Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fran Allen: 1932-2020
We lost a great computer scientist. Frances Allen was one of the leaders who helped create the field of compilers research. Fran was an elite researcher at IBM,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Intelligence, the New AI
Hardly new. Computing has always augmented people doing computational and logical work. Its just that this work has now expanded to other formally human and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing the Education Revolution
Changes have occurred, will they fundamentally influence how we learn and apply emerging tech? Does MOOC need the university? How people will invent and collaborate...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New SQUID
There's a new SQUID: A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Talks HPC-class Colocation Data Center Requirements in the UK’s ‘Innovation Corridor’
UK colocation provider Kao Data talks about the changing data center requirements of HPC organizations in the “Innovation Corridor,” between London and Cambridge...
From insideHPC
Mode Analytics Raises $33 Million in Series D Funding, Led by H.I.G. Growth Partners
San Francisco – August 6, 2020 – Mode Analytics, the leader in advanced analytics, today announced that it has closed a $33 million round of Series D funding led...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Information Overload from Polarization
Although mostly we had too little data to address a problem, the idea of finding data, determining its value in context and then prepping for sub tasks involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State and Future of IBM
Former exec and colleague Bob Herbold talks IBM in his blog: IBM: Finally, A Bold Move Provides Some HopePosted on August 6, 2020 by Bob HerboldOne financialIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistant for Doctors
Podcast of interest: Patient engagement,Voice AssistantHarjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors – Voicebot Podcast Ep 161Harjinder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Intelligent Retail Clouds
More data, more interactions with parts of the business, new patterns to leverage in a changing world.How is Artificial Intelligence Changing the Retail Landscape...
From insideHPC
1st Student Cluster Competition Focusing on Racial Inclusion Slated for January
The inaugural Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition to include historically black and minority universities in the supercomputing challenge arena...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Huma-Like too Low a Bar
Good cautious point is made here. But I respond that in most cases we are assisting a human, or doing something rather narrow that a human does today. ButWhy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethical Questions about AI Surgery
Wondered at first where the ethical questions were coming from. Access to advanced methods? No, it seems privacy was once again involved.Researchers examine the...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Invites Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Hyperion Research is accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, to be announced at the SC20 (virtual) conference in November...
From Computational Complexity
Do Senators have an Advantage for being Dem VP Nominee?
This is a non-partisan post. Even so: I plan to vote for Joe Biden.(Lance says that whenever I write `this is a non-partisan post' its partisan anyway.)I've had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Self Driving in Germany
The idea of autonomous vehicles moves on.Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany By Kyle Wiggers in VenturebeatMobileye, Intel’s driverless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates Audio Settings
Had noticed that that Google assistant seemed to better understand. Via Google:' .... We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in yourThe...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit
The continued increase of GPS systems. Will the data from multiple systems be commonly be shared? Or more likely withdrawn in conflict?China Celebrates Completion...
From insideHPC