Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adversarial AI Toolbox
Todays Cognitive Systems Institute Talk:
IBM: Research Scientist: Irina-Maria Nicolae on “Adversarial AI & Adversarial AI Toolbox IBM
Talk Description: Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) in a wide range…
From Schneier on Security
1834: The First Cyberattack
Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Jitterbug-like Tablet for Older Adults?
The computers, smartphones, and tablets that we use every day are becoming more advanced. Older adults who have cognitive or physical disabilities might have trouble using such devices. Technology should not just be for the young…
From insideHPC
GPUs Power Performance Breakthrough on TempoQuest Weather Prediction Software
Today TempoQuest announced that it has achieved a breakthrough 700% acceleration of the weather community’s Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model used extensively for real-time forecasting and weather research throughout the
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From insideHPC
Supercomputers Unlocking Mysteries of the Subatomic World
Researchers are using supercomputers to better understand the mysteries of the subatomic world. "A team led by scientists in the Nuclear Science Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Announces Graph Database
Amazon continues to bring out advanced tools for AWS, with useful examples of their practical use, at low trial and initial testing cost. I particularly like the examples given here about how and why you would use graph databases…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Sales Conversations with Considerable Profit
If we consider a conversation to be of multiple interactions, and using multiple channels, the object of the seller is to maximize your returns, over this and often future interactions. Conversations might include marketing…
From Computational Complexity
Seventh Grade Math Contest
I stumbled upon an old blog post on the Lesswrong weblog that quotes several famous mathematicians on the connections, or lack thereof, between mathematics competitions and mathematics research. Let me tell you how a seventh…
From insideHPC
AMD EPYC Coming to Cisco UCS Rack Servers
Over at the AMD Blog, Scot Aylor writes that the company's EPYC processors are coming to Cisco's popular UCS server platform. "The new, density-optimized Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis and the Cisco UCS C125 M5 Rack…
From insideHPC
Brain Research: A Pathfinder for Future HPC
Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "One of the biggest and most exiting scientific challenge requiring HPC is to decode the human brain. Many of the research…
From insideHPC
How Deep Learning Tech Can Contribute to Success
Frameworks, applications, libraries and toolkits—journeying through the world of deep learning can be daunting. If you’re trying to decide whether or not to begin a machine or deep learning project, there are several points that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wired Predicts
Wired Predictions for Bots, Blockchains, CrispR and more ..
SOMETIMES THE FUTURE shows up so fast it hits us in the face, like a brick wall in a VR headset. Other times the miraculous promises of technology—the rearrangement
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain for Advertising?
Let's Try to See Clearly on Blockchain for Advertising
Blockchain is simply too slow to work for the real-time aspects of our programmatic trading world, Jaisimha Muthegere writes.
By Jaisimha Muthegere in Adage
The release of…
From XRDS
Automated Spelling Correction – The Basics of How it Works
In this post, I am going to talk about automated spelling correction. Let’s say you are writing a document on your computer, and instead of typing “morning”, you accidentally type “mornig”. If you have automated spelling correction…
From BLOG@CACM
The Goal of Software Testing
Finding errors is not the same strategy as making sure that a product works.
From insideHPC
Video: Beyond the Trolley Problem – Ethics in AI
In this video from Intel AI DevCon 2018, Genevieve Bell from Intel examines the nature of ethics, how and why they might apply in a world of Artificial Intelligence technologies and emergent cyber-physical systems.
The post Video…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Unveils 2 Petaflop SuperServer Based on New NVIDIA HGX-2
Today Supermicro announced the company is among the first to adopt the NVIDIA HGX-2 cloud server platform to develop the world’s most powerful systems for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. "To help address…
From insideHPC
Feeding the World: Dell EMC Powers AI at Aerofarms
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Michael Fernandez from Aerofarms describes how the company uses AI technologies to grow better indoor crops. "24-7, AeroFarms collects millions of data points from farms
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From insideHPC
A New Building Block for HPC & AI: NVIDIA HGX-2 Cloud Reference Platform
Today NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA HGX-2, a powerful cloud-server reference platform, the HGX-2 provides companies with unprecedented versatility to meet the requirements of applications that combine HPC with AI. "The HGX-2 cloud…
From BLOG@CACM
Until the Craze Fades
Too much, perhaps, of a good thing?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft now More Valuable than Google
Surprising perhaps, but the value of basic business efficiency is driving.
Microsoft is now more valuable than Google
Third most valuable company behind Apple and Amazon ..... "
By Tom Warren @tomwarren in TheVerge
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individually Zapping Weeds
Its even suggested that these AI driven, weed recognizing machines are being scaled down for home use. The snide comment about feeling for the pesticide company (really more about herbicides) should also be copied to starving…
From Schneier on Security
Numbers Stations
On numbers stations....
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: LDAV 2018 – Large Data Analysis and Visualization
The LDAV 2018 conference on Large Data Analysis and Visualization has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018, the event takes place October 21 in Berlin. "The 8th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepLens Camera for Video Learning with AWS
Received:
"... AWS DeepLens is a new way to learn machine learning
AWS DeepLens is the world’s first deep learning enabled video camera. Designed from the ground-up for developers, it provides tangible, hands-on learning with tutorials…
From Computational Complexity
Why is someone emailing me an offer to apply to be chair?
I recently go the following email (I blocked out identifying information of who send it and what college is involved. I doubt I needed to legally but... you never know.) I include my comments on the email in cap letters.
I am…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
Check out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Attend the Tech Jam Update (June 20-22, Portland, Oregon, USA) Register here More than 20 action clusters working with municipal governments will present…
From insideHPC
Microsoft turns AI loose on new documents from JFK Investigation
In this video, researchers apply Microsoft Cognitive Search to find clues in newly released documents on the JFK assassination. "Late last year the US government released more than 34,000 pages related to the assassination of…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Launches Ground-Breaking Open Hyper-Scalable Enterprise Framework
Today Mellanox announced the Mellanox Hyper-scalable Enterprise Framework, the industry’s first truly scalable, open framework for private cloud and enterprise data centers. "With the advent of open platforms and open networking…
From insideHPC
Leadership Computing for Europe and the Path to Exascale Computing
Thomas Schulthess from CSCS gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "With over 5000 GPU-accelerated nodes, Piz Daint has been Europes leading supercomputing systems since 2013, and is currently one of the most performant…