Communications of the ACM
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June 2018
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emojis, Java and Strings
Emojis are funny characters that are becoming increasingly popular. However, they are probably not as simple as you might thing when you are a programmer. For a basis of comparison, let me try to use them in Python 3. I define…
From insideHPC
Atos Quantum Learning Machine Comes to SURFsara in the Netherlands
Dutch researchers have a new opportunity to experiment with Quantum Computing with the new Atos Quantum Learning Machine at SURFsara. The Atos Quantum Learning Machine is a complete on-premise quantum simulation environment designed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals of Disruption
Have been involved in several meetings to determine and evaluate such signals. See below a bare outline from MIT/Sloan. May sound simplistic but there is much more at the link to flesh it out. This is more of a risk analysis…
From insideHPC
UberCloud Publishes Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies
Our friends at the UberCloud have published the 2018 edition of their Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies. "The goal of the UberCloud Experiment is to perform engineering simulation experiments in the HPC cloud with real engineering…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2018
The Dell EMC HPC Community has published their Speaker Agenda for meeting at ISC 2018. The half-day event takes place June 24 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The Dell EMC HPC Community event will feature keynote presentations by HPC
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From insideHPC
Video: Caligo Technologies Demonstrates Posit Computing Implementation
Anantha Kinnal from Calligo Technologies gave this talk at the ConGA conference for Next Generation Arithmetic. "CalligoTech, based in Bangalore - India, built and demonstrated World’s First Posit-enabled System at the CoNGA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Guide to Smart Manufacturing
Downloadable at the link:
Manufacturing
How to Evolve your Manufacturing Environment to an Ultimate State
By Eric Ehlers -
Cisco Live just wrapped this week, and we had a lot of great conversations with customers who are looking…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connection – June 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Professional Chapters News from ACM-W Student Chapters Welcome from the ACM-W Chair Regular readers of this newsletter are aware that ACM/ACM-W are partnering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levels of Customer Engagement with Retail IOT
I see that Intel Director Jon Stine, who we worked with at innovation centers, comments on Amazon Go and IoT in retail.
IoT Is Building Higher Levels Of Customer Engagement
Forbes Insights With Intel IoT Connecting The Unconnected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imagine a World Based on a Picture
Applications? Imagining this. Maybe a new kind of creativity?
DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture
Artificial intelligence can now put itself in someone else’s shoes. DeepMind has developed a neural network…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Intelligence Map Shows Live Attacks
Interesting visual, to what degree can it be used to plan for and address possible attacks?
Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map presents a real-time view of online threats By Kyle Wiggers in Venturebeat
Distributed denial of service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT on EOS Blockchain
MIT Technology Review now has an excellent newsletter that touches on many emergent technology topics, most recently the topic was a blockchain called EOS , more suitable for Smart Contract operations. You can subscribe to this…
From Computational Complexity
Hoteling
My office has an awesome view of Midtown Atlanta. Midtown has seen considerable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships DeepLens
This intrigues me. A means to get data for prototype vision-centric machine learning. A way to generate test data that will be needed. The article includes a hands-on test and it takes it further on to their Sagemaker system…
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding and Chatbots
In this series, I’ve focused on the context of traditional search applications, which are the main beneficiaries of better query understanding. But given the rapid emergence of chatbots as alternatives to traditional interfaces…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Builds Big Recommendation Engines
Breadth and particular participants were surprising. How these operate essentially acts as the 'algorithm' for suggestion based upon data. How well they work, and how this is perceived by the customer, is a key aspect of
From…
From insideHPC
Video: AMD HPC Update
Jay Owen from AMD gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "With the introduction of new EPYC processor based servers with Radeon Instinct GPU accelerators, combined with our ROCm open software platform, AMD is ushering…
From insideHPC
NEC starts HPC sales operations in the UK
Today NEC announced that NEC Deutschland GmbH is starting High Performance Computing sales operations in the United Kingdom. This business expansion in the UK, one of Europe’s most important high-tech regions, is in addition
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From insideHPC
NVIDIA Opens AI Research Lab in Toronto
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Gavriel State writes that the company has opened a new AI Research Lab in Toronto. The AI Research Lab will be led by computer scientist and University of Toronto professor Sanja Fidler. "With the new…
From insideHPC
Intel Stratix FPGAs Power Innovation for the Dell HPC Community
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Chris Branch from Intel describes how FPGAs deliver speed and efficiency for technical computing. The two companies are working together to bring new FPGA solutions to market…
From insideHPC
Why Demand for In-Memory Computing Platforms Keeps Growing
The demand for in-memory computing (IMC) and new IMC platforms continues to grow. What's pushing this growth as new products like the GridGain in-memory computing platform hit the market? Download the new white paper from GridGain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Trying Cashierless
Another company trying the space, Will it be a common thing very soon? I recall seeing an example at Microsoft's retail innovation space, but did not know they were emphasizing that space any more.
Microsoft reportedly has
Reuters…
From Schneier on Security
Thomas Dullien on Complexity and Security
For many years, I have said that complexity is the worst enemy of security. At CyCon earlier this month, Thomas Dullien gave an excellent talk on the subject with far more detail than I've ever provided. Video. Slides....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity of Taste Expertise
Learned the complexity of this in the favor space for roasted coffee. Some people just cannot do it. How do you make machines do it?
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
by Kathryn A. Latour and John A. Deighton in HBS Working knowledge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Statistics for Anyone
Nicely done! A first job in the enterprise was informing decision makers about hard topics like statistics and analytics. This would have been useful. Its about beliefs and decisions and certainty! In Towardsdatascience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Codes
As the volume and complexity increase, and as we try to improve more complex processes we need more high performance computing (HPC). Its a complex thing to build code that we know will operate correctly and predict well at
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Automates with Algorithms
Most companies that have gone deeply digital have or are starting to automate some of these processes, especially in areas like supply chain and other operations that are already heavily digitized. These can be driven by algorithm…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to our Best Facebook Post Winner!
We are happy to announce the winner of our best Facebook post contest is the ACM-W Chapter at the University of Central Florida. This chapter designed a team-building exercise that sounds like loads of fun: a CS-themed escape…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to our Best Officer Winner!
Congratulations to Sukriti Paul from Manipal University, Manipal, India, for winning our best officer contest for 2018!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Acquires AI for Data Understanding
Makes sense to integrate visualization with analytical methods and AI methods. Visualization is a form of human understanding, AI augments these human methods. Look forward to seeing how this works, was a long time user of…