Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
California Signs Data Privacy act for 2020
Yet another regulatory insertion to be interpreted and inserted:
Companies Confront Calififornia's Version of GDPR
By George Slefo in AdAge
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Consumer Privacy Act on Thursday, giving residents…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Agenda for Talent First CEO
An agenda for the talent-first CEO A Book Excerpt via McKinsey Quarterly
By Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey, and Ram Charan
In tumultuous times, a company’s talent is its most valuable and reliable asset. What does it take to lead…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flowcasting
Been a long time since we looked at JDA's Flowcasting system. We examined it even before its acquisition by JDA. Still don't know too may people who have been exposed to it. So when I happened on this piece in JDA's blog was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Andromeda
Foldable, pocketable, multiscreen. Is that disruptive? Look forward to seeing the format and how it can be used. Seems new hardware capabilities have been slipping of late, so lets try something new.
Microsoft calls its foldable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math of Causation
Not to say we humans do this well either, but if we hope to have machines do it we have to consider how.
Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’
The all-too-intuitive picture of a straight arrow going from cause to effect is…
From insideHPC
Time-Lapse Video: Building the New JUWELS Supercomputer in Germany
In this time-lapse video, engineers at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre begin building the new JUWELS supercomputer. "When it comes to developing innovative supercomputer architectures, Europe is about to take the lead. A striking…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Fellowships for the “Master in HPC” Program in Italy
The SISSA and ICTP academic centers in Italy are offering an amazing opportunity for Fellowships for the Master in High Performance Computing. SISSA and ICTP host one of the largest HPC facilities in Italy, and this is your chance…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fried Squid with Turmeric
Good-looking recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Definition and Use of Transfer Learning
Was pointed out to me that transfer learning was important to leveraging intelligence. I had heard of it, but sought out a closer look at definition and areas of useful research, here is a start. Not mentioned in any of the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 29th, 2018)
Hogarth imagines that artificial intelligence (AI) could progress much faster than we might anticipate due to what he calls “AI nationalism”: I believe that the current government spending on AI is tiny compared to the investment…
From Schneier on Security
Conservation of Threat
Here's some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay about the research: To study how concepts change when they become…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting Update
Just received their latest newsletter, of interest:
Goodjudgment: How Can Superforecasting Improve your Decisions?
Good Judgment’s co-founder Philip Tetlock literally wrote the book on state-of-the-art crowd-sourced forecasting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hospitality Experiment by Marriott and Alexa
I know of several other hospitality experiments going on, its a natural direction. Distinguishing, but will it save a hotel labor and resources? What skills could do that? Examining Alexa for Hospitality.
Amazon and Marriott…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Scenes Using Neural Nets
A powerful kind of visual intelligence, with many applications wen integrated with cameras and video. Ultimately this kind of 'common sense' style reasoning can make conversational systems appear more intelligent.
Google researchers…
From insideHPC
Aurora Early Science Program Selects Scientific Computing Projects for Exascale
Argonne has selected 10 data science and machine learning projects for its Aurora Early Science Program (ESP). Set to be the nation’s first exascale system upon its expected 2021 arrival, Aurora will be capable of performing
…
From insideHPC
AMD Takes the gloves off at ISC 2018
This week at ISC 2018, AMD demonstrated its next generation of CPU and GPU technologies, including a first look at: 7nm AMD Radeon Vega GPU products, 12nm 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors with up to 32 cores,
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlockChain Strategic Business Value
Good, considerable piece in McKinsey. A number of useful but general industry postionings and examples. Just a bare mention of definition of contracts and their current limitations.
Blockchain beyond the hype: What is the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
And Language Pros on Google Duplex
Inevitable that we will be doing lots more talking to machines in the future, get ready for it. Good read:
What natural language pros are saying about Google’s Duplex
We may now be having the first of many public conversations…
From Computational Complexity
STOC 50 Part II
On Wednesday, STOC had a great complexity session and the best complexity paper of the conference, Cody Murray and Ryan Williams extending Ryan’s celebrated result separating NEXP from ACC0. Cody and Ryan show there are problems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Launch Driverless Delivery!
Quite a remarkable thing for a major retailer!
America’s largest supermarket chain is launching a fully driverless delivery service
Kroger is teaming up with Nuro, a startup founded by two veterans of Google’s self-driving team…
From insideHPC
Managed Implementation of Liquid Cooling
The need for high reliability cooling without reducing the rack density to handle high wattage nodes is no easy task. "Asetek’s direct-to-chip liquid cooling provides a distributed cooling architecture to address the full range…
From insideHPC
Bing Uses NVIDIA GPUs, Tech to Enhance Object Detection and Image Search
Object detection and image search is seen as the next big thing when it comes to the search sector. And it’s easy to see why. A new white paper from NVIDIA explores how Bing deployed NVIDIA GPUs and technology to speed up object…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Voice into Device Apps
Amazon continues to push voice driven apps. Now for their Fire TV. Have previously looked at their voice decision approach for the Alexa assistant. Well done, but they still do not address the broader element of even simple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready to be Managed by an AI?
Course it does depend upon what managed means here. Tracked, reminded, directed? Some level of this will be inevitable. Note mention of assistants, what is the effective difference between assistance, augmentation and
People…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepdive with Deeplens
A good idea for testing out image driven machine learning.
A Deep Dive on AWS DeepLens
by Janakiram MSV in theNewStack
Technically speaking, you don’t need a $249 device to run an offline convolutional neural network model.https…
From Schneier on Security
Manipulative Social Media Practices
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From the executive summary: Facebook and Google have privacy intrusive…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: The Convergence of AI and HPC
In this video from ISC 2018, Binay Ackalloor moderates a panel that explores the convergence of AI and HPC.
The post Panel Discussion: The Convergence of AI and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Re-demos its Duplex Chat, with Warnings.
Clever look at a chatbot that has a goal of delivering a phone goal. But when it was first shown it was clear it could fool and ultimately very much annoy the human in the loop. Is it do no evil, or fool no human? So now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Challenge on the Future of Food
On the Future of Food:
Converge on one grand challenge (FUTURE of FOOD).
Two key words (SCIENCE and ENGINEERING).
Three short URLs (SEP 8-9 in Minneapolis).
http://bit.ly/confoma
http://bit.ly/CoNFoMa
http://bit.ly/CONFOMA
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities
Contributions to the post were provided by Yair Rotstein, head of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) signed a Memorandum…