Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2017
From Computational Complexity
Interesting Probability on a VERY OLD TV show
I have posted about things I see in TV or Movies that are math or CS related:
Do TV shows overestimate how much a genius can help solve crimes or make really good crystal meth which seems to be blue. YES, see here
Do TV shows…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson IoT Platform
Starting to work on a project that utilizes IOT applications. Here is an excerpt of Watson IoT's latest overview that we will be working with. Includes Videos and more. Will be reporting on some of that here in the coming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers, Cognition and Perspective
Intriguing thoughts. Why do we always use human descriptive terms to tag computer 'Apps', skills, and what are the implications? Pretty obviously we start with existing understanding.
Human Acts and Computer Apps By Robin…
From Schneier on Security
Remote Hack of a Boeing 757
Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration," said Robert Hickey…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
No, a supercomputer won’t make your code run faster
I sometimes consult with bright colleagues from other departments who do advanced statistical models or simulations. They are from economics, psychology, and so forth. Quite often, their code is slow. As in “it takes weeks to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Byte Sized Deep Learning Tutorials
There seems to be quite a bit to learn in The AI Workbox. We often learn best by example rather than rules.
Bite-size video tutorials for Deep Learning Developers
Learn the latest cutting-edge tools and frameworks Level-up, accomplish…
From insideHPC
MareNostrum 4 Named Most Beautiful Datacenter in the World
The MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre has been named the winner of the Most Beautiful Data Center in the world Prize, hosted by the Datacenter Dynamics Company. "Aside from being the most beautiful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Still not Broadly Impressive
Or is that we are not as intelligent as we thought? Are we fooled by the very implications in the term: AI. Seems this happened once before. Hype and Bubble? Ok, some of us have taken to using the term Machine Learning…
From insideHPC
New Avere FXT Edge Filer Doubles Performance, Capacity, and Bandwidth for Challenging Workloads
Today Avere Systems introduced the top-of-the-line FXT Edge filer, the FXT 5850. Designed for high data-growth industries, the new FXT enables customers to speed time to market, produce higher quality output and modernize the…
From insideHPC
Innovate UK Award to Confirm Business Case for Quantum-enhanced Optimization Algorithms
Today D-Wave Systems announced its involvement in a grant-funded UK project to improve logistics and planning operations using quantum computing algorithms. "Advancing AI planning techniques could significantly improve operational…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Security and Privacy for Democracy Panel
Daily headlines bemoan the lack of secure systems and this past year witnessed numerous breaches leading to the disclosure of private information. The failure of these commercial systems has dominated much of the discourse around…
From BLOG@CACM
The Shifting World of Net Neutrality
The network neutrality debate is largely a power and economic struggle between Internet service providers and those who deliver content and services. It is complicated by the the woefully obsolete nature of the governing law.
From insideHPC
Video: Comanche Collaboration Moves ARM HPC forward at National Labs
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Rick Stevens from Argonne leads a discussion about the Comanche Advanced Technology Collaboration. By initiating the Comanche collaboration, HPE brought together industry partners and leadership…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the New Power9, Titan V, and Snapdragon 845
In this podcast, Radio Free HPC Looks at the New Power9, Titan V, and Snapdragon 845 devices for AI and HPC. "Built specifically for compute-intensive AI workloads, the new POWER9 systems are capable of improving the training…
From insideHPC
Accelerating HPC with Intel FPGAs
FPGAs can improve performance per watt, bandwidth and latency. In this guest post, Intel explores how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be used to accelerate high performance computing. "Tightly coupled programmable
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG, Unilever Big Data and Digital Twins
Always good to see interesting examples in the CPG industry, where I spent a good part of my career. Save digital twin applications at GE. Several useful concepts to be learned here.
CPG Industry Levels Playing Field with Power…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Providing Free App Software
Taking a closer look at this. Worth a look, more details at the link. A free, code asset exchange.
IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for bots and more By Robert Hof in SiliconAngle.
Hoping to get more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translating Predicting Language of Chemical Reactions
Intriguing, trying to convert this idea into my firmer experience in an internship in chemical engineering research.
A Translation Algorithm Can Predict the “Language” of a Chemical Reaction in Technology Review.
By thinking of…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance inside the Body
The FDA has approved a pill with an embedded sensor that can report when it is swallowed. The pill transmits information to a wearable patch, which in turn transmits information to a smartphone....
From XRDS
Flex, Regular Expressions, and Lexical Analysis
What Makes a Programming Language? There is an alphabet, words, grammar, statements, semantics, and various ways to organize the previous in order to create a computer program in a programming language. Flex helps developers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu and AI Voice Enablement
Voice continues to push forward, here with the Baidu Duer solution. Expect for more to emerge. Towards more intelligent assistant solutions on a number of platforms, like the Snapdragon mentioned below.
Qualcomm, Baidu form…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Security with Microsoft's Sopris
Security is important for devices that have to be safe in the wild.
A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of IOT
By Lily Hay Newman in Wired
The Internet of Things security crisis persists, as billions of inadequately…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing How First Supernovae Altered Early Star Formation
Over at LBNL, Kathy Kincade writes that cosmologists are using supercomputers to study how heavy metals expelled from exploding supernovae helped the first stars in the universe regulate subsequent star formation. "In the early…
From insideHPC
IBM Spectrum LSF Powers HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Gabor Samu describes how IBM Spectrum LSF helps users orchestrate HPC workloads. "This week we celebrate the release of our second agile update to IBM Spectrum LSF 10. And it’s our silver anniversary……
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on Quick Draw
Report from the Google Blog: An example of how to get data with a game. A data game.
Since November 2016, people all around the world have drawn one billion doodles in Quick, Draw!, a web game where a neural network tries to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on the Chinese Consumer
A considerable look at the China consumer. Much more in the article.
Double-clicking on the Chinese consumer
By Wouter Baan, Lan Luan, Felix Poh, and Daniel Zipser
The rising post-90s generation is emerging as a strong engine…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Powers HPC at University of Liverpool with Alces Flight
Today Dell EMC announced a joint solution with Alces Flight and AWS to provide HPC for the University of Liverpool. Dell EMC will provide a fully managed on-premises HPC cluster while a cloud-based HPC account for students and…
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling the Future of Artificial Intelligence
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Andres Rodriguez describes his presentation on Enabling the Future of Artificial Intelligence. "Intel has the industry’s most comprehensive suite of hardware and software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI to Replace Coders
Seeing indications of this, perhaps not so soon, but inevitable. The implications? transparency perhaps the major issue.
AI Will Replace Coders by 2040, Warn Academics By V3.co.uk
Coders and programmers could find themselves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unsupervised Decision Trees
Nicely done piece. Big supporter of decision trees in general, since that have a basic element of transparency.
Have You Heard About Unsupervised Decision Trees
By William Vorhies in DSC
Summary: Unless you’re involved in anomaly…