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
Restaurant Robotics
Always having a consistent, simplest, correct answer is best.
Cheerful Chatbots Do Not Necessarily Improve Customer Service
Georgia Tech Research
December 21, 2022
Chatbots displaying positive emotions do not always improve customer…From The Eponymous Pickle
CUDA Graphs
Includes some useful examples below.
Enabling Dynamic Control Flow in CUDA Graphs with Device Graph Launch
By Sally Stevenson, Stephen Jones and Fred Oh
CUDA Graphs significantly reduce the overhead of launching a large batch of…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $17M in R&D Grants to Small Businesses
Jan. 10, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $17 million for small businesses in 25 states. The 77 projects are in the fields of advanced scientific computing and scientific instrumentation…
From insideHPC
Altair Releases Simulation 2022.2 Software Update
TROY, Mich., January 9, 2023 – Altair has announced simulation portfolio updates, collectively called Simulation 2022.2, designed to improve Altair’s cloud elasticity and scalability, electrification, and product development
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From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT Tutorial
Experimenting with an interaction with learning, Generative AI system. Now very much in the news. Search for GPT for much more about it in this blog. This gives you a hands on look into the state of the art in a form of…
From insideHPC
Intel Launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, Max Series CPUs and GPUs
Calling it a “pivotal moment” in its turnaround, Intel today made it official: the company launched its new and much-discussed 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (“Sapphire Rapids”), the Xeon CPU Max Series (“Sapphire Rapids…
From insideHPC
Networked Quantum Computers: IonQ Acquires Entangled Networks
COLLEGE PARK, Md. & TORONTO — Today, IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ), announced its acquisition of the operating assets of Entangled Networks , a Toronto-based company focused on enabling computation across multiple distributed quantum…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: CCC Call for Council Member Nominations
Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member. As a reminder, nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 10, 2023. Read more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Fast Food Robotics
Have seen several food oriented robotics demonstrations lately.
Why Restaurant Chains Are Investing in Robots and What It Means for Workers
CNBC, Amelia Lucas, December 27, 2022
This year brought a flurry of automation announcements…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gripping Better, Smarter
Robots Grip Better when They Grip Smarter
IEEE Spectrum
Charles Q. Choi, December 28, 2022
A robot has been trained by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute to grasp items of various sizes, weights, shapes…From BLOG@CACM
Large Language Models like ChatGPT say The Darnedest Things
ChatGPT makes the same kinds of mistakes its predecessors did. What can and should we do about it?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Veeral Shah Named 1st Chief E-comm & Digital Officer at Nestlé USA
Came from CPG, and strong use of consumer data, so of interest.
Veeral Shah Named 1st Chief E-comm & Digital Officer at Nestlé USA
Personnel Moves (of interest)
Veeral Shah has been named chief e-commerce and digital officerShah…From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Berkely Does Skypilot
Interesting direction,
UC Berkeley Launches SkyPilot to Help Navigate Soaring Cloud Costs
By Jaime Hampton, Datanami
Runaway cloud computing costs can stifle machine learning and data science projects, and many organizations are…From The Eponymous Pickle
Kepler Planet Doomed?
Space musings based on new devices and findings.
Is The first planet found by the Kepler space telescope is doomed?
Every year, the planet inches closer to its star
Like the giant planet illustrated here, the planet Kepler 1658b…From Schneier on Security
ChatGPT-Written Malware
I don’t know how much of a thing this will end up being, but we are seeing ChatGPT-written malware in the wild.
…within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—some with little or no coding experience…From insideHPC
DOE: $56M for Traineeships Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups and Institutions
Jan. 9, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $56 million to provide research opportunities to historically underrepresented groups and institutions in STEM. The funding, through the DOE Office of Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Detailed example of Cellphone and Camera Tracking in Idaho
From a comment on Bruce Schneiers post on Cellphone tracing and related technologies used by law enforcement to track suspect behavior, actual and inferred This is regarding the recent Idaho murders. Informative regarding…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Art as Math that Meets Crochet
Gabriele Meyer is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of Mathematics, at the University of Wisconsin. She creates beautiful art by crocheting mathematical shapes. In a recent article on a crocheting website, quoting an…
From insideHPC
Atos Wins £24M Settlement over UK Met Office Weather Supercomputer Contract
The Financial Times reported today that the government of the UK has paid a £24 million settlement to Atos over an £850 million contract awarded to Microsoft for a weather supercomputer to be used by the UK’s Met Office. “The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window
Scaling Solutions, Quantum Supremacy?
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window
Random circuit sampling, a popular technique for showing the power of quantum computers, doesn’t scale up if errors go unchecked.
By Ben Brubaker…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congratulations to the New 2023 Class of IEEE Elevated Fellows
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past affiliations and/or involvement with the Computing Research Association…
From Computational Complexity
Martin Davis Passed Away on Jan 1, 2023
As you probably already know from other sources, Martin Davis passed away on Jan 1, 2023, at the age of 94. His wife Virginia died a few hours later.
He majored in math at Brooklyn College and graduated in 1950.
He got his PhDThree…From The Eponymous Pickle
Criminal Purpose Implied, Detected Via Cellphone Location
Bruce Schneier mentions .... And questions constitutionality ... Useful at the link.
Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This …From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Words
Seems odd, but can make sense, especially if you have to do many variants. And, of course they can be just starting points for editing in more complex details. Note mention of 'Digital Twins'.
Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for…From The Eponymous Pickle
We did some Critical Path Work in the Enterprise
We did some Critical Path Work in the Enterprise, so this was of Interest, but we did not include many latency aspects. Technical, but worth a look.
Distributed Latency Profiling through Critical Path Tracing By Brian…From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Search Classes
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you.
Are you excited to kick off the new year by learning more about search?
If so, you’re in luck! Hopefully one of these three upcoming CoRise classes will suit…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on ChatGPT
McKinsey comments on this, with more at the link. I say we are about to get a big new flow of such products, and will have to quickly adapt.
Generative AI is here: How tools like ChatGPT could change your business
December 20…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards 'Reality' OS
Retagging our Reality:
In Engadget:
By Mariella Moon|@mariella_moon|December 2, 2022 8:05 AM
Apple has internally changed the name of its upcoming mixed reality headset's accompanying software from "realityOS" to "xrOS," according…From Putting People First
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
To live up to its mission of understanding the representational and computational capacities of the human mind, cognitive science needs to broaden the linguistic diversity represented in its participants and researchers.
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This is the interesting part:
Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan almost immediately after the attacks took place by using cell …