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 The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Advertising from Advertisemint
Just started to read Brian Meert's book: 'The Complete Guide to Facebook Advertising' Nicely done. Am no expert in Facebook advertising, but the book takes you through the process and motivations for using Facebook. See…
From insideHPC
Industry HPC Trends & Advocacy
David Kepczynski from GE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "David Kepczynski from GE Global Research was recently apponted as the new chair of the ECP Industry Council, an external advisory group of executives
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From insideHPC
Supermicro HGX-2 Cloud Server to Sport 2 Petaflops of Ai Horsepower
Today Supermicro announced that the company’s upcoming NVIDIA HGX-2 cloud server platform will be the world’s most powerful system for artificial intelligence and HPC capable of performing at 2 PetaFLOPS. "Our new HGX-2 system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sisense to Understand and Visualize Data
Of interest. A challenge for the enterprise. Will this solve it? I like the idea of making the results broadly available in the enterprise. Both for use of the data and understanding what you have available. Now could it
See…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Multiple Natures of Computer Science Education
There was a lot of good CS education activity on Twitter this past weekend. I know I missed a lot of it but some things did stand out for me. One of these was this Tweet from Hadi Partovi, co-founder and show runner at Code.Org…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Imperative
Good O'Reilly Talk from recent conference:
The Data Imperative
Ben Sharma shares how the best organizations immunize themselves against the plague of static data and rigid process
By Ben Sharma September 13, 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC on Job Replacement
Jobs will be improved, switched in their nature, include many more cases of working with technology and both physical and cognitive robotics. Be adaptive. This will not mean you will have to learn advanced math or programming…
From insideHPC
The Right Terminations for Reliable Liquid Cooling in HPC
Liquid cooling for HPCs is increasingly common. With expensive electronics at stake, understanding the components in liquid cooling systems is critical. This article details what to look for when seeking the optimal termination…
From insideHPC
How AI is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry
This is the first entry in a five-part insideHPC guide series from Dell EMC and Nvidia that explores how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing and evolving the media and entertainment industries. This post gives an overview…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Service State and Future
Good look at state and future of customer service, including advanced tech being used. Have noted changes in how I use customer service. In CustomerThink:
Customer Service: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
By Fara Haron
Product…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Workshop: Rapid Biomedical Knowledge Base Construction from Text
Do you want to automatically identify biomarkers reported within the scientific literature that are related to a particular disease? Do you have a large collection of text-based documents (e.g., articles, webpages, reports, catalogs)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising in the Age of Alexa
A former colleague writes. More at the link.
Advertising in the Age of Alexa or: How to Stop Worrying and Build Your Brand By Lou Killeffer
Very glad to be returning as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Journalism…
From Schneier on Security
NSA Attacks Against Virtual Private Networks
A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guide to Training Data
Nicely done and worth a look:
The Essential Guide to Training Data
A Guide for Machine Learning from Figure Eight
A machine learning algorithm isn't worth much without great training data to power it.
At Figure Eight, we've been
In…
From Computational Complexity
What is a Physicist? A Mathematician? A Computer Scientist?
Scott Aaronson recently won the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics (yeah Scott!).
In his post (here) about it he makes a passing comment:
I'm of course not a physicist
I won't disagree (does that mean I agree? Darn
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From BLOG@CACM
NL Is Not NLP++
This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between the two, and to set some standards in the public media that…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Preparing Students to Ask Questions
I drove behind a Google Maps Street view car for a couple of miles today. Things I wondered about:
- Will my car show up on Street View?
- What is it like to be one of those drivers?
- What sort of meta data are they collecting?
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Introduces World’s First Gen 4 PCIe Cable Adapter
Today One Stop Systems introduced the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 cable adapter, the HIB68-x16. "OSS has consistently been the first-to-market with each generation of PCIe cable adapters and Gen 4 is no exception,” said Steve Cooper…
From insideHPC
Video: How Governments Can Get Involved in Artificial Intelligence
In this episode of Ai News, David Shaw examines the question: is Ai tangible or realistic? "Naveen believes that we have to start at the beginning, in elementary schools, and try to model curriculum with AI in mind. Just as kids…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Automation on Pace for Explosive Growth
Links of common processes to automation. Good place to start before you decide to make all your systems 'intelligent'. Note in particular coverage of RPA: Robotic Process Automation.
Intelligent Automation on Pace for Explosive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G invents unique remedy for the common cold
From an un-expected direction by a former employer. It used to be that curing the common cold was an example of fabled innovation. Does not seem to be that, but a start?
P&G invents unique remedy for the common cold
BY Barrett…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 15th, 2018)
I was told repeatedly throughout my life that the normal body temperature was 37.5°C. This estimate is over a hundred years old and flawed. It is off by one degree: a better “normal” is 36.5°C. According to Malhotra et al., heart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester Talks Digital Twins
Forrester pitches an expensive report below. Worth a look. Algorithms are interesting, but like with the term AI what they mean is usually more limited. They work well in narrow domains for specific goals. They do not mean…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: ARM Research Summit Sept. 17-19
The ARM Research Summit has posted their Speaker List and Meeting Agenda. Livestreaming from event in U.K. will start on Sept. 17, 2018. "At the Arm Research Summit, academics, researchers and industry experts meet to discuss…
From insideHPC
Video: 1 Year Later, the HPE Spaceborne Supercomputer Keeps on Trucking
Mark Fernandez from HPE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "It’s been almost 12 months since HPE and NASA sent the first ever commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system — the Spaceborne Computer — to the International…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Overhyped?
The problem is the term AI itself. The assumption that it is far more than it is. This does not mean you should not think about how smarter capabilities could be inserted into codes to augment our capabilities. For a while…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Wants to Simplify the Skill Experience
Some 50K skills, but many of them rather pointless. Now if only they could only work together to create something very useful. The unworldliness of all this will cause it collapse. Not to say the basics of playing music, managing…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid
Lessons learned. 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 Eponymous Pickle
Watson Assistant Produces a Chatbot
IBM has announced a means of chatbot development, via their Watson Assistant infrastructure. Recall I beta-tested the Dev under Watson Assistant. The offer here, as I read it, is a one year free supported trial to built a chatbot…
From Schneier on Security
Click Here to Kill Everybody Reviews and Press Mentions
It's impossible to know all the details, but my latest book seems to be selling well. Initial reviews have been really positive: Boing Boing, Financial Times, Harris Online, Kirkus Reviews, Nature, Politico, and Virus Bulletin…