Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2016
From updated sporadically at best
On Avoiding Stress Culture
I've been at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor for a little over a month now, and the students tell me we're approaching "Deep Semester." The glow of summer vacation has worn off. People are skipping classes…
From Phys.org Technology News
New York police to buy 1,000 body cameras
The New York Police Department, the largest city police force in the United States, has agreed to buy 1,000 body cameras, officials confirmed Friday.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cannibal Squid
The Gonatus squid eats its own kind. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Data Changes Decision Making
Good thoughts about who is in control, and how. Will this be solved by more autonomy of the organization to react to changes in data?
How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making
by Michael Schrage
Organizations I work…
From The Noisy Channel
Professional Networking
I’m a strong believer in professional networking, as you may have guessed from my long-term obsession with LinkedIn.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Releases Dataworks
And IBM makes a play with linking enterprise data and data science. Very important, especially for ongoing applications, to have process, data and analytical methods continually aligned and updated. All this aims at better process…
From insideHPC
SC16 Tutorial to Focus on Node-Level Performance Engineering
Sure, your code seems fast, but how do you know if you are leaving potential performance on the table? Recognized HPC experts Georg Hager and Gerhard Wellein will teach a tutorial on Node-Level Performance Engineering at SC16…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Can Leverage AI and Skill Networks
Microsoft continues the move towards more democratized AI. Certainly from their efforts like Cortana, but don't forget the proposed acquisition of Linkedin and the integration of massive networks representing people and their…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Rolls Out New Servers with Tesla P100 GPUs
"Our high-performance computing solutions enable deep learning, engineering, and scientific fields to scale out their compute clusters to accelerate their most demanding workloads and achieve fastest time-to-results with maximum…
From Phys.org Technology News
American hopes IT switch doesn't snag flights this weekend
American Airlines will make a big technology change this weekend involving planes and pilots, but passengers won't notice a thing if all goes well.
From insideHPC
Video: Experiences in eXtreme Scale HPC
In this video from the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, Mark Miller from LLNL leads a panel discussion on Experiences in eXtreme Scale in HPC with FASTMATH team members. "The FASTMath SciDAC Institute…
From insideHPC
Bridges Supercomputer to Power Research at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Today XSEDE announced it has awarded 30,000 core-hours of supercomputing time on the Bridges supercomputer to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). Funded with a $9.65M NSF grant, Bridges contains a large…
From insideHPC
GPUs Power New AWS P2 Instances for Science & Engineering in the Cloud
Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of P2 instances, a new GPU instance type for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud designed for compute-intensive applications that require massive parallel floating point performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
From Big Data to Human Level AI.
From O'Reilly, Some key unresolved issues of practical AI.
From big data to human-level artificial intelligence
What explains the gap between what machines do well and what people do well? And what needs to happen before machines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentiment Analytics Master Class
Quite a lengthy, complete and interesting view I am looking at. In Linkedin.
Sentiment Analytics Triology - A master class on extracting sentiments or aspects from data
Published on September 28, 2016 Featured in: Customer Experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
Like the bare statement of the idea, not that I understand the implementation. Detailed below.
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy—A Practical Approach to Scaling Agile Project Management
by Adam Rose
Companies transforming alongside new…
From Schneier on Security
The Hacking of Yahoo
Last week, Yahoo! announced that it was hacked pretty massively in 2014. Over half a billion usernames and passwords were affected, making this the largest data breach of all time. Yahoo! claimed it was a government that did…
From Putting People First
The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit
The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit – How Cities Can Turn their Industrial Legacy
into Infrastructure for Innovation and Growth by Matteo Robiglio Policy Paper, September 2016 The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) All over…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens and Lowes
I was reminded today of Lowes and Hololens via Ignite A natural use case in the design and evaluation realm.
Microsoft HoloLens and Lowe’s, working to redefine your next home renovation
By Scott Erickson / General Manager, Microsoft…
From Computational Complexity
Give a second order statement true in (R,+) but false in (Q,+) or show there isn't one
Here is a logic question I will ask today and answer next week. Feel free to leave comments with
the answer- you may come up with a different proof than me and that would be great!
Our lang will have the usual logic symbols,…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Experts Lend Expertise to Address STEM Gender Gap
Men still outnumber women in STEM training and employment, and engineering leaders are working to bring awareness to that diversity gap and the opportunities it presents. SC16 is calling upon all organizations to look at the
…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Plant Polymers for Biofuels
A huge barrier in converting cellulose polymers to biofuel lies in removing other biomass polymers that subvert this chemical process. To overcome this hurdle, large-scale computational simulations are picking apart lignin, one…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can Swift code call C code without overhead?
Swift is the latest hot new language from Apple. It is becoming the standard programming language on Apple systems. I complained in a previous post that Swift 3.0 has only about half of Java’s speed in tests that I care about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths About Machine Learning
A number of useful points are embedded here. Useful to know these objections, since they will be brought up by thoughtful management. I am not sure I would call all of these 'myths'. They all have elements of caution and truth…
From insideHPC
Video: Analysis of SSDs on SGI UV 300
Nikos Trikoupis from the City University of New York gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "We focus on measuring the aggregate throughput delivered by 12 Intel SSD DC P3700 for NVMe cards installed on the SGI UV 300…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Davenport on the Four Eras of Analytics
Tom Davenport gave this talk to our Columbia University Adjunct group for the School of Professional Studies, recording below. He also mentions me and some of our work at P&G. I verified the link works, but not sure how long…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Purdue Exploratory Systems Lab
Purdue's Exploratory Systems Lab.
Talk Given Today: Mohammad Sadoghi “ExpoDB: An Exploratory Data Science Platform” ... " ... Insight is lost in islands of data ... "
Slides. Recorded talk will be here.
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Adds Remote Desktop Collaboration to Scyld Cloud Workstation
Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld Cloud Workstation 3.0, a 3D-accelerated remote desktop solution which provides true multi-user remote desktop collaboration for cloud-based Linux and Windows desktops. "Unlike other remote…
From insideHPC
SC16 Plenary Session to Focus on HPC and Precision Medicine
SC16 will continue its HPC Matters Plenary session series this year with a panel discussion on HPC and Precision Medicine. "The success of all of these research programs hinge on harnessing the power of HPC to analyze volumes…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI
This is a guest blog post by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, with contributions from Eric Horvitz the Technical Fellow…