Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
Congressional App Challenge Launches Today
Something that looks interesting at least in Congressional Districts where there is a sponsor. Visit the web site to check it…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- The Science of Deep Specification
The next WATCH talk, called The Science of Deep Specification is Thursday, September 21st, from 12 PM-1 PM EST. The presenter is Benjamin Pierce, a Henry Salvatori...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How China is doing Digital
Quite a good piece, with statistics of interest. Updated details here.China’s digital economy: A leading global forceBy Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong, KevinChina...
From Computational Complexity
Random Storm Thoughts
It's Monday as I write this post from home. Atlanta, for the first time ever, is in a tropical storm warning. Georgia Tech is closed today and tomorrow. I'm just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests Kitchen 1883 Restaurant Concept
Had seen this done on the west coast, apparently with some success. Gets more people to the physical site. Comfort food makes sense, with regional and ethnic...
From insideHPC
Kubernetes Meets HPC
"While the notion of packaging a workload into a Docker container, publishing it to a registry, and submitting a YAML description of the workload is second nature...
From insideHPC
AI Breakthroughs and Initiatives at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Nick Nystrom and Paola Buitrago from PSC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "The Bridges supercomputer at PSC offers the possibility for experts...
From insideHPC
New PGI 17.7 Release Supports NVIDIA Volta GPUs
Today NVIDIA released Version 17.7 of PGI 2017 Compilers and Tools, delivering improved performance and programming simplicity to HPC developers who target multicore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neato Maps Rooms
More cleaning, mapping. Other applications in the smart home?Neato Adds Persistent, Actionable Maps to New D7 Robot VacuumBy Evan Ackerman in IEEE SpectrumTheVacuums...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Robots
Researchers have demonstrated hacks against robots, taking over and controlling their camera, speakers, and movements. News article....
From insideHPC
Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Released
Intel has announced the release of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018, with updated compilers and developer tools. It is now available for downloading on a 30-day trial...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be a Router and Share Messages
The curriculum I am using for Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles is the excellent Code.Org curriculum. I really like the Internet Simulator that isI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of Digital Assistants
Not a bad view, but the longer term potential is greater than implied. The Age of Digital Assistants – What and when to expect? By Shishir Kathurwar in CustomerThink...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Launches Search Committee for Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division Director
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation...
From insideHPC
IBM Simulates Chemistry with Quantum Computing
IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionize chemistry and materials science. “Over...
From Schneier on Security
On the Equifax Data Breach
Last Thursday, Equifax reported a data breach that affects 143 million US customers, about 44% of the population. It's an extremely serious breach; hackers got...
From insideHPC
CPC Enhances Non-spill Quick Disconnects for Liquid Cooled HPC
As liquid cooling becomes more and more pervasive in HPC datacenters, the mitigation of leaks and spills is a growing concern. Enter CPC, a maker of quick disconnects...
From insideHPC
Benefits of Multi-rail Cluster Architectures for GPU-based Nodes
Craig Tierney from NVIDIA gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group meeting. "As high performance computing moves toward GPU-accelerated architectures, single node...
From insideHPC
Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transitioning to Industrial AI
Some quite useful thoughts here, about work flow and production versus testing, retesting and retraining systems. Ultimately we learn this, but sometimes painfully...
From insideHPC