Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2018
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You In On the Social Media Conversation around CS Education?
Today is the absolute deadline for my students in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles to upload their Create Performance Task to the Digital Portfolio. One of my top students was having trouble getting a file to upload…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Insurance with a Blockchain
Why use the architecture of Blockchain to manage insurance. A well told piece makes the case. Said to be the first significant application in insurance.
ANZ and IBM build insurance management blockchain for New Zealand By…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ISWC 2018
The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) on October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA is having an outrageous ideas paper track sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky ideas Conference track. The…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is software prefetching (__builtin_prefetch) useful for performance?
Many software performance problems have to do with data access. You could have the most powerful processor in the world, if the data is not available at the right time, the computation will be delayed. It is intuitive. We used…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serverless Computing
Paul Gillin does a good job of describing the latest architecture thing. Destined to replace the Cloud?
Finally comfy in the cloud? Get ready for another jolt: serverless computing By Paul Gillin in SiliconAngle ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Sample Dataset for BigQuery
Worthwhile if you are using Google Analytics. I like the idea of a usefully big and complex sample database and sample code.
Introducing the Google Analytics Sample Dataset for BigQuery
The Google Analytics 360 integration with…
From insideHPC
Seagate Storage Devices Achieve Common Criteria Certification for GDPR Security
Today Seagate announced that it has achieved Common Criteria (CC) certification across a broad portfolio of its Hard Disc Drives and SSDs, expanding on its existing Seagate Secure Certified Service Level. "Seagate remains committed…
From insideHPC
Intel Saffron AI Speeds Issue Resolution for Manufacturing
Today Intel released the Intel Saffron AI Quality and Maintenance Decision Support Suite – a suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software applications using associative memory learning and reasoning to facilitate faster…
From insideHPC
Video: Moving Towards Personalized Medicine at The UberCloud
"In the last six years UberCloud has performed 200 cloud experiments with engineers and scientists and their complex applications. In a series of challenging high performance computing applications in the Life Sciences, UberCloud…
From insideHPC
Announcing the Dell EMC AI Challenge
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Shreya Shar and Onur Celebioglu from Dell describe the new Dell EMC AI Challenge. "Dell EMC invites you to participate in an AI Challenge! Abstracts and proposals will be…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at New USA Supercomputing Map
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new interactive USA Supercomputing Map from Hyperion Research. "As part of the discussion, Rich recaps Hyperion’s recent HPC User Forum in Tucson. The event featured an extended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast on GDPR Implications for Startups
In Andreessen Horowitz
a16z Podcast: What to Know about GDPR with Lisa Hawke and Steven Sinofsky
Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) after four years of…
From insideHPC
Exploring the Possibilities of Deep Learning Software
This is the second post in a five-part series from a report that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores the possibilities and functions of software for deep learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charlene Li Looks at Groundswell
Happened on this, interesting to see some predictions of the future and how they played out.
Reflecting on 10 Years of Groundswell and What To Do Next by Charlene Li
10 years ago, my co-author Josh Bernoff and I released our first…
From Computational Complexity
Gahering for Gardner 13 - the first or third of many posts
I attended G4G13 (Gathering for Gardner- meeting 13). Martin Gardner was the Scientific American Mathematical Recreations columnist from 1956 until 1981. He had a great influence on many math-people of my generation.
Most
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Age Detection using AI
A problem we looked at in recent years.
Scientists Use AI to Predict Biological Age Based on Smartphone, Wearables Data
MIPT News (Russia)
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) researchers in Russia have demonstrated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Develops Technique to See Objects Around Corners
Recall testing clamp and fork lifts in warehouses for better viewing.
Stanford researchers develop technique to see objects hidden around corners
Someday your self-driving car could react to hazards before you even see them, thanks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Autonomous Future
Good read. Yes, expect more autonomy, more technology. More at the link.
How Organizations Will Produce in an Autonomous Future
Big Idea: Artificial Intelligence and Business StrategyBlog
By James Gips, Brendan Guerin, and…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in VingCard Electronic Locks
Researchers have disclosed a massive vulnerability in the VingCard eletronic lock system, used in hotel rooms around the world: With a $300 Proxmark RFID card reading and writing tool, any expired keycard pulled from the trash…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Finding Coprime Pairs
Deferring or avoiding randomization Great Discoveries in STEM source Claude Bachet de Méziriac was a French mathematician of the early 1600s. He is the first person we know to have posed and solved the problem, given relatively…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales Growth with Analytics
Some reasonable thoughts from McKinsey. Get the data right.
Starting the analytics journey: Where you can find sales growth right now
By Charles Atkins, Mitra Mahdavian, Katelyn McCarthy, and Michael Viertler
By getting five basic…
From insideHPC
Video: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Miyoshi Takemasa from RIKEN presents: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction. "A new project harnessing data from a Japanese satellite called Himawari-8 could…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 29th, 2018)
Our heart regenerates very poorly. That is why many of us will die of a heart condition. Harvard researchers find the mice that exercise generate many more new heart cells. The researchers hint at the fact that you might be able…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: ALCF Data Science Program at Argonne
Argonne is now accepting proposals for the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). "The program, which currently supports eight projects, allocates computing time and supporting resources to research teams focused on using the ALCF…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Never-Ending Learning Continues at CMU
Was reminded of this effort. During our early work with AI, based on very large and messy rule bases, we tried to introduce learning capabilities. I note this has been going on at CMU since 2010. How might this connect with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will People Give Amazon Keys to their Cars?
Delivery to the car trunk, in collaboration with some automobile manufacturers. Seems a very narrow niche, examples and use cases, but why not try it if the architecture is there? This has been much in the news. Amazon is
Will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Health Data
Good and considerable piece. Needs to be rethought before losing the complete power of medical data.
Finding a Healthier Approach to Managing Medical Data By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 5, Pages 31…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester Examines Conversational Computing Platforms
Passed along to me, useful, but ultimately this is about a choice in specific context. In supporting architecture.
The Forrester New Wave™: Conversational Computing Platforms, Q2 2018The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AHold Partnership for AI Research
A major retailer makes an interesting play. To better compete with the likes of Wal-mart and Amazon I am sure. Some intriguing details.
Ahold Delhaize joins partnership for AI research
Ahold Delahize is launching a partnership…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Scientific Applications Engineer at Ohio State University
The Ohio State University is seeking an Scientific Applications Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The OSC Scientific Applications (SA) Group is responsible for provisioning, optimizing, and maintaining the library and application…