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
Clothing that Makes you Stronger
Strength increasing , ergonomic enhancing, safety. Examined aspects of this for supply chain use.
German Bionic debuts its lightest powered exosuit to date at CES 2023
The company is also unveiling an ergonomics-monitoring safety…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Paper Hit by Ransomware
Ransomware hitting many kinds of targets. First I had seen of anewspaper.
Guardian newspaper hit by suspected ransomware attack
Published, 21 December 2022, By Tom Singleton, Technology team in the BBC
The Guardian newspaper has…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Trouble with Interconnects
Technical issues with transistors in Chip Fabs influence Moore's Law.
Big Trouble in Little Interconnects
in IEEE Spectrum by Samuel K. Moore / January 02, 2023
Interconnects—those sometimes nanometers-wide metal wires that link…From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind and ML Graphcast Forecasts Weather
Interesting outcome .... Similar in other kinds of forecasting?
DeepMind & Google’s ML-Based GraphCast Outperforms the World’s Best Medium-Range Weather Forecasting System
Medium-range weather forecasts play a crucial role inIn…From Putting People First
[Book] An anthropology of futures and technology
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This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lynn Conway: revolutionising chip design
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London MIT professor and transgender activist, Lynn Conway along with Carver Mead, completely changed the way we think about, do and teach VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip design…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back and Looking Forward in CS Education 2023
Traditionally I write a year end look back on thee previous yest in CS education. (Last year at Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021) Honestly, that post would largely work for 2022 as well. I attended SIGCSE, CSTA…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper
by Peter W McOwan and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) In the 2003 film The Matrix Reloaded, Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and crew continue their battle with the machines that have enslaved the humanContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails
Thanks to Vincent Granville for sending along his 'Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fail'
Entitled “Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else“Free…