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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management
Gary Starkweather (9 January 1938 – 26 December 2019) invented and developed the first laser printer. In the late 1960s he was an engineer working in the US for the Xerox company (famous for their photocopiers) and came up with…
From insideHPC
Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M
January 9, 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics announced it has raised £30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos Investment Advisers. Lansdowne Partners, Prosus Ventures, 2xN…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swiss Robotics Research and Results
It can all go back to the example of the complex Watch
Marc-André Miserez, Other languages: 7
The move into robotics has been a natural fit for a country that excels in high-end precision machinery and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dense Visual Representations and More for Robotics
Quite an interesting podcast I am about to listen to ... ideal applications?.
ACM OPINION
Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics
By The Gradient, January 5, 2023
Google Research Scientist Pete Florence.
Pete…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural Disasters
Increasingly becoming an ideal application for these techniques.
Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural Disasters
The Japan Times, December 31, 2022
A growing number of municipalities in Japan are deploying digital tools…From The Eponymous Pickle
Stoke Space
Looking Outward ...
Stoke Space aims to build rapidly reusable rocket with a completely novel design
"We took a leap of faith and jumped off a cliff."
Stoke Space. Eric Berger
Andy Lapsa went to the best aerospace engineering schools…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dell to Stop Using China Chips
Moving Worldwide Production
Dell to Stop Using Chips Made in China Before the End of 2024, By PC Magazine, January 6, 2023
Taiwanese financial newspaper Commercial Times believes Dell is also planning to move 50% of its production…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel's FakeCatcher
Detecting Fakes, better results?
Intel’s AI Can Detect DeepFakes With 96 Percent Accuracy
By Adrianna Nine on November 16, 2022 at 10:24 am in ExtremeTech
Deepfakes wasted no time becoming an internet-wide problem. Within just…From The Eponymous Pickle
Catheter-shaped Steerable Robot robotic devices
Catheter-shaped robotic devices could be guided remotely within the body, or exercise semi-autonomous control. Steerable Soft Robots Could Enhance Medical Applications
EPFL (Switzerland), November 28, 2022
Scientists at the Swiss…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fetish
Seems that about 1.5% of people have a squid fetish.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From insideHPC
SRC Leads JUMP 2.0 Microelectronics Consortium — Includes DARPA and 7 University Research Centers
Jan. 4, 2023 — DARPA, along with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and industry and academic stakeholders, is kicking off the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). The SRC-led effort expands on
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiring a Virtual Person in China?
In what further sense hire?
Companies can Hire a virtual Person for about 14k a Year?
CNBC News, Evelyn Cheng, January 2, 2023
Companies in China are "hiring" virtual employees, with technology firm Baidu saying it has doubled…From Schneier on Security
Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
I’m not sure why, but Audiobooks.com is offering the audiobook version of Schneier on Security at 50% off until January 17.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
Article at below link has been considerably updated and commented on ,,,
Breaking RS A with a Quantum Computer January 3, 2023, by Bruce Schneier
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they…From insideHPC
D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Enter Reseller Agreement
January 05, 2023 — Burnaby, British Columbia, Palo Alto and Huntsville, AL — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services company, and Davidson Technologies, Inc., a technology services…
From insideHPC
Poly Raises $4M to Build Generative AI Tools for Designers
San Francisco – Poly, a web-first generative AI company for design assets, announced today the close of its $4M Seed, led by Felicis, Bloomberg Beta, and NextView Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Figma Ventures…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel's Mobileye
Advances in Autonomy by Intel
Intel's Mobileye sees $17 bln in assisted-driving product revenues by 2030
Reuters
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving tech unit Mobileye Global Inc (MBLY.O) said on Thursday it sees…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cargo Cult Redo
Richard Feynman during his 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology coined the term cargo cult. The term was just used over at the blog of Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized. Read his post and skip…
From Schneier on Security
Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
This group has found a ton of remote vulnerabilities in all sorts of automobiles.
It’s enough to make you want to buy a car that is not Internet-connected. Unfortunately, that seems to be impossible.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Insects Play with Toys?
Mimicry learnings to be had?
Are these bumble bees playing with toys?
First example of insects seemingly having fun with objects adds to evidence for emotions
27 OCT 2022 11:00 Ambyerik Stokstad
Playtime isn’t just for children.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sampling, Pipelining Method Speeds Deep Learning on Large Graphs
Enhancing Neural Networks
Sampling, Pipelining Method Speeds Deep Learning on Large Graphs
MIT News, Lauren Hinkel, November 29, 2022
The SAmpling, sLIcing, and data movemeNT (SALIENT) methodology devised by Massachusetts Institute…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding Unicode with AVX-512: AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Ice Lake
Most systems today rely on Unicode strings. However, we have two popular Unicode formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. We often need to convert from one format to the other. For example, you might have a database formatted with UTF-16,Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for Knowledge Management
KM will continue to compete with digital workplace initiatives...
Predictions for Knowledge Management By Lauren Trees in the APQC Blog
Lauren Trees identifies trends in enterprise knowledge sharing and collaboration, researches…From The Eponymous Pickle
CES Reporting?
Based on my previous message, I have been asked to do some selective reporting on the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , based on my long experience with emergent tech in the enterprise at a half dozen venues. This can include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing and Dentistry
My impression was there was relatively little done in this space, I was wrong. Note use of CAD/CAM tools. Here are some examples.
Computers Aid Dentistry, January 5, 2023
A digital representation of a tooth.
New small-scale in…From The Eponymous Pickle
CES 2023 Follow
This years CES:
CES 2023 IS THE GLOBAL STAGE FOR INNOVATION
CES® is the most influential tech event in the world — the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators.
This is where the world's biggest brands…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Global CyberLaw
Involved with this some time ago, continues to increase in complexity.
Cyberlaw: Where We Are and What's On the Horizon in ACM News
By Karen Emslie, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 29, 2022
Talita Dias said viewing cyberspace…From The Eponymous Pickle
Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal-Plastic Composite Structures
Metal-Plastic composites ...
Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal-Plastic Composite Structures
Waseda University (Japan), November 30, 2022
A new multimaterial digital light processing three-dimensional printing (MM-DLP3DP)…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG and ICANN Announce Inaugural UA Day and Call for Proposals
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are calling for event proposals for the inaugural Universal …
From insideHPC
An AI-Flavored Set of HPC Predictions for 2023
Many predictions for HPC-AI in 2023 came over our transom in recent weeks, here are excerpts from the ones we found most interesting, fresh, insightful — even contrarian. Altair Chief Scientist Rosemary Francis: Go Big or Go
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