"HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures" describes the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) framework, which uses a novel...Valentina Salapura From Communications of the ACM | January 2017
In this Research Highlight, we demonstrate the success of HACC on two very different machines, the CPU/GPU system Titan and the BG/Q systems Sequoia and Mira, attaining...Salman Habib, Vitali Morozov, Nicholas Frontiere, Hal Finkel, Adrian Pope, Katrin Heitmann, Kalyan Kumaran, Venkatram Vishwanath, Tom Peterka, Joe Insley, David Daniel, Patricia Fasel, Zarija Lukić From Communications of the ACM | January 2017
"Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis" demonstrates that phase differences at a given frequency band, due to subtle motions in a video, can be independently...Richard Szeliski From Communications of the ACM | January 2017
We present Eulerian Video Magnification, a computational technique for visualizing subtle color and motion variations in ordinary videos by making the variations...Neal Wadhwa, Hao-Yu Wu, Abe Davis, Michael Rubinstein, Eugene Shih, Gautham J. Mysore, Justin G. Chen, Oral Buyukozturk, John V. Guttag, William T. Freeman, Frédo Durand From Communications of the ACM | January 2017
The authors of "Extracting 3D Objects from Photographs Using 3-Sweep" present an important step toward achieving 3D editing.
Takeo Igarashi From Communications of the ACM | December 2016
We introduce an interactive technique to extract and manipulate simple 3D shapes in a single photograph.
Tao Chen, Zhe Zhu, Shi-Min Hu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Ariel Shamir From Communications of the ACM | December 2016
"DianNao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning" shows a deep understanding of both neural net implementations and the issues in computer...Kurt Keutzer From Communications of the ACM | November 2016
We introduce a series of hardware accelerators (i.e., the DianNao family) designed for Machine Learning (especially neural networks), with a special emphasis on...Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, Zhiwei Xu, Ninghui Sun, Olivier Temam From Communications of the ACM | November 2016
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous,...Andrew W. Moore From Communications of the ACM | September 2016
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.Arjun Singh, Joon Ong, Amit Agarwal, Glen Anderson, Ashby Armistead, Roy Bannon, Seb Boving, Gaurav Desai, Bob Felderman, Paulie Germano, Anand Kanagala, Hong Liu, Jeff Provost, Jason Simmons, Eiichi Tanda, Jim Wanderer, Urs Hölzle, Stephen Stuart, Amin Vahdat From Communications of the ACM | September 2016
What would the world look like if we had a chance to observe it with a trillion frame-per-second video camera? "Imaging the Propagation of Light through Scenes...Kyros Kutulakos From Communications of the ACM | September 2016
We present a novel imaging technique, which we call femtophotography, to capture and visualize the propagation of light through table-top scenes with an effective...Andreas Velten, Di Wu, Belen Masia, Adrian Jarabo, Christopher Barsi, Chinmaya Joshi, Everett Lawson, Moungi Bawendi, Diego Gutierrez, Ramesh Raskar From Communications of the ACM | September 2016
In "Probabilistic Theorem Proving," Gogate and Domingos suggest how PTP could be turned in a fast approximate algorithm by sampling from the set of children of...Henry Kautz, Parag Singla From Communications of the ACM | July 2016
Many representation schemes combining first-order logic and probability have been proposed in recent years. We propose the first method that has the full power...Vibhav Gogate, Pedro Domingos From Communications of the ACM | July 2016
Producing reports at the scale of Google Ads, where billions of clicks happen per day, is the challenge addressed by the Mesa system described in "Mesa: A Geo-Replicated...Sam Madden From Communications of the ACM | July 2016
Mesa is a highly scalable analytic data warehousing system that stores critical measurement data related to Google's Internet advertising business. This paper presents...Ashish Gupta, Fan Yang, Jason Govig, Adam Kirsch, Kelvin Chan, Kevin Lai, Shuo Wu, Sandeep Dhoot, Abhilash Rajesh Kumar, Ankur Agiwal, Sanjay Bhansali, Mingsheng Hong, Jamie Cameron, Masood Siddiqi, David Jones, Jeff Shute, Andrey Gubarev, Shivakumar Venkataraman, Divyakant Agrawal From Communications of the ACM | July 2016
What kinds of problems can be solved with combined human and machine computation? "AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation," by...Siddharth Suri From Communications of the ACM | June 2016
We introduce AutoMan, the first fully automatic crowdprogramming system.Daniel W. Barowy, Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger, Andrew McGregor From Communications of the ACM | June 2016
"On the Naturalness of Software" by Hindle et al. takes an entirely new approach to providing tools to help build software.Gail C. Murphy From Communications of the ACM | May 2016
We begin with the conjecture that most software is natural, with all the attendant constraints and limitations — and thus, like natural language, it is also likely...Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su, Premkumar Devanbu From Communications of the ACM | May 2016