Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2022
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Release 1.1 of AI Enterprise Suite
NVIDIA has announced release 1.1 of its AI Enterprise software suite. It includes production support for containerized AI with the NVIDIA software on VMware vSphere with Tanzu, previously available only on a trial basis. NVIDIA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Ready of Web 3.0 and Why
Good piece by Tim O'Reilly, intro below, more at the link.
Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 By Tim O’Reilly
There’s been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I’m often…From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance in $22.5M Quantum Chips Project
STUTTGART, Germany, January 19, 2022 — Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian manufacturer of innovative quantum computing hardware, today announced a joint research project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian Hypermarket Tour
As someone who has toured European and Asian grocery/hypermarkets in past years for a major US retailer, found this fascinating. Prices in Russia, especially for staples seemed to be distinctly lower, and breadth of availability…
From BLOG@CACM
Log4j and the Thankless High-Risk Task of Managing Software Component Upgrades
Managing included versions of third-party software components too often puts developers in no-win situations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New NVIDIA Robot Brain
Pushing forward robotic power.
NVIDIA's new AI brain for robots is six times more powerful than its predecessor
And it can still fit in the palm of your hand.
By M. Moon in Engadget
NVIDIA has launched a follow-up to the Jetson…From insideHPC
Agnostiq Partners With Mila to Bridge Quantum-Machine Learning
TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2022 — Agnostiq, Inc., a quantum computing SaaS startup, announced a partnership with Montreal-based Mila, a machine learning research institute, in an effort to bridge the gap between the quantum computing …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levis using AI
Note interesting links to marketing.
Levi's AI Chief Says Algorithms Have Helped Boost Revenue
By The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2021
Artificial intelligence and a data repository built on Google Cloud have helped Levi Strauss…From BLOG@CACM
Essentials of BI Dashboards
A well-designed dashboard is everyone's dream come true.
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: How Cambridge University Pushed the Wilkes3 Supercomputer to No. 4 on the Green500
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In this interview conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, insideHPC spoke with Dr. Paul Calleja, director of Research Computing Services at the University of Cambridge, about the Wilkes3 supercomputer,
…
From BLOG@CACM
Anti-Racist Computing Education: No More Excuses
On this #MLKDay, a list of resources to help center racial equity and justice in CS classrooms and a reminder that the CS Education community must make good on individual and collective resolve to attend to racial justice in…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is the ‘range’ of a number type?
In programming, we often represent numbers using types that have specific ranges. For example, 64-bit signed integer types can represent all integers between -9223372036854775808 and 9223372036854775807, inclusively. All integers…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Zoom Workshop E-Minder: 4pm ET Today
And a place to look for fallback info in case things go wrong This is a deviation from the “blog invariants” that were maintained for 1,000 posts. We’ll be happy to have suggestions for style changes and general ideas going forward…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science for the sake of ?
My grandson in kindergarten has a class in reading. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read. Over time, school spends less time teaching how to read and a lot more time using using reading to support learning. For many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Bounties for Security
Schneier writes on the bug/security marketplace, incudes a place for the usual considerable expert comment. Intriguing to see how and if this will continue to offer significate incentive for finding security holes in existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots, Machine Learning for Distribution
Clever application here.
Robotic Arms Use Machine Leanring to Reach Deeper into Distribution
By The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2022
Robots increasingly are being used in warehouses to sort, pack, and prepare orders for delivery…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cars Becoming Smartphones
As cars become smartphones, Big Auto turns to handset chipmaker to survive
Legacy automakers underestimated the importance of employing the latest technology in their dashboards, now they're playing catch up.
How will phones link…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Trials Useful in Retail
Lots of things we also examined, with different names and contexts.
Can the metaverse solve retail’s returns challenges?
by Nikki Baird in Retailwire
We’ve seen a lot of press about the volume of returns that are pouring in from…From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog
Note: The automated tagging function in Google Blogger has been inactive for the last six months or so, which means that some tags I apply may not have been consistent. It is now working again. Does not effect content,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transform a face mask into a monitor?
'Fitbit for the Face' Can Turn Any Face Mask into Smart Monitoring Device
Northwestern University Newscenter, Amanda Morris, January 12, 2022
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a sensor that they say can transform…From The Eponymous Pickle
Heart Cells with Electronic Warning Sensors
ACM NEWS
'Pop-Up' Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Heart Cells Misbehave
By University of California San Diego, December 28, 2021
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that monitors the electrical…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy 1,000th Post and 75th Birthday, Dick
Plus an open Zoom mini-workshop Monday 1/17, 4–5:30pm ET From Rich DeMillo Richard Lipton founded this blog 1,000 posts ago. He was not quite as young as in the photo. This blog is almost 13 years old but measures time by the…
From insideHPC
Atos to Install HPC system at Technische Universität Dresden
Munich, Paris – January 13 2022 – Atos today announces that it has been awarded a contract to install a new supercomputing cluster at Technische Universität Dresden (TU) in Germany. The supercomputer will be used for data intensive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted
Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted, Brain Modelling Pioneer Says Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better in Spectrum IEEE
By KATHY PRETZ During the past 20 years, deep learning has come to dominate artificial intelligence…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Welcomes Leading Tech Entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as UA Ambassador
By Dr. Ajay Data, UASG Chair The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome Indian tech entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as a Universal Acceptance (UA) Ambassador. Sharma is the founder and CEO of One97 Communications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Age of AI-ism?
Looks to be a very interesting book, plan to read it. Authors are interesting, notably I was at a meeting with Kissinger long ago in DC. Never thought of him as a technical futurist.
By Contributor Rich Heimann…From CERIAS Blog
Reflecting on 30 years
One of my students sent me a weblink (in the story, below). It caused me to reflect a little on the past. Here is some text I shared on a few social media feeds.
30 years ago, when I started COAST (which became CERIAS) at…From The Eponymous Pickle
JFrog Talks Log4j Vulnerabilies
I was pointed to this by the by TWIT site post by Steve Gibson, pass it along for some good info about the Log4j problems.
LOG4J LOG4SHELL RESOURCE CENTER
JFrog Log4j vulnerabilites
Resources at your fingertips
The Log4j & Log4shell…From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn to Create Voice-Plus-App Experiences, with No Coding Required
Amazon-Alexa continues to push Voice-App experiences:
Learn to Create Voice-Plus-App Experiences, with No Coding Required
Entice Alexa customers to go deeper with your brand by extending into your apps and websites. Don’t miss…From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Models for VR Applications
Interesting. thinking how this would be useful. ....
CACMmag (@Communications of the ACM) Tweeted: #Mathematicians at @UniversityRudn have proposed a model for calculating the optimal parameters of a #5GNetwork for #VirtualReality…