Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2019
From Schneier on Security
The NSA Warns of TLS Inspection
The NSA has released a security advisory warning of the dangers of TLS inspection: Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI), also known as TLS break and inspect, is a security process that allows enterprises to decrypt traffic…
From insideHPC
CFD Leader NUMECA adopts Advania Data Centers for HPC-as-a-Service
Today Advania Data Centers (ADC) announced a strategic HPC service partnership with NUMECA International, a market leader in computational fluid dynamics CFD, multiphysics and optimization. "This HPCaaS partnership allows NUMECA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Magazine Nov/Dec 2019
Informs Magazine: Nov/Dec 2019
Featured articles:
Unchaining data scientists to make DataOps work
The three biggest trends in AI and ML right now
Survey: Scaling technology innovation can double revenue growth
Recounting 2019 Analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Ballistic Drones
With an example video. Policing, military?.... Inevitable.
Watch a 'transforming' drone blast out of a cannon
Ballistic drones could aid emergency response teams and space exploration. By Christine Fisher, @cfisherwrites
Researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Diving Personalities
Seen this mentioned before. Would also likely be used by insurance companies as well. Right now only be 'predicted' by accident frequency, an example of prediction of behavior, another example that will be quickly accused of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invest in Experiences
It is all about experience and what we can learn and use again.
Why Investing in Experiences Rather Than Things Is Good for Your Business
Put down your phone and start living.
By Levi KingCo-founder and CEO, Nav in Inc.
I grew up…
From insideHPC
TYAN Launches AMD EPYC Server Platforms at SC19
Today TYAN rolled out the latest lineup of HPC and storage server platforms based on the AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors that are aimed at the datacenter market at SC19. "The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor was designed to provide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identification from Single Strand of Hair
New identification techniques.
Scientists can now identify someone from a single strand of hair
By Eva Frederick in Science Magazine
A new forensic technique could have criminals—and some prosecutors—tearing their hair out: Researchers…
From insideHPC
Inspur steps up with Innovative Liquid Cooling Technology at SC19
Inspur is showcasing new HPC systems with Natural Circulation Evaporative Cooling technology this week at SC19. Inspur combines high-density computing servers with natural circulation evaporative cooling technology, which is
…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General-Purpose Processors, and a New Road Forward
John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet Inc., will present “The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General-Purpose Processors, and a New Road Forward,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From insideHPC
Rescale Reaches Quarter Billion Core-Hour Milestone for HPC Cloud Orchestration
Today Rescale announced that it has reached a quarter billion core-hours run by its customers. "As an indicator of this shift, the majority of Rescale’s lifetime compute occurred in 2019 alone. Companies demand the best architectures…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies taps AMD EPYC processors for Expanse Supercomputer at SDSC
Dell Technologies has been selected to power the next-generation supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), expected to deploy in mid-2020. "With the compute-dense PowerEdge C6525, including next-generation AMD…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Rocks the TOP500 with HDR InfiniBand at SC19
In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes the company's dominating results on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. "At SC19, Mellanox announced that 200 gigabit per second HDR InfiniBand accelerates…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers Helping Teachers For Free
I understand the appeal of sites like Teachers Pay Teachers. Really I do. Some teachers are awesome at creating resources and the idea of getting paid to share them is attractive to underpaid and over worked teachers. Even Amazon…
From Schneier on Security
GPS Manipulation
Long article on the manipulation of GPS in Shanghai. It seems not to be some Chinese military program, but ships who are stealing sand. The Shanghai "crop circles," which somehow spoof each vessel to a different false location…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Captures 3D LED Models of Contents
A new kind of film capture or cinema?
LED egg Room-Sized LED Egg Captures Amazing 3D Models of People Inside It
in TechCrunch
By Devin Coldewey
Google researchers have designed a prismatic light-emitting-diode (LED) "egg," to generate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ways Microsoft wants to Change Healt Care
Brought to my attention by Ryan Doherty, whose company Midmark, is always doing interesting things in the healthcare tech space. Been following them for years.
The 4 big ways Microsoft wants to change health care
By Jackie Kimmell…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Types of Machine Learning
Once again an excellent piece by Jason Brownlee, a intro to a number of kinds of machine learning. Abstract intro below, More at the link, and do subscribe:
14 Different Types of Learning in Machine Learning
by Jason Brownlee…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Cloud computing: a story of incentives
Many businesses today run “in the cloud”. What this often means is that they have abstracted out the hardware entirely. Large corporations like Amazon, Google, Microsoft or IBM operate the servers. The business only needs toContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Technical Expertise for Judges
Seen now a number attempts at applying AI type pattern solutions to law. So Judges need to understand the implications.
How to Improve Technical Expertise for Judges In AI-Related Litigation
By Brookings Institute
Judges are tackling…
From insideHPC
Innovium High Performance Networking Solutions Move Big Data at SC19
Innovium is showcasing their TERALYNX-based high performance switches SC19 this week. These switches deliver the industry’s highest performance, lowest latency, and highest port radix with flexibility for 10G – 400G connectivity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Randomness
We may intuitively think that order is good and disorder is bad, but randomness is useful, for example in preparing samples of data to train learning system. This mathematical article touches on the issue
Mathematicians Calculate…
From insideHPC
Kingston and Madison Cloud Showcase Private MultiCloud Storage for HPC at SC19
Kingston is demonstrating its latest DRAM and NVMe PCIe Flash solutions for HPC at SC19 this week. The company will showcase the consistent data performance and reliability of its forthcoming DC1000M U.2 NVMe SSD, purpose-built…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Optimizes FabreXTM Architecture with Leading Edge GPU Sharing and Composition Technology
GigaIO announced the FabreXTM implementation of GPU Direct RDMA (GDR) technology, accelerating communication for GPU storage devices with the industry’s highest throughput and lowest latency. “It is imperative for the supercomputing…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Optimizes FabreX Architecture with GPU Sharing and Composition Technology
Today GigaIO announced the FabreX implementation of GPU Direct RDMA (GDR) technology, accelerating communication for GPU storage devices with the industry’s highest throughput and lowest latency. "It is imperative for the supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Intel and AWS Team for HPC Performance in the Cloud
In this video from SC19, Trish Damkroger from Intel and Ian Colle from AWS describe how the two companies collaborate to deliver the best possible application performance in the Cloud. "HPC on AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable…
From insideHPC
Formulus Black Showcases High-Performance Memory-Based Storage and Virtualization at SC19
Venture-backed startup Formulus Black is showcasing its Forsa solution at SC19. Forsa enables memory to be provisioned and managed as a high-performance, low-latency storage media for the most-demanding workloads. "Formulus Black…
From Schneier on Security
Iran Has Shut Off the Internet
Iran has gone pretty much entirely offline in the wake of nationwide protests. This is the best article detailing what's going on; this is also good. AccessNow has a global campaign to stop Internet shutdowns....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Impact of AI on Labor
Thoughful piece with some supporting visuals.
From The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). https://pnas.org
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
Morgan R. Frank, View ORCID ProfileDavid…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Clever Way To Find Compiler Bugs
Your comments are valuable, we thank you. source Xuejun Yang is a Senior Staff Engineer at FutureWei Technologies. He is the DFA on the 2011 paper, “Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers.” Today Ken and I discuss a clever…