Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2017
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Jet Noise for a Quieter World
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are using Argonne supercomputers to to look for new ways to reduce the noise produced by jet engines. Among the loudest sources of human-made noise that exist, jet engines can produce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Using MS HoloLens for Car Design
Complex and cooperative design continues to be a place where augmented reality is likely to be valuable.
Ford Using Microsoft HoloLens For Car Design By Rebecca Hills-Duty in VR Focus.
HoloLens allows designers and engineers to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection
A number of analytics sytems we worked with were essentially anomaly detection. So this is close to home. In particular, that in almost all cases the systems need to be re-calibrated and re run over time.
In O'Reilly, Video:
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Perishables to the Smart Home
We tested a number of solutions to perishable delivery in out smart home labs. Obviously this requires some expensive refitting of the home.
Walmart tests new delivery drop-off point — the customer’s fridge
By Deena M. Amato-McCoy…
From insideHPC
Video: Will HPC Move to the Cloud?
Gabriel Broner from Rescale gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "HPC has transitioned from unique and proprietary designs, to clusters of many dual-CPU Intel nodes. Vendors’ products are now differentiated more by packaging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Americans Loving Cooking?
As a long time amateur cook, found this very interesting. Are the statistics shown right? The aricle follows with ab analysis of how this influences grocery choices.
The Grocery Industry Confronts a New Problem: Only 10% of…
From insideHPC
Hiring? Sign up for the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair
Is your organization looking to hire HPC talent? Be sure to book a table at the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair. "This face-to-face event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in rooms 702-704-706 in the Colorado…
From insideHPC
PSSC Labs to Power Biosoft Devices for Genetics Research
PSSC Labs will work with BSI to create truly, turn-key HPC clusters, servers and storage solutions. PSSC Labs has already delivered several hundred computing platforms for worldwide genomics and bioinformatics research. Utilizing…
From insideHPC
Intel awards Paderborn University a Hybrid Cluster with Arria 10 FPGAs
The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) has been selected by Intel to host a computer cluster that uses Intel’s Xeon processor with its Arria 10 FPGA software development platform. " The availability of these systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personality Classification
Been examining various personality classifiers, starting with a project we did with the Watson Bluemix system. Here is another, covered in some detail in Datanami: Deep Learning Reveals New Insights About People:
" ... Can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
B to B Sales and Consolidated Marketing Platforms
From CustomerThink
The Salesman’s Resurrection by AI Featured Column by CustomerThink Advisor! by Thomas Wieberneit
The B2B salesperson is dead. .... Or so it is said.
There are scores of studies telling us that most of a customer…
From Schneier on Security
Boston Red Sox Caught Using Technology to Steal Signs
The Boston Red Sox admitted to eavesdropping on the communications channel between catcher and pitcher. Stealing signs is believed to be particularly effective when there is a runner on second base who can both watch what hand…
From Computational Complexity
Acronyms and PHP
Whenever I teach discrete math and use FML to mean Formula the students laugh since its a common acroynm for Fuck My Life. Now they laugh, and I say I know why you are laughing, I know what it means and they laugh even harder…
From insideHPC
KISTI in South Korea orders up a Cray CS500 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has awarded the Company a contract valued at more than $48 million for a Cray CS500 cluster supercomputer. The 128-rack system, which includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streamlined Product Codes
Used to work with the GMA in our Innovation efforts. Not in the business anymore, but work ongoing is worth understanding as it interacts and communicates with consumers.
Watching a Good Idea on Streamlined Product Code Date…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE on 3D Printing
Much more in the full article at the link.
A silent revolution: Avio Aero and Arcam’s relationship is built on additive manufacturing by The Bike Shop
Less complexity, costs, waste and noise: additive manufacturing is the industry…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA P100 GPUs come to Google Cloud Platform
Today the good folks at the Google Compute Platform announced the availability of NVIDIA GPUs in the Cloud for multiple geographies. Cloud GPUs can accelerate workloads such as machine learning training and inference, geophysical…
From insideHPC
GigaSpaces Simplifies Artificial Intelligence Development with Intel BigDL
"BigDL’s efficient large-scale distributed deep learning framework, built on Apache Spark, expands the accessibility of deep learning to a broader range of big data users and data scientists,” said Michael Greene, Vice President…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamical Machine Learning
Good piece, which combines process and sensors and IoT. Much more detail at the link. Reminds me comments made here before, about how we used classic process control in similar ways, and tried to link it to AI. As long as it…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues First Convergence Awards – Including those in Human Technology Frontier Space
Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been looking to highlight the value of convergence. The deep integration of multiple disciplines in order to advance scientific discovery and innovation. As a result, they have…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: How Optalysis Accelerates FFTs with Optical Processing
In this RichReport slidecast, Dr. Nick New from Optalysis describes how the company's optical processing technology delivers accelerated performance for FFTs and Bioinformatics. "Our prototype is on track to achieve game-changing…
From insideHPC
New HPC for Materials Program to Help American Industry
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a new high-performance computing initiative that will help U.S. industry accelerate the development of new or improved materials for use in severe environments.…
From insideHPC
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 For Demanding HPC Applications
"For those that develop HPC applications, there are usually two main areas that must be considered. The first is the translation of the algorithm, whether simulation based, physics based or pure research into the code that a
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Solid State Cooling from SRI
Fascinating development reported in IEEE Spectrum. Have long been a minor student of the physics of refrigeration, will this development be practical for cooling or even refrigeration? Also a mention of SRI, who we worked…
From Schneier on Security
ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms
The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance: A number of them voiced their distrust in emails to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes
A natural step forward, and a place to connect beyond entertainment. Selection, design, installation, training, security .... services come into play with devices and software.
Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes, Experiential Merchandising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Learn to be Curious
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
Quanta Magazine by John Pavlus
In Quanta. Machines Learn to be Curious.
The University of California, Berkeley's Pulkit Agrawal is embedding curiosity, or intrinsic motivation, into artificial…
From insideHPC
Yokohama City University Installs Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today Cray announced that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray XC50-AC supercomputer into production. Located in the University’s Advanced Medical Research Center, the new Cray supercomputer will power computational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Joins the Meeting
Attentive systems for meeting enhancements.
When AI Joins Your Meeting
By Rowan Trollope
One of the best things about working at a company with Cisco’s resources is you get to blend fundamental technology research with macroeconomic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coca Cola, AI and Big Data
The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success By Bernard Marr
" ... In fact, Coca Cola was one of the first globally-recognized brands outside of the IT market to speak about Big Data…