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 Eponymous Pickle
White Castle Fast Food Using Flippy Robot
Inevitable to see more of these robotic solutions for food preparation, here the most common example.
White Castle Plans to Use Robot in More Locations
Forbes, By Lana Bandoim
The White Castle restaurant chain said it is expanding…From The Eponymous Pickle
Things that Quantum Computing will be Useful For
Thoughtful, but non-technical look at the question.
6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For By Mark Jackson in SIngularity Hub
Computers don’t exist in a vacuum. They serve to solve problems, and the type of problems…From insideHPC
Optical I/O Specialist Ayar Labs Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding
Santa Clara, Calif.– Nov. 5, 2020 –Ayar Labs has announced the completion of a $35M Series B financing co-led by Downing Ventures and BlueSky Capital. New investors include Applied Ventures, LLC, Castor Ventures, Downing Ventures…
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on Smartphone
Amazing how we can get advanced bioinformatics on a handheld. Open source too.
App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on Smartphone
Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
Researchers at Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical…From BLOG@CACM
Here's Why Resentment is the Key to Happiness
Do you find happiness to be fleeting? That shiny new car or big job promotion makes you happy for a few weeks but quickly turns into the same old same old? Maybe resentment is the key to happiness... Let me explain why.
From insideHPC
UberCloud Releases Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud HPC Application Platform
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — UberCloud has announced its next-generation HPC Application Platform, designed to support the way enterprises run HPC applications today. With cloud providers offering improved security, better cost/performance…
From insideHPC
DHI Group Picks Bright Cluster Manager for Supercomputer Capacity Planning
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – Today, Bright Computing, maker of Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced that DHI Group has upgraded its supercomputer, …
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Contact Tracing Apps Talk to Each Other
Interesting look at these and comparison to other Tracing Apps in europe. Clear contribution to decrease in spread?
UK contact-tracing apps start to talk to each other in the BBC
The United Kingdom's various contact-tracing apps…From The Eponymous Pickle
Battery Free Ocean Exploration?
Towards automation and empowering sensors in varying environments. Piezoelectronics always an interest too.
An Underwater Navigation System Powered by Sound, MIT News, Daniel Ackerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky at AAAI HCOMP 2020
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2020), October 25-29th, 2020, online. The emphasis of this track…
From The Eponymous Pickle
End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Just started to read, excellent overview. Will follow with more comments as it applies to my work.
End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Hardcover – April 30, 2020 by Rolf Oppliger (Author)
This exciting resource introduces the core…
From insideHPC
Child’s Play: Kid’s Book Author Named Q-CTLR Quantum Education Advisor
Call it counterintuitive reverse psychology. Q-CTRL, a startup that applies control engineering to development of quantum technology, today announced that its quantum education advisor will be Chris Ferrie, a writer of children…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Phishing Emails
Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“:
Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be something they are not in order to get the recipient of the email to undertake some action they…From Schneier on Security
California Proposition 24 Passes
California’s Proposition 24, aimed at improving the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed this week. Analyses are very mixed. I was very mixed on the proposition, but on the whole I supported it. The proposition has some serious…
From insideHPC
Gigabyte Launches Embedded mini-ITX Motherboard for the AMD EPYC Embedded 3151
Taipei, Taiwan, November 5th 2020 – Gigabyte Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced the Gigabyte MJ11-EC0 for the power-efficient embedded market. Real-time computing in …
From insideHPC
Wrapping Up a Big Year for HPC at SC20
In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair discuss how for those of us in high-performance computing, fall means gearing up for the annual SC conference — the biggest supercomputing event of the year. SC has gone virtual…
From insideHPC
ISC 2021 Will Be Virtual
In the run-up to SC2020, the HPC industry’s other major conference coming up next year, ISC 2021, announced today that the confab will be a virtual event. “The Covid19 pandemic continues to pose great uncertainty to conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Research's Lifelike Robotic Gaze
Will Disney push forward Lifelike Robotics and Vision. A very uncanny valley?
Disney Research Makes Robotic Gaze Interaction Eerily Lifelike
IEEE Spectrum Evan Ackerman
A team of researchers from Disney Research, the California…From The Eponymous Pickle
Novel Inventory Tagging System using Molecular Bits
Interesting use of molecular tagging. Could this be used beyond retail inventory? What is the speed and accuracy of reading the tags? Note use of machine learning integration.
Porcupine Molecular Tagging Scheme Offers Sharp…From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Machine Learning for Law and Compliance
Good general overview of a space we have worked for a while, yes good opportunities. But beyond ML methods.
AI/ML Applications in Law and Compliance Posted by William Vorhies in DSC
Summary: Some industries are a clear slam…From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Antibiotics
Narrow example of applicaation of recommendation in healthcare
MIT CSAIL researchers claim their algorithm helps doctors pick the right antibiotics
Kyle Wiggers@Kyle_L_Wiggers in Venturebeat
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science…From Schneier on Security
Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements
Accuracy isn’t great, but that it can be done at all is impressive.
Murtuza Jadiwala, a computer science professor heading the research project, said his team was able to identify the contents of texts by examining body movement…From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Computing Joins Exclusive Group of Companies with Access to Honeywell’s Newly Launched Quantum Computer
Cambridge, UK, Nov. 4, 2020 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced an agreement with Honeywell Quantum Solutions establishing access to Honeywell’s recently announced premium quantum computer – the System Model H1…
From insideHPC
A Checklist For Artificial Intelligence On Workstations
The results of a recent survey commissioned by Dell and executed by Forrester summarized in this white paper, "A Checklist For Artificial Intelligence On Workstations," have indicated a quarter of firms are actually using workstations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Further Personalizes AI?
Considering what this means for me and other users. A step towards an assistant that can aid and nudge in new ways? Well no, not that I can see yet in any assistants. I have been itching for something more proactive, that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupa Acquires AI-Powered Supply Chain Design
Looks to be a step forward. Notably looking more towards risk detection and mitigation. Automation of key aspects of supply chains? Ultimately needs to happen in the design of supply chains. If so a powerful direction.…
From insideHPC
AMD-Supermicro-Cornelis (Omni-Path) ‘Mammoth’ Cluster at LLNL Targets COVID-19
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partners AMD, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks have installed a high performance computing cluster with memory and data storage capabilities targeting data-intensive COVID-19 research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Eldercare
During a visit to Japan we saw presentations of how they were using AI, assistance and robotic methods for improving eldercare. The below article, though thin in detail, provides an outline of examples being pursued. Many…
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $32M for Advanced Chemical Sciences Software
Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide up to $32 million for research to advance the development of sophisticated software for the chemical sciences. The effort aims to take advantage…
From insideHPC
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives NSF Grant for Nerve Cell Research
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint research effort by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, recently received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which will continue a lab-computer…