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 The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and in Aisle Checkout
Continue to follow the idea of in-aisle checkout, see my tag below.
Walmart deploying tech that lets in-store shoppers check out — on their own By Deena M. Amano-MCCoy
Walmart is expanding the deployment of its Scan & Go mobile…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Designing Projects for Programming Students
Last night a teacher friend of mine gave me a USB stick with the projects he uses with his students. I have projects for C++, Python, Java, and Visual Basic from him. Oh and there are 60+ in each category. It’s going to takeKeeping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Constructing an Amazon Echo Skill via Java
How to construct an Amazon Echo Skill using Java An introduction in Github.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Customizing Sneakers
Customization or perhaps late stage differentiation. But note only for a limited time and place. Plays to the current craze for fast delivery. Adds a level of exclusiveness. Discussion at the link too.
Nike customizes shoes…
From insideHPC
NASA Perspectives on Deep Learning
Nikunj Oza from NASA Ames gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "This talk will give a broad overview of work at NASA in the space of data sciences, data mining, machine learning, and related areas at NASA. This will include
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From insideHPC
JAIST in Japan installs Cray XC40 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST) has put a Cray XC40 supercomputer into production. The Cray XC40 supercomputers incorporate the Aries high performance network interconnect
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From insideHPC
GPUs Accelerate Population Distribution Mapping Around the Globe
With the Earth’s population at 7 billion and growing, understanding population distribution is essential to meeting societal needs for infrastructure, resources and vital services. This article highlights how NVIDIA GPU-powered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Robotics and Jobs
Amazon Just Showed Us What Really Happens When Robots Replace Jobs
They've already got 100,000 robots and are adding (a lot) more.
By Lisa Calhoun in Inc. Video below.
There are as many opinions about jobs and artificial
Amazon…
From Schneier on Security
Apple's FaceID
This is a good interview with Apple's SVP of Software Engineering about FaceID. Honestly, I don't know what to think. I am confident that Apple is not collecting a photo database, but not optimistic that it can't be hacked with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open AI Framework by Microsoft and Facebook
From the Facebook research blog. A further indication of the progress in standardizing how such systems should be built and maintained. Would be useful to now compare this to work by Google in TensorFlow. Is it comparable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quartz Guide to AI
Appears to be a guide useful for the non technical executive. Good definition of terms at the end. Intriguing view of the recent progress of AI and why companies care. Reviewing.
Quartz Guide to AI Don't Fear the AI .…
From insideHPC
Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
Today Northrop Grumman Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the assumption of $1.4 billion in net debt. "Through our combination…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Caught off the Coast of Kerry
The Flannery family have caught four giant squid, two this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea – Towards a Unified Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Christopher Jonathan, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. His paper Toward a Unified Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform, co-authored by Mohamed F. Mokbel, was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Design Tips from the Brain
Always interested in the choices made in bio mimicry of any kind. The architecture will be key.
Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains
The New York Times By Cade Metz
Researchers are taking biological cues to remodel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interiew with Mobileye for Driverless
Getting the data right is the most important part.
Vision Sensors by Mobileye. An interview.
" ... Though Google has become the US face of the driverless car movement, other companies have been developing similar technology…
From insideHPC
Development Trends of Next-Generation Supercomputers
Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research describes an ongoing study on the Development Trends of Next-Generation Supercomputers. The project will gather information on pre-exascale and exascale systems today and through 2028 and build…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congressional App Challenge Launches Today
Something that looks interesting at least in Congressional Districts where there is a sponsor. Visit the web site to check it out.
Congressional App Challenge Launches Today!
It begins today! The third annual Congressional App…From insideHPC
HPC Reveals Glacial Flow
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at research from the University of Alaska that is using HPC to change the way we look at the movement of ice sheets. "The computational muscle behind…
From insideHPC
Pursuit of Sustainable Healthcare through Personalized Medicine with HPC
Graham Anthony from BioVista gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "We apply our systematic discovery platform to develop our pipeline of repositioned drug candidates in neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, oncology and orphan…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Expands Listening Research
A movement towards more voice driven assistance? As a Google Home user I have not seen very much in changes there. Still fairly narrowly applied.
How Google wants to build a world where every device is listening in TechRepublic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Designs in Delivery Drones
How will these influence changes in the supply chain.
Designing Delivery Drones, with video.
Odd Delivery Drone Design Carries Cargo While Keeping it Safe
By Dyllan Furnes in DigitalTrends
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI System Behavior
Teaching AI Systems to Behave Themselves
The New York Times by Cade Metz
A small but growing community of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers is beginning to explore mathematical techniques that aim to prevent machines from…
From insideHPC
The AI Revolution: Unleashing Broad and Deep Innovation
For the AI revolution to move into the mainstream, cost and complexity must be reduced, so smaller organizations can afford to develop, train and deploy powerful deep learning applications. It's a tough challenge. The following…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast on Lego
Have followed Lego for years. Both as a creative toy, and as a means to model more generally.
How Lego Can Rebuild Its Business
Wharton's David Robertson discusses what went wrong at Lego.
Danish toymaker Lego recently surprised…
From Schneier on Security
Bluetooth Vulnerabilities
A bunch of Bluetooth vulnerabilities are being reported, some pretty nasty. BlueBorne concerns us because of the medium by which it operates. Unlike the majority of attacks today, which rely on the internet, a BlueBorne attack…
From Computational Complexity
A problem I thought was interesting- now...
On Nate Silver's page he sometimes (might be once a week) has a column edited by Oliver Roeder of problems. Pretty much math problems though sometimes not quite.
Some are math problems that I have seen before (e.g., hat problems)…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
MINK WIC
Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Women In Computing
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
CANC-WIC
Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a loss of Anonymity
Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity ... FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability ... "