Communications of the ACM
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September 2017
From insideHPC
AMAX.AI Unveils [SMART]Rack Machine Learning Cluster
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Today AMAX.AI launched the [SMART]Rack AI Machine Learning cluster, an all-inclusive rackscale platform is maximized for performance featuring up to 96x NVIDIA Tesla P40, P100 or V100 GPU cards, providing well over 1 PetaFLOP…
From insideHPC
IBM Moves Data Science Forward with Integrated Analytics System
Today IBM announced the Integrated Analytics System, a new unified data system designed to give users fast, easy access to advanced data science capabilities and the ability to work with their data across private, public or hybrid…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Practices for Natural Language Processing
Best NLP Processing By Sebastian Ruder via O'Reilly
Introduction
This post is a collection of best practices for using neural networks in Natural Language Processing. It will be updated periodically as new insights become available…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workplace by FaceBook
Why Workplace by Facebook will win by Rob Castaneda. Interesting disconnect proposition:
" ... White collar was and still is head office. It is the center of control that tells the rest of a company what to do. I can recall
And…
From insideHPC
Video: How MVAPICH & MPI Power Scientific Research
Adam Moody from LLNL presented this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "High-performance computing is being applied to solve the world's most daunting problems, including researching climate change, studying fusion physics, and
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From Computational Complexity
Tragic Losses
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From insideHPC
OpenMP at 20 Moving Forward to 5.0
This year, OpenMP*, the widely used API for shared memory parallelism supported in many C/C++ and Fortran compilers, turns 20. OpenMP is a great example of how hardware and software vendors, researchers, and academia, volunteering…
From Schneier on Security
Department of Homeland Security to Collect Social Media of Immigrants and Citizens
New rules give the DHS permission to collect "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" as part of people's immigration file. The Federal Register has the details, which seems to…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fear and Loathing and Required Computer Science Education
It seems like every time someone suggests that computer science be a required school subject someone (sometimes several people) bring up on particular objection – that making a subject required makes I a turn off for students…
From BLOG@CACM
How Much CS Ed Will $1.3B Buy You? Not Enough to Reach Every U.S. School, Nor Every Child
The White House promises $200M/year for CS Ed, and the Tech industry promises $300M over 5 years. What can we get for that?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passage.AI Emerges for Multiple Platforms
Have always been interested in ways to make chatbot AI easier. Since our long ago successful use of the Extempo package. Here another example emerging.
Passage.AI aims to make building chatbots easy By Paul Gillin in SiliconAngle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Hardware Event Today
Attended this via theVerge, which does a good technical comparison view. I follow this closely because I have worked with some companies in the AI/Attentive chat space for years. From my needs view, nothing greatly surprising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
B2B and Customer Demands
Digital has changed how B2B leaders meet customer demands, but not in all the expected ways. In McKinsey:
" ..... As digital continues to disrupt every aspect of commerce, B2B organizations face challenges and opportunities when…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reasonet Ingests and Answers Questions
Came up to me in several directions. ReasoNet. A machine reading program that allows machines to ingest documents, read them, and then answer questions based on the documents.
" ... Teaching a computer to read and answer general…
From insideHPC
With Exascale Looming, this is an Exciting Time for Computational Science
In this video from the 2017 CGSF Review Meeting, Barbara Helland from the Department of Energy presents: With Exascale Looming, this is an Exciting Time for Computational Science. "Helland was also a presenter this week at the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Retail Planning
Very thoughtful piece in ChainStoreAge, the Introduction ...
" ... Using Unified Retail Planning to Break Out of Functional Silos
Retail today isn’t for the faint-hearted. A recent quote from business magnate and investor Warren…
From insideHPC
Server Vendors Announce NVIDIA Volta Systems for Accelerated AI
Today NVIDIA and its systems partners Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Supermicro today unveiled more than 10 servers featuring NVIDIA Volta architecture-based Tesla V100 GPU accelerators -- the world's most advanced…
From insideHPC
EPSRC Recognizes Young Scientists using ARCHER Supercomputing Facility
Today EPSRC in the UK announced the 10 winners of the recent ARCHER Best-Use Travel Competition. The competition aimed to identify the best scientific use of ARCHER, the UK’s national supercomputing facility, within the arena…
From insideHPC
No speed limit on NVIDIA Volta with rise of AI
In this special guest feature, Brad McCredie from IBM writes that launch of Volta GPUs from NVIDIA heralds a new era of AI. "We’re excited about the launch of NVIDIA’s Volta GPU accelerators. Together with the NVIDIA NVLINK “information…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced $17.7 million in funding for 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) projects, which will bring together the statistics, mathematics and theoretical…
From insideHPC
Accelerate Innovation and Insights with HPC and AI
Vineeth Ram from HPE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Organizations across all sectors are putting Big Data to work. They are optimizing their IT operations and enhancing the way they communicate, learn, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Neuromorphic Chips
Biomimicry expands. Neuro morphic (neuron-like) approaches to delivering learning.
Intel Unveils Neuromorphic, Self-Learning Chip Codenamed Loihi By Joel Hruska
" ... That may change in the future, if Intel’s latest AI bet
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture, P&G, Target: Retail Cyber Security
Accenture joins Target and P&G as keynote speaker at cybersecurity summit ... By Marianne Wilson
Accenture has signed on as the title sponsor for the Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit, which will be held in Chicago, October 3 -…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Facebook's Workplace at Walmart
News .... From Facebook's Workplace Site:
Facebook's Workplace at Walmart
" In the last 10 months, we’ve welcomed more than 14,000 companies to Workplace across a vast range of industries. Today, we’re pleased to welcome the
Technology…
From insideHPC
Panasas Upgrades JASMIN Super-Data-Cluster Facility to 20PB
Today Panasas announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (SFTC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK has expanded its JASMIN super-data-cluster with an additional 1.6 petabytes of Panasas ActiveStor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to Adopt Facebook's Workplace Edition
Quite an interesting and unexpected coup. Is Facebook best for retail? Consider how their Facebook M chatbot capability might be used for marketing. Here at first this is internal use. This could be a huge thing. Search…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Announces Integration with IBM Power Systems
Today Bright Computing announced that Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 now integrates with IBM Power Systems. "The integration of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 with IBM Power Systems has created an important new option for users running…
From The Eponymous Pickle
C by GE Sol Lamp Reviewed
Geekwire Reviews the Alexa enabled GE Lamp. Much more colorful than the pic shown here. But not bright enough to flood a whole room with light. Video in operation at link.
Talk to the lamp: We tried GE’s Sol, a $200 light with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Transmission for Robotics
Transmission for Robotics from SRI. Recall again our previous association with SRI.
Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics By Evan Ackerman and Celia Gorman
A novel nested pulley configuration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch and Self Driving Cars
Had already looked at how Bosch was examining technology behind the smart home. Now in the space of Automotive advances like self driving cars.
Bosch details its work on present and future self-driving cars
Like many companies…