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 Computational Complexity
Science fiction viewers used to embrace diversity (or did they) and now they don't (or do they)
(This post is inspired by the choice of a female to be the next Doctor on the TV show Dr. Who. Note that you can't say `the next Dr. Who will be female' since Dr. Who is not the name of the character. The name has not been revealed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Customer Experience: Woo, Wow and Win
Podcast
Authors Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O'Connell talk about their book on designing the right customer experience.
Companies carefully craft the products they sell to customers, but rarely do they give the same thoughtfulness…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTTT for Google Drive
I continue to watch the updates to IFTTT (IF This, Then That). Which allows you to add rule like commands to examine streams of data and manipulate them. They have just added a number of capabilities which let you work with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating with a Language of Colors
Applications to communications, advertising, user interface?
Analyzing the language of color
Cognitive scientists find that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones.
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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Dataprep by Google with Trifacta
Its all about the data and how you wrangle it. Good links to TensorFlow? Checking.
Google Launches Public Beta of Cloud Dataprep, Built in Collaboration With Trifacta
Google recently announced that Google Cloud Dataprep—the new…
From insideHPC
LANL Steps Up to HPC for Materials Program
"Understanding and predicting material performance under extreme environments is a foundational capability at Los Alamos,” said David Teter, Materials Science and Technology division leader at Los Alamos. “We are well suited
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From insideHPC
Scaling Deep Learning Algorithms on Extreme Scale Architectures
Abhinav Vishnu from PNNL gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "Deep Learning (DL) is ubiquitous. Yet leveraging distributed memory systems for DL algorithms is incredibly hard. In this talk, we will present approaches to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reusing Computer Code
Efficiency and using pretested and standardized code is useful. Common data representations implied is also a good idea.
Automatic Code Reuse
MIT News By Larry Hardesty
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty and Retention
Good idea, with emphasis on good experience design to make this happen.
A Loyalty Program Becomes a Retention Hub
Written by Alex McEachern | @alexmcea
.... Today’s top ecommerce sites are using retention to battle increasing digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones in the Dark
Working with a company that does image analysis and photography with drones
Drones Can Almost See in the Dark
University of Zurich
September 20, 2017
Researchers at the University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland and NCCR Robotics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SailFish Exchange for Data Curation
A clever idea. A Pinterest for data. Approach to data democratization. From Booz Allen Hamilton
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Sailfish™ Exchange
Socially Charged Data Curation
Sailfish Exchange simplifies the data curation process. Using a social community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IoT Earthquake Warning Network
Warning versus predicting.
Zizmos Continues Its Quest to Create an IoT Earthquake-Warning Network By Tekla S. Perry
A simulation of Zizmos' earthquake early warning system shows the progression of a temblor in the San Francisco…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Scraping Data
Data scraping is not new. Just much more convenient. Was used to gather information about horse racing to leverage off track betting starting in the 18th century. Just much more convenient these days. When is data about…
From insideHPC
SC17 Session Preview: Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly impact how we do computing and what computing can do for us…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Jet Noise for a Quieter World
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are using Argonne supercomputers to to look for new ways to reduce the noise produced by jet engines. Among the loudest sources of human-made noise that exist, jet engines can produce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Using MS HoloLens for Car Design
Complex and cooperative design continues to be a place where augmented reality is likely to be valuable.
Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens For Car Design By Rebecca Hills-Duty in VR Focus.
HoloLens allows designers and engineers to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection
A number of analytics sytems we worked with were essentially anomaly detection. So this is close to home. In particular, that in almost all cases the systems need to be re-calibrated and re run over time.
In O'Reilly, Video:
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Perishables to the Smart Home
We tested a number of solutions to perishable delivery in out smart home labs. Obviously this requires some expensive refitting of the home.
Walmart tests new delivery drop-off point — the customer’s fridge
By Deena M. Amato-McCoy…
From insideHPC
Video: Will HPC Move to the Cloud?
Gabriel Broner from Rescale gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "HPC has transitioned from unique and proprietary designs, to clusters of many dual-CPU Intel nodes. Vendors’ products are now differentiated more by packaging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Americans Loving Cooking?
As a long time amateur cook, found this very interesting. Are the statistics shown right? The aricle follows with ab analysis of how this influences grocery choices.
The Grocery Industry Confronts a New Problem: Only 10% of…
From insideHPC
Hiring? Sign up for the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair
Is your organization looking to hire HPC talent? Be sure to book a table at the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair. "This face-to-face event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in rooms 702-704-706 in the Colorado…
From insideHPC
PSSC Labs to Power Biosoft Devices for Genetics Research
PSSC Labs will work with BSI to create truly, turn-key HPC clusters, servers and storage solutions. PSSC Labs has already delivered several hundred computing platforms for worldwide genomics and bioinformatics research. Utilizing…
From insideHPC
Intel awards Paderborn University a Hybrid Cluster with Arria 10 FPGAs
The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) has been selected by Intel to host a computer cluster that uses Intel’s Xeon processor with its Arria 10 FPGA software development platform. " The availability of these systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personality Classification
Been examining various personality classifiers, starting with a project we did with the Watson Bluemix system. Here is another, covered in some detail in Datanami: Deep Learning Reveals New Insights About People:
" ... Can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
B to B Sales and Consolidated Marketing Platforms
From CustomerThink
The Salesman’s Resurrection by AI Featured Column by CustomerThink Advisor! by Thomas Wieberneit
The B2B salesperson is dead. .... Or so it is said.
There are scores of studies telling us that most of a customer…
From Schneier on Security
Boston Red Sox Caught Using Technology to Steal Signs
The Boston Red Sox admitted to eavesdropping on the communications channel between catcher and pitcher. Stealing signs is believed to be particularly effective when there is a runner on second base who can both watch what hand…
From Computational Complexity
Acronyms and PHP
Whenever I teach discrete math and use FML to mean Formula the students laugh since its a common acroynm for Fuck My Life. Now they laugh, and I say I know why you are laughing, I know what it means and they laugh even harder…
From insideHPC
KISTI in South Korea orders up a Cray CS500 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has awarded the Company a contract valued at more than $48 million for a Cray CS500 cluster supercomputer. The 128-rack system, which includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streamlined Product Codes
Used to work with the GMA in our Innovation efforts. Not in the business anymore, but work ongoing is worth understanding as it interacts and communicates with consumers.
Watching a Good Idea on Streamlined Product Code Date…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE on 3D Printing
Much more in the full article at the link.
A silent revolution: Avio Aero and Arcam’s relationship is built on additive manufacturing by The Bike Shop
Less complexity, costs, waste and noise: additive manufacturing is the industry…