Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should We Trust Computers?
Good talk given by Prof Martyn Thomas CBE in the Gresham College lecture series published Oct 29 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZfjvlbpMw
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Wearable Device
A Meta-Facebook device on every face?
Metaverse wearable devices ‘could be as big as phones,’ Qualcomm CEO says in Yahoo Finance
by Julie Hyman·Anchor
Wed, November 17, 2021, 2:57 PM·2 min read
The company whose chips power Facebook…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Retail by Drone
Have my doubts about the last 100yards, but they seem to be serious in their testing.
Walmart is now delivering diapers and food by drone (if you live close to this Arkansas store) in TheVerge
Zipline delivered from one store…From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI Cloud Landscpe
Intro to the concept that is worth examining for developers. Intro below for common Cloud usage. Includes detail links.
Artificial Intelligence #31 - Understanding the AI cloud landscape
Published on November 23, 2021 By Ajit…From The Eponymous Pickle
Continued Work on Autonomous Apple Car
More care effort from Apple.
Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle
By Mark Gurman +Follow in Boomberg
November 18, 2021, 12:26 PM EST Updated on November 18, 2021, 12:38 PM EST
Company looks…From insideHPC
DOE: Applications Open for $70M for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC)
Nov. 23, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $70 million for research in earth system model development, which will contribute to further development of the Energy Exascale Earth System…
From BLOG@CACM
AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning
What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to 13-15 year olds through situations…
From insideHPC
DOE Office of Science — Call for Position Papers: ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Science , Dec. 10 Due Date
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science has issued a call for position papers for its ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Sciene: Due Date: 11:59 pm ET on December 10, 2021 Notification of Selection: December 20, 2021…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Robot Language Learning
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yonatan Bisk, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and member of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The Idea Language learning requires…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governance of AI: Podcast Use and Misuse of AI
Podcast interview with Miles Brundage head of Policy Research at OpenAI responsible for governance of AI, See the gradientPub.substack.com. AI misuse and Trustworthy AI. In The Gradient Podcast
From insideHPC
Meet OLCF’s Gina Tourassi, Director of National Center for Computational Sciences
Since Gina Tourassi began her career, computer science has come a long way. Tourassi learned programming in the 1980s starting with QBasic. It’s a programming environment that hasn’t been included with Microsoft operating systems…
From BLOG@CACM
Computational Thinking: The Discussion Continues
Perspectives on computational thinking.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Machine Learning
Integrating knowledge Graphs with derived knowledge. Useful but rarely done. Our early links with Stanford addressed this.
Improving Machine Learning: How Knowledge Graphs Bring Deeper Meaning to Data
Posted by Kendall ClarkEnterprise…From The Eponymous Pickle
Preparing for Quantum
Good piece out of ACM, prepare for the quantum. Passing this on for review for usefulness. Thoughts?
Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing By Leah Hoffmann
Communications of the ACM, December 2021, Vol. 64 No. 12, Pages…From The Eponymous Pickle
Watch Your Algorithms
Watched this closely, family being involved in the space, Prices seemed odd, but were they somehow magical? Always compare algorithm results for reasonableness. In particular, prediction in varying contexts is always suspect…
From Computational Complexity
Finding an element with nonadaptive questions
Suppose you have a non-empty subset S of {1,...N} and want to find an element of S. You can ask arbitrary questions of the form "Does S contain an element in A?" for some A a subset of {1,...N}. How many questions do you need…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Third Wave of Biomaterials
Clear need in our future. A kind of biomimicry we have known for a long time. Now at a much lower level. an it be constructed in new ways? Petrochemicals will still be needed.
The third wave of biomaterials: When innovation…From BLOG@CACM
Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
From BLOG@CACM
Major Investments in U.S. CS Education on the Long Road to CS for All
The 2021 CSEdCon featured big investments in growing Computer Science Education in the U.S.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Tech and Work
Performance and Commuting, with some prediction of performance from machine learning.
Wearable Tech Confirms Wear-and-Tear of Work Commute, By Dartmouth College, November 22, 2021
Researchers analyzed data collected from commuting…From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare AI Models from Microsoft
Healthcare AI innovation with Zero Trust technology
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Posted on October 26, 2021
John Doyle Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences
From research to diagnosis to treatment, AI has the potential…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), November 14-18, 2021. FIRST- The Science of Rejection:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahead for Augmented Reality
Heads up for the road ahead. Good piece.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality, By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, December 2021, Vol. 64 No. 12, Pages 20-22 …From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Using Echo location
Recall this being proposed as a solution in navigation, but noise in general being a problem., and the speed needed was not there, now solved?
Robots Can Use Their Own Whirring to Echolocate, Avoid Collisions
In New Scientist,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?
Implications for future nuse?
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data, By Wired, November 19, 2021 in ACM News
On September 26, 2018, a row of tech executives filed into a marble- and wood-paneled hearing room…From The Eponymous Pickle
Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots
Smell again is something we examined in retail interaction, here much more dramatic.
Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots in ScienceDirect
Highlights
A bio-robotic sensing system exploiting insect's sense of smell isAbstract…From The Eponymous Pickle
Moon Oxygen
But how usable? Quite a claim.
The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years in SingularityHub
By John Grant -Nov 14, 2021157,943
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently…From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing Your Digital Life
Some good thoughts.
Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices in ArsTechnica
We tear down some infosec conventional wisdom—there's a lot of bad advice out there.
By SEAN GALLAGHER
Information…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum to Remove Miners?
Had looked at other non-mining approaches, but these had other issues.
Bye-Bye, Miners! How Ethereum’s Big Change Will Work
By The Washington Post, August 19, 2021
Ethereum currently handles about 30 transactions per second. With…From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores
Seems a novel approach:
Starbucks and Amazon open first joint concept store with more to come
by George Anderson in Retailwire with expert comments
Starbucks and Amazon.com have teamed up to open the first of at least threeAMAZON…