Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2017
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for September HPC User Forum in Milwaukee
Hyperion Research has posted the preliminary agenda for the HPC User Forum Sept. 5-7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "The HPC User Forum community includes thousands of people from the steering committee, member organizations, sponsors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Wants to Install Smart Homes
Recall that Amazon just also announced a smart home consultation service, apparently aimed at getting their devices installed. Probably a requirement for typical aftermarket installations of Smart Homes. For the 'non digital…
From insideHPC
ANSYS Scales to 200K Cores on Shahin II Supercomputer
Today ANSYS, Saudi Aramco, and KAUST announced a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS Fluent to nearly 200,000 processor cores – enabling organizations to make critical and cost-effective decisions faster and increase…
From insideHPC
BSC Comparing Algorithms that Search for Cancer Mutations
Eduard Porta-Pardo from BSC has undertaken the first ever comparative analysis of sub-gene algorithms that mine the genetic information in cancer databases. These powerful data-sifting tools are helping untangle the complexity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jumping Robotics
A small scale, jumping robot. Quite impressive in details and related efforts.
Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We've Ever Seen, By Evan Ackerman
Salto-1P uses a small motor and a system of linkages and gears to jump…
From insideHPC
Dell Builds Bracewell Supercomputer for Bionic Vision Research at CSIRO in Australia
Today CSIRO, Australia’s top science agency, announced deployment of a new Dell EMC supercomputer, kicking off a new generation of research in artificial intelligence. "This new system will provide greater scale and processing…
From insideHPC
Red Hat Showcases ThunderX 2 Development Platform for HPC
In this video, Jon Masters from Red Hat describes the company's multi-architecture solutions that were on display at ISC 2017. "Developing new and adapting existing highly scalable applications to take advantage of the new technological…
From insideHPC
Petabyte-Scale Active Archive in Private Object Storage
In big data science, storage archives protect massive volumes of research-critical content. Scientists at the University of Warsaw (UW) Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) rely on a petabyte…
From BLOG@CACM
Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
From Schneier on Security
Many of My E-Books for Cheap
Humble Bundle is selling a bunch of cybersecurity books very cheaply. You can get copies of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Cryptography Engineering -- and also Ross Anderson's Security Engineering, Adam Shostack's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lucy from Equals 3
An example of Watson AI.
Superpower your marketing process with Lucy
Pull deep insights from piles of customer data. Make genius decisions. Compress months of work to one day. ... Get big-brain assistance in research, segmentation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Selves vs Better Bots
In Linkedin:
'Multiple Selves,' Not Better Bots, Is AI's 'Personal Productivity' Future
Published on April 3, 2017 Featured in: Big Ideas & Innovation, Productivit
y, Technology
by Michael Schrage, visiting fellow at imperial
MIT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EBay Looks at AI
We had some interactions with eBay in their early days. Now Forbes does a quick look at how they are aiming to use AI methods to produce better focused personalized experiences. Not a bad place to start, you already have…
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach Me How To Teach
Garth Flint hits it out of the part with It is not about coding
Key issue?
"Although both camps were for teachers neither dealt with any pedagogy on how to teach coding or programming. Both stressed syntax and how to read theThis…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- 35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels are Winning
The next WATCH talk, called 35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels are Winning is Thursday, July 20th, from 12 PM-1 PM ET. The presenter is Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue) from IBM. Cris has an uncanny ability to link disparate events…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Google PAIR Effort: People+AI
As important as how smart the methods will be, will be the means by which we collaborate with them. Thinking about this as a team, beyond just a person using a machine, will also be key.
Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple vs Google Maps
In Flowingdata:
In Google and Apple mapping approaches. I have looked at both of these for years now on the IOS smartphone. A close comparative look at different mapping approaches. Variation in data and design. Choices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pharma and the Sharing of Data in Drug Discovery
Not quite what I call crowdsourcing, but rather a means to make it easier to share and fund expensive research efforts. Ultimately the very expensive genomic research efforts have to be funded too. Good to see this direction…
From insideHPC
Exaflow: Collaborating on the Computational Challenges of CFD
"Fluid Dynamics (FD) simulations provide a powerful tool for the analysis of such fluid flows and are an essential element of many industrial and academic problems. The complexities and nature of fluid flows, often combined with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Emergence
Complete article at the link in DSC:
The E-Dimension: Why Machine Learning Doesn’t Work Well for Some Problems?
by Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei, Ph.D.*
Principal Data Scientist, Intertrust Technologies.
Introduction
Machine Learning (ML)…
From insideHPC
Fostering Diversity in HPC at Lenovo
"Lenovo is an interesting company in that they started in China and the founders realized they need to become diverse in culture and every other way. So what we've found is that they've become a multi-cultural company very, very…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Power New Servers from Advanced Clustering Technologies
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced new systems based on the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors. "Integrating this new breakthrough generation of Intel Xeon processors into our systems means we can provide our customers…
From insideHPC
Video: Supermicro Showcases HPC Solutions at ISC 2017
In this video, Peter Maas from Supermicro gives us a tour of the company's exhibit at ISC 2017. "Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest selection of HPC Solutions in the industry, including 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U SuperServers, FatTwin…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Big News in Graph Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer. After that, they cover a series of IT developments that go…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will People Interact with Machines
I see my former collaborators at IFTF have been working on this problem:
Forecasting How Humans Will Interact with Machines by 2030
By: Chris Preimesberger | July 12, 2017
The Dell-IFTF report forecasts that emerging technologies…
From Computational Complexity
89944 Hat Problems
I've blogged about different hat problems a few times (see here). The question arises: How many hat problems are there? The answer is really infinite (literally) but I will list some parameters and bound them reasonably to get…
From Schneier on Security
Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption
News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. Law enforcement agencies would need warrants…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing and Marketing Deep Learning
In Zdnet:
Automating automation: a framework for developing and marketing deep learning models
Are you sold on the benefits of adding automation to your stack, but put off by the high entry barrier to this game? The NeoPulse Framework…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Kitchen Tile Catalog Complete
All tessellating convex polygons found Cropped and combined from src1, src2. Michaël Rao and Marjorie Rice are linked in this month’s news. Rao has just released a paper (see also slides and code here) completing the catalog
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant Mission Creep
When I read recently that a virtual assistant had called 911 in the US to report a crime in progress, my immediate reaction was: No that will not work, for a number of reasons. Technical and regulatory. And that was confirmed…