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 insideHPC
CoolIT System: District Court Rejects Asetek Patent Claims
Calgary, Alberta. October 5, 2022 – Liquid cooling technology company CoolIT Systems announced that on September 11, 2022 the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an Order that granted summary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wegmans Abandons Self-Checkout
Useful retail example.
Wegmans Discontinues Self-Checkout App, Citing Losses
By The New York Times, October 4, 2022
Wegmans has discontinued the self-checkout SCAN app that it rolled out early in the pandemic to offer contactless…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking, Detecting Bots
Home/News/Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
ACM NEWS
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
By Wired, October 4, 2022
Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN75 Recap: Challenges, Successes, and Looking Ahead to 2023
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) As the ICANN community came together for the last Public Meeting of 2022, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) held three ICANN75 sessions that provided an overview…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins Could Help Society Solve Key Sustainability Challenges
Digital Twins Could Help Society Solve Key Sustainability Challenges
By design products & applications, September 7, 2022
The transformative potential of digital twins could have a profound influence on how society addresses global…From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Webb Space Telescope Data Could be Misinterpreted
Data May be Misinterpreted? Is always an issue. Models that use the data also must be good. CNN should look to themselves as a glaring example of bad interpretation..
ACM TECHNEWS
NASA Webb Space Telescope Data Could Be Misinterpreted…From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Releases Learning Platform to Make Businesses Quantum Ready
SYDNEY, Oct. 4, 2022 – Quantum control infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today released Black Opal Enterprise, an expanded version of its learning platform designed to help businesses adopt quantum computing. Q-CTRL said…
From insideHPC
DOE Office of Science Announces $400M in Research Funding Opportunities
Oct. 4, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an up to $400 million funding opportunity for basic research in support of DOE’s clean energy, economic, and national security goals. The funding will target
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Launch of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a joint Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing the launch of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem of Services and Support (ACCESS) program. The program…
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Robot Catches Grandma Before She Falls
I doubt it, but its a good direction.
Robot Catches Grandma Before She Falls
The Washington Post
Pranshu Verma, September 10, 2022
A mobile robot balance assistant developed by scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Supercomputing Today
With all the talk about Quantum, why supercompute? Some background
There is Plenty of Room at The Top (of Supercomputing), By Bennie Mols
Commissioned by CACM Staff, October 4, 2022
Supercomputers are the Olympic champions of scientific…From Computational Complexity
Is it okay for a paper or book to say `for more on this topic see Wikipedia Entry BLAH.
One of the proofreaders for Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds
(available here)
made the following objection, which raises some questions.
I object to telling readers to see a Wikipedia Entry. Wikipedia…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond
Impressive depth of applications. Good examples to consider for the future.
AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond
By Karen Emslie
Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 15, 2022
The United Nations (U.N.)The…From insideHPC
Samsung: 1.4 nm Process Technology in Production by 2027
At its Foundry Forum today in San Jose, Samsung Electronics spotlighted its foundry business strategy with emphasis on high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), 5/6G connectivity and automotive applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cause and Effect or Inevitable?
Embedded intelligent tech vs training. Democratizing what?
Democratization of AI Could Prevent the Great Resignation
Opinion By TDWI, September 20, 2022
It's no secret that the technology industry has been hit hard by the Great…From insideHPC
Dell Using HPC in UNICEF Partnership for School Internet Connectivity
ROUND ROCK, Texas – October 03, 2022 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is leveraging high performance computing in a partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) USA to support Giga, a UNICEF-ITU global initiative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Stack Observability
I admit I did not know the term, but OK, lots at the link.
From Cisco
Deliver and optimize digital experiences by connecting application performance to business context.
What is full-stack observability?
…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI System Predicts How to Prevent Wildfires
AI System Predicts How to Prevent Wildfires
Aalto University (Finland)
September 9, 2022
A neural network model developed by researchers at Finland's Aalto University can predict the effectiveness of different land management strategies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Kill College Writing?
I think still pretty detectable.
By The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 3, 2022
Each time you click GPT-3's “submit” button, the machine learning algorithm pulls from the wisdom of the entire…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
Ultimately gets us closer to AI
AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
By MIT News, September 13, 2022
The Composable Diffusion model created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Illinois at Urbana…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
Think of an ecosystem like a sentence – there are thousands of words in the English language but in order to make a sentence you have to put them together in the right way. If you don’t have the right grammar your sentence just…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Payroll
How Amazon is looking at employment, staffing issues
Will Amazon’s $1 billion payroll investment work to keep front lines staffed? in Retailwire
Source: Amazon recruitment video
AMAZON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION HUMAN RESOURCES ONLINE…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Platforms and Network Effects
Very interesting area of interest.
Data Platforms and Network Effects
By Michael A. Cusumano
Communications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 22-24 10.1145/3555833
Industry platforms are foundations that bring people…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing, Measuring Smell
Was long time interest of ours for product use.
Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor Google Blog
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Posted by Richard C. Gerkin, Google Research, and Alexander B. Wiltschko, Google
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Watershed Models with Deep Learning
Unusual application of interest.
Deep learning improves stream discharge-based estimates of subsurface permeability, allowing scientists to create more accurate watershed models. Deep Learning Uses Stream Discharge to Estimate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tool Uncovers Cancers
Tool Uncovers Cancer-Driving Structural Variations
Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom, September 26, 2022
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers created the CSVDriver software to identify cancer-generating structural variants (SVs) from…From The Eponymous Pickle
Terranet: Laser Scanning
Interesting example:
TERRANET – FIRST SAMPLE UNIT OF ITS LASER SCANNING..
September 30, 2022
Terranet ready to produce the first sample unit of its laser scanning module
Terranet has completed its extensive development and simulation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata's Data Lakehouse
Data Infrastructure by TeraData
Last week Teradata offered its long-awaited response to the emergence of the data lakehouse. As VentureBeat’s George Lawton reported, Teradata has always differentiated itself…From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Try to Teach Robot to Laugh at the Right Time
Scientists Try to Teach Robot to Laugh at the Right Time
The Guardian (U.K.)
Hannah Devlin, September 15, 2022
Koji Inoue and colleagues at Japan's Kyoto University have developed an artificial intelligence system that can guide…