Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2020
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From insideHPC
Exascale Day: Goodyear’s CTO Talks Exascale’s Anticipated Industrial Design Advantages
It’s Exascale Awareness Week, a lead-up to Exascale Day this Sunday, Oct. 18 (1018), and while we mainly hear about the anticipated benefits for scientific discovery from exascale-class computing, there is also the economic competitiveness…
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Fellow Named to Quantum Computing Advisory Committee
Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 13, 2020 — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ceiling Mounted Home Robotics
An areas we looked at closely to augment smart home studies. Placing robot arms in key positions was a common solution to ambulatory examples. Note unpredictability of homes. Especially for eldercare applications. Have not…
From insideHPC
UberCloud Announces Oct. 27-28-29 CAE Webinars on UberCloud/Azure
Sunnyvale, CA, Oct. 12, 2020 – UberCloud will present this virtual event on October 27 (Americas), October 28 (EMEA) and October 29 (Asia), focusing on UberCloud’s novel CAE Simulation Platform on Azure. UberCloud is providing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Training is Supervised Learning on Optimized data
My long time background is in systems optimization. Quite intriguing claims made that could be very useful. Ultimately very technical. .
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data Ben Eysenbach and Aviral…From insideHPC
Brookhaven’s Advanced Computing Lab Expands with DDN A3I Storage and Nvidia DGX-2
High performance storage vendor DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, today announced Brookhaven National Laboratory has selected DDN’s A3I AI400X all-NVME flash appliance storage for fast optimum…
From BLOG@CACM
Agile Management of the Corona Crisis in the Start-Up Nation
Is there an efficient management solution for this crisis?
From Schneier on Security
US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot
Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network.
Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of…From Schneier on Security
2020 Workshop on Economics of Information Security
The Workshop on Economics of Information Security will be online this year. Register here.
From insideHPC
PSSC Labs Announces CBeST Cluster Management Software Stack v5 Release with Red Hat Support
Lake Forest, CA , Oct. 13, 2020 — PSSC Labs, a developer of high performance computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, announces today that a new release of CBeST Cluster Management v 5.0 Software Stack will be available…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Liqid Gets Hot, NSF Billion for AI
We have our full staff for this show – first time in a long time. We start out with introductions….Henry still lives in a survivalist compound in Las Cruces, NM, Jessi is still on crutches, and Shahin is still living in the smokie…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC/NAE Workshop Report- The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises
In an effort to prepare for the next pandemic and perhaps aid in the current one, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), along with the National Academy of Engineering, hosted a virtual workshop entitled Role of Robotics in…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC/NAE Workshop Report- The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises
In an effort to prepare for the next pandemic and perhaps aid in the current one, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), along with the National Academy of Engineering, hosted a virtual workshop entitled Role of Robotics in…
From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Dell HPC Leader Thierry Pellegrino Talks Collaborative Inspiration and Why ‘the Whole World Is Morphing into HPC’
Thierry Pellegrino is vice president and general manager of HPC at Dell Technologies, putting him in a leadership position of a vendor whose servers are used in some of the world’s most powerful HPC clusters. In this interview…
From insideHPC
Digital Twin Platform Powers New Mexico to Carbon Neutral Future
Oct. 13, 2020 — New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA) positioned the US state as a global leader to fight Climate Change…
From insideHPC
Alkira Raises $54M Series B for Network Cloud Offering
SAN JOSE – Oct. 13, 2020 – Alkira, Inc., the network cloud company, announced today a $54M Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) with participation from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, GV (formerly Google…
From insideHPC
Virtus Expands Slough Data Centre with Addition of London11
London – Oct. 13, 2020, VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), London’s leading data centre company and part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, announced today that it is embarking on further expansion of its West London campus…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About the Algorithms in Our Lives
My wife and I use these fitness trackers, ours are made by Garmin, to keep track of our activity during the day. Each day the devices give us a goal for how many steps we should take that day. The goal goes up or down depending…
From insideHPC
AFWERX to Host ‘Reimaging Energy’ Webinar Tomorrow for DoD
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 12, 2020) – AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation catalyst will host an informational webinar (register here) on the Reimagining Energy Challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD) tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 13…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Articles on the Next Normal
Pointers at the link to a number of articles and surveys on the topic:
How companies and leaders can reset for growth beyond coronavirus:
COVID-19 and supply-chain recovery: Planning for the future
October 9, 2020…From Computational Complexity
Hugh Woodin, Kurt Godel, Dwayne `The Rock' Johnson, Robert De Niro, David Frum, Tom Selleck: Do I care what they think? Should I?
MATH:
My last post on CH mentioned that Hugh Woodin used to think NOT(CH) but now thinks CH. In both cases his reasons have some math content to them. Also, note that Hugh Woodin seems to believe that CH somehow HAS an answer…From insideHPC
Georgia Tech’s Vivek Sarkar Wins 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Vivek Sarkar of Georgia Institute of Technology winner of the 2020 ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Sarkar is recognized for “foundational…
From insideHPC
ISC 2021 Calls for HPC Research Papers by Dec. 10, 2020
Submissions are now open for the ISC High Performance (ISC 2021) Research Paper Sessions. These sessions offer engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government the opportunity to share their latest research in the…
From Schneier on Security
Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches
One of the things we learned from the Snowden documents is that the NSA conducts “about” searches. That is, searches based on activities and not identifiers. A normal search would be on a name, or IP address, or phone number.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Testing AR Goggles for Commanding Dogs
Had not seen the idea before. For remotely sending commands to dogs.
The Army is Testing AR Goggles for Dogs
A military dog wearing augmented reality goggles.
Seattle-based company Command Sight has developed augmented reality…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Digital Euro
More experiments in the space.
Why is the ECB eyeing a 'digital euro'? by Florian Cazeresin Techxplore
A digital euro would complement, not replace cash
The European Central Bank will on Monday launch a public consultation and…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Enables AI Debate
This could lead to AI being able to make 'arguments' as parts of business process. Could be used broadly, for example in courts and as parts of smart contract testing. Or to test advertising pitches in context. Truly a newly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classifying Quantum Sources
An interesting kind of classification. Perhaps determining it origins. And as suggested, a faster way to do the classification. This is another example at finding patterns. Patterns are a form of information than can be…
From insideHPC
Why HPC and AI Workloads are Moving to the Cloud
This sponsored post from our friends over at Dell Technologies discusses a study by Hyperion Research finds that approximately 20 percent of HPC workloads are now running in the public cloud. There are many good reasons for this…