Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2017
From insideHPC
Infinite Memory Engine: HPC in the FLASH Era
In this RichReport slidecast, James Coomer from DDN presents an overview of the Infinite Memory Engine IME. "IME is a scale-out, flash-native, software-defined, storage cache that streamlines the data path for application IO.…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Brings Deep Learning to Hyperscale at GTC China
Today GTC China, NVIDIA made a series of announcements around Deep Learning, and GPU-accelerated computing for Hyperscale datacenters. "Demand is surging for technology that can accelerate the delivery of AI services of all kinds…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track
Are you helping organize a conference in the near future? Consider having a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsors an initiative to bring special “Blue Sky Ideas” tracks to leading…
From insideHPC
Common Myths Stalling Organizations From Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption is accelerating at the blink of an eye, easing the burden of managing data-rich workloads for enterprises big and small. Yet, common myths and misconceptions about the hybrid cloud are delaying enterprises from…
From Schneier on Security
The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses
Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Supply and Demand in China
McKinsey on Automobiles in China, with considerable statistics:
Our 2017 survey of Chinese auto consumers shows they’re demanding more from carmakers. How can companies keep up with shifts in this must-win market? ... "
From Putting People First
Save the date: half-day event on service design innovation in Turin
SAVE THE DATE From the 10th to 16th October, the City of Turin will host Torino Design of the City. This week of events, meetings, workshops, exhibitions and guided tours about design will take place in strategic city locations…
From XRDS
FPGA Setup: Interfacing with an External Circuit
The Introduction For this post I will walk you through a project with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which was interfaced with a hand constructed clock circuit (an astable multivibrator). I. The FPGA Overview A Field…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Guides Customers with LEDs and Beacons
Navigation was a long time exploration of our innovation center explorations. Here beacons and LED lights are combined with an App.
With expert discussion.
Target guides customers through the aisles with beacons by Matthew…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Flying Robot Assistant for the Home
Another home/family device. Reminds me of the Kuri, but this is a drone, that in theory could navigate multiple levels and floors. Autonomous point to point navigation. Like the integration of Alexa and IFTTT. Do wonder the…
From insideHPC
Cray Assimilates ClusterStor from Seagate
Today Cray announced it has completed the previously announced transaction and strategic partnership with Seagate centered around the addition of the ClusterStor high-performance storage business. “As a pioneer in providing large…
From insideHPC
Kevin Barker to Lead CENATE Proving Ground for HPC Technologies
The CENATE Proving Ground for HPC Technologies at PNNL has named Kevin Barker as their new Director. "The goal of CENATE is to evaluate innovative and transformational technologies that will enable future DOE leadership class…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Pendleton
More on MS Data Wrangling, note Google is currently also working in this space with Trifacta. Its a big issue in data science work process. This is often done with tools like Excel, but adding intelligence driven methods can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Making AI Boring? Effective?
Looks like lots of focused assistants being proposed here. Which is exactly how our journey into AI worked. Be boring and effective. Choose focused examples. Where you have the data and can can calculate the value.
Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Burberry is using AI and Big Data
By Bernard Marr , In Forbes:
The Amazing Ways Burberry Is Using Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success
British fashion brand Burberry is one of the most recognized luxury clothes labels in the world. Starting in
It…
From insideHPC
IDEAS Program Fostering Better Software Development for Exascale
Scalability of scientific applications is a major focus of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and in that vein, a project known as IDEAS-ECP, or Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bloomberg Terminal
Data Science in the Bloomberg Financial Terminal
A good example of how financial data is being analyzed and utilized in online, real time interactions. Mention of their current work using deep learning techniques. Reminds me
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub Roundtable – The Role of Data Science in the Economy
The South Big Data Hub’s next Data Science Roundtable called The Role of Data Science in the Economy will be held Wednesday, September 27th from Noon – 1:15 PM EST. The roundtable will share the results of a recent report by…
From insideHPC
Nimbix Launches High Speed Cloud Storage for AI and Deep Learning
Today Nimbix announced the immediate availability of a new high-performance storage platform in the Nimbix Cloud specifically designed for the demands of artificial intelligence and deep learning applications and workflows. "As…
From BLOG@CACM
The Rise of Strategic Cyberwar?
Cyberwar is not simply a lineal descendant of strategic air power; rather, it is the next face of battle.
From insideHPC
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Present at SC17
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell will share insights and inspiration at SC17 in Denver. "We are honored to have the legendary Gordon Bell speak at SC17," said Conference Chair Bernd Mohr, from Germany's Jülich Supercomputing Centre…
From insideHPC
Kathy Yelick Presents: Breakthrough Science at the Exascale
UC Berkeley professor Kathy Yelick presented this talk at the 2017 ACM Europe Conference. "Yelick's keynote lecture focused on the exciting opportunities that High Performance Computing presents, the need for advanced in algorithms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling to Connect Employees to Work
Nice thought, and makes you more human than robotics.
Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work by Joseph Grenny In the HBR.
" ... Our company, VitalSmarts, has around 120 employees. One of our regular rituals in
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Linkedin Powerful to Business
Waiting for something like this. Recall being in business sessions between Linkedin and the enterprise on how such capabilities can enable business actions. Leads to Knowledge Architecture and Data and search. Ultimately
Microsoft…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at China’s 95 Petaflop Tianhe-2A Supercomputer
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at China’s massive upgrade of the Tianhe-2A supercomputer to 95 Petaflops peak performance. "As detailed in a new 21-page report by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Marketing Technology
Marketing Technology and AI
Artificial Intelligence is Breaking Down MarTech Silos
Here are some very good reasons why AI is crucial to the future of marketing technology.
By Molly Reynolds in Inc.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Transforming Manufacturing
In Knowledge@Wharton,
How Big Data and Analytics Can Transform Manufacturing
Sight Machine CEO Jon Sobel explains how a new generation of data analytics is transforming manufacturing.
Manufacturing companies are fast realizing
In…
From Schneier on Security
GPS Spoofing Attacks
Wired has a story about a possible GPS spoofing attack by Russia: After trawling through AIS data from recent years, evidence of spoofing becomes clear. Goward says GPS data has placed ships at three different airports and there…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Toward Document Understanding for Information Retrieval
Document understanding for the purpose of assessing the relevance of a document or passage to a query based only on the document content appears to be a familiar goal for information retrieval community, however, this problem…
From Mostafa Dehghani
Learning Useful Document Representations for Search
With the emergence of deep learning, representation learning has been a hot topic in recent years. There are a large variety of approaches to representation learning in general, but the basic idea is to learn some set of features…