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
Bringing in Information Theory
Nice idea. Its really all about the knowledge we have now, and what we can add to that by learning. And ways we can usefully measure that. Now how can we leverage this idea? This is ultimately a 'computer science' technical…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – September 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair ACM SIGGRAPH Welcomes Diversity and Inclusion Committee News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Professional Chapters News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Student Chapters News from ACM-W…
From insideHPC
Video: Hewlett Packard Labs teams with Mentor for LightSuite Photonic Compiler
"Mentor’s LightSuite Photonic Compiler represents a quantum leap in automating what has up to now been a highly manual, full-custom process that required deep knowledge of photonics as well as electronics,” said Joe Sawicki,
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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Abelian Groups, Mostly
Simple probabilistic arguments that apply to monoids too Famous Mathematicians source Niels Abel is of course a famous mathematician from the 19th century. Many mathematical objects have been named after him, including a type…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at R-Systems
R-Systems is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "R Systems is a service provider of high performance computing resources. The company empowers research by providing leading edge technology with an accessible…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Market Update from Hyperion Research
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Detroit, Earl Joseph from Hyperion Research presents an HPC Market Update. The company helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions…
From insideHPC
Expressing Parallelism in C++ with Threading Building Blocks
Parallelism helps applications make the best use of processors on single or multiple devices. However, parallelism implementation itself can prove a challenging task. In this video, Mike Voss, principal engineer with the Core…
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal Launches AR for Make Up
Again an area we experimented with for years, its seems to now be expanding. Impressive and interesting details. Makes a point that no App is required. This topic has been often mentioned here, tag below. Lot of images at
L…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decisions and Technology
Ultimately its about the how technological results translate into decisions. So that makes this interesting. Does tech enhance decisions, and how can you make it do that? The influence of user interface? Organizations,…
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
Quantum computing is a new way of computing -- one that could allow humankind to perform computations that are simply impossible using today's computing technologies. It allows for very fast searching, something that would break…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk:Challenging Probability
Kaiser Fung on the Book ... Risk, by John Adams Which has some interesting thoughts about probabilities describing risk. He begins:
I have been reading the excellent book by John Adams titled Risk (link). This is a geographer's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Players in Supply Chain BlockChains
From an excellent presentation I participated in today by Dr. George Polak of Wright State on Blockchain in the Supply chain.
" ... Blockchain in Trucking Alliance (BiTA) comprises a 400+ firm consortium, including UPS, with the…
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks for the shout-out!
Thanks for the shout-out! I also recommend Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade’s posts on the subject, which you can find at https://medium.com/related-works-inc.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Network for Snippets
A favorite topic, how do we make sense and value of written knowledge?
A Neural Network to Extract Knowledgeable Snippets and Documents
Tech Xplore By Ingrid Fadelli
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers have created a convolutional…
From insideHPC
Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT to Keynote SC18
Today the SC18 conference announced that Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in Dallas. "We set out to inspire our attendees with the most compelling thought leaders,” said SC18 General…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Acquires Lobe:Deep learning without Code
Makes sense, this should now have progressed to custom no code solutions, with perhaps some minor tailoring to process needs. Not the suggested breadth of communications services suggested.
Microsoft acquires AI startup Lobe
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical IoT
Lab makes data sharing easier so medical IoT devices can be smarter
Medical PnP laboratory researchers are looking to save lives through smarter, more interoperable healthcare technology using open standards, medical expertise…
From insideHPC
Learn to Code for Parallel HPC with Appentra Parallelware Trainer 1.0
Today Appentra Solutions released their newest HPC training assistance tool, Parallelware Trainer 1.0, an interactive learning environment where users can learn how to parallelize while interacting with real code. For educators…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL- Broadening Participation in Computing
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Question Answering: Slides for Talk Today
Slides for talk today. Recording will follow.
Sept. 13 10:30 AM ET Engineered AI Still Matters for Question Answering, By J. William Murdock, IBM
Zoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221
Slides and recording will end uphttp…
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Government Hacking
Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. They include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Talks Data Platforms for AI
An IBM blog post. Agree with the issues, is this the solution? Its about the data and the process being improved. Choosing a Platform is a big deal. By IBM:
Winning with AI
Since the year 2000, 52% of the companies that
Also…
From insideHPC
NSF Awards Instrumentation Grant for Research Data Archiving at University of Oklahoma
Today the NSF announced that a University of Oklahoma team led by Henry Neeman is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. The $967,755 award will be used for a new academic research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Apple Watch can do an ECG in 30 Seconds
Watched the detailed Apple presentation of this yesterday. Amazing the whole thing can now be put into a Watch and they claim the (one lead) ECG can be requested and be received in thirty seconds. An AI analysis is said'Apple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Optimization, Simplification
Note these are optimization models with multiple objective goals, a very classic case. We used this to look at various design contexts, like package design. Visualization of results was used, even back then.
MIT Researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Short Summary of Smoothing Algorithms
In OpenDataScience. A technical piece, but the descriptions are worthwhile to understand the why as well. Via O'Reilly.
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Rolls out TensorRT Hyperscale Platform and New T4 GPU for Ai Datacenters
This morning at GTC Japan, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a set new products centered around Ai and accelerated computing. Targeting Hyperscale datacenters looking to run Ai workloads, NVIDIA continues to innovate Machine
…
From insideHPC
Architectural Considerations for AI Workloads in Technical Computing
New workloads in machine learning and analytics have placed significant burdens on traditional HPC systems. This guest post explores how HPE, Intel and WekaIO are working together to solve potential I/O bottlenecks in machine…
From Computational Complexity
P = NP and Cancer
Often when the question comes to what happens if P = NP, one typically hears the response that it kills public-key cryptography. And it does. But that gives the impression that given the choice we would rather not have P = NP…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implementing and Sustaining Organizational Change
Back to a topic I have been following. Its process that sustains business, but also the organization and resources that support the process ...
How to implement and sustain organizational change
The fundamentals of change implementation…