Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2019
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interdisciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems (NSF Workshop Report)
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Josep Torrellas of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and co-author of the report discussed below…
From insideHPC
New Report: PRACE in the EuroHPC Era
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe has published a new report: PRACE in the EuroHPC Era. PRACE is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking will advance the…
From Computational Complexity
do we ever only care about the decision problem? I know of only one case of that
(I had been thinking of this for a post then Lance's post on search versus decision inspired me to write up these thoughts.)
When teaching NP-completeness we often say
The problem we really care about is, for example, given…
From insideHPC
Quobyte Partners with EUROstor to Deliver Scale-Out NAS Solutions
Today Quobyte announced a partnership with EUROstor to expand the reach of its next-generation file system throughout the German, Austrian and Swiss marketplace to customers seeking scale-out NAS solutions for enterprise application…
From insideHPC
Looking Back at SC18 and the Road Ahead to Exascale
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe reports on new technology and 30 years of the US supercomputing conference at SC18 in Dallas. "From our volunteers to our exhibitors to our students and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistants in the Enterprise
Was expecting this for some time. Could be similar to the introductions of tablets, which we issued to executives when they came out. I quickly got questions like, what do I do with them? But unlike then, we will likely…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–January 2019
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters News from ACM-W Europe Happy New Year! 2019 promises to be another exciting year for ACM-W. There are nineteen Celebrations planned over…
From Schneier on Security
Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos argues that increasing political pressure on social media platforms to moderate content will give them a pretext to turn all end-to-end crypto off -- which would be more profitable for them and…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at A New Initiative for Poland in Warsaw, January 16-17, 2019. I'm speaking at the Munich Cyber Security Conference (MCSC) on February 14, 2019. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweets Predict Location
More indications that simple online messages can betray location.
Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think In Wired
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses Twitter to automatically…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
The Computing Community Consortium is cohosting Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery on February 19-20, 2019 at the United Nations in New York City with the United Nations University Centre for Policy…
From Schneier on Security
Why Internet Security Is So Bad
I recently read two different essays that make the point that while Internet security is terrible, it really doesn't affect people enough to make it an issue. This is true, and is something I worry will change in a world of physically…
From insideHPC
Industry Leaders prepare for Rice University Oil and Gas Conference in March
The upcoming Rice University Oil and Gas HPC Conference will focus on the computational challenges and needs in the Energy industry. The event takes place March 4-6, 2019 in Houston. "High-end computing and information technology…
From insideHPC
Video: Five Things to Know About SUSE Linux Enterprise for HPC
In this video, Jay Kruemcke from SUSE talks presents: Five Things to Know About SLE HPC. "SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads…
From insideHPC
Researchers Gear Up for Exascale at ECP Meeting in Houston
Scientists and Engineers at Berkeley Lab are busy preparing for Exascale supercomputing this week at the ECP Annual Meeting in Houston. With a full agenda running five days, LBL researchers will contribute Two Plenaries, Five…
From insideHPC
An Introduction to High Performance Computing
In this video, Bill Jenkins from Intel presents and introduction to High Performance Computing. "This online training will provide a high-level introduction to high performance computing, the problem it solves and the vertical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Visualization Libraries
Lots new to me here, well worth a look.
Best Visualization Libraries from KD Nuggets.
There are plenty of library options out there to make great visualizations. We outline five of the best, complete with code examples and explanations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
B-Verify in the Supply Chain
Despite all the hacking news, there are still some key applications popping up.
How a New Technology Can Disrupt the Global Supply Chain in K@W
An interdisciplinary team from MIT, Wharton and Boston College has created a new
“The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets Organizing the World
An apparent move towards towards our own intelligence? Our own look at neural nets early on seemed to indicate that they were just a convenience in some cases to replace statistical methods, how different it turned out.
A Neural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Font Influence Retention?
Quite a claim. Would seem to be easily tested, as they mention ...
Can't Remember what you Read? Blame the Font, not Forgetfulness. In Wired, by Arielle Pardes
Remember all those classics you devoured in comp-lit class?
From The Eponymous Pickle
When does Blockchain get the Simplest Value?
Thought of this myself. When first hearing first about blockchain. Isn't there a simpler way to do the same thing? You know, with a suitably encrypted and protected database? But doing what? What are the specific goals…
From insideHPC
Want Room-temperature Quantum Memories? DOE Awards Small Business Research and Development Grants
On January 7, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to award 189 grants totaling $33 million to 149 small businesses in 32 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology…
From insideHPC
Apply Now for 2019 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Computational scientists are invited to apply for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), to take place from July 28-August 9, 2019. "With the challenges posed by the architecture and software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Thinking are like Translation
Intriguing idea. Includes video.
A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
From Quanta Magazine Link to full article.
Been Kim and colleagues at Google Brain developed a system she calls a translator for humans that
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Real and Virtual Worlds
Makes lots of sense. Essentially leads to simulation and construction of portfolios of test scenarios.
Combining Real, Virtual Worlds Improves Driverless Vehicle Testing
University of Michigan
Researchers at the University of Michigan's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualized Medical Record Analysis
Liked the idea, but also probably also requires a means of augmenting the visuals to emphasize key metadata, relationship to patterns detected by meta analyses, changes over time.
Visualization: U of T Researchers Develop System…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Jean Bourgain 1954–2018 and Michael Atiyah 1929–2019
A tribute to two premier analysts From Flanders Today src1 and Ryle Trust Lecture src2 Baron Jean Bourgain and Sir Michael Atiyah passed away within the past three weeks. They became mathematical nobility by winning the Fields…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apparent Successful attack on Ethereum
Apparent attack on Ethereum. Note that Ethereum is often mentioned as a place for testing smart contracts.
Blockchains Hackable? From MIT Tech Review ChainLetter
' .... To catch a blockchain hacker: Coinbase shocked the crypto…
From insideHPC
The Infinite Memory Engine – Unlocking the Potential of NVMe
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, John Bent from DDN presents: IME - Unlocking the Potential of NVMe. "DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME) is a scale-out, software-defined, flash storage platform that streamlines the data
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MyCroft Back as an Open Kickstarter Assistant
This has tough competition, especially since the ecosystem is the big thing.
Mycroft II Provides Voice-Assist With Data Privacy By David Cardinal in ExtremeTech
Mycroft Mark II: the Open Answer to Amazon and Google?
... is built…