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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Speculative Reprogramming
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Marc Palyart at the University of British Columbia, Gail C. Murphy at the Univeristy of British Columbia, Emerson Murphy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Catching GMail SPAM
In Wired: Spam does seem like a far less common occurrence these days. Using neural methods.Now can we address other forms of malware?" ... Three years after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Agents in the Wild. From the Jeopardy Experience
Excellent CSIG talk today: Slides here. " ... Our speaker for this week is Eric Nyberg from Carnegie Mellon University, who will present " From Jeopardy! To Cognitive...
From insideHPC
Why Modernize Code?
In order to speed up applications, a developer must learn to take advantage of the multiple threads, cores and sockets found on a single server or on a cluster....
From insideHPC
Call For Papers: Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives
The Second Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD) has issued its Call for Papers. Co-located with SC15, the workshop takes place November...
From Computational Complexity
Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time?
Scientific American writes about rescuing the enormous theorem (classification of finite simple groups) before the proof vanishes. How can a proof vanish? In mathematics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autodesk's Robotics Lab
We worked with Autodesk. Good to see what they are doing with a broad area of current and future industrial robotics. A tour via Fast Company.
From insideHPC
Video: Effect and Propagation of Silent Data Corruption in HPC Applications
"Modern HPC systems are complex due to the sheer number of components that comprise them. With this complexity comes the reality of failures. One particular damaging...
From insideHPC
Panasas Rolls Out ActiveStor 18 Scale-out NAS Appliance
Today Panasas announced ActiveStor 18, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance. By adopting 8 terabyte drive technology, ActiveStor 18 increases scalability...
From Schneier on Security
The Risks of Mandating Back Doors in Encryption Products
Monday a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys...
From insideHPC
IBM Research Alliance Develops First 7nm Node
Today IBM Research announced that working with alliance partners at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering it has produced the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Cuisine
Have covered some of the work by Hershey. But the technology is still slow and in prototype. Printers are still uncommon in the home:" ... But there are signs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Human Resources Retain Edge?
Have human resources lost their edge in a technology driven world? In K@W Better measurement of both the jobs and tasks at hand, and how they are addressed,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RAIN RFID Alliance Meeting
A few weeks ago I connected up with the RAIN RFID Alliance. They just had a meeting and have posted their presentations, worthwhile for understanding their goals...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) currently has a three month Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code exhibit on display at their headquarters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Systems as Networks
Nice introduction to graph analytics in Radar. An excellent technique we used often in the enterprise. Even if it does lead to a direct analytical solution, itRussell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bluetooth Beacons in Retail
In CW: Beacons in retail. Can they fundamentally change the way physical retail works in an increasingly online world?" ... People increasingly use mobile phones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Speed Fiber Optics
They are starting to dig up our neighborhood to install high speed fiber optics. Talked to an installer working on the infrastructure. Have recently been asked...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Unconscious Biases in Schools
Saw this in my inbox and thought it worth sharing with others who don’t always read there CSTA email or who teach other subjects. Google is looking for educators'...
From The Eponymous Pickle