Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2018
From insideHPC
Video: The European Processor Initiative
Jean-Marc Denis from EPI gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "The European Commission announces the selection of the Consortium European Processor Initiative to co-design, develop and bring on the market a European…
From insideHPC
Altair Rolls Out Inspire and Altair 365 for Product Development
Today Altair announced the release and immediate availability of the Altair Inspire simulation-driven design platform, and the Altair 365 cloud collaboration platform. The Altair Inspire platform enables manufacturers to leverage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Ad Strength Tool
Measurement is the thing, this from Advertisemint. Checking out the Google blog link.
Google Introduces New “Ad Strength” Tool for Measuring Effectiveness By Anna Hubbel in AdvertiseMint, company for Facebook ads
Google may…
From insideHPC
DDN Acquires Tintri for High-Speed Virtualization
Today DDN announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tintri for $60 million. "Tintri offers the best analytics with predictive, efficient and intuitive insight for virtualized environments and databases. Combining these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Understanding for Complex Environments
Particularly important for complex, unstructured visual environments. For example in the smart home. Its part of the reason that generalized robotic and assistant solutions are difficult to do for the smart home. Article…
From insideHPC
RAID Inc. Announces High Density EBOD with 106 slots in 4U
Today RAID Inc announced additions to its JBOD series of its enterprise storage solutions with the availability of the 4U 106-Bay JBOD with 12Gbs SAS drives that holds up to an unprecedented 1.2PBl storage capacity. "HPC challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Pilots Crowd sourced Grocery Delivery
What appears to be a novel effort with independently managed delivery drivers.
Walmart pilots crowdsourced grocery delivery platform
Spark Delivery store-to-door service uses independent drivers By Russell Redman in SupermarketNews…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Your Google Home Bilingual
Fascinating idea I plan to try. I am bilingual but not completely fluent. Could it be a step towards passive language training, improvement? Could it ultimately prod you into using multiple languages for practice? I have…
From insideHPC
Video: EuroHPC and European HPC Strategy
Leonardo Flores from the European Commission presents: EuroHPC and European HPC Strategy. "EuroHPC is a joint collaboration between European countries and the European Union about developing and supporting exascale supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guide to Digital Transformation
Thoughtful presentation.
Six Questions That Can Help Guide Digital Transformation
Podcast and Text from Knowledge@Wharton
How-CEOs-Stymie-Their-Own-Digital-Transformation
MIT researcher Stephanie Woerner discusses a field-tested…
From Computational Complexity
Are Conferences Discriminatory?
Glencora Borradaile wrote a blog post in June about how conferences discriminate.
Let me spell it out. In order to really succeed in most areas of computer science, you need to publish conference papers and this, for the most…
From Schneier on Security
Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security
The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Progress with Email Address Internationalisation
By Don Hollander The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is focused on getting all applications to accept all domain names and all email addresses. We’re doing that through raising awareness, encouraging developers to fix their…
From BLOG@CACM
How Did People Write Machine Learning Code in the Past?
Summarizes popular programming languages and libraries that have been used for machine learning throughout the past two decades.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL- Announcing a Core Program within the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). August 9, 2018 Dear…
From BLOG@CACM
Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces Dataset Search
Looks useful, would have been useful in a number of cases. Will be interesting to see how well the search works, note the mention that it is similar to Google Scholar. Also an invitation to publish your own data indexed in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Ad Supported Video Service
Should be quite interesting. Will this also be available via Prime and video enabled assistants? Makes sense if ads are included. Another link to individual interests and preferences. A replacement for the removal of Youtube…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati as an Alt-Silicon Valley?
More, now from a retail group.
Can Kroger turn Cincinnati into an alt-Silicon Valley? by Tom Ryan in RetailWire
The Kroger Co., based in Cincinnati, announced plans to open an innovation lab as part of the University of Cincinnati…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the Frightening Notpetya Cyber Attack
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at one of the most massive hacks ever, the Notpetya cyber attack on shipping company Maersk and their partners. "This story, featured in Wired magazine, should send chills down the…
From insideHPC
Exascale Update from Hyperion Research
Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "The four geographies actively developing Exascale machines are: USA, China, Europe, and Japan. While it is important to emphasize that this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on Advances in Image Recognition
I note this is an advanced technical talk on elements of image recognition ...
Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institute Group Webinar
Full series list, past and present recordings are here: http://cognitive-science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel and Baidu Collaborate for China AI
Also mention of Duer OS Assistant, whose use is being extended. Breadth of application areas is interesting.
Baidu and Intel team up to deliver new AI services in China By Mike Wheatley in SiliconAngle.
Chinese internet giant…
From insideHPC
DDN Powers Breakthroughs in Autonomous Cars at the University of Michigan
Today DDN announced a new data management solution at the University of Michigan that will help support research projects spanning machine learning, transportation, precision health, chemistry, computational flow dynamics, life…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing–Recognize Girls in Tech
Recipients of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing receive engraved awards, scholarship and internship opportunities, entry to a peer-network of technical women in the NCWIT AiC Community, various prizes, and more. //…
From Schneier on Security
Using a Smartphone's Microphone and Speakers to Eavesdrop on Passwords
It's amazing that this is even possible: "SonarSnoop: Active Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks": Abstract: We report the first active acoustic side-channel attack. Speakers are used to emit human inaudible acoustic signals and the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Announces new AI Experiece
Have used Spotfire in several environments, this would seem to be an enabling direction for better decision making.
TIBCO announces the AI-powered A(X) experience for Spotfire
Augmented Analytics, New Interface, and Native Data…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Teach Binary in Computer Science Classes
Sometime when I was around age 11 or 12 I learned about different number systems. I was fascinated with the concepts involved. I literally spent hours experimenting with them. This stood me well when I started studying computer…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Per-core frequency scaling and AVX-512: an experiment
Intel has fancy new instructions (AVX-512) that are powerful, in part for heavy numerical work. When a core uses these heaviest of these new instructions, the core’s frequency comes down to maintain the power usage within bounds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Review: The Fourth Age
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity: by Byron Reese
My review via my read, just submitted:
Very well done. Have been following author Byron Reese's GigaOm podcast interviews with experts…