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 insideHPC
ISC 2022 to Be Held in Hamburg, May 29-June 2
Oct. 6, 2021 — The ISC High Performance 2022 conference will be held May 29-June 2, at Messe Hamburg, Germany, ISC’s first in-person conference and exhibition since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Regular attendees continue…
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Dan Katz Elected to Board of IEEE Computer Society
National Center for Supercomputing Applications Chief Scientist Daniel S. Katz was elected to the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022. The BOG drives the Computer Society’s…
From insideHPC
HPC Center Stuttgart Celebrates 25 Years
Stuttgart, Germany – October 6, 2021 – Founded in 1996 as Germany’s first national high-performance computing (HPC) center, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) has grown to become not just a key facility of…
From insideHPC
Quantum Company Rigetti Computing to Go Public via SPAC
BERKELEY, Calif. — Oct. 6, 2021 — Rigetti & Co., Inc. (“Rigetti”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, announced today it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning can Catch Natural Language Attacks
Particularly like the broad notion of 'honey pot' or attraction approach for threats. Reading the broader article to see possible reapplication.
Honeypot Security Technique Can Stop Attacks in Natural Language Processing ByA…From insideHPC
MIT: Blockchain Could Secure Robot Team Communications
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 5, 2021 — Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a wildfire, these leader robots…
From insideHPC
Altair Updates Integrated Simulation and Analysis Portfolio
TROY, Mich., Oct. 5, 2021 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), maker of converged simulation, HPC and AI solutions, announced enhancements to its integrated portfolio of simulation and design tools. This update to Altair’s simulation software…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC Summit Week to Be Held March 22-24 in Paris
The EuroHPC Summit Week 2022 will take place from 22 to 24 March in Paris. The conference will be hosted by GENCI, the French HPC agency, and organised by PRACE, the HPC-GIG project and ETP4HPC. Save the dates! The EuroHPC Summit…
From insideHPC
Infratil Limited Invests in Kao Data Centre Expansion Plans
October 5, 2021 – London – Colo data centre services provider Kao Data has recently signed an agreement to acquire two UK data centres with a long-term anchor lease from a large financial services business. This purchase will…
From insideHPC
DARPA Program Aims to Build Quantum-inspired Solvers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Quantum-Inspired Classical Computing (QuICC) program seeks to leverage lessons learned from benchmarking quantum algorithms to develop QI solvers for a range of complex …
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Chandrasekaran on Teaching Supercomputing and Leading ECP’s SOLLVE Project
In this episode of the Exascale Computing Project’s Let’s Talk Exascale, the ECP’s Scott Gibson interviewed Sunita Chandrasekaran, the new principal investigator of the ECP SOLLVE (Scaling OpenMP With LLVm for Exascale Performance…
From insideHPC
SoftIron Names Kenneth Van Alstyne CTO
Richmond, VA – October 5th, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data infrastructure solutions, today announced the appointment of Kenneth Van Alstyne to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Van Alstyne will be tasked…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces ‘Domain-Wall’ Encoding Findings
LEESBURG, Va., October 5, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT), a company focused on bridging classical and quantum computing, today announced research that provides evidence that “domain-wall” encoding — a method for…
From insideHPC
D-Wave’s Cross-platform Offering to Cover Annealing and Gate-model Quantum Computers
BURNABY, B.C. — October 5, 2021 – Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems Inc. today said at its annual user conference, Qubits, it has released a performance update to its Advantage quantum system, a new…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Center for Business Analytics Data Science Symposium
UC Center for Business Analytics
Data Science Symposium 2021 will be a virtual event on Tuesday, October 12 from 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM. There will be three speakers from Coterie Insurance, McDonald's, and the University of Cincinnati…From The Eponymous Pickle
Saving Capitalism
A podcast of interest, based on my employers of the past, plan to listen to.
First He Saved Unilever. Now He Wants to Save Capitalism.
HBR IdeaCast
Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, led a dazzling career in consumer goods,“Net…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning for Material Design
Notice the advanced methods being used, like genetic algorithms to improve training. Use for materials. Material design continues to be a strong area of use. See my 'materials' tag. Technical.
Deep Learning Framework toKAIST…From insideHPC
Akridata Launches Edge Data Platform for ‘Data-Centric AI’
SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 5, 2021 – Akridata, which calls itself a category-maker in Data-Centric AI, today announced the launch of the Akridata Edge Data Platform, which creates and manages smart data pipelines and AI workflows…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Launches Long-Term Archiving with Object Storage Services
SAN JOSE, October 5, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced two breakthrough innovations aimed at organizations generating, storing, and managing huge amounts of data. Quantum is introducing ActiveScale Cold…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Sense is Hard
A key consideration ....
An AI expert explains why it’s hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense
August 17, 2021 8.09am EDT, Author, Mayank Kejriwal
Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems…From insideHPC
HPE’s HPC and AI Solutions for the Energy Industry: Driving the Transition from Fossil Fuels to a Renewables Future
{SPONSORED CONTENT] The oil & gas industry has been a high-rev engine driving HPC growth for more than 40 years. It’s a sector with insatiable demand for supercomputing processing power and high performance, high capacity data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro Rights Laws
First I had heard it stated this way. May also effect things like 'neuromarketing'?
In the Face of Neurotechnology Advances, Chile Passes 'Neuro Rights' Law
By Agence France-Presse, October 1, 2021
Chile has become the first…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Nomads Surging
A look at studies of the surge.
The Number of Digital Nomads Surged Again in 2021
The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. By Steve King
The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on the Great Resignation
Quitting vs Keeping
With So Many People Quitting, Don’t Overlook Those Who Stay
by Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer, October 01, 2021 in HBR
Summary. The marketplace for talent has shifted. You need to think of your employees…From Putting People First
People Going Full Circle – Free Experientia report
Download free Experientia report on the role of consumer behavior in making food purchasing and product packaging more sustainable.
From Putting People First
Le persone che chiudono il cerchio – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia
Rapporto gratuito di Experientia sul ruolo del comportamento dei consumatori nel rendere più sostenibile l’acquisto degli alimenti e il packaging dei prodotti.
From Putting People First
Digital for Care – Free Experientia report
Download free Experientia report on key trends and design challenges in home and remote care when patient and caregivers use online platforms and on-body health devices
From Putting People First
Digital for Care – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia
Rapporto gratuito su tendenze chiave e sfide di design nell'assistenza a domicilio e a distanza quando il paziente e i caregiver usano piattaforme online e dispositivi per la salute.
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey has some How To's on what They Call Cyber Resilience:
McKinsey comes up with some good ideas about the process of being cyber smart. Here are all the headings, click through for much more.
October 3, 2021 The pandemic amped up all things digital and accelerated…From Computational Complexity
How have computers changed society? Harry Lewis (with co-authors) have a book out on that.
(Disclosure - Harry Lewis was my PhD advisor.)