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 Phys.org Technology News
How playing video games can change your retirement
The teenagers who were hooked on Pac-Man in the arcades and amusement parks of the early 1970s are getting ready for retirement, but many of them have never stopped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Analytics to Data
Good thoughts in the Cisco Blog:" ... In every industry data is being created in places it never has before, creating hyper-distributed data environments. It is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing Data for Startups
From Matt RitterGood thoughts on the topic, have worked with startups in this area, and it is quite different. Free guide and more here at the link. He writes:...
From insideHPC
NSCI Update from the HPC User Forum
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Saul Gonzalez Martirena from NSF provides an update on the NSCI initiative. “As a coordinated research, development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization
We looked at this a number of ways, in particular how customization could be applied at different stages of manufacturing and delivery. Driven by optimal cost Operations...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating in Marathon Running
Story of Julie Miller, who cheated in multiple triathlon races: The difference between cheating in 1980 and cheating today is that it's much harder to get away...
From Computational Complexity
Who Controls Machine Learning?
After AlphaGo's victory, the New York Times ran an article The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future. A platform, in technology, istweeted...
From Putting People First
Anthropology is not only undersold, it’s misunderstood
Dr. John Sherry, Director of Business Innovation Research at Intel, says in an long profile on Epicpeople that anthropology is not only undersold, but also misunderstood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mycroft Virtual Assistant Advances to Developers
Mycroft, an always listening virtual assistant:An artificial Intelligence for everyone?Challenging to Amazon Echo, Siri, Cortana ...In Kickstarter development.Their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Jennifer Rexford Named ACM 2016-2017 Athena Lecturer
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Jennifer Rexford has been named the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2016-2017 Athena Lecturer. Each...
From insideHPC
Video: InfiniBand as Core Network in an Exchange Application
"Group Deutsche Boerse is a global financial service organization covering the entire value chain from trading, market data, clearing, settlement to custody. While...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It Compiled, It Ran, It Must Be Right. Right?
One of the hardest things about teaching students about programming is getting them to properly test their code. Testing is something I explain regularly and go...
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems 200TB Flash Storage Array SAN gets Rave Review
Today One Stop Systems announced the results of High-Tech Online Magazine Tom's IT PRO's review of the 200TB Flash Storage Array SAN (FSA-SAN). OSS' FSA-SAN provides...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking a Retail Internet of Things
In Retailwire: Some good thoughts and comments about the retail IOT. When we first started to examine the transparency of an RFID driven internet of things, we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Free NYC Wifi?
In the Washpo. Really far beyond just providing easy and free communications between people and services. I am reminded of the early case of free Wifi in airports...
From insideHPC
LANL Looks to Scality RING Storage for Trinity Supercomputer
Today Scality announced the production deployment of the Scality RING to power Los Alamo National Laboratory’s Trinity supercomputer, projected to be one of the...
From insideHPC
Interview: Cavium to Move ARM Forward for HPC at ISC 2016
"Cavium ThunderX has significant differentiation in the 64-bit ARM market as Cavium is the first ARMv8 vendor to deliver dual socket support with full ARMv8.1 implementation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Smart are Smart Machines?
In MIT Sloan: Well put, we need to link cognitive abilities to the specifics of business need.The number of sophisticated cognitive technologies that might beSmart...
From The Eponymous Pickle