Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural Language Processing Software Evaluates Middle School Science Essays
Natural Language Processing Software Evaluates Middle School Science Essays
Penn State News, Mariah Chuprinski, October 11, 2022
Computer scientists at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the University of Wisconsin…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel, Google Cloud Launch Chip to Improve Data-Center Performance
Intel, Google Cloud Launch Chip to Improve Data-Center Performance
Reuters
Jane Lanhee Lee, October 11, 2022
A chip co-developed by researchers at Intel and Google Cloud aims to improve the security and efficiency of data centers…From insideHPC
AWS and TidalScale Say They Can Scale Up in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services said in a blog post today it has taken on the problem of scaling up compute and applications on the AWS cloud platform. Through a partnership announced last April, AWS and nine-year-old start-up TidalScale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Horizon World Metaverse Good Enough?
Had a brief demo of the Horizon Meta Verse with regards to user experience. In past years I had used and developed trial 'worlds' in the Second Life virtual world, there we experimented with working and meeting in such VRHorizon…
From insideHPC
Industry Veteran Bill Mannel Takes on New HPC-AI Role at HPE
Long-time HPC industry veteran and HPE executive Bill Mannel has been named Chief Technologist for Americas HPC & AI Solution Sales at HPE. Mannel joined HPE in 2014, serving as vice president and general manager of high-performance…
From insideHPC
Qumulo and Supermicro Launch Joint Storage Offering on Supermicro’s 1U Hybrid -NVMe Platform
SEATTLE – Nov. 1, 2022 – Petabyte-scale data storage company Qumulo today announced a Hybrid-NVMe platform from Supermicro. “We are thrilled to offer our customers more platform choices,” said Kiran Bhageshpur, Chief Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenge for Small Sensors
So many possibilities here. Good thoughts for future value.
Small Sensors for Big Challenges By Bennie Mols
Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 1, 2022
Shwetak Patel loves to combine academic research with being an entrepreneur…From insideHPC
HPE Introduces ProLiant Gen11 Servers for On-prem or via GreenLake As-a-Service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new ProLiant Gen11 servers available for on-premises infrastructures or through HPE’s GreenLake as-a-service platform. The new servers are designed for compute- and data-intensive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe Competition Gap
Europe an interest of mine, and follow how tech is moving there. Don't see a tach gap among major economic players.
Securing Europe’s competitiveness: Addressing its technology gap
McKinsey September 22, 2022 | Report
By Sven…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Recognising (and addressing) bias in facial recognition tech – the Gender Shades Audit #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
A 2018 study found that facial recognition systems were ess able to recognise darker skinned women because of bias in the data used to train them - but things are beginning to improve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jelly Grippers, Robot Hands
New ways for robots to attach.
This robotic tentacle gripper is gentle, practical, and terrifying
The gripper designed by engineers from Harvard side-steps the challenge of recreating the human hand by throwing a bunch of tentacles…From The Eponymous Pickle
Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
Games, Models and evolutionary Algorithms.
ACM OPINION
Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
By The Gradient, September 23, 2022
Joel Lehman is a machine-learning scientist interested in AI safety, reinforcement learning…From BLOG@CACM
Stack Ranking: Organizational Cancer
If only the best are hired, why isn't everybody great?
From Schneier on Security
Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked
It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked:
According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu…