Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2020
From The Noisy Channel
Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for the kind words!
If I follow you, then you are pointing out that, by generating revenue through promoted search, a business can funnel that revenue into providing benefits to users. Indeed, as you point out, that’s…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Business Rules and Expertise
Via DSC, what looks to be a good podcast on this topic. It has been a favorite approach of mine since the beginning. Narrow machine learning methods can be very valuable, but to deliver them they have to be part of existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetoencephalography
This approach was just brought again to my attention. Have been asked how it could be applied to the same kinds of diagnostic queries as EEG. And if it has ever been applied to the same problems that have been addressed by
Intro…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Takes Analytics Closer to Consumer
Fascinating view of what a big, close to the consumer company, is doing to figure out how their marketing works. A relatively rare mention of ROI as it measures efforts.
PepsiCo getting closer to the consumer with data analytics…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Submit a Blue Sky Ideas Paper to the ACM Hypertext Conference!
The 2020 ACM Hypertext conference is July 13-15 in Orlando, Florida. It is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. ACM Hypertext is concerned with all aspects of…
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science Now Available at No Charge with Easy8
Today Bright Computing announced that Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science is now available at no charge as part of the Easy8 program. Launched in November of 2019, Easy8 is designed to put Bright’s award-winning cluster management…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Editing Your Own Self Image
This came to my attention recently when I was asked for a simple self image to use on a startup web site. How much should we edit? We have the tools now. At very least by taking lots of images in many contexts. But in the…
From insideHPC
ORNL researchers identify most promising tech to advance edge computing
"ORNL researchers Ali Passian and Neena Imam have surveyed the edge computing landscape, as well as novel nanoscale technologies, to better understand how to simultaneously advance both edge computing and nanoscience to benefit…
From insideHPC
Verne Global’s hpcDIRECT to power RenderNation’s high-performance compute
Today Verne Global announced it is partnering with RenderNation, the render farm specialist renowned for computer generated imagery (CGI) and visual effects (VFX). The partnership enables RenderNation to boost its rendering capabilities…
From insideHPC
New Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs Transform Cloud and Data Center Security
Today Mellanox announced the immediate general availability of ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs, in addition to the soon-to-be-released BlueField-2 I/O Processing Units (IPUs). Both feature a suite of cutting-edge security acceleration…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Rolls Out Industry’s Highest Performance Top of Rack Switch and Network
Today GigaIO announced the launch of FabreX Gen4. As the industry's first networking platform to be fully compatible with Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) 4.0, FabreX Gen4 doubles the network bandwidth to 512
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From Schneier on Security
Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS
This is good news: Whenever you visit a website -- even if it's HTTPS enabled -- the DNS query that converts the web address into an IP address that computers can read is usually unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts…
From insideHPC
Video: Exploring the Dark Universe
"Heitmann discusses an ambitious end-to-end simulation project that attempts to provide a faithful view of the Universe as seen through the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a telescope currently under construction. She…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Framework to Predict Success of Big Data
In the HBR, thoughts on predicting the success of Big Data.
Use This Framework to Predict the Success of Your Big Data Project
By Carsten Lund Pedersen, Thomas Ritter
Big data projects that revolve around exploiting data for business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Systems for Manufacturing
We broadly did simulations for many applications in manufacturing and beyond, see many posts here at tag below.
More Manufacturers Bet on Simulation Software
The Wall Street Journal
By Angus Loten
Manufacturers increasingly are…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Should We Teach Coding in High School?
Robert Sedgewick and Larry Cuban faced off today in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the issue: Should everyone be taught coding in high school? Today we will discuss their recent comments on this issue. Bob is a long-time friend…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Predicts Corn Yields
What seems to be some direct uses of CNN for yield prediction.
AI Algorithm Better Predicts Corn Yield
By Illinois ACES
February 24, 2020
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has
An…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 19 – Intro to Artificial Consciousness with Natesh Ganesh
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. Khari Douglas interviews Natesh Ganesh, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Massachussetts at Amherst and a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chess Grandmaster Says AI will Destroy Most Jobs
Kasparov is hardly an expert at jobs, but major changes are likely to occur.
The chess grandmaster who was beaten by a computer predicts that AI will 'destroy' most jobs
By Aaron Holmes in BusinessInsider
- Chess grandmaster Garry…
From insideHPC
TYAN adds 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Today TYAN announced support for the extended 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors lineup (Cascade Lake-SP Refresh). TYAN’s full line of HPC, cloud computing and storage server platforms continue to offer advanced performance…
From insideHPC
MLPerf-HPC Working Group seeks participation
In this special guest feature, Murali Emani from Argonne writes that a team of scientists from DoE labs have formed a working group called MLPerf-HPC to focus on benchmarking machine learning workloads for high performance computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are the Category Captains Still in Charge?
I remember the term as used in early days in CPG. But is the decision intelligence now migrating elsewhere? I see it every day in my local Kroger.
Should grocers just say ‘no’ to big CPG brands when it comes to shelf decisions…
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech steps up with Intel Cascade Lake Refresh Processors
Today Nor-Tech announced that the company is now integrating HPC clusters and workstations with Intel’s groundbreaking Cascade Lake Refresh (CLX R) processor. Recently introduced, CLR R builds on the momentum of the existing
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From insideHPC
AMD to Power Cray Shasta Supercomputer at Navy DSRC
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is upgrading its supercomputing capabilities with a new Cray Shasta system powered by AMD EPYC processors. The system, the HPCMP’s first with
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones for Disaster Relief
Here looking at how drones can react and recover from disaster disruptions to provide ongoing support.
Could Nearly Invincible Drone Be the Future of Disaster Relief?
USC Viterbi News
By Caitlin Dawson
At the University of Southern…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Azure Sphere Aims to Secure IOT
The security of many more IOT devices is of increasing concern. Microsoft advances its solution.
Microsoft Azure Sphere launches in general availability
By Kyle Wiggers in Venturebeat
In April 2018, nearly two years ago, Microsoft…
From The Noisy Channel
Promoted Search: A Follow-Up
My post on promoted search results drew some pointed feedback. People asked me what kind of promoted search behavior I deem acceptable, as well as whether I saw a clear line between promoted search and ads in general. I’ll try…
From insideHPC
Panasas ActiveStor Solution: Architectural Overview
Panasas has released this timely new white paper "Panasas ActiveStor Solution: Architectural Overview." The Panasas ActiveStor architecture running the PanFS storage operating system breaks through the performance constraints…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes its Terms of Service
Intriguing look at how Google has changed its terms of service. Attributable in part to some pressure by consumers on the operation of big tech. Below a summary, then links to much more detail.
SUMMARY OF CHANGES TO GOOGLE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Machine Learning
Treatment and analysis of outliers and noise are key to improve these methods. The claim here is that this will be improved. Remains to be seen how well this will work. Technical.
Mathematicians propose new way of using neural…