Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
ERP and all That
Been looking at how ERP can utilize AI and RPA so this was of interest. Interesting piece though over acronymed.
Software Delivery Management: ERP for IT redux? in Forrester
by Charles Betz, Principal Analyst
" .... Software
Seems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Severe Weather
I like this experiment because there is so much data gathered and involved, and many current models, so it should be easy to do good comparisons of methods. I note that the emphasis may be on short term forecasting.
Machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of AI in the Enterprise
Useful view from recent surveys Deloitte in 2017 and 2018 by Deloitte.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger reports on The State of AI in the Enterprise
A few months ago, Babson College professor Tom Davenport gave a talk on the state of AI…
From Schneier on Security
NotPetya
Wired has a long article on NotPetya....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Separating Words by Automata
Another exponential gap in complexity theory? [ From his home page ] Jeffrey Shallit is a famous researcher into many things, including number theory and being a skeptic. He has a colorful website with an extensive quotation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Teleportation Achiever
Practical details unclear, more efficient and universal quantum computers are implied, check the attached but still technical paper.
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
University of Vienna
Austrian and Chinese…
From insideHPC
Pocast: How the Frontera Supercomputer will power research at UT Austin
In this podcast, Dr. Greg Fenves, President, the University of Texas at Austin describes how the new Frontera supercomputer at TACC will drive academic research. "The University of Texas at Austin has claimed a leadership role…
From insideHPC
Checkpointing the Un-checkpointable: MANA and the Split-Process Approach
Gene Cooperman from Northeastern University gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "This talk presents an efficient, new software architecture: split processes. The "MANA for MPI" software demonstrates this split-process architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Farming
Worked in agricultural and Forestry areas, so this remains an interest:
Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in agriculture in FutureFarming
The AI in agriculture market was valued at USD 600 million in 2018 and is expected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
(Update) AI Explainability Toolkit Talk and Technology
From last weeks talk on the just released open source explainabilty toolkit. This can be seen as a fundamental part of most conversations. When we interact with colleagues or with professionals, and get recommendations, we…
From My Biased Coin
Off to ALGO/ESA 2019
I'm shortly hopping on a plane to head to ALGO/ESA. I'll be giving a survey-ish talk on Learning Augmented Algorithms, covering my work so far in the area as well as some of the work by others. I think it's a highly promising…
From insideHPC
Identifying Opportunities to Improve Efficiency in HPC Clusters
Jordi Blasco from HPC Now! gave this talk at HPCKP'19. "Jordi Blasco has developed a new open source monitoring tool which allows the HPC user support teams to identify new opportunities to improve the efficiency of the codes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A/B Testing for Startups
A/B Testing .... of experimentation for Startups. Intriguing paper.
Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing by Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji in HBS Working Knowledge
Is experimentation…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 7th 2019)
In a small clinical trial, scientists administered some “anti-aging” therapies to people between their fifties and sixties. They used growth hormone to regenerate the thymus, part of our immune system which is nearly all gone…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Visualization Scientist at NREL
NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking a Visualization Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Visualization and Analysis group in NREL’s Computational Science Center has an immediate opening for a Scientist to pursue cross-disciplinary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Can Cybercriminals be Stopped?
Have been seeing increasingly dangerous threats to our technologies:
Can Cybercriminals Be Stopped?
Cybersecurity expert and journalist Kate Fazzini exposes the true nature of cybercriminals in her new book.
Cybercriminals aren’t…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Scanning Payments at Whole Foods
Another payment simplification idea from Amazon.
Amazon Tests Tool That Scans Your Hand to Let You Pay at Whole Foods
The Telegraph (U.K.)
By James Cook
September 4, 2019
Amazon is reportedly testing a hand-scanning payments system…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Perfume
It's not perfume for squids. Nor is it perfume made from squids. It's a perfume called Squid, "inspired by life in the sea." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A History and Future of Computer Hardware Capabilities
Quite interesting talk I attended that presented how hardware, software methods and algorithms have influenced changes in architecture and speed. Somewhat technical but instructive for anyone with an interest in the future…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protecting Sensitive Data
More efficient by isolating software components.
Efficient Protection of Sensitive Data
Max Planck Gessellschaft
September 3, 2019
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany have developed a new technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Personal Data Stores Next?
Was pointed to this article. Even the term itself was new to me. Nice exploratory piece below, I agree this has to be kept very simple, with clear goals, benefits and security. Like they say, most everything there is immature…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ring Door Bell Now Takes over Property Lighting
Have had the Ring Door Bell and door surveillance working for several years now. It's continued to add more sophisticated options to capture and manage video and security interactions. They have now added a number of battery…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Build Your Own Voice Assistant
A look at building your own Voice Assistant from KDNuggets, instructive about how relatively little it takes to set up the basics using Python. Of course setting it in a complete ecosystem requires quite a few additional details…
From insideHPC
Guardicore and Mellanox to Deliver Agentless and High-Performance Micro-Segmentation in Data Centers
Today Guardicore announced that it has partnered with Mellanox to deliver the first agentless and high-performance, low latency micro-segmentation solution for high speed 10G-100G networks. The solution leverages both the Guardicore…
From insideHPC
How SUSE Powers High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fueled by the need for more compute power…
From insideHPC
Insilico Medicine Brings GENTRL AI System to Open Source for Drug Discovery
Insilico Medicine has developed GENTRL, a new artificial intelligence system for drug discovery that dramatically accelerates the process from years to days. “By enabling the rapid discovery of novel molecules and by making GENTRL…
From insideHPC
AMD: Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing
In this video from the recent DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit, Dr. Lisa Su from AMD describes how the semiconductor industry is meeting the growing demands of future high-performance computing as Moore’s Law is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Studies of Management by Algorithm
Is part of the process of what we deal with as we start to work more closely with robots and algorithms.
What People Hate About Being Managed by Algorithms, According to a Study of Uber Drivers
by Mareike Möhlmann, Ola Henfridsson…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Password Checking Tools
Neil Plotnick shared some Password Checking Tools on Facebook recently. I’ve used some of these in the past and find them useful and instructive.
https://howsecureismypassword.net/Allows the user to quickly determine the speed…
From Schneier on Security
Default Password for GPS Trackers
Many GPS trackers are shipped with the default password 123456. Many users don't change them. We just need to eliminate default passwords. This is an easy win....