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 The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of AI in the Home, Office and City
An area we covered for years. How AI will influence will our home, business and urban worlds by 2030?
Stanford-Hosted Study Examines How AI Might Affect Urban Life in 2030 Stanford News (09/01/16) Tom Abate
A year-long, Stanford…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Alternative Energy in the Eastern Power Grid
"By modeling the power system in depth and detail, NREL has helped reset the conversation about how far we can go operationally with wind and solar in one of the largest power systems in the world," said the Energy Department's…
From insideHPC
Video: JuMP – A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization
Miles Lubin from presented this talk at the CSGF Annual Program Review. "JuMP is an open-source software package in Julia for modeling optimization problems. In less than three years since its release, JuMP has received more
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From insideHPC
NREL Discovery Could Propel Quantum Computing
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a use for perovskites that could propel the development of quantum computing. "Considerable research at NREL and elsewhere has been
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From insideHPC
Supercomputing 3D Elevation Maps of Alaska on Blue Waters
Today, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NSF released 3-D topographic maps that show Alaska’s terrain in greater detail than ever before. Powered by the Blue Waters supercomputer, the maps are the result of a White…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outcome Bias and Generating Value
Thhinking about outcome bias. But sometimes its all we have. Or can we always generate metadata to drive value? In the HBR:
What We Miss When We Judge a Decision by the Outcome by Francesca Gino In the HBR
When people are judging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Look at the Semantic Web
A new look at the Semantic web in the CACM. Abstract. I spent considerable time in this space in the 90s, now revisiting it to address issues like the efficient development and maintenance of cognitive systems. Semantic webs…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UX as a Process
A big proponent of at least understanding your process. And ideally, mapping it out in as much detail as is possible. Interestingly put here in Linkedin:
Process Thinking in User Experience
The first step in user experience needs…
From Phys.org Technology News
London lab recreates horrors of war with 3D technology
Starvation, torture and rape: the grim daily realities of prisoners inside Syria's Saidnaya military prison have been recreated in harrowing 3D detail by a London-based agency, established to highlight claims of rights abuses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Practical Statistics E Books
From DSC. An interesting selection. None that I have seen before:
" ... These books require different levels of existing knowledge, and while some are for early-stage data scientists others are for more hard-core physicists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Quick Descriptive Statistics
Just received from Jason Brownlee:
" ... Hi, you can learn a lot about your dataset by reviewing some basic descriptive statistics. ... The R platform provides a seemingly unlimited array of functions for poking and prodding your…
From The Noisy Channel
Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies
This paper, which I co-authored with Joyce Wang and Vladimir Zelevinsky when we were all at Endeca, originally appeared in the proceedings…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inferring Traffic Patterns for Graph Analytics
I can see this kind of pattern recognition more broadly used, and linked not only to maps but also to network patterns for graph analytics.
Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data
Big-data analysis could give city planners…
From insideHPC
Saving Water with Sandia’s New Datacenter Cooling Technology
Engineers at Sandia are developing new datacenter cooling technologies that could save millions of gallons of water nationwide.
The post Saving Water with Sandia’s New Datacenter Cooling Technology appeared first on insideHPC…
From insideHPC
Video: SIMD, Vectorization, and Performance Tuning
James Reinders presented this talk at the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. Reinders is the author of multiple books on parallel programming. His most recent book, entitled Intel Xeon Phi Processor High…
From The Eponymous Pickle
D3 Javascript for Interactive Visualization
D3 is particularly interesting for interactive data visualization. Flowingdata points to recent explanation and examples. Technically/programming oriented.
" ... D3 is the most commonly used JavaScript library for visualization…
From insideHPC
Cray to Add Intel Xeon Phi to Archer Supercomputing Service in the UK
EPSRC and Cray have signed an agreement to add a Cray XC40 Development System with Intel Xeon Phi processors to ARCHER, the UK National Supercomputing Service. "The new Development system will have a very similar environment
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From insideHPC
New Bright for Deep Learning Solution Designed for Business
"We have enhanced Bright Cluster Manager 7.3 so our customers can quickly and easily deploy new deep learning techniques to create predictive applications for fraud detection, demand forecasting, click prediction, and other data…
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime as a Tax on the Internet Economy
I was reading this 2014 McAfee report on the economic impact of cybercrime, and came across this interesting quote on how security is a tax on the Internet economy: Another way to look at the opportunity cost of cybercrime is…
From insideHPC
Python and HPC
"In the HPC domain, Python can be used to develop a wide range of applications. While tight loops may still need to be coded in C or FORTRAN, Python can still be used. As more systems become available with coprocessors or accelerators…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Scratch Resources from Ireland
A friend recently sent me a link to this site that looks like it will be very helpful for teachers who are using Scratch from MIT. Check it out at scratch.ie
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest blog post by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. What do you think your field will look like in…
From Computational Complexity
The Letter
Guest post by Molly Fortnow, incoming member of the University of Chicago class of 2020.
On January 24, 2011, a miraculous thing happened. I was published on the internet for the very first time. Only twelve years old, a year…
From Phys.org Technology News
Audi, Lexus and Toyota rank highest for car-seat anchors
New rankings from the insurance industry show that the Audi Q7, Lexus RX and Toyota Prius have the easiest-to-use anchors for child seats.
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication.
From The Noisy Channel
It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…
So I agree that it’s a flag, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a red flag.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu and Open Source Deep Learning
In SiliconAngle: The Open source idea coming from China seems remarkable. Have covered Baidu for some time, see the tag on the topic below.
China’s Baidu to open-source its deep learning AI platform by Robert Hof
The Chinese…
From The Noisy Channel
No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-Inventing Ivy
The current education model is broken, we have all the tools in place to change it.
Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age?
The new institution's flexible, work-from-anywhere policy is attracting…