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ACM-W Connections — December 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters Grace Hopper India 2018 News from ACM-W…
From insideHPC
A Look inside the new HPE Adaptive Rack Cooling System for HPC
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Larry Keller from HPE describes the company's innovative new Adaptive Rack Cooling System for HPC. "Efficient high-performance...
From insideHPC
How FPGAs Provide Versatile Acceleration for HPE Servers
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Osama Sarfaraz from HPE describes how the company is using Intel FPGA's to deliver Programmability, Flexibility, and Upgradability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echo Devices now Support Skype Calling
In further indication of a link between Microsoft and Amazon, Voice and Video Skype calls can now be made-hands free on Echo devices. I frequently use Skype for...
From My Biased Coin
NIPS 2018 Post
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: How Bots Fit into the AR/VR Space
Join us Dec 6, at 10:30am US Eastern - hear @anamitag at @IBMDeveloper onTalk Title: How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space Speaker: Anamita Guha Abstract: This talkBio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Responding to Changing Customer Preferences
Intriguing directions, especially regarding customization. How does a big company react to customer preferences, when it can no longer direct them?Q&A | How P&G...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2018 ACM Fellows Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2018 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s “most prestigious member grade,” which “recognizes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Facial Recognition, Says NIST
Interesting stats. Our own experience says it depends strongly on the contextual aspects of the image acquisition. And often out of complete control. Introduce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protein Folding with Alphabet Deep Mind
A big, big deal we took a look at for industry, even suggested a neural net possibility, but methods were still too primitive at the time, here looks to be a step...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where Does Computer Science Fit–Revisited
David Renton is teaching his students at Porter-Gaud how to program virtual reality projects. He posted a video of some of these projects a few days ago.These are...
From insideHPC
Video: Oracle Steps Up with Bare Metal for HPC Cloud Infrastructure
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Taylor Newill from Oracle describes the company's new Bare Metal for HPC Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Make You Smarter Through Augmentation
Course that is what we are aiming at, it augments us. Conversation is a great start.Artificial intelligence will make you smarterPeople plus machines will surpass...
From Computational Complexity
Remembering George H. W. Bush
Today is the national day of mourning for George Herbert Walker Bush, one of the best presidents for science and computing. He created PCAST, the President's...
From insideHPC
New Paper: A First Step towards Quantum-Powered Machine Learning
"Given the remarkable performance improvements over many generations of classical microprocessors [7] and the impressive algorithmic improvements in mixed-integer...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Chatbots
Good essay on the security risks -- to democratic discourse -- of chatbots....
From insideHPC
Video: Speeding HPC Administration with HPE Performance Cluster Manager
In this video from SC18, Leslie Tung describes the advantages of HPE Performance Cluster Manager. HPE Performance Cluster Manager is HPE’s first fully integrated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba has a Better Intelligent Assistant than Google's
In particular the claim that it is more conversationally powerful is interesting. Such advances could lead to deeper interaction with humans and further engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Mobile Out of Stock App
We developed a similar mobile App on a Blackberry , and tested it in multiple retail settings, but before home ordering/shipping was common. The idea has been ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operations 4.0: Pilots
From McKinsey. Thoughtful examination of essence and value of pilotsThe Operations 4.0 podcast: Productivity and ‘pilot purgatory’The value from Operations 4.0...
From The Eponymous Pickle