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 insideHPC
Lenovo Powers Phoenix Supercomputer at University of Adelaide
Researchers at the University of Adelaide will soon have access to a new Lenovo supercomputer named "Phoenix" with as much as 30 times more computing power than...
From insideHPC
How Intel Worked with the DEEP Consortium to Challenge Amdahl’s Law
Funded by the European Commission in 2011, the DEEP project was the brainchild of scientists and researchers at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks
Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I'm writing these words in early December. You're reading them in February. This means anything...
From insideHPC
Intrinsic Vectorization for Intel Xeon Phi
"It is important to be able to express algorithms and then the coding in an architecture independent manner to gain maximum portability. Vectorization, using the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Some New Dimensions of Fintech
Just sent to me by a Fintech contact, made me think:Lots of places for innovation to play out in financial/insurance space. Consider insurance defined as a means...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bill Gates on Quantum Computing in Cloud
In CACM: Quite an interesting view of this potential next step to computing. Have followed this for a long time, see the tag below. Including links to overviews...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Annedroids: A STEM Show with a Positive Impact on Girls
Some time ago, I shared info about a STEM show that premiered on TVO back in 2014: Annedroids. Recently, the show's PR specialist followed up with me to share some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google is Sharing Cloud AI
Nice to see this happen, As always like to see demonstrations as to how it can be practically applied in the enterprise. Will be examining this. In Wired: Google...
From Schneier on Security
FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List
The FBI just added two members of the Syrian Electronic Army to its cyber most-wanted list. I had no idea that the FBI had a cyber most-wanted list....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Funny
The emergence of a New Yorker crowdsourcing system that tries to determine, with interaction and algorithm, what is funny. In CNet. Seems this could also be linked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MicroInsurance
This and commentary on it made me think. Recently dealt with a related insurance problem: " Explore New Kinds Of Insurance ... Customers and businesses are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Lowes with Augmented Reality
In the Forrester Blog: Augmented retailing, it might be called. Is it enough of an engagement factor to drive sales? DIY retail has often been mentioned as a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Indefinite Scalability for Living Computation
The following Great Innovative Idea is from David H. Ackley from the University of New Mexico. His Indefinite Scalability for Living Computation paper was one of...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Your Smartphone Can Kill You
Niall McCarthy of Statista.com uses data from Priceonomics to define a new category of accidental death by smart phone—the “selfie-fatality.” Forty-nine peopleRead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Maturing of the Data Lake
Very good introductory article in CACM: Lots of players and directions mentioned. Note the mention of needing 'loosely coupled data' to be better understood...
From insideHPC
Co-Design Architecture: Emergence of New Co-Processors
"High performance computing has begun scaling beyond Petaflop performance towards the Exaflop mark. One of the major concerns throughout the development towardCo...
From Schneier on Security
1981 US Document on Encryption Policy
This was newly released under FOIA at my request: Victor C. Williams, Jr., Donn B. Parker, and Charles C. Wood, "Impacts of Federal Policy Options for Nonmilitary...
From insideHPC
A Quick Look at the 2016 Ethernet Roadmap
Today the Ethernet Alliance unveiled its 2016 Ethernet Roadmap at OFC 2016. The roadmap highlights Ethernet’s breadth of speeds, current and next-generation modules...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Cyber Security Competitions
Computer security has been in the news a lot lately with all the talk of the FBI and Apple going at it in court. Students are interested as well. In the last 24...
From insideHPC