Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2019
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the Online #CSed Conversations
At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversation and the more benefit for everyone involved. For computer science teachers, who are…
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing in the World of Artificial Intelligence
In this special guest feature, Thierry Pellegrino from Dell EMC writes that data analytics powered by HPC & AI solutions are delivering new insights for research and the enterprise. "HPC is clearly no longer reserved for large…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the coming wave of 40+ Different AI Chips
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC Team asks, “What are we going to do with 40+ AI chips?” One such chip, Graphcore, is touted as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of…
From insideHPC
Supermicro steps up with NVIDIA EGX for AI on the Edge
Today Supermicro announced support for the NVIDIA EGX platform, allowing customers to rapidly develop AI applications in their Edge networks. "Enhancing our GPU servers and advanced platforms optimized for AI at the Edge technology…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Breaks STAC-M3 Performance Records with WekaIO
Today Penguin Computing and WekaIO announced record performance on the STAC-M3 Benchmark. The STAC-M3 Antuco and Kanaga Benchmark Suites are the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time…
From Schneier on Security
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
Last week, I hosted the eighteenth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Harvard. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Glasses and Face Recognition
Could happen quickly. Cloaking technology to follow? Future implications?
Facial recognition smart glasses could make public surveillance discreet and ubiquitous A new product from UAE firm NNTC shows where this tech is headed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Driverless Cars Change Airlines?
This will happen, how long it will take to become significant remains a question. But every kind of mobility will be effected. Good piece on the topic. Effects on the airlines? Some straightforward models of demand and behavior…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Net-Zero Graphs
A new class of undirected graphs with quantum relevance Cropped from source Gustav Kirchoff was a German physicist active in the mid-1800s. He is known for many things, especially for his “Laws” governing voltage and current…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Gmail to be Available July 2
Dynamic Email announced:
Gmail’s ‘dynamic email’ will be available to everyone July 2nd.
RSVP to an event or fill out a survey without leaving your inbox.
Amrita Khalid, @askhalid in Engadget ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Reads Emotions by Voice
We tested early models of 'emotion glasses' to detect emotion in interactions with consumer products.
Amazon's rumored wearable device reads your emotions by listening to your voice Open the pod bay doors, Alexa. By Michael…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
2018 Scholarship Winners
In 2018, ACM-W scholarship winners, including undergraduate students and Ph.D. students, attended conference such as WSDM in Los Angeles, ISWC in Singapore, and more. (more …)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duplex Calls are often From Humans
Much akin to our own attempts at putting people and/or humans in a conversational path, and looking for signals in the interaction to determine when you should shift from one kind of agent to the other.
I assume almost always
I…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Open Source Intelligence
Forms of intelligence addressing risk and threat.
What Is Open Source Intelligence and How Is it Used?
By The Recorded Future Team on February 19, 2019
Key Takeaways
Open source intelligence is derived from data and information that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA Partners with Avery Dennison Manufacturing
Been intrigued by some of IOTa's unique method of consensus, using a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). No Mining. Looks to be another assured tracking play in the supply chain.
IOTA Now Partners With Luxury Giant, Surges By 20%
Directed…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Nominations are now open for the second biennial Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award. The award, which is presented in odd-numbered years at the annual SC conference, was launched to address the relative lack of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce to Acquire Tableau
Worked with Tableau from the very beginning. Seen impressive things from both companies. Indications from both for linking to learning AI.
Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal…
From insideHPC
Future MareNostrum 5 Supercomputer at BSC to host Made-in-Europe Technologies
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced plans to host EuroHPC processor technologies within its future Mare Norstrom 5 supercomputer. "Offering an heterogenous architecture, probably based on two big clusters with…
From insideHPC
Altair HyperWorks 2019 product development platform Speeds Time-to-Market
Today Altair released HyperWorks 2019, the latest version of its simulation- and AI-driven product development platform. "Our development focus for HyperWorks 2019 was to increase solve speed and functionality across our solutions…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 11 – Federal Funding for Science with Peter Harsha
A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is now available. In this episode Khari Douglas sits down with Peter Harsha, the Director of Government affairs for the Computing Research Association (CRA), to discuss the federal…
From insideHPC
NEC Delivers HPC Cluster to RWTH Aachen University in Germany
Today NEC announced that RWTH Aachen University in Germany has started operations of a new HPC cluster. Called CLAIX-2018 the system augments the university's existing CLAIX-2016 installation. "RWTH Aachen is one of the most
…
From insideHPC
The Convergence of HPC and AI Workloads Requires Flexibility and Performance
Finding the best solution to meet the requirements for intertwined HPC and AI workloads requires us tolook at the overall platform benefits versus the benefits of individual technologies. With exascale on the horizon, the blending…
From Schneier on Security
Employment Scam
Interesting story of an old-school remote-deposit capture fraud scam, wrapped up in a fake employment scam. Slashdot thread....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Change the Programming Language, Change the Course
A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP Java). This comes up regularly with lots of people suggesting their favorite language…
From [email protected]
A Design Perspective on Computational Thinking
Maybe we can just design away the need to teach computational thinking
From insideHPC
Simplifying NVIDIA GPU Driver Deployment on Red Hat Linux
Over at the NVIDIA blog, Pramod Ramarao writes that NVIDIA and Red Hat have worked closely to improve the user experience when installing and updating NVIDIA software on RHEL, including GPU drivers and CUDA. "The NVIDIA / Red…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix: A Fast Growing Threat
Former colleague Bob Herbold talks about fast-growing early innovator Netflix:
Bob's Gutsy Leadership Blog
Netflix: Underestimating a Fast-Growing Threat?
Netflix has always been the innovator who was way out in front of the current…
From insideHPC
RDMA, Scalable MPI-3 RMA, and Next-Generation Post-RDMA Interconnects
Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "Network cards contain rather powerful processors optimized for data movement and limiting the functionality to remote direct memory access seems unnecessarily…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Growth Modeling
Good piece by Vincent Granville on growth modeling in DSC. Non technical. Intro below with details at the link.
Growth Modeling for Business Managers and Executives
Posted by Vincent Granville in DSC
You don't need a sophisticated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Future Tailored Chat?
Its already chat, but its a form of sloppy chat with only minimal help.
Is the Future Chat?
Google sees Gmail as key to its collaboration plans
‘We are not going to live in a world where everyone abandons email and moves all of…