Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2020
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member William Gropp voted IEEE CS 2022 President
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member William “Bill” Gropp has been voted IEEE Computer Society 2021 president-elect and will serve as president in 2022! The IEEE Computer Society is the world’s home for computer…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Renews Commitment with HPE Cray EX Supercomputers and HPE Apollo 20 Systems
Calgary, Alberta. November 3rd, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC) for desktop and data centers systems, announces continued participation with exascale and high performance computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn 1 New Skill
Nicely stated. I agree it is essential. but make sure you use it with care. Minimal hype. And combine it with other capabilities that help yield correct results.
Mark Cuban: The World's First Trillionaire Is Learning 1 SkillBy…From insideHPC
Quantum Science: ORNL Researchers Talk about Exploring Subatomic Weirdness
Check out Oak Ridge National Lab’s latest Sounds of Science podcast in which ORNL researchers discuss what they hope to accomplish with quantum computing. As ORNL states in its introduction to this episode: “Quantum mechanics…
From insideHPC
ICC Partners with GigaIO to Offer NovArray HPC Solution
Carlsbad, CA – November 3, 2020 – GigaIO, creators of data center network architecture and connectivity solutions, today announced an agreement with International Computer Concepts (ICC), a systems integrator of enterprise-level…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy
In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide solutions for a wide array of needs for more strategic cultivation…
From insideHPC
Registration Open for Hyperion Research HPC Market Update at Virtual SC20
HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research will hold annual HPC Market Update Briefing during the SC20 conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 starting at noon Eastern Time. The event will include an hour-long presentation followed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning will do Everything?
But there is still much to learn, to apply, to understand. The history is examined, the future is considered.
AI godfather Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
Nearly 30 years ago, Hinton’s belief…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Abandons Robotic Inventory
Does not mean it could not go back to it, but for now robots won't take store inventory. There are now lots of people to hire in this space. An area we spent a whole decade researching.
Walmart abandons plan to have robots…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Election Night Time Warp
Has Election Night—not just the election—been modeled adequately? The Conversation source Kurt Gödel famously found solutions to Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity that allow trajectories to loop through time.…
From insideHPC
AWS Launches Nvidia GPU-Driven EC2 P4d Instances for AI, HPC
Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d Instances powered by Nvidia GPUs with EC2 UltraClusters capability delivering 3x faster performance, up to 60 percent lower cost, and 2.5x more GPU…
From Schneier on Security
New Windows Zero-Day
Google’s Project Zero has discovered and published a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver. The exploit doesn’t affect the cryptography, but allows attackers to escalate system privileges:
Attackers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership by Algorithm
An interview with David De Cremer
From Knowledge@Wharton
Artificial Intelligence Will Change How We Think About Leadership
Supports K@W's, Technology Content
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 30 – Open-Source Exhibitions with Andreas Matt
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast is taken from a video interview with Andreas Matt, co-founder and CEO of IMAGINARY, a non…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce: Mapping Algorithms for Office Reopening
Depending on how well it works could be interesting to try. By Salesforce. Further calibration with data and results? How different is this than using methods like those developed more generally for transmission tracking? The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Patrolling the Uncanny Valley
The notion of the 'uncanny valley', further and more widely examined. Typically the idea has been applied to android robotics, that is robots or even visualizations that look much like humans, but are not. That gives many people…
From insideHPC
Fugaku in the News: Simulations Show Humidifiers Could Limit COVID-19 Spread
Scientists using the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Arm-based Fugaku system at Japan’s Riken Center for Computational Science, have generated findings that relate humidity to the spread of coronavirus: the more humid…
From BLOG@CACM
Determining CS Student Preferences During the Corona Semester
What does the Corona Semester reveal about computer science students’ preferences when learning computer science?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowsourcing Smartphone Sensors to Test Infrastructure
Though likely to cause concern over privacy.
Motorists' Smartphones May Help Highways Bosses Keep Roads Safe
University of Birmingham
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Birmingham found that high-resolution three-axis accelerometers…From Computational Complexity
I polled my class about the election
In 2016 I had the Sophomore discrete math class do a poll of who they wanted for president.
In 2020 I had the both my Senior Crypto class and Clyde's Sophomore algorithms course do a poll of who they wanted for president.
All…From insideHPC
Juniper Research: Industrial IoT Connections to Reach 37B by 2025
Hampshire, UK – 2nd November 2020: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global number of Industrial IoT connections will increase from 17.7 billion in 2020 to 36.8 billion in 2025; representing an overall growth…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment
In this white paper sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a look at AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment where an increasing demand for digital media content creates need for faster rendering options. The…
From Putting People First
Google Health’s human-centred observational study on AI’s real-world problems
The gulf between the technical brilliance claimed for Google’s deep learning model and its real-world application points to a common problem that has hindered the use of AI in medical settings.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Night of the Ethical Algorithm
Algorithms for the Election Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth are the authors of the book Ethical Algorithms and the The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design. It has earned strong reviews including this one in Nature—impressive…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How will the pandemic impact software programming jobs?
Software programming is not for everyone, but among the careers that are mostly unregulated, and thus mostly free from rents, it has consistently been one of the best choices. You can earn more money if you embrace some professions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Find Evolving Earthquakes?
More advances moving towards closer to rea-time prediction?
Technology Finds Long-Hidden Quakes, Possible Clues About How Earthquakes Evolve
Stanford News, Josie Garthwaite
Stanford University scientists developed new algorithms…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Models Include Uncertainty, Risk
In the earlier days of AI we always included uncertainty and risk models in parallel. Even if risk was apparently minimal. This seems to be much less done today. Except if you use Bayesian methods that directly include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RiskIQ and Ransomware
Useful detail.
RiskIQ Has Released Its Corpus of Infrastructure and IOCs Related to Ryuk Ransomware
OCTOBER 30, 2020
BY TEAM RISKIQ
Ryuk Ransomware has flooded US hospitals, threatening to shut down their operations when they're…From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Knowledge Research Foundation
My introduction to this group. Ultimately its about knowledge and its use:
Stephen Ibaraki spoke with Amit Joshi, Director of the Global Knowledge Research Foundation https://gr.foundation/about…