Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2018
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Solutions Engineer at Mathworks
Mathworks in Massachusetts is seeking a Software Solutions Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are a team of product proficient engineers with application and software industry experience. Alongside MATLAB Application Deployment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance Cameras Talking to Smartphones
Interesting, but perhaps spooky application. Your smart city talking to you individually. Advertising next?
System Allows Surveillance Cameras to 'Talk' to the Public Through Individual Smartphones
in Purdue University News
Purdue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Tags as Sensors
MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
MIT News
By Jennifer Chu
Researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Lab have developed an ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Company Towns
Been a follower of the topic. Starting with towns built around railroads and their workers. The technology of past days.
Silicon Valley’s company towns are doomed
Facebook and Google want to build planned communities. A brief…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detemining the Cause of War
In my early days at the Pentagon, working for the Joint Chiefs, we built and ran conflict simulations. But we were less interested in causes than we were in outcomes. At the time we would have said the causes are too many, too…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of the Financial Robo Advisor
Much interested in the dynamics of how systems will dynamically and perceptively give advice. In this blog have called them 'Assistants'. How will they disrupt in giving financial advice?
The Rise of the Robo-advisor: How…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 20 Python Data Science Libraries from DSC
Extensive sets with good descriptions.
Top 20 Python libraries for data science in 2018
Posted by Igor Bobriakov
Python continues to take leading positions in solving data science tasks and challenges. Last year we made a blog…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Week on Science Friday
It's Cephalopod Week! "Three hearts, eight arms, can't lose." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 15th, 2018)
The market for artificial-intelligence chips could reach $30bn by 2022. My guess is that NVIDIA (a graphics card maker) is the big winner, their tag line is now “Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership”. Multiple sclerosis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Autonomous Store
More complete piece by Jon Stine on Amazon Go, and the more general topic of autonomous stores. In US and China. In the Intel IT Peer Network
Lots of comment about the Amazon Go store. And the ten variants of ever-more autonomic…
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
…
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…