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 The Eponymous Pickle
MBRL Tuning for Partially Understood Environments
Below is very technical, but I do like some of the background statements such as 'solving tasks in a partially understood environment ...'. And the idea ofThe...
From insideHPC
FABULOS Project: From the Idea to Urban Autonomous Driving
Helsinki — April 20, 2021 — The three-year-long Horizon 2020 project FABULOS (Future Automated Bus Urban Level Operation System) has come to an end. For Sensible...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Storage and Execution Layers of Database Systems
Ibrahim Sabek began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from the University of Minnesota in January 2020. Sabek is at the Massachusetts Institute...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Launches Kria System-on-Modules for Edge AI
SAN JOSE, April 20, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Database of World Management Practices
This came to my attention. Could have been useful, depending on how precise the practices were detailed, in past modeling efforts. This effort under way for...
From insideHPC
RapidAPI Raises $60M for Expansion of API Platform
SAN FRANCISCO- April 21, 2021 – RapidAPI, an API platform that enables developers to manage thousands of APIs, announced today it has raised $60 million in itsRapidAPI...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Introduces As-a-Service Solution for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix
April 20, 2021 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) with Nutanix announces an As-a-Service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Research Allocates Ad Funding (without AI)
Struck me because we did something similar and also quite different for advertising fund allocation very early on. We the results of integer optimization models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Driving from a Different Contextual View
From the most recent CACM Mag. An Arab oriented view of the problem. Instructional.Autonomous Driving in the Face of Unconventional Odds By Hesham M. Eraqi...
From Schneier on Security
Biden Administration Imposes Sanctions on Russia for SolarWinds
On April 15, the Biden administration both formally attributed the SolarWinds espionage campaign to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and imposedNew...
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South Partner on Logistics Optimization
Canberra, Australia and Montevideo, Uruguay, April 19, 2021 — Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South today announced a partnership to jointly develop and market complementary...
From insideHPC
SDSC, Core Scientific in HPC Composable Partnership to Extend ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has announced a partnership with Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for...
From insideHPC
May 1 Deadline ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Nominations are open (link to form is below) for the ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, which honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A trichotomy of intellectual activity
I like to separate intellectual work among three categories: Emulation: the reproduction or direct application of existing ideas. Most academic work and maybe most...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Scholarships Update
The pandemic is not over and we are all subject to its consequences. Travelling is still a dream these days. Who could foresee that the world would look so big...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – April 2021
by Jodi Tims, ACM-W Chair “There is no such thing as a free lunch” – or so the saying goes. In spring of 2012, I accepted the invitation of Gloria Townsend, then...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarships Looking Forward
by Viviana Bono (chair of the ACM-W scholarship programme) The pandemic is not over and we are all subject to its consequences. Travelling is still a dream these...
From Apophenia
The Muddled Speech of Numbers: Blood clots, COVID-19 vaccines, and statistical risk
Earlier this week, the CDC paused the roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination after 6 women experienced serious blood clots. Their caution has merit...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 33 – Health Informatics with Katie Siek (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior...
From The Eponymous Pickle