Communications of the ACM
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September 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operational Universe
Been following the talks and interviews in The Edge for some time. And recently these have touched on topics like intelligence, but this latest one is about the universe and how it operates in time and space. You would
Talk…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia, Omron, NTT Factory Floor Trial of 5G
Considerable implications by speeding up systems and their broader application.from the use of 5G.
Nokia, NTT DOCOMO and OMRON bring 5G to the factory floor in Industry 4.0 trial
Press Release from Nokia
Trial follows increasing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Economics and Fairness Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives on Fairness workshop report. It is the output of the CCC’s 1.5-day Economics and Fairness visioning workshop that took place…
From insideHPC
Univa Brings Navops Launch Multi-Cloud Automation to the Slurm Community
Today Univa announced enhancements to its powerful Navops Launch HPC cloud-automation platform to support the widely-used Slurm workload scheduler. "Univa's support for open-source Slurm - installed at approximately 60% of the…
From insideHPC
Interview: Univa Steps Up with NAVOPS 2.0 for moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud
Today Univa announced the newest release of its popular Navops Launch cloud-automation platform. Navops Launch 2.0 delivers new capabilities to help simplify the migration of enterprise HPC workloads to the cloud, enabling enterprises…
From insideHPC
PRACE SHAPE Programme to Support Five new SMEs with HPC
PRACE has announced that following the 9th Call for applications to SHAPE, five more SMEs will be able to start working with PRACE to gain access to HPC expertise and resources, expand their HPC experience and ultimately enhance…
From insideHPC
Video: The Cray Shasta Architecture
In this video from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Steve Scott from Cray presents: The Cray Shasta Architecture. The DOE has selected the Shasta architecture to power all three of their planned Exascale systems coming to Argonne…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telepresence Robotics Acquisition
We looked at Telepresence for remote meeting presence or interaction with plant systems that benefited from remote control movement, voice interactions, image capture and control. Not necessarily automated operation. At the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends and Themes at IJCAI AI Conference
Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institue Group Webinar
Please join us for the next ISSIP CSIG Speaker Series (see details below, or click here).
"28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-19…
From Schneier on Security
More on Law Enforcement Backdoor Demands
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy convened an Encryption Working Group to attempt progress on the "going dark" debate. They have released their…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Conference held at the Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 16th International Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases Symposia (SSTD ’19), August 19-21, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. SSTD…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McD's to Buy Voice AI Assistant
Another indication of the increasing use of voice interfaces and AI. In my recent experiments with voice in business, the need for accuracy in translation has become clear.
McDonald's Doubles Down on Tech With Voice AI Acquisition…
From insideHPC
DOE Funds Argonne for better materials and chemistry through data science
Argonne is one of five national laboratories and fourteen universities awarded three-year grants under a DOE Funding Opportunity titled “Data Science for Discovery in Chemical and Materials Sciences.” Argonne was awarded funding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real World RPA
I think RPA, or other process understanding or improvement methods should always be considered when you are planning AI. We at least sketched a flow of what we were working on, and there is so much more you can do today.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Third Party Risk Analysis
Recorded Future writes about the topic. We examined them for things like competitive risk. But this topic, especially in today's realm of many technology mal-players, large and small, makes the issue of particular importance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sainsbury's Experiment with No Checkout
No-checkout is changed to allow for a standard pay option. Not unexpected, consumer behavior needs to be adjusted over time. Our local Kroger now has three distinct payment options, all with technical implications and complexity…
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Unveils StorCycle Storage Management Software
Today Spectra Logic introduced StorCycle, a new storage management software solution designed for data-driven organizations that need a modern storage lifecycle management workflow. StorCycle allows organizations to create a
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From insideHPC
HPC Market Update from Hyperion Research
In this video from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Earl Joseph from Hyperion Research presents and HPC Market Update. The company helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions…
From insideHPC
HPE Accelerates Machine Learning Operationalization
Today HPE announced a container-based software solution, HPE ML Ops, to support the entire machine learning model lifecycle for on-premises, public cloud and hybrid cloud environments. “HPE is closing this gap by addressing the…
From Schneier on Security
On Cybersecurity Insurance
Good paper on cybersecurity insurance: both the history and the promise for the future. From the conclusion: Policy makers have long held high hopes for cyber insurance as a tool for improving security. Unfortunately, the available…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating and Optimizing Experiment Data Collection
Collecting data from processes, and using some automatic method of choosing, pre-analysis, cleansing, visualizing and tagging, associating with metadata .... can be very useful. Here a more complex example.
SMART Algorithm
By…
From insideHPC
Parallelism in Python: Directing Vectorization with NumExpr
According to a new edition of Parallel Universe Magazine, from Intel, Python has several pathways to vectorization. These range from just-intime (JIT) compilation with Numba 1 to C-like code with Cython. A chapter from a recent…
From insideHPC
Dr. Dayna Baumeister from Biomimicry to Keynote Altair Technology Conference
Dr. Dayna Baumeister will keynote the 2019 Global Altair Technology Conference (ATC) October 10-11 in Detroit. Baumeister, is co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a B-Corp social enterprise that helps clients find innovation inspired…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating AI with Open Source, and More
Update on MLIR, which we had looked at. See who has joined the consortium. Architecture always being a key element to doing anything well. And to do things efficiently it makes lots of sense to share the work. I would
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Last Week to Apply for the Blue Sky Ideas AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Applications, Why and How
Good, non device specific look at voice applications. And an overview of what people are doing and why and where to start. And really not just about AI, think assistance in context.
Got speech? These guidelines will help you…
From Computational Complexity
Are there any natural problems complete for NP INTER TALLY? NP INTER SPARSE?
Recall:
A is a tally set if A ⊆ 1*.
A is a sparse set if there is a polynomial p such that the number of strings of length n is ≤ p(n).
If there exists a sparse set A that is NP-hard under m-reductions (even btt-reductions)…
From insideHPC
AI on XSEDE Systems Promises Early Prediction of Breast Cancer
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers and artificial intelligence to predict breast cancer. "Our local GPUs did not have enough memory to accommodate such a scale of data for AI modeling. It could take weeks to run one experiment…
From insideHPC
Podcast: IO500 Benchmark Gains Traction
In this podcast, Radio Free HPC hosts the IO500 Steering Committee. "Storage is complicated and benchmarking it has too many complexities for the traditional kernel-like or application-specific approaches. Thanks to a few experienced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Case Studies
Found this service to be of use again, though there needs to be more topic coverage.
ACM Case Studies
Written by leading domain experts for software engineers, ACM Case Studies provide an in-depth look at how software teams overcome…