Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2022
From Computational Complexity
The Media Coverage of the Matrix result is Terrible (though not worse than usual)
BILL: A computer program (or an AI or an ML or whatever) found a BETTER way to do matrix mult! Its in the same spirit as Strassen. I've always wondered if Strassen was practical since it is simple, and computers have come a…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Corruption of Co-Design
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Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Book Review : Template Metaprogramming with C++
I have spent the last few years programming often in C++. The C++ langage is probably one of the hardest to master. I still learn something new every week. Furthermore, C++ is getting upgrades all the time: C++17 was a greatContinue…
From insideHPC
Rakuten Symphony Telecom and CIQ Bring Open Source and Open Community to Open RAN Deployments with Rocky Linux
Tokyo, October 26, 2022 – Rakuten Symphony Inc. and CIQ, Inc. today announced the availability and support of the Rocky Linux operating system for handling demanding radio signal processing software workloads. “Open source communities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Medicine Is Overhyped?
Caution in implementation.
By Scientific American, October 25, 2022
Doctor wears virtual reality goggles depicting futuristic healthcare scenario.
Adopting a more holistic approach to developing and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Are We Getting Closer to Artificial Life?
Implications for Health Care? Health-Technical.
In Nature: Article, Published: 14 September 2022
Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells
Can Xu, Nicolas Martin, Mei Li & Stephen Mann
Nature volume 609, pages 1029…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Work Like Bees
ACM TECHNEWS
3D Printing Drones Work Like Bees
By Imperial College London (U.K.)
September 23, 2022An international team of scientists led by the U.K.'s Imperial College London (ICL) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials…From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Muscle Movement with Magnets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdDeRgAUsWo
MIT Media Lab, 56.1K subscribers
MagnetoMicrometry
Nearly all movement in the animal kingdom is driven by muscles, but can we more accurately measure how our muscles move during natural…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Change Trajectory of Drones
Better speeds and paths for drones via optimization.
Researchers Change Trajectory of Drones for the Better
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aaron Seidlitz, October 20, 2022
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's…From Schneier on Security
Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Facing up to the problems of recognising faces #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
How the use of facial recognition technology caused a mistaken arrest.
From insideHPC
Mike Wall Named Verge.io Chairman of the Board
ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 25, 2022 — Verge.io, the company with a simpler way to virtualize data centers, today announced the appointment of Mike Wall as chairman of its board of directors due to growth in market opportunity
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Duke Energy Smart Healing Grids
Been following this for some time, impressive results so far. Much more to be done.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss is appointed to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable
The Computing Community Consortium would like to congratulate the Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss, on her appointment to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable. In January of 2021, Congress voted to direct…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Computer Science Professional Development Problem
Mike Zamansky is stirring up trouble again. OK not really his intent I’m sure but people can get defensive. I have to say that I agree in principle with most of his post at Why PD doesn't work for CS
Mike lists four different …From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Upheld: AIs Cant Hold Patents
Recall we examined this for a Govt client, her some additional implications.
AI News
US court upholds ruling that AIs can’t be patent holders
By Ryan Daws | October 21, 2022 | TechForge Media
Categories: Artificial Intelligence,The…From The Eponymous Pickle
YouTube's Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations
Been following feedback aspects of YouTube
YouTube's Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations
By The New York Times, September 21, 2022
Mozilla Foundation researchers found pressing the "dislike" button on a YouTube video does…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Modalities Blog
This blog was brought to attention, by Russ Fein. examining further. Mention of companies involved. How up to date is as yet unclear. comments
Blog by Russ Fein: Useful Links:
https://quantumtech.blog/home/
https://quantumtech…From The Eponymous Pickle
Shuffling Cards
Some time ago when doing simulation projects, we discovered some problems in code based random numbers. We even tested them vs some physical machines. To feed analytical simulation ofprocess. Humans are well known to be…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi, Shares Concern Over Lack of Incentive Structure in Cybersecurity
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Advances or Creeping Madness?
Soo to be drones Everywhere?
Casino Developers Want to Fill Times Square With Surveillance Drones
"If the city makes this high-stakes bet on casino surveillance, I worry they’ll gamble away the future of our public streets,"By…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chula Chatbot
ACM CAREERS
Chula Chatbot Serves As an Education and Career Coach
By Chulalongkorn University, September 26, 2022
A chatbot developed by lecturers at Chulalongkorn University is designed to serve as an education and career coach…From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Mirrors a Good Idea?
Have my doubts, side effects still unknown.
Why Not Space Mirrors? Rand Blog, by Emmi Yonekura
October 19, 2022
Given the potential consequences of climate change and a danger of reaching irreversible “tipping points,” thereThe…From Computational Complexity
Cheating in Chess and in Class
In the 24th move of the second game of the 1978 Chess Championship, a cup of blueberry yogurt was delivered to the defending champion Anatoly Karpov who offered a draw shortly thereafter. The challenger Victor Korchnoi claimed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deidentification Methods
Privacy challenges continue
Common Deidentification Methods Don't Fully Protect Data Privacy
By University of Chicago. October 13, 2022
Even deidentification experts acting in accordance with strict privacy regulations fail toCommon…From The Noisy Channel
Query Similarity
I started writing about query understanding in 2016, working my way up from low-level concerns like language identification and character normalization to higher-level topics like query rewriting, contextual query understanding…
From insideHPC
Factors to Understand to Maximize Cloud HPC Investments for Your Organization
HPC workloads place considerable demands on compute hardware and IT infrastructures, which is why most organizations have traditionally kept HPC applications on-premises in their local data centers. Several cloud providers now…
From Schneier on Security
On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very hard—but this article shows that we…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hidden Figures – NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Robots Gaining Ground in White-Collar Office World
ACM TECHNEWS
Software Robots Gaining Ground in White-Collar Office World
By Bloomberg, October 3, 2022
Software is making inroads into white-collar professions due to innovations enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning…