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 The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Measuring Energy
First I had heard of this, lots of interesting measure graphics at the link.
Alexa can estimate how much electricity smart home devices consume
By Patrick Hearn, January 26, 2021 in Digitaltrends
A smart home is convenient, but…From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Smart Plugs Smarter
Considering a broader view of 'smart', more like cooperative towards goals.
Engineers make smart plugs smarter by National University of Singapore
Singapore is in the midst of its Smart Nation transformation, and researchers from…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Digital Humans Emerging
Recall Microsoft's patent of a particular person, just mentioned here. Recall too the 'uncanny valley', and other disturbing side-effects. And the magic can collapse quickly of the conversation is not convincing. But IHome…
From insideHPC
Kao Data to Host InstaDeep’s HPC and AI Supercomputer, Expanding R&D Capabilities
London, January 26, 2021 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier-neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced a new customer contract with InstaDeep, a global leader in artificial …
From insideHPC
10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 2
In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing Turbulence with Competitive AI
We used turbulence analysis in roasting applications. Could have used this as a means to do better predictions in simulations.
Intriguing application I had not seen yet.
ETH Researchers Compute Turbulence With AI
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)…From insideHPC
Micron Delivers 1α DRAM Technology
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 26, 2021 – Micron Technology today announced volume shipment of 1α (1-alpha) node DRAM products that the company said is built using advanced DRAM process technology and offering improvements in bit density…
From insideHPC
OEMs Join Nvidia-Certified Program – Systems Pre-tested for AI Workloads
Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Inspur and Supermicro are among 11 systems makers engaged in an Nvidia certification program, announced this morning, designed to test hardware across a range of AI…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Happy New Year from CISE!
A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, Happy New Year! 2020 certainly brought its share of challenges, and our sympathies are with all of you most directly affected…
From Computational Complexity
Answers to the Prez Quiz, and some interesting history
I posted a presidential quiz (that is, a quiz about presidents, not a quiz that is so majestic it can be called presidential) on Thursday Jan 21.
Here is the link to the post: The Post
Here is the link to the quiz:The Prez Quiz…From insideHPC
12th JLESC Workshop to Be Held Feb. 24-26
The 12th annual Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC) will be held virtually from Wednesday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 26. It will bring together researchers in high performance computing from the JLESC partners
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person
The idea has been suggested before, here with slightly different capabilities. Interesting depending hw well it could be implemented. With image and realistic voice. Consider too, who owns the particular replica of a person…
From Schneier on Security
Massive Brazilian Data Breach
I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. (Lots more stories are in Portuguese.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Based Automated Drone Landing
Seems a simple action, but can be complex in different contexts.
Novel Camera-Based System for Automated Landing of Drone on Fixed Spot
Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan), January 21, 2021
Scientists at Japan's Shibaura Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
LiDAR Space Scanning, Modeling and Enabling
Some time ago attended a brainstorming session on the use of 'space scanning' to support advertisements and other future AR functionality. Well the time is now closer, but how close are we to actual functionality? I am testing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Bad Code Lead to Good Learning?
Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that it did. The code is this:
static void Main(string[] args){
int x = 2;
while…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intellectual Property Analysis
Connects to some of my recent work. Categorizing and usefully measuring what we have.
Google proposes applying AI to patent application generation and categorization
By Kyle Wiggers in Venturebeat
Google asserts that the patent…From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection with Lacework
Brought to my attention:
Lacework covers topics and issues around threat defense, intrusion detection, cloud containers, workloads, accounts, devops, and more.
Anomaly Detection and Behavioral Analytics Focus on user and Application…From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised:
A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance feeds of dozens of customer homes, doing so primarily to spy …From insideHPC
Yash Technologies Partners with ScienceLogic AIOps, Digital Transformation
Chicago, Jan. 25, 2021 — YASH Technologies, a global technology services and outsourcing provider, announced a partnership with ScienceLogic, an AIOps platform provider. This partnership enables YASH to deliver business service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Traffic Wait
Not a new thing but does it do it better with novel situations? Would be a good thing to experiment with to see how new patterns are adapted to.
Optimizing Traffic Signals to Reduce Intersection Wait Times By Texas A&M Today…From Putting People First
Online exhibition: Design in an Age of Crisis
The Design In An Age Of Crisis Gallery features submissions to a global open call issued in 2020 by Chatham House and London Design Biennale, inviting radical design thinking from the world’s design community, the public and…
From Putting People First
The Scottish Approach to Service Design (SAtSD)
The vision for the Scottish Approach to Service Design is that the people of Scotland are supported and empowered to actively participate in the definition, design and delivery of their public services (from policy making to…
From Putting People First
[Book] How design makes the world
From the airplane armrest to the Facebook “like” button, and everything in between, Berkun shows how design helps or hinders everyone, and offers a new way to think about the world around you.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 24th 2021)
Year 2020 was great for PC makers. We are selling more and more PCs. Reportedly, Sony sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 in only four weeks, a record. The demand for the Facebook Quest 2 VR headset is reportedly several times the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Key Uses for BlockChain
Nicely done use cases, not much detail, but a start.
Blockchain, Unchained: 5 Key Use Cases By Joe McKendrick | November 11, 2020 in RtInsights
To achieve success with blockchain, PwC advises proponents to focus on collaboration…From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Partners With Rhinostics for Swabs
My former employer innovates in COVID Testing
P&G Partners With Rhinostics to Take Innovative Nasal Swab to Market to Improve Speed of COVID-19 Testing Press Release in Business Wire, January 22, 2021
iMFLUX, a subsidiary of…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at What Makes us Run: Batteries
Battery Day. What they are and where they are going. In some ways such a primitive thing, but still very essential to make things work and be portable. .
A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible…From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Around Smartphone Encryption
Being discussed, security and how it is being circumvented.
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption
in Wired, Lily Hay Newman, January 15, 2021
Analysis by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) cryptographers revealed…