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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 16th 2021)
You can tell people’s political affiliation by image recognition technology. There are far fewer stars and galaxies than we thought. The universe is relatively small. Dog ownership conferred a 31% risk reduction for cardiovascular…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Opens Car Assistant AI Tech
Have now run a car assistant for several years. After a few bumps it works fine. Have yet to see any true innovation in car use, just sharing some voice and music services. What other customizations are useful? Note…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Enabled Wearable COVID Screening
Wearable solution is interesting.
AI-Powered, Wearable-Enabled COVID-19 Screening Solution Begins Validation
By Oliver Peckham in Datanami
Despite millions of tests per day, the United States remains mired in the darkest phase…From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Relationship Management with IOT and AI
The problem is constantly evolving and the context needs to be maintained.
How to Extend the Capability of a CRM system Through AI and IoT?
Tripti Rai -January 15, 2021 in CustomerThink
Customers’ needs and expectations are in a…From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Hollow Structures
New to me, creates new options for manufacturing.
3D-printing hollow structures with "xolography"
New technique uses criss-crossing light beams in a vat of resin to create simple machines with moving parts
By Charles Q. Choi in…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Biden Names Science Team; Eric Lander as Science Advisor; Elevates Position to Cabinet-level
The following is a guest blog post by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. It was originally posted on CRA’s Computing Research Policy Blog. President-elect Joe Biden announced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Tourists Everywhere
Inevitable idea direction. I recall the broad expansion of CCTV cameras in europe, this just adds more sophisticated tracking.
Venice Is Watching Tourists' Every Move
CNN, Julia Buckley, January 13, 2021
Officials in Venice…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Named A 2020 ACM Fellow
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently named 95 of its members as the new ACM Fellows for 2020. One of the newly named members is former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, University…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Software Technology Issues Updated Capability Assessment Report
Jan. 15, 2021 — Tthe latest update (V2.5) of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Software Technology (ST) Capability Assessment Report (CAR) is now available here from the ECP website. It provides…
From Schneier on Security
Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody in hardcover for just $6, plus shipping.
Note that I have had occasional problems with international shipping. The book just disappears somewhere …From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford and IBM Lead in Edgey Tech
Perhaps most surprised in Ford leading in autonomous vehicles, but having worked with them was impressed with their analytical system offerings.
IBM Leads in Quantum Computing, Ford in Driverless Car Patents
By Susan Decker January…From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Jay Boisseau on the Convergence of AI and HPC – Or Is It?
HPC industry veteran Jay Boisseau – former director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and now AI & HPC technology strategist at Dell, among other career stops – is an advanced tech enthusiast with an outsized personality…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twelve Innovative Companies
From KDNuggets:
We bring you industry predictions from 12 innovative companies - what key trends they expect in 2021 in AI, Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning? By Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets.
Earlier we published…From The Eponymous Pickle
Acquiring 3D Images from LED Room Lighting
Researchers Acquire 3D Images with LED Room Lighting, Smartphone
Optical Society of America, January 11, 2021
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Strathclyde used a smartphone and LEDs to perform three-dimensional (3D) optical…From The Eponymous Pickle
How We Can Be Manipulated Into Sharing Private Information Online
Useful look at general manipulation methods in play.
How We Can Be Manipulated Into Sharing Private Information Online
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) December 23, 2020
Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Comments on Commenting Code
Comments sometimes seem to be a hot button for software developers. Opinions range from the manager I had who actually did want a comment on every line of code to the people who think comments are completely unnecessary. I tend…
From insideHPC
Oqton Inc. Raises $40+M Series A for Industry 4.0 and AI Manufacturing Platform
Ghent, Belgium / San Francisco – January 15, 2021 – Oqton, Inc., the U.S.- and Belgium-based software company specialising in AI-based manufacturing, today announces it has raised over $40M in a Series A financing round, led …
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone Location Privacy
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Machine Learning for Disaster Cost Estimation
AI and Natural Disaster Cost Estimation. The kind of problem that is greatly expanding.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Important Tools to Improve Cost Estimation for Natural Disasters in Electric Utilities…From insideHPC
Rescale Named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies List
San Francisco – January 14, 2021 – Rescale, the hybrid HPC cloud platform for intelligent computing for digital R&D, was recently named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies list, reaffirming their position among startups. “We’re honored…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State Department Sets Up Bureau for Cybersecurity, Emerging Technologies
Need for new examination of emergent tech and its application.
State Department Sets Up Bureau for Cybersecurity, Emerging Technologies
The Hill, Maggie Miller. January 7, 2021
The establishment of a new bureau at the U.S. State…From insideHPC
GigaIO and Microchip Power Native PCI Express Network Fabric for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure
Carlsbad, CA – January 17, 2021 – GigaIO, maker of data center network architecture and connectivity solutions, has announced a collaboration with Microchip Technology Inc. to power GigaIO’s FabreX, the native PCI Express (PCIe)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is There a Need Apologetic AI?
Now this really struck me. As a useful consideration. When humans do tasks they do apologize, sometimes appropriately, sometimes not. Makes them more human. Recalled we talked about doing this for one of our pieces ofApologetic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA's Choice of Moon Landers
Fascinating decision process/ You have three choices, and how do you move forward with a choice? Goals, values, risks?
NASA Will Choose One of These 3 Landers to Send Americans Back to the Moon
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez -JanAmerica…From The Eponymous Pickle
Offline Reinforcement Learning
Technical, but relatively understandable,
Offline Reinforcement Learning: How Conservative Algorithms Can Enable New Applications
Aviral Kumar and Avi Singh Dec 7, 2020 in BAIR Berkeley
Deep reinforcement learning has madeFrom insideHPC
Gigabyte Announces High Storage Capacity S251-3O0 for the Intel Xeon Platform
Taipei, Taiwan, January 14th 2021 – Gigabyte Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced anew storage dense server, S251-3O0, for over 400TB of storage. This Intel Xeon Scalable…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers – 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications (QC-CSAA)
Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers to participate in the upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter's Virtual CES Home of the Future
Recall that I originally established this blog to continue communications with P&G's 'Home of the future'. visitors in the middle 00's. Linked directly to a store of the future. I often headed tours and discussions there, as…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Priming Random Restrictions
Can we expand the base of their use? Technion commemoration src Bella Subbotovskaya was doing Boolean complexity lower bounds in 1961. She originated the method of restrictions of Boolean functions and proved that the formula…
From insideHPC
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new…