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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning by Wholes
David Perkins is a senior professor of education at Harvard who has done a lot of super-applicable, general-audience writing. I just finished his book Make Learning Whole, and am eager to try applying each of the seven principles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Simulation
Am a long time proponent and practitioner of simulation methods, here how it is planned to use them for changes in mobility, car use and safety.
Making Self-Driving Cars Safe for the World, Through Simulation By Marc Andreessen…
From insideHPC
Altair Open Sources Model-Based Development Software
"Altair is now open-sourcing its open matrix language – a high-level, matrix-based numerical computing language – to encourage interested scientists and engineers to expand the language, add toolboxes, and employ it for their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Whitepaper on AI
Interesting White paper offer by Oracle, requires a detailed sign up ...
Gartner research estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) bots will power 85% of customer service interactions for 2020. What does this fast-growing technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Supply Chain
Earlier we worked with SAP for optimizing the manufacturing supply chain. Some elements of automatic augmentation based on predictions.
SAP introduces intelligent capabilities for digital supply chain
CHICAGO, Sept. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HBR on Understanding Digital Strategy
Very true, its not the flashy technical thing that is the focus, its the business process that is essential. Not only knowing that is the case, but its also knowing the existing business process in detail. So talk it, model…
From insideHPC
Contest Winner Proposes Using AI for Earth-wide Plant and Deforestation Database
Today Intel announced Rosemarie Day as the winner of the Super Explorer Mission of the Intel AI Interplanetary Challenge to use artificial intelligence for space exploration and planetary research using Intel-optimized AI technology…
From insideHPC
Interview: Brent Gorda on his New Role as Head of ARM HPC
Former Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda has a new role as Senior Director for the HPC business at Arm. We caught up with Brent to learn more about the company's plans to grow their business in the Datacenter, HPC space, and on to Exascale…
From insideHPC
MERIL-2 Project Launches Tool for Mapping Research Infrastructure in Europe
Today the European Commission MERIL-2 project introduced a new Data Visualization tool that allows users to discover all of the European research infrastructures in the MERIL database interactively. With the new tool, users can…
From insideHPC
Intel® Compilers Overview: Scalable Performance for Intel® Processors
Intel Compilers for C/C++ and Fortran empower developers to derive the greatest performance from applications and hardware. In this video, Igor Vorobtsov discusses nuances of Intel compiler features which enable high-level optimization…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in Smart Electric Outlets
A security vulnerability in Belkin's Wemo Insight "smartplugs" allows hackers to not only take over the plug, but use it as a jumping-off point to attack everything else on the network. From the Register: The bug underscores…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Searches for Alien Megastructure
Its all about the patterns.
Earth’s most powerful alien-hunting telescope turns its gaze to mysterious star By Dyllan Furness in DigitalTrends —
The Most Important Technologies Developed by NASA
A mysterious structure orbits
Most…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: A Task-Centric Framework to Revolutionize Big Data Systems Research
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Da Yan, tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Yan presented his poster, A Task-Centric Framework…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Keynote: AI Benefit to Business and Society
Well put.
Raising AI to benefit business and society
Kishore Durg explains why deploying AI requires raising it to act as a responsible representative of the business and a contributing member of society.
This is a keynote from
This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter has the Factory of the Future
Lots more opportunity to make these innovations work elsewhere.
P&G’s second-oldest plant called ‘factory of the future’ By Barrett J. Brunsman – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier
Procter & Gamble Co.’s soap manufacturing…
From Computational Complexity
The Tenure system is broken but not in the way that you think (Anon Guest Post)
This is an ANONYMOUSE Guest Post. Even I don't know who it is! They emailed me asking if they
could post on this topic, I said I would need to see the post, and it was fine.
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From insideHPC
Seagate Rolls Out 14 Terabyte Hard Drives
Today Seagate launched the industry’s widest range of advanced 14TB hard drives, enhancing the company’s enterprise and specialty drive portfolio. Their new IronWolf drives for network attached storage (NAS) applications are
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Sonos Links Music for Assistants with IFTTT
Makes lots of sense. I experimented with the detailed music stream that IFTTT captures to look at something like this. Right now most assistants watch your music listening and can recommend music based on that. Linking skills…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing the Optimal AI Algorithm
Automating aspects of deep learning is an obvious next step. Note also the method described here is an evolutionary algorithm. Consider also that the selection and testing of data needs to be addressed. That's usually harder…
From insideHPC
A Guide to High Performance Computing in the AWS Cloud
A new ebook from Intel and AWS explores how AWS cloud can mitigate some of today's top HPC challenges and enable engineers and researchers to innovate without constraints.
The post A Guide to High Performance Computing in the…
From insideHPC
Video: Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles
Xiaoming Liu from Michigan State University gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "At Michigan State University, researchers are involved in the work that will someday make self-driving vehicles not just a reality,…
From Schneier on Security
Using Hacked IoT Devices to Disrupt the Power Grid
This is really interesting research: "BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid": Abstract: We demonstrate that an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet of high wattage devices-such as air conditioners…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods Companies Driving Growth
It was clear for decades, prediction of product growth was the key. In McKinsey, a considerable piece:
" ... From lab to leader: How consumer companies can drive growth at scale with disruptive innovation
In the era of “fast products…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Really Need CS Focused High Schools?
Last week Bill Gates visited the Academy for Software Engineering, a computer science focused high school in New York City. and wrote about his visit. At first reading I was thinking the visit was a good thing. I still thinkThat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Monthly Newsletter
The most recent issue of the ISSIP newsletter. Worth a look. Have been a member for years. More here:
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip), is a 501 (C) (3) professional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineered AI Still Matters for Question Answering
Upcoming CGI Meeting on a crucial area of AI application.
Via Karolyn Schalk, Manager
Executive and Technical Expertise, Cloud, AI and IT Operations
Sept. 13 10:30 AM ET Engineered AI Still Matters for Question Answering, By J.
Zoom…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Eye Tracking of 200 Eye Movements
What appears to be a deeper kind of Eye movement biometric analysis than is common. Dealing with both enhrent traits, and also real time changes? Note that the test mentioned included retail interaction. Consider comparison…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echolocation Robot
Besides navigation is also doing classification of objects it encounters
Bat-Inspired Robot Uses Echolocation to Navigate
By Kenny Walter, Tel Aviv University
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed Robat, a…
From My Biased Coin
Lenore Blum interview
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be something of interest to the larger community. (Thanks to Margo…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply for the CCC’s Thermodynamic Computing Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a workshop from January 3rd to 5th, 2019 in Hawaii to create a vision for thermodynamic computing, a statement of research needs, and a summary of the current state of understanding…