Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2017
From Computational Complexity
I would call these Galois Games but I can't
Here is a game (Darling says I only blog about non-fun games. This post will NOT prove her wrong.)
Let D be a domain, d ≥ 1 and 0 ≠ a0 ∈ D. There are two players Wanda (for Wants root) and Nora (for No root). One of the players…
From XRDS
The Power of WordNet and How to Use It in Python
In this post, I am going to talk about the relations in WordNet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu) and how you can use these in a Python project. WordNet is a database of English words with different relations between the words.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Spark Crowdsources Advertising?
Amazon takes another step forward. I would imagine this will also emerge on the new Amazon Show screen as well. A crowdsourcing of advertising to enthusiastic consumers? Note their creation of an influencer program. Seems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The latest analytics Magazine from Informs. A practically oriented view of how analytics can be used in business today. Industry News and Articles.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limitations of Machine Learning
Just the introductory paragraphs to post in the Keras Blog. Worth following. Useful statement of limitations, on both narrow aspects of deep learning, and more generally about AI. Technical, but readable as well. I agree…
From insideHPC
Intel Launches Movidius Neural Compute Stick
Today, Intel launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities…
From insideHPC
Fernanda Foertter Elected SIG HPC Education Vice Chair
Today the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) announced that Fernanda Foertter from ORNL is the new Vice Chair of the organization's Education Committee. In this…
From insideHPC
Interview: The Computational Challenges of Fusion Energy
In this video from PASC17, Idamura Yasuhiro from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Laurent Villard from EPFL discuss the computational challenges of developing Fusion reactors. "Numerical plasma physics models are used to improve…
From insideHPC
Interview: DDN’s Jessica Popp on the Importance of Diversity in HPC
In this video, ISC Diversity Chair Kim McMahon interviews Jessica Popp from DDN about the importance of fostering diversity in High Performance Computing. “Through collaboration and networking, the Women in HPC community strives…
From Schneier on Security
Ethereum Hacks
The press is reporting a $32M theft of the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Like all such thefts, they're not a result of a cryptographic failure in the currencies, but instead a software vulnerability in the software surrounding the…
From insideHPC
Go with Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library and Go*
Use of the Go* programming language and it’s developer community has grown significantly since it’s official launch by Google in 2009. Like many popular programming languages (C and Java come to mind), Go started as an experiment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory for Competitive Strategy
A favorite topic for corporate strategy considerations, but as we discovered, somewhat hard to apply in realistic circumstances. Especially for competitive interactions. Fairly non-technical view.
In Game Theory, No Clear Path…
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Algorithms, Bias, and Beautiful Women
I've been keeping my eyes open for things to discuss with students this fall, especially in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles. This week bias in algorithms kept crossing my path. It was even a topic for the #EthicalCS…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Alibaba Works with Retail Data
Via O'Reilly.
How Alibaba does retail data
What does it take to compete in a global market in which retail and the cloud are increasingly intertwined? Alibaba says it's domain-specific data science and machine learning for theHere's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM And Automation Anywhere Partner to Produce BPM Bots
I had been wondering for some time how IBM might be integrating business process management (BPM) and their cognitive methods to approach improving real business process. Always seemed they had rule based systems, so why not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Min Basadur's Simple Question
A former colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble, Min Basadur's work is described. Clever and very simple use of the question "How Might we ... ?" is mentioned. Remember hearing of its use as a tool upon arrival at the company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Journals its AI/Machine Learning Efforts
Apple has started blogging to draw attention to its AI work : Sorry, it’s a ‘Journal’ by James Vincent@jjvincent in theVerge:
" ... The company’s new website, titled “Apple Machine Learning Journal,” is a bit grander than a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Claude Shannon
Great to see this article about Claude Shannon, who is little mentioned these days, but truly was a key element of understanding the value of knowledge in systems of information. Had never heard the 'work habits' angle.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Better for Business Applications
To put it simply, Google Glass just looks more business-like than Augmented Reality Goggles. It at least implies that you are still attached to solving problems in the real world. Even better focused than you would be with…
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GP–A General Purpose Block Programming Language
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Hot Interconnects Conference in Santa Clara
The Hot Interconnects conference has posted their program Agenda. The event takes place Aug. 28-30 in Santa Clara, California. "Join us for our 25th year of an information-packed three-day Symposium about the latest in High Performance…
From Schneier on Security
Password Masking
Slashdot asks if password masking -- replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them -- is on the way out. I don't know if that's true, but I would be happy to see it go. Shoulder surfing, the threat is defends…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Signature of Chaos in Ultracold Reactions
Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium atom, opening the door to new controlled chemistry experiments…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Core Program Solicitations Released
Three divisions at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) have just released new solicitations for their core programs. Computing and Communication Foundation…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Gains Momentum in HPC at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Rick Koopman from Lenovo describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC. "Lenovo recently announced the delivery of one of the most powerful systems – among the first in the world based on Intel…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: Sustainable Software Development in Computational Sciences
"PASC has recently formed collaborative partnerships with a number of scientific journals. In this panel discussion, representatives from these journals are invited to express their thoughts regarding publication practices in…
From insideHPC
Brazil-Based AMT to Resell Bright Computing Software
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller agreement with AMT. "We are very impressed with Bright’s technology and we believe it will make a huge difference to our customers’ HPC environments," said Ricardo Lugão, HPC Director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CMO's Preparing for the Future
Former colleague of mine is interviewed. Business, now more than ever, is about prediction.
How CMOs Can Prepare For The Future: A Q&A With 'Predicting The Turn' Author Dave Knox
by Jennifer Rooney
Dave Knox regards and engages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Business of AI
Right now, for the second time in a long career, am involved directly in making AI part of a business. So was struck by this view.
HBR: On the business of AI. ...
".... What can AI do Today?
The term artificial intelligence was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multisensor Interfaces Reference
Of technical interest:
Announcing: The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations. Volume 1
Eeditors: Oviatt, Sharon; Schuller, Bjorn; Cohen, Philip R; Sonntag,
P…