Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring By The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023
Ukrainian troops operated a telescopic tower with a remote camera on a Soviet car that was recast to observe and correct fire…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSET Seminar: The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will hold their first session in the Security and Emerging Technology Seminar Series of 2023 on Wednesday January 18th at 10AM EDT. The session “The Multinational Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Wide is Computing Divided?
Short review extract:
Computing Divided: How Wide the Chasm? By Andrew A. Chien
Communications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Page 5 10.1145/3572994
Andrew A. Chien, past Editor-in-Chief of CACM
In January 2019,…From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC 2023 Applications Due March 1
Jan. 4, 2023 — Applications are due Wednesday, March 1 for the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which will take place July 30-August 11, 2023 in the Chicago area. Apply here. There are no fees…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slip Robotics
Brought to my attention, classic problems in supply chain.
Load and unload trucks in <5 minutes
Robots that use the dock you already have
Our trailer loading and unloading solution does not require modifications toMove…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Simpler Path to Better Computer Vision
Improving vision and modeling.
A Simpler Path to Better Computer Vision
MIT News, Adam Zewe, November 23, 2022
A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers trained computer vision models using a dataset…From BLOG@CACM
What to Expect When You're Expecting ... GPT-4
What comes after ChatGPT? Seven predictions for 2023.
From BLOG@CACM
Is Computing Innovation Getting Harder?
Many of us, inside the ivory tower and outside, have felt at times that research is not quite delivering at the rate we hope it would.
From insideHPC
atNorth Acquires 2 Data Centers in Finland
Stockholm – January 4, 2023 – atNorth Holding AB, a pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire two data…
From Schneier on Security
Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
Maintaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes about 0.3 percent of global CO2 emissions. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s more than the emissions of Switzerland, Croatia, and Norway combined. As many cryptocurrencies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alert! Very Serious LastPass Security Glitch:
Am a week or so late to this, just now exploring implied severity, and if the previous admissions properly provided enough information to LastPass users to minimize the damage involved.
From Schneier Security:
…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Logicians are Everywhere
So where were they between 1720 and 1820? Helena Rasiowa was a famous logician from Poland. She visited Case Western Reserve University when I was an undergraduate a million years ago—in the 1960s. I have always loved mathematical…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emojis in domain names, punycode and performance
Most domain names are encoded using ASCII (e.g., yahoo.com). However, you can register domain names with almost any character in them. For example, there is a web site at
From BLOG@CACM
The ChatAlgebra Educational Revolution
We need a ChatAlgebra revolution to reduce the gatekeeping role of the traditional Algebra course, to ameliorate the student suffering associated with the traditional mathematical sequence, to overcome inequitable results, and…
From BLOG@CACM
Is ChatGPT Really a 'Code Red' for Google Search?
Maybe not.
From BLOG@CACM
Inorganic Growth In Tech: Getting Shredded with Acquisitions
Acquisitions happen quite often in the tech industry and are far more complicated to pull off successfully than popping a pill.
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Spins off Server Business Unit
January 3, 2023 ─ High-performance server and workstation vendor GIGABYTE Technology today announced its enterprise solutions division has officially been spun off from GIGABYTE and acts as an independent, wholly-owned GIGABYTE…
From Schneier on Security
Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Particles of Light and Fluid Flow
Not quite grokking this, or its value, but considering it.
Particles of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison Suggests
By Brookhaven National Laboratory
December 20, 2022
This graphic shows the energy density at different…From BLOG@CACM
5 Best Practices for Cloud-Based Backup and Recovery in 2023
These practices help technical professionals ensure their organizations' data is protected and can be recovered quickly.
From Computational Complexity
Positional Encoding
Given the excitement over ChatGPT, I spent part of the winter recess trying to understand the underlying technology of Transformers. After trying various tutorials, I found the best explanation comes in the original 2017 paper…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re a Further Look at BioPhysics
How does life and physics fit together? Just received in an Alumni mailing discussing,
Physicists are studying how living matter works, and find that it breaks the standard rules and produces fascinating new…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Publishes Technique for AI Language Model Self-Improvement
Technical, Reviewing.
Google Publishes Technique for AI Language Model Self-Improvement
by Anthony Alford Director, Development at Genesys Cloud Services
Researchers at Google and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robux from Roblox,
Virtual Currency desired?
Kids Don’t Want Cash Anymore–They Want ‘Robux’
Virtual currencies have become many families’ preferred way to pay allowance. And Roblox’s currency is king.
Kaylee Robleto looks at virtual goods purchased…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing the Future Coming
Continuing to read Jane McGonigal's just published: "Imaginable: How to see the Future Coming and feel ready for anything - even things that seem impossible today" Had met her at a meeting some time ago and was impressed…
From insideHPC
TSMC Holds 3nm Chip Ceremony in Taiwan, 2nm on Way
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held a 3 nanometer (3nm) volume production and capacity expansion ceremony on December 29 at its Fab 18 construction site in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cambridge Researchers Develop VR Tool for Cancer Treatment
Appears to be of use ..
Cambridge Researchers Develop VR Tool for Cancer Treatment
PC Magazine
Marco Marcelline, December 29, 2022
Video game designers and cancer researchers have teamed up at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge…From The Eponymous Pickle
Qubit Primer
Some useful notes on Quantum Computing by Russ Fine. at https://quantumtech.blog
Quantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited ...
In December 2021, in an early iteration of this Blog, described the various qubit modalities…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supercomputer Simulation Animates Evolution of the Universe
Considering all of it and animations are useful too.
Supercomputer Simulation of the Universe
ScienceNews
James R. Riordon. December 2, 2022
An international team of researchers has engineered the most accurate supercomputer animation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Physna - 3D Data Talk
Perhaps of interest:
Unlocking the Full Potential of 3D Data | By Physna
Event by Deep -Tech Showcase
Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (your local time)
Asher Radensky and 256 other attendees
Engineers spend 12 hours a week searching…