Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2019
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Tactical HPC Software Engineer
General Dynamics Mission Systems is seeking a Tactical HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The Tactical High Performance Computing Software Engineer leads the development of next generation high performance radar and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality to Train Robots
A kind of crowd sourcing and simulation to gather training data. But will it cover the outliers that need to be considered for risk analysis? Japan continues to lead in home care scenarios,
Toyota is using VR to train robots…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Systems and AI
Automation always adds new elements of risk in application. So IT groups have to start thinking differently when autonomous systems are built and implemented.
How Autonomous Systems are Impacting IT in Informationweek
Automation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies Need to Develop their Own Data
To understand complex patterns in consumers, to support with methods like Big Data or Machine Learning, we need lots of data. Here an example of whats being done. Many walled gardens are being built now to exercise the possibilities…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Squirts Researcher
Cute video. 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 The Eponymous Pickle
Project Zenkey to Use Phones to Authenticate
The idea is that your phone and phone number will act as a secure identifier. I like the general idea, but expect general mistrust in large carriers to emerge.
The four big US carriers want to help you get rid of passwords…
From Schneier on Security
More Cryptanalysis of Solitaire
In 1999, I invented the Solitaire encryption algorithm, designed to manually encrypt data using a deck of cards. It was written into the plot of Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, and I even wrote an afterward to the book…
From insideHPC
Nominations open for 2020 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. The award honors excellence in computational science by early-career women in Europe. The winner of the Award will be invited to speak at PRACEdays20 and will…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Optimizes Scalability of Xilinx Alveo FPGAs
Today GigaIO introduced FabreX support for Xilinx Alveo Accelerators, in addition to an exclusive offering that provides Xilinx FPGA developers with remote cloud access to the FabreX platform. In conjunction with the Xilinx Alveo…
From insideHPC
NERSC Unveils Mural for pending Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC has unveiled the mural that will grace the cabinets of the Perlmutter supercomputer that will be installed at Berkeley Lab in 2020. "The mural pays tribute to the system's namesake, Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter. The Berkeley…
From insideHPC
Video: Are women underrepresented in the HPC community?
Athina Frantzana from the University of Edinburgh gave this talk at the EuroPython Conference. "This study is the first attempt to understand the current gender demographics of the HPC community, and identify potential reasons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Data-enabled Research via Reproducibility and Transparency
Talk of interest I was unable to get to last week:
Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series, Sept 26, 2019.
By Victoria Stodden
Advancing Data-enabled Research via Reproducibility and Transparency
Slides: http://stanford…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Helix Organization and Beyond
The matrix doesn't work well anymore. So I think there should also be stronger integration to knowledge and decision making. And linkages to machines and data that represent knowledge. There will always be outages in what…
From The Eponymous Pickle
All Electrical Aircraft Delivered
The problem was recently mentioned here, is it practical to have all-electric commercial scale aircraft? Here a first test underway:
NASA takes delivery of first all-electric experimental aircraft by NASA in Techexplore
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From The Eponymous Pickle
How do Machines Learn?
Completely non technical description, a simple place to start from. Though here I add its not only how do we teach machines, but also how do they apply that teaching. And how much do we trust how they apply that teaching?…
From Schneier on Security
Tracking by Smart TVs
Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Skin and Augmented Reality
Links between skin and augmented reality of interest
Artificial Skin Could Help Rehabilitation, Enhance Virtual Reality
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laure-Anne Pessina
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Strategy for Voice Retail?
From a retail perspective. I was struck by the cancellation of the Amazon Dash replenishment idea, so push button buying did not work, and voice buying also seems to be weak. Automotive coverage. An attempt for controlling…
From Computational Complexity
Quantum Supremacy: A Guest Post by Abhinav Deshpande
I am delighted to introduce youto Abhinav Deshpande, who is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, studying Quantum Computing. This will be a guest post on the rumors of the recent Google breakthrough on Quantum Supremacy…
From insideHPC
Flux7 Launches HPC Cloud Consulting Practice
"Flux7’s HPC Consulting Practice is designed to help companies get more out of their investments including traditional HPC applications like seismic imaging, reservoir simulation, computer-aided engineering, computational chemistry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adversarial Robustness Toolbox
The below talk has already occured, the recording and slides will be placed here: http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/ (The slides are there already) Some very fundamental things here.
ISSIP CSIG Speaker…
From insideHPC
Chevron Technology Ventures Selects MemComputing for Prestigious Catalyst Program
Today MemComputing announced it has been selected for participation in the Chevron Technology Ventures Catalyst Program. CTV's Catalyst Program supports early-stage companies who are advancing cutting-edge technologies that can…
From insideHPC
Rescale Listed as one of Y Combinator’s Top 101 Companies
HPC Cloud provider Rescale was recently named #39 to Y Combinator’s 2019 list of top 101 companies. This marks Rescale’s move up the prestigious list from last year’s position of #53, and reaffirms their position as a power player…
From insideHPC
Addressing the Scientific Reproducibility Crisis with Singularity
In this video from the Perth HPC Conference, Michael Bauer from Sylabs presents: Addressing the Scientific Reproducibility Crisis with Singularity. Containers provide the means to encapsulate an application, its dependencies,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Credits Expand in China
Once you have a ledger entry for every citizen, and the socialist government can add or delete credits for your behavior. Real or Perceived, Public or private. You can determine so many aspects of political correctness, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Redesigns Shopping
Always thought Google had underused its lens to create a context stream within shopping decisions. Is this finally a step forward? Here using it for fashion decisions, likely also for other contexts as well.
Redesigned Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Long Term Photovoltaic Sensors Power RFID
Impressive, if exposed to light, could power RFID chips for years.
Photovoltaic-Powered Sensors for the Internet of Things
MIT News
Rob Matheson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed photovoltaic-powered…
From Schneier on Security
Measuring the Security of IoT Devices
In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries…
From Putting People First
The Design Council’s evolved Double Diamond
At the heart of the Design Council’s framework for innovation, which helps designers and non-designers across the globe tackle some of the most complex social, economic and environmental problems, is its design methodology, the…
From insideHPC
Schneider Electric teams with Iceotope for Liquid-Cooled Datacenters
Today Schneider Electric announced it is teaming up with Avnet and Iceotope to jointly develop innovative, chassis-level immersive liquid cooling solutions for data centers. This newly announced partnership brings together three…