
Yet Another Blog Post on Industry vs. Academia for CS PhDs
I recently had the following chat conversation with a Former Student about the possibility of doing a PhD in Computer Science*.
FS: What's the value of grad school if I don't want to stay in academia (other than "grad school might…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Of Dice and Men
In a college I first learned about Stochastic analysis and Monti Carlo Simulations. Whoa! An academic sounding reason to play with random numbers. It was only later that I discovered randomness as applied to cryptography. By…
From Computational Complexity
Why I Don't Believe in ET
Is there life on other planets? The naive answer is "of course, why should Earth be special." What makes a lottery winner special? We could have just won the life lottery and the losers aren't around to complain.
The more scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots in the Retail Aisle at Lowe's
Lowes has long been a great experimenter in technology space. But what has lasted? Naturally, since it needs expertise to be delivered in a very complex aisle. Good piece further, about the retail presence of robotics.
Robots…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT on Data Science and Statistics
Have been involved in something similar, so this is an interesting approach. I like the emphasis on decisions as opposed to broad scoping on the alleged 'magic' of data science. The piece is interesting beyond the statement…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Future of AI: CCC’s Response to OSTP RFI
Contributions to this post were made by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In June, the White House Office of Science…
From insideHPC
Video: The ECP Exascale Computing Project
Paul Messina presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is a collaborative effort of the Office of Science (DOE-SC) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As
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From Phys.org Technology News
Driver dies as Tesla slams into tree in central Dutch town
The 53-year-old driver of a Tesla Model S electric car died Wednesday when the vehicle smashed into a tree in the central Dutch town of Baarn and burst into flames, police and firefighters said.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Important Skill: Problem Solving
Not know the latest code or algorithms, just solve the problem. In the simplest way possible. If you can just test solution X easily, just test X! So true. You have a toolbox full or tools, and very importantly also a book…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning for Chatbots Part II
More about Chatbots in KDNuggets. " .... Check out part 2 of this tutorial on building chatbots with deep neural networks. This part gets practical, and using Python and TensorFlow to implement. .. " Also points you back…
From insideHPC
It’s “Day 1” for Dell Technologies with New Branding
Today Dell Technologies announced completion of the acquisition of EMC Corporation, creating a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapbox Intelligent Geospatial
Yes, can see this as a considerable leverage point. That companies like Twitter and Google are already reaping. Discussion in Linkedin.
With Mapbox Deal, IBM Watson Will Learn A Lot More About Where Things Are Happening
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Innovation Professionals
Lots of good information coming out of this group. See the link to their archive of talks. Innovation and delivering the details is key:
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip)…
From insideHPC
Network Co-design as a Gateway to Exascale
Achieving better scalability and performance at Exascale will require full data reach. Without this capability, onload architectures force all data to move to the CPU before allowing any analysis. The ability to analyze data
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From insideHPC
Berkeley Lab to Develop Key Applications for ECP Exascale Computing Project
Today Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced that LBNL scientists will lead or play key roles in developing 11 critical research applications for next-generation supercomputers as part of DOE's Exascale Computing Project…
From insideHPC
Video: IDC HPC Market Update
Earl Joseph presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "HPC is still expected to be a strong growth market going forward. IDC is forecasting a 7.7 percent growth from 2015 to 2019. We're projecting the 2019 HPC Market…
From Phys.org Technology News
New regulations curb use of drones in Poland
New aviation regulations have taken effect in Poland to limit the flying of drones in populated areas and to require identification plates on drones used for professional purposes.