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 Computational Complexity
Our AI future: The good and the Ugly
I don’t directly work in machine learning but one cannot deny the progress it has made and the effect it has on society. Who would have thought even a few years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buying Through Your Car Dashboard
Automobile as a channel.GM thinks you'll buy stuff through your car's dashboardIts on-board marketplace lets you purchase items you'll still have to wait in line...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New and Dynamic Category Management
Spent a big part of a whole career in the analytics of this space. How new and dynamic are the changes? Considerable. Excellent in further discussionThe...
From insideHPC
A Closer Look at the D.A.V.I.D.E. Supercomputer at CINECA in Italy
In this video, researchers from CINECA in Italy describe how their new D.A.V.I.D.E. supercomputer powers science and engineering. "Developed by E4 Engineering,A...
From The Noisy Channel
Clarification Dialogues
As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling...
From insideHPC
Experiences in providing secure multi-tenant Lustre access to OpenStack
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC17, Dr. Peter Clapham from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute presents: Experiences in providing secure multi-tenant Lustre...
From insideHPC
Quantum Launches Scale-out NAS for High-Value and Data-Intensive Workloads
There is a gap in the market between NAS systems designed for enterprise data management and HPC solutions designed for data-intensive workloads," said Molly Presley...
From insideHPC
Baidu Deploys AMD EPYC Single Socket Platforms for ‘ABC’ Datacenters
“Baidu’s mission is to make a complex world simpler through technology, and we are constantly looking to discover and apply the latest cutting-edge technologies...
From insideHPC
AI Systems Designed to Learn in a Limited Information Environment
In a special report, Intel offers details on use cases that explore AI systems and those designed to learn in a limited information environment. "AI systems that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exoskeleton Being Tested by Ford
The ultimate integration of people and robotics.Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton Technology to Help Lessen Chance of FatiqueFord Pilots New Exoskeleton Technology to...
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Tracking
Good article on the history and practice of e-mail tracking: The tech is pretty simple. Tracking clients embed a line of code in the body of an email -- usually...
From XRDS
Chatbots to Drive Student Engagement in Higher Education
Whether you are ready for chatbots or not, they have been the future we live in now. Chatbots are not robots, but they are supposed to mimic humans. They are aContinue...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
If all your attributes are independent two-by-two… are all your attributes independent?
Suppose that you are working on a business problem where you have multiple attributes… maybe you have a table with multiple columns such as “age, gender, income...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2017 ACM Fellows Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has released their annual list of ACM Fellows. The 2017 ACM Fellows list recognizes 54 ACM members for their significant...
From insideHPC
MeDiCI – How to Withstand a Research Data Tsunami
Jake Carroll from The Queensland Brain Institute gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "The Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure (MeDiCI) project is a dataMeDiCI...
From insideHPC
Speeding Data Transfer with ESnet’s Petascale DTN Project
Researchers at the DOE are looking to dramatically increase their data transfer capabilities with the Petascale DTN project. "The collaboration, named the Petascale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Experiments with Photography
This effort was new to me. Some of the Apps are available on just on Android, and some on IOS. Particularly interested in new kinds of mobile based object recognition...
From insideHPC
From SC17: Energy Efficiency in the Software Stack — Cross Community Efforts
In this special guest feature, Siddhartha Jana provides an update on cross-community efforts to improve energy efficiency in the software stack. The article covers...
From insideHPC
Moving Radiology Forward with HPC at Boston Children’s Hospital
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Simon Warfield from Boston Children's Hospital describes how radiology is being transformed with 3D and 4D...
From The Eponymous Pickle