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 Computational Complexity
Why wasn't email built securely?
Recently I talked with Ehsan Hoque, one of the authors of the ACM Future of Computing Academy report that suggested "Peer reviewers should require that papers and proposals rigorously consider all reasonable broader impacts,satirized…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in ESS ExpressVote Touchscreen Voting Computer
Of course the ESS ExpressVote voting computer will have lots of security vulnerabilities. It's a computer, and computers have lots of vulnerabilities. This particular vulnerability is particularly interesting because it's the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the state of virtual-reality gaming
For nearly two years, I have been trying a wide range of video games in a virtual reality setting. Our lab. in Montreal has some permanent space dedicated to the HTC Vive, so I was also able to test out games with a wide range…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon may open up to 3,000 Cashierless stores by 2021
The data gathered must have produced some interesting results. Now this would change the retail world:
Amazon May open up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 in Adage
Sensors and Computer vision Technology
Amazon is considering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Mixed Reality and Analytics Announced at Microsoft
Strong push at AI business applications and notably also their 'mixed reality' methods. I still have not seen enough MR applications for the typical business.
Announcing new AI and mixed reality business applications for Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: AI Fairness 360: Python Package
How to look at biases when your making AI driven decisions about people.
Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institute Group Webinar
Slides and Recording: http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/
Date and Time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mother of All Demos reprise
Those with interest in the history of modern computing know this event well. The 'Mother of all demos', done by Douglas Engelbart in 1968. He drove home in a single demo what might be done with computers, without the user knowing…
From insideHPC
Video: Cloud-based-HPC Optimization of Manufacturing Processes
In this video, the Fortissimo Project describes their success with Cloud-based-HPC optimization of manufacturing processes. "Fortissimo is a collaborative project that enables European SMEs to be more competitive globally through…
From insideHPC
Video: Energy Efficient Acceleration of RNNs using CGRA
Prof. Aviral Shrivastava from Arizona State University gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "Prof. Aviral Shrivastava is Associate Professor in the School of Computing Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Annoounces Gadget Alexa Tools
Been impressed by what Amazon is doing to support Devs. Still nothing I would call breakthrough intelligence. Waiting for that.
Amazon's new Alexa Gadgets Toolkit lets Alexa have some toy-friendly fun
Robots that can lip sync…
From insideHPC
Cray Supercomputer Powers Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute
Today Cray announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer and a ClusterStor L300 storage system at Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), the research and development arm for Japan Railways Group…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Air Drone Charging
Involved in Drone tech examination and application. Battery charging is a big issue. Below article with video. From IdeaConnection
GET In-Air Drone Charging Station
The GET charging station for drones could offer unlimited…
From insideHPC
Intel Performance Libraries Accelerate Python Performance for HPC and Data Science
Python is now the most popular programming language, according to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of programming languages, ahead of C++ and C. Recent Intel Distributions for Python show that real HPC performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience is the New Product
Experience Is the New Product; Here's How to Manage It
Organize around customer episodes, improving them through Agile teams.
By Gerard du Toit, Jens Engelhardt, Phil Sager and Karsten Fruechtl in Bain.
More companies now emphasize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IIOT Platforms
Interesting thoughts and visuals on the topic.
IIoT platforms: The technology stack as value driver in industrial equipment and machinery
Equipment and machinery companies considering a transformation to embrace the Industrial
"…
From Schneier on Security
Pegasus Spyware Used in 45 Countries
Citizen Lab has published a new report about the Pegasus spyware. From a ZDNet article: The malware, known as Pegasus (or Trident), was created by Israeli cyber-security firm NSO Group and has been around for at least three years…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Talks Network Assurance with AI
Specific term was new to me. But I do like the link the business, the process, the goals. Are the intents the same as in a simulation model of the business process? Risks? Reading more.
Machine Learning for Analytics and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Deputy Director Position Open
The Computing Research Association seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Deputy Director for the Computing Community Consortium. The Deputy Director works with the CCC Director, Council Members, and the CRA staff…
From insideHPC
Versity Open Sources Next Generation Archiving Filesystem
Today Versity Software announced that it has open sourced ScoutFS, a new scale out archiving filesystem. "ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released, creating an inherently safer and more user-friendly option…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Thermodynamic Computing Workshop – Call for White Papers Deadline Extended
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released a call for white papers to find prospective attendees to join the upcoming Thermodynamic Computing workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii. The CCC has extended the submission deadline…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peter Norvig on the Breadth of AI Application
Links to recent O'Reilly talk. Nice to hear Peter Norvig speaking on this, we read and used his early works on AI. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig AI is not just about neural pattern recognition, it can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uninformed Consent
Persistence of Surveillance online. A non-technical survey of hidden capabilities and implications.
Uninformed Consent in the HBR
Companies want access to more and more of your personal data — from where you are to what’s
Three…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Deciding What To Include in High School Computer Science
The more I talk to people about what should be included in high school computer science the more I thing of the Indian story of the blind men and the elephant.
From insideHPC
Survey Foretells Explosive Growth in Machine Learning Projects Over Next Two Years
Over at the Univa Blog, Gary Tyreman writes that the company sponsored an industry-wide survey to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning…
From insideHPC
Video: Leading the charge for ARM in HPC
Andy Warner from HPE gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The Arm HPC user Group hosted by going Arm workshop, will enable attendees to take in technical presentations by fellow applications programmers and tool authors…
From insideHPC
5 of 6 Gordon Bell Finalists use NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core GPUs
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Geetika Gupta writes that the company's powerful GPUs are being used by five of the six Gordon Bell Prize finalists. Just announced by ACM, these world-leading researchers did their work on the new NVIDIA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficiency for Machine Learning Automation
And more elements of AI automation. Here from MIT. The details of the data construction for this is also described, which is always enlightening.
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once
Model…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: HPC User Forum in Stuttgart
Hyperion Research has posted the speaker agenda for their upcoming HPC User Forum in Stuttgart. The two-day event takes place October 1-2, 2018 (midday to midday) at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). "The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DarwinAI to Automate AI Development
Another move towards the automating of AI, from U of Waterloo
DarwinAI launches from stealth to automate artificial intelligence development By Maria Deutscher in SiliconAngle
Artificial intelligence projects usually rely on
Canada…
From Schneier on Security
Public Shaming of Companies for Bad Security
Troy Hunt makes some good points, with good examples....