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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAMAS 2021
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021) on May 3-7, 2021…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAMAS 2021
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021) on May 3-7, 2021…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Irene Qualters’ Long View of HPC, from a Start-up Called Cray to ‘No-Analog’ Research at Los Alamos
Irene Qualters, a senior-level manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been at the forefront of the convergence of supercomputing and science for decades, extending back to joining Cray as one of that company's first 100…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Launches AI at Scale to Marketing and Media
Again IBM is targeting large Industry sectors with AI. Note specific mention of consumer privacy.
IBM Brings Artificial Intelligence At Scale To The Marketing And Media Industry in PRNewswire
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire…From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Book on Computational Agents
The use of an agent to represent objects, IOTs or people is very useful. Closer, but not the same as classic optimization models. The book and comments here are good introductions. Technical.
Free book - Artificial Intelligence…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Knowledge is Good
Science is good too Emil Faber is the pretend founder of the pretend Faber College. The 1978 movie Animal House starts with a close-up of Faber’s statue, which has the inscription, Knowledge Is Good. Today, Ken and I thought…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Hype Cycle on AI
Nicely done overview, including the classic hype cycle of AI at the link.
Hype Cycle of AI In The Enterprise AI By Svetlana Sicular
We recently published for the wide audience that 2 Megatrends Dominate the Gartner Hype Cycle…From insideHPC
CMKL University, Taiwan, Deploys Nvidia and DDN for AI Supercomputing and Research
Oct. 6, 2020 – DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, announced its A3I all-flash and hybrid storage system alongside Nvidia’s DGX POD will help amplify capabilities at CMKL University, Thailand…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Unveils New PowerEdge XE Servers, Updates OpenManage Systems Management
Dell EMC today announced new PowerEdge XE servers, updated its OpenManage systems management and monitoring software and revealed a code collaboration with Splunk for Redfish protocol telemetry data ingestion and analytics. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Shuts Down Bixby AR
Recall we looked at Bixby closely here for assistant capabilities in appliance domains. And in particular noted the blending of AR capabilities, though saw no practical examples. Notable move here. Still the integration of…
From insideHPC
Los Alamos, HPE, Nvidia Form HPC Scientific Computing Partnership
Los Alamos, NM, Oct. 6, 2020 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced a partnership with HPE and Nvidia intended to deliver HPC technologies to accelerate scientific computing that advance greater performance efficiency…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Rebrands G Suite
Working with clients and universities have often had to use G Suite. Just recently received a message saying that some of the spaces I created there will be removed, so need to scramble on that. A rebranding but also a repositioning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms Automate Bioengineering Cells
A step forward it seems on synthetic biology is to automate aspects of it.
Machine Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology: Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for You
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
September 25, 2020
A tool developed…From insideHPC
ACM To Hold AI in Finance Conference October 14-16
New York, Oct. 6, 2020 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, will hold the inaugural ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), virtually from October 14-16. Advances in artificial intelligence are having…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Spotlight on ACM-W Professional Chapters
ACM-W Professional Chapters give you a local voice for change with the backing of an international organization. Professional chapters work with student chapters and industry leaders to advocate for equity and diversity in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Animals to Track Behavior
Quite interesting. Perhaps to use as a means of controlling blights? Or as a means to discover new kinds of biomimicry.
Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix Scientific American By Sophie Bushwick; Macarena Carrizosa
University…From The Eponymous Pickle
InTernal Integration of AI Chips
Continued work on AI oriented computer chips.
Chip Designed by AI by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore from TechXplore
A*STAR researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that can help…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Nvidia’s Geetika Gupta on a Decade of Driving GPUs into the Data Center
Geetika Gupta, senior product manager at Nvidia, is a veteran of the company’s drive to bring GPU processing power to the data center. In this conversation, part of our Dell Technologies HPC Community series of interviews, Gupta…
From insideHPC
SC20 Keynote: Climate Science in the Age of Exascale with Dr. Bjorn Stevens
SC20 has announced its keynote speaker, Prof. Bjorn Stevens of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Germany, who will speak on Monday, November 16, starting a day of plenary talks and panels at the virtual conference.…
From insideHPC
Atos and ECMWF Launch Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Modelling with HPC, AI and Quantum
London and Reading, UK; Paris, France; Bologna, Italy – October 5 2020 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), today announce a new Center of Excellence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Github Code Scanning to Find Vulnerabilities
Like the idea of scanning for basic vulnerabilities. and ultimately linking to code automation. Further would like these to be adapted to specific domain risk analysis. Have not seen this in the enterprise.
GitHub Launches…From insideHPC
$750,000 Grant to Research of Nerve-Muscle Communication at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pitt
A $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will continue a lab-computer collaboration that accurately simulated communications between nerve cells and muscle cells. The project has immediate applications in treating…
From insideHPC
GTC: A Summary of Today’s Announcements from Nvidia
Here is a summary of today’s news and announcement released by Nvidia at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC), this year held virtually: Data Center and Networking New Family of BlueField DPUs for Center Networking, Storage and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks Trained to Apply Anesthetics
Apparently an example of direct process control. Risk involved?
Neural Network Trained to Control Anesthetic Doses, Keep Patients Under During Surgery
ZDNet. BY Charlie Osborne
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Robots Make us Happier?
Not sure they are meant to. Do calculators make us happier? Computers? The Internet? No they just give us the option for some assistive benefit ... which includes happiness. Like exploring the idea of happiness given…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Based Authentication
Had seen this before, not called this. Here in Schneier. As I recall in our brief look, a higher level of false negatives. Here a more serious look.
Interesting usability study: “More Than…From Schneier on Security
New Privacy Features in iOS 14
A good rundown.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 28 – Global Security and Graph Analytics with Nadya Bliss (Part 2)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Nadya Bliss, the Executive Director of Arizona State’s Global Security…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 28 – Global Security and Graph Analytics with Nadya Bliss (Part 2)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Nadya Bliss, the Executive Director of Arizona State’s Global Security…
From Schneier on Security
Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG
Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called Crypto International, still based in Switzerland but…