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 Schneier on Security
Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
This is a clever side-channel attack:
The cloning works by using a hot air gun and a scalpel to remove the plastic key casing and expose the NXP A700X chip, which acts as a secure element that stores the cryptographic secrets…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenProject
Introduced to OpenProject. An open source project management system. Nicely done, their introductory blog is here, Which attaches to many component descriptions and tutorials. Learning to apply to a large project.
Project…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Don’t Like Pile-Driving Noises
New research:
Pile driving occurs during construction of marine platforms, including offshore windfarms, producing intense sounds that can adversely affect marine animals. We quantified how a commercially and economically important…From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung's Home AI Offers to Nag and do General Chores
CES is virtual this year but is putting out some interesting things, with the usual warning that they are concepts rather than imminent realities. Looks like Samsung is touching on the fabled general home-chore butler-helper…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Early Registration Open for the CSTA Annual Conference
Just registered for the 2021 CSTA Annual Conference Early discounted registration for CSTA+ members is now open https://web.cvent.com/event/354be991-0b98-48e0-b4d3-0e32b72a6e49/summary
If you are a CSTA+ member you should have…From BLOG@CACM
The Cross-Sectorial Collaborative Shared Value Strategy
A new strategy – cross-sectorial collaborative shared value – aims to increase the impact of the organization’s social investments.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIOs Have Expanded Role
Quite expected. But it is just more work, or a truly expanded role?
CIOs Enter 2021 with Expanded Role
The Wall Street Journal, By Angus Loten
Information technology (IT) executives surveyed by CIO Journal say the pandemic has…From insideHPC
Workload Portability Enabled by a Modern Storage Platform
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explors what is meant by “data portability,” and why it’s important. Looking at a customer pipeline, the customer context could be a software…
From Computational Complexity
The ACM History Committee call for proposals looks wrong
In November I (and prob everyone in the ACM) got an email that was a call for proposal from the ACM History committee. Here is a pointer to it.
One of the passages in it just seems wrong to me:
This fellowship program is designed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Launches on-device Facial Recognition
So could most any device recognize us? Bias considerations depend on usage modes.
Intel launches RealSense ID for on-device facial recognition By Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers in VentureBeat, January 6, 2021
Intel today…From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech for Encryption
China and its secure communication broadband
Europe Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech to Win Space Race By Helene Fouquet Jan 05 2021
(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s space industry will try to match Chinese advances in secure communications…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know
A nice piece which covers the basic concepts of the most used data science algorithms. Not enough to know how to use them, but good for knowing when and why. I often reviewed this level of understanding with executives who
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picture Pile Platform to Crowdsource Data for Image Classification
Towards more classification examples for AI models.
Crowdsourced Image Classification Will Train AI Models By International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, January 8, 2021
A Proof of Concept Grant from the EuropeanPicture…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technologie links (January 9th 2021)
The Earth is spinning faster and faster: The 28 fastest days on record (since 1960) all occurred in 2020, with Earth completing its revolutions around its axis milliseconds quicker than average. We are soon getting a new Wi-Fi…
From BLOG@CACM
What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing
Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends this Year
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a good job of looking at trends likely to continue this year. With lots of useful links. Below the intro:
Trends That Will Likely Shape a Highly Uncertain Year
A few weeks ago The Economist published…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM towards Secure Enterprise Data
Hyperledger towards business goals with sharing secure enterprise data
How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise data
Chris O'Brien @obrien in Venturebeat
Blockchain can be shrouded in babble about…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rental Fees
Wow, now here is something, have quite a bit of retail equipment. Thinking this ...
It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You Own
By Ryan Whitwam on Extremetech
Internet service providers (ISPs) in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Lineage Tools
This problem was brought to my attention. I don't buy that these are the best, but they are reasonable examples I will examine. Especially with regard to impact and potential risk to the outcome of business process. We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
U.S. Army Looks to Improve Quadrotor Drone Performance
Changes in flight capabilities for in context dynamic needs.
December 8, 2020
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute…From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: BioTeam’s Ari Berman Talks HPC-Driven Life Sciences Research
Both Dr. Ari Berman and the consulting company of which he is CEO, BioTeam, stand at the crossroads of scientific research and HPC. As the company says of itself: “BioTeam is primarily a group of scientists who were forced to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Pantry Discontinued
Following this a while because some of our products were typically included. Seems to have decreased in use, and created anther level of unneeded complexity. Some 'basket' data derived was interesting to use. Also discontinued…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benford's Law in the Universe
We used Benford's law to detect potential fraud. I have mentioned it here a number of times. Turns out its much more broadly observed. Which is fairly obvious, math is also observed throughout the universe. Fits my interests…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lopsided Digital Transformations
Can confirm this in the large enterprise. Broadly done in supply chain world, uncommon in marketing. Depends on things like data access, expectations around automation.
Digital Transformation Is Lopsided, Even Within the Same…From insideHPC
FPGA Maker Achronix to List on Nasdaq Through Merger With ACE Convergence
Jan. 7, 2021, Santa Clara, CA – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. (ACE) (Nasdaq: ACEV), a …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
Powerful idea. Here wondering how well the measure of stress works for various crops.
Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
MIT News, January 4, 2021
A device developed by researchers with the Singapore-Massachusetts…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
Quantum Internet is quickly approaching. Implications?
Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation University of Chicago News, December 28, 2020
Researchers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory…From The Eponymous Pickle
Limitations of a Fremium Approach to Marketing
Thoughtful examination of the approach of free ... and the idea of freemium.
Don’t Count on Free Trials to Win You Customers in HBR, by Sadat Reza, Dixon Ho, Rich Ling, Hongyan Shi, and Gemma Calvert
January 07, 2021
Summary. …From insideHPC
UK Antitrust Agency to Probe Nvidia Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia’s intended acquisition of chip maker Arm from SoftBank, the biggest tech deal of 2020 and one with major implications for HPC and AI, is now under investigation by British regulators. A story in today’s Wall Street Journal…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. Established in 2006 through a cooperative…