Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Codemakers vs Codebreakers
Abstract below. Amazing how much ew are now tied to cryptography, and the question is not resolved. With the emergence of quantum it may become more complex yet. Abstract:
Technical Perspective: Was Edgar Allan Poe Wrong After…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances for 500 million Google Assistants
Seems like good ideas. Felt that Google was falling behind, even though it AI capabilities seem deep. I want to be impressed by integrated AI. To be shown things that are really useful when finding, using and manipulating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Self Driving Chips
More indications that the winter is not that chill, AI being embedded in chips for general use/. This did not happen during the last winter.
Qualcomm Announces Chips ....
Qualcomm, which also makes modems and other technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Cusp of an AI Winter?
We have done lots of new things like better language skills and pattern recognition. But we have fallen back on delivering real process intelligence. Circa 1990, the last 'winter' created a stall that lasted some 20 years…
From insideHPC
WekaIO Accelerates 5 Million Genomes Project at Genomics England
Today WekaIO announced that Genomics England (GEL) has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate genomics research for the 5 Million Genomes Project. "We needed a modern storage solution that could scale to 100s petabytes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Car Electronics
Shielding car electronics attacks. Note the application to data coming from car systems.
Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Car Electronics
By The Wall Street Journal
January 13, 2020
German engineering company Robert Bosch GmbH…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Halting Is Poly-Time Quantum Provable
How does this intersect David Deutsch’s thoughts in 1985? Composite crop from homepages Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen (JNVWY) have just posted a paper titled . The title means that…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s Big Ideas
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani (Acting Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Acting Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science…
From insideHPC
Apply Now for ISC Travel Grant and Student Volunteer Programs
Early career researchers and university students are encouraged to take advantage of the ISC Travel Grant and the ISC Student Volunteer programs. The programs are intended to enable these participants to attend the ISC 2020 conference…
From insideHPC
Reducing the risk of blood clots by supercomputing turbulent flow
People with mechanical heart valves need blood thinners on a daily basis, because they have a higher risk of blood clots and stroke. With the help of the Piz Daint supercomputer, researchers at the University of Bern have identified…
From insideHPC
Jack Dongarra to Receive 2020 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Dr. Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee has been named to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2020 Computer Pioneer Award. "The award is given for significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning State of the Art in 2020
Lex Fridman gave this talk as part of the MIT Deep Learning series. "This lecture is on the most recent research and developments in deep learning, and hopes for 2020. This is not intended to be a list of SOTA benchmark results…
From insideHPC
Advanced simulation tools for Vortex Bladeless wind power
Vortex Bladeless presented the company’s design for a new wind energy technology. One of the key characteristics of this system is the reduction of mechanical elements that can be worn by friction. The company developed the technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins and Innovation
Not sure I quite agree with the premise. These are simulations, and we often in practice we fed them with data from real operations. Such simulations were always approximations of the real world, usually in a useful context…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Computer Tech?
Points again to the 'Brain as a computing model' conundrum. We have lots of brains we can study, observe, dissect. But we still don't know their operational specs. Algorithms 'work', because their input and output are simple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why do People Buy Products Unrelated to Search?
In Amazon/Science an interesting study.
Why do customers buy seemingly irrelevant products?
Analysis points to better algorithms for product discovery.
By Liane Lewin-Eytan
Product search algorithms, like the ones that help customers…
From Schneier on Security
Critical Windows Vulnerability Discovered by NSA
Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notices that you are Being Tracked Offline
A space we spend much time exploring. But as in all related spaces, how much attention will people play to this new fine print?
Now Stores Must Tell You How They're Tracking Your Every Move in Wired
California's new privacy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Turns IPhones into Security Keys
Nice approach. What not have this done in al the common forms of phones. Isn't any phone a unique 'key'?
Google turns iPhones into 2FA security keys — good news in an election year Paul Sawers @PSAWERS in Venturebeat.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Internet Spans the Globe
Part of the power of the internet was the fact that there were multiple ways to get from A to B, but this article makes it seem more vulnerable. The stats are interesting. My old wrong impression was that it was mostly transmitted…
From Computational Complexity
Quantum Provers to Infinity and Beyond
The Internets are buzzing about the new paper MIP* = RE by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright and Henry Yuan. See posts by Scott, Boaz, not to mention a wonderful backstory by Vidick himself and a tweet…
From My Biased Coin
ITCS 2020, Reflections
I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS, or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on Scheduling with Prediction and the Price of Misprediction (LIPIcs page) (which is one of several recent…
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 Indiana University Bloomington on January 30, 2020. I'll be at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. On Wednesday, February 26, at 2:50 PM, I'll…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reveals Toothbrush with Alexa Speaker
If you wondered what a toothbrush would say to you.
P&G unveils $230 toothbrush with Alexa speaker
Procter & Gamble Co. plans to begin selling a $230 electric toothbrush that includes a voice-controlled Alexa smart speaker built…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Proposes U.S. AI Regulatory Principles
The following is a recent press release from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. They proposed 10 principles to guide federal regulation of AI technologies and applications. These draft principles will soon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Ebook
Just taking a look at this:
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How to Calculate the Real Cost of an Ecommerce Solution
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Today more than ever, it's all about the customer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple App Store Generates $1 Billion a Week
An amazing number for the Apple store.
Apple’s App Store generates a billion dollars a week
We’re more willing than ever to buy digital products, and that’s good for Apple
On average, Apple generated over a billion dollars a week…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panasonic Cloud Analytics for Safety
Digital 'Seatbelt' combines safety data. A clever play for this problem. Also data for future development of safety methods and devices. "a central nervous system for connected cars'"
Panasonic Cloud Analytics Will Give Cars…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE and Incooling to Develop Two-Phase Liquid Cooled Servers for High Frequency Trading
Incooling has adopted GIGABYTE’s overclockable R161 Series server platform as the test-bed and prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooled overclockable servers designed for the high frequency trading market. "Incooling's…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++?
In C++, the most basic memory allocation code is just a call to the new operator: char *buf = new char[s]; According to a textbook interpretation, we just allocated s bytes. If you benchmark this line of code, you might findContinue…