Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Grocery Podcasts
Just reintroduced to Jungle Jim's International Market's Podcasts, which do a good job of introducing the novelty of their retail world. In our retail innovation days we used them as an example of what could be done with engaging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compressing Data for Humans in the Loop
Compressing data for teleoperation. Human in the loop requires images that can be used to adapt to changing reaction times and decision making in coordination with very remote devices. Technical.
PICO: Pragmatic Compression…From The Eponymous Pickle
Helix Model for Future Proofing Organizations
Unaware of this method.
Future-proofing the organization the ‘helix’ way
The German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is reinventing a key division. Its head of transformation explains how separating the company’s people leadership…From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation Releases NVIDIA HGX A100-powered Servers for AI and HPC
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 6, 2021 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data center solutions, announced that it is now offering a new line of TENSOREX servers featuring…
From insideHPC
3rd Annual HPC-AI Advisory Council and STFC DiRAC Conference, Oct. 13-14, to Explore the UK’s Science Superpower Agenda
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The for community benefit HPC-AI Advisory Council, in collaboration with the UK’s Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) DiRAC Facility, has announced the 2021 UK Conference will take place, virtually…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Lab and Blockchains for Secure Robot Teams
Interesting link, especially coming from the MIT Media Lab, where we had a membership.
Blockchain Technology Could Provide Secure Communications for Robot Teams
MIT Media Lab, Adam Zewe, October 5, 2021
Researchers at the Massachusetts…From insideHPC
Exascale Hardware Evaluation: Workflow Analysis for Supercomputer Procurements
By Rob Farber on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project It is well known in the high-performance computing (HPC) community that many (perhaps most) HPC workloads exhibit dynamic performance envelopes that can stress the memory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CarPlay Expands it Reach to AC, Stereo and Seats
Interesting view of what we might expect for new and updated capabilities, but not driving interfaces in the 'smart home' automotive division. So far there have not been many impressive examples. In part because of the safety…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GM and Cruise Get California DMV Approval for Waymo
Observing this space I have received many questions about how likely autonomous driving will become, and how soon. Mainly due to safety considerations. Yet there still seems a continuing movement to the approval of autonomous…
From insideHPC
Univ. of Nebraska Seeks $50M Fed Funding for HPC Center Expansion
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is seeking $50 million in federal dollars via the American Rescue Plan to fund supercomputing expansion to university’s Holland Computing Center. According to an article on its Nebraska Today…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interacting with Computers Through Smell
In our innovation spaces we also looked at 'communication', and sales via smell and taste. Since at the time we were makers of some very large coffee blends. We worked with simulations of blends and how people interactedInteracting…
From Computational Complexity
C++ is for Cookie and That's Good Enough for Me
Potbelly, a local sandwich chain, made me an offer I couldn't refuse: change my password and earn a free (and quite tasty) oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. A free cookie is a great motivator, and checking that this wasn't somePotbelly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI in Particle Physics
An old interest of mine, how can AI be applied? An investigation. A further question: How can AI be used generally elsewhere as a means to 'drill' into a complex space, with known rules, play with their testing and extension…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Physics Nobel Prize for 2021
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize— Richard Feynman Composite from front-page source Giorgio Parisi has just been awarded the 2021 Physics Nobel Prize for his work on the disorder…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Fed Gov AI Spending Increasing
It appears in most the usual spaces.
Federal Government Spending on AI is Accelerating
By AI Trends Staff
AI is a major priority for US federal agencies and its adoption is accelerating, in part due to urgency following the COVID…From The Eponymous Pickle
Combine Robots and Drones for Data and Compliance
Makes much sense. Have recently been following the usage of how drones and directed robotics are opening up data availability in the time and space dimensions. And here also in the dimension of compliance.
Insurers Increase…From insideHPC
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Proclamations Celebrating 35 Years
Oct. 7, 2021 – Local, state and federal officials have recognized the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC’s) 35-year anniversary. US Congressman Mike Doyle; Governor Tom Wolf; PA State Senators Pat Stefano and John Sabatina…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Building a Stronger Social Playbook
Plans to include methods like livestreaming, shoppable media, group buying and gaming. Note $3 Trillion mentioned below.
Unilever’s Social Commerce Playbook Adds New Start-up Platform
The Positive Beauty Growth Platform initiative…From BLOG@CACM
Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
From insideHPC
Chenbro Launches 2U Compact JBOD for High-Density Storage
Taipei, Taiwan, October 7, 2021 – Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), designer and manufacturer of own-brand rackmount systems, has announced the compact 2U JBOD, the DS25224, which supports 24 x 2.5” tool-less SAS or SATA drives, with the…
From insideHPC
Samsung Claims First Open-source Software for CXL Memory Platform
Samsung today introduced what it said is the first open-source software solution designed for the Compute Express Link (CXL) memory platform. The company said the Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK) builds on Samsung’s May…
From BLOG@CACM
Computers Were Originally Humans
Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Machine Learning Careers: Looking Beyond the Hype
So what is the gap between the popular (mis)understanding of ML potential and what the tools can actually deliver today? In the next episode of ACM-W “Celebrating Technology Leaders”, scheduled for October 20th at 3:00 PM ET/12…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New on D-Wave Quantum
If you have followed this blog, you know that I have followed D-Wave since nearly their beginning. They introduced me to solving combinatoric models their way. Today found the below a report by TechCrunch on how D-Wave to further…
From insideHPC
ExaWind: How Exascale-class HPC Will Help Optimize Skyscraper-sized Wind Turbines of the Future
A wind power revolution is blowing through the U.S. electrical industry, and exascale-class supercomputing is expected to play an increasingly instrumental role in its growth. The Energy Information Administration puts wind power…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hint at Dystopian Futures
Expected direction?
‘Dystopian world’: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state
Trial of robots to police ‘undesirable’ behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rules in The Guardian
SingaporeFrom…From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Depot Hires Wal-Mart
Yes, an intriguing retail development.
Is Home Depot’s deal with Walmart a sign of bigger things to come?
by George Anderson
Home Depot is hiring Walmart to handle local deliveries for its stores.
The retailers revealed today that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Stuck in a Logic Box?
Can think of a number of times. Can see how this could be added to ML delivered choices.
Are you stuck in a “logic box”?
Beware the trap of making a smart choice among flawed options.
In Strategy+Business by Adam Bryant
Many years…From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcasting and all That
Never related SAS to Podcasts. Then I saw the below. Have been interested this kind of promotion/broadcasting that you can ingest as and where you want, and repeat as you need. I even did an internal podcast for P&G when IWhy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Books
In KDNuggets:
Data Science books to start reading: Good selection, I would pick one or more that makes the most sense based on your current background and go from there.
Data science is undoubtedly…