Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2021
From insideHPC
Sensible 4 to Launch Second Self-Driving Pilot in Norway
Helsinki, Jan. 27, 2021 The Finnish self-driving software company Sensible 4 has started pre-pilot preparations at Gjesdal, Norway. This includes test-drives in harsh Norwegian winter and mapping of the route with autonomous …
From BLOG@CACM
NoSQL: A Beginner's Guide
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
From The Eponymous Pickle
New AI to Reason about Uncertainty
Good thoughts here. We spend muct time trying to reduce uncertainty to something useful, like risk, both within rule based logic and prediction.
Approach to AI Offers More Certainty in the Face of Uncertainty, By Radboud University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Issues with Using RPA
To get the meat of this article you need to signin below into CIO Mag. Non technical.
10 dark secrets of robotic process automation
RPA promises to streamline workflows, glue together legacy systems, and empower business users…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital First Approaches
Arranging digital approachs.
A digital first approach is essential to retail success By Lee Peterson in RetailWire with expert commentary
Through a special arrangement, what follows is a summary of an article from WayfinD…From insideHPC
Ctrl IQ Aims to Democratize Hybrid Orchestration for Performance-Intensive Workflows
Berkeley, CA — January 28, 2021 — Ctrl IQ, Inc. announced today its official launch unveiling the first full technology stack that merges the key capabilities of enterprises, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance computing …
From insideHPC
Qumulo Expands Cloud Q Offering on AWS
Seattle – January 28, 2021 – File system data management specialist Qumulo today announced expanded Cloud Q configurations available through the AWS Marketplace. Qumulo said the cloud file offering is designed to deliver two …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Possibilities of Wearable Electronics
With more technical details linked to from the the article below.
Researchers realizing the limitless possibilities of wearable electronics by Erin Matthews, University of Ottawa
Bnoît Lessard and his team are developing carbon…From The Eponymous Pickle
Color to Avoid Design Failures
Coloring your designs to avoid failures.
Merging Technologies with Color to Avoid Design Failures
Penn State College of Engineering, Miranda Buckheit, January 21, 2021
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) researchers analyzed…From Computational Complexity
PhDs and Green Cards
Joe Biden's immigration policy has some interesting policies for PhDs.
Biden will exempt from any cap recent graduates of PhD programs in STEM fields in the U.S. who are poised to make some of the most important contributions…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and McAfee headline newly-formed 'Ransomware Task Force'
Need new push forward to address these attacks.
Microsoft and McAfee headline newly-formed 'Ransomware Task Force' (RTF)
The newly-founded Ransomware Task Force will work to put together a standard framework for dealing with.…From BLOG@CACM
First-Year Research Sources
Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOTORBO Smart Radio better than SmartPhones?
Have we gone too far with the smartphone to think of a hand held 'SmartRadio'? Apprently with lots of business capabilities built in to place a 'focus on collaboration and productivity'? Android powered. AnnouncedBusinesses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing Like Humans
Perhaps a useful strategy for other goals involved. Or a clever 'false flag' at play? Or mincing a human frailty. Like the thought of it.
Chess engine sacrifices mastery to mimic human play
Cornell Chronicle, Melanie Lefkowitz…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cardiovascular Disease: Improving Therapy with Digital Twins
Digital twins for modeling therapy.
An integration of a number of modeling methods are brought together with imaging.
Cardiovascular Diseases: Computer Model Improves Therapy
Graz University of Technology (Austria), Christoph…From Schneier on Security
Police Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
A coordinated effort has captured the command-and-control servers of the Emotet botnet:
Emotet establishes a backdoor onto Windows computer systems via automated phishing emails that distribute Word documents compromised with…From insideHPC
VNET Lends Joins I4DI
Las Vegas, January 26, 2021 – Telecommunications solutions provider VNET has joined the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing…
From insideHPC
UF’s HiPerGator AI: Nvidia Supercomputer Offered to Students and Researchers across State University System
January 27, 2021 – University of Florida’s new supercomputer — the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer in higher education — will soon be available for students and faculty across the State University System, UF Provost…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Customized Robot Brains
Interesting thoughts on the elements of such design, like the use of customized chip design.
Designing Customized 'Brains' for Robots
MIT News, Daniel Ackerman, January 21, 2021
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparative Mobile Security IOS vs Android
Steve Gibson does a good job looking at security in smartphones in a recent Twit.TV. Reviewing the work by Matthew Green at Johns Hopkins.
Comparative SmartPhone Security from talk notes on Twit.TV podcast #603
A team of security…From insideHPC
Classiq Secures $14.5M Series A Funding for Development of Quantum Computing Software
Tel Aviv – January 27, 2021 – Classiq, enabling the development of quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it secured $14.5 million in funding. The $10.5 million Series A financing round was led by Team8 and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Set to Replace Humans in Cybersecurity
Makes much sense in one respect, AI is about automated pattern recognition and reaction. But it can also be said there will be AI on the other side adapting as well.
AI Set to Replace Humans in Cybersecurity by 2030, Says Trend…From insideHPC
Verne Global and Sensa Join to Offer Certified Nvidia DGX System-Based Data Center Solutions
London, 27th January 2021 –Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), and Sensa, the Icelandic managed service provider and systems integrator, today announced they have …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Vice Chair Dan Lopresti Elected President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair Dan Lopresti was recently elected president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). IAPR is an international association of non-profit, scientific, and…
From Schneier on Security
Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data
Insider data theft:
Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground.
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According to Verlaan, the two suspects worked…From insideHPC
HPE to Build $35M+ NCAR Supercomputer for Extreme Weather Research
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this morning said it has won a $35+ million contract to build a supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a federal geoscience R&D center for meteorology, climate
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Leverages IOT
Good, relatively simple applications are talked.
Walmart Shows the Way on IoT in Food Retail in ProgressiveGrocer By Thad Rueter - 01/25/2021
Walmart uses IoT technology for a variety of tasks — including keeping ice creamGet…From insideHPC
Western Digital and Qumulo Partner on Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out
San Jose, Jan 26, 2021 – Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in partnership with Qumulo, specializing in file data management for hybrid cloud environments…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project: Researchers Accelerate I/O with Novel Processing Method
January 25, 2021 — Researchers funded by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have delivered a novel method that addresses overloaded communication processes that use MPI-IO by adding a second I/O request aggregation layer, according…
From insideHPC
QCI Launches QikStar Program for Business Adoption of Quantum Computing
Leesburg, Va., Jan. 26, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), which works to bridge the power of classical and quantum computing, today unveiled QikStart, a program that partners QCI with selected participants to…