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 insideHPC
ACM Accepting Nominations for New Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – To highlight and encourage more research focused on modelling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has established the ACM Gordon Bell Prize…
From Schneier on Security
Successful Hack of Time-Triggered Ethernet
Time-triggered Ethernet (TTE) is used in spacecraft, basically to use the same hardware to process traffic with different timing and criticality. Researchers have defeated it:
On Tuesday, researchers published findings that,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Drop Blood Test on Smartphone
Blood Testing streamlined
Blood Test Only Needs a Drop and a Smartphone for Results
The tech shows promise, although user-friendly “single drop of blood” platforms are still a few years away by GREG GOTH in IEEE Spectrum
University…From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI with Artificial Sleep
Novel thought, We worked with UCSD.
AI Uses Artificial Sleep to Learn New Task without Forgetting the Last
By New Scientist, November 16, 2022
The researchers simulated sleep in the neural network by activating the networks artificial…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reports on Computing, Big and Small
Training and More
New Records for the Biggest and Smallest AI Computers Nvidia H100 and Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon debut on ML Perf training benchmarks By SAMUEL K. MOORE in Spectrum IEEE
The machine-learning consortium MLCommons…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next year
More indications of supply chain and demand issues
Amazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next year by Haleluya Hadero in TechExplore
The mass layoffs that began in Amazon's corporate ranks this week will extend into nextIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ten Years of Think with Google
Have religiously read Think with Google, in general nicely done. Here a good review of all the insights.
10 years of insights from Think with Google
Oct 24, 2022, Natalie Zmuda, Global Editor-in-Chief, Think with Google
Illustration…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Resilience and Overcoming Adversity: The CTO Journey
When? July 20th, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Watch On Demand The office of CTO oversees everything from technology vision and strategy, to architecture, innovation, development, and infrastructure. In this episode…
From insideHPC
Scientists Using Frontier Supercomputer Win 2022 Gordon Bell Prize, Another Frontier Team Named Prize Finalist
[SPONSORED CONTENT] How many researchers can say they’ve not only run their scientific job on the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the world’s no. 1 ranked HPC system and the first exascale-class machine, but also on Fugaku…
From insideHPC
At SC22: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Frontier, Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter Supercomputers
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 16-member team drawn from French, Japanese, and US institutions as recipient of the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Pushing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cuddly Human Interface
Interesting look at new user interfaces, from the ACM, which has long looked at Human Consumer Interfaces (HCI)
Featured ACM Member: Yuta Sugiura
Yuta Sugiura is an Associate Professor at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. His…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI 2022
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's New, Wealthier Customers
Has been happening for a while:
Can Walmart hold onto the new, wealthier customers it is picking up?
by George Anderson in Retailwire
Walmart’s savings message is resonating with Americans across income levels and helping theThe…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rounding modes: std::from_chars versus strtod/strtof
A recent C++ standard (C++17) introduced new functions to parse floating-point numbers std::from_chars, from strings (e.g., ASCII text) to binary numbers. How should such a function parse values that cannot be represented exactly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology for Textiles
Lately have had several questions regarding related tech. Here an overview
Technology Transforms Textiles By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 17, 2022
It is easy to overlook the prominent role of fabrics…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Fusion-Nuclear Military Aircraft
As mentioned, not a new thing.
LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS A PATENT FOR FUSION-POWERED FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS
Alex Hollings | October 25, 2022
Back in 2018, Lockheed Martin filed a patent for something it called a “plasma confinement system…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Modalities
Useful intro ...
Quantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited in QuanTumtech
In December 2021, in an early iteration of this Blog, I described the various qubit modalities in use by some of the Quantum Computing (QC)…From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Launches Cloud-Native HPC/AI Control Plane and Announces Partnership with Google Cloud
Fremont, Calif., – November 15, 2022 – Penguin Solutions, an SGH brand (Nasdaq: SGH) that provides HPC, AI, and IoT technologies for edge, core, and cloud, today launched Scyld Cloud Central control plane, a new cloud-native …
From The Eponymous Pickle
LIDAR and Trucking Safety
HOW LIDAR TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES TRUCKING SAFETY in LIDAR News
October 30, 2022
Trucking is a lifeline between consumers and products. The logistics industry helps transit everything from essential items like medicine to Amazon…From insideHPC
AI Inference Company d-Matrix Announces Collaboration with Microsoft
SANTA CLARA – Today, d-Matrix, a AI-compute and inference company, announced a collaboration with Microsoft using its low-code reinforcement learning (RL) platform, Project Bonsai, to enable an AI-trained compiler for d-Matrix…
From Computational Complexity
Fall Jobs Post 2022
In the fall I try to make my predictions on the faculty job market for the spring. The outlook this year is hazy as we have two forces pushing in opposite directions.
Most of the largest tech companies are having layoffs andWe'll…From Schneier on Security
Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system:
Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with Our New Code Samples!
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance (UA)-ready code samples that can be used freely (BSD 3 License…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A fast function to check your floating-point rounding mode
For speed, we use finite-precision number types in software. When doing floating-point computations in software, the results are usually not exact. For example, you can have the number 1.0 and the number 1e-100 (1 over 10 toContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Italy Bans Facial, Non Policing Related AI
The breadth of this is interesting, more strict than EU it seems?
Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except to Fight Crime
Reuters
By Elvira Pollina; Federico Maccioni, November 14, 2022
Italy has banned the use of facial recognition…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cemvitafactory Producing Carbon Neutral Hydrogen
For extraction of carbon neutral hydrogen from oil drilling wells:
Brought to my attention: https://www.cemvitafactory.com/
'Gold Hydrogen'
Gold Hydrogen is a novel source of carbon neutral hydrogen produced from depleted oil…From insideHPC
Altair PBS Professional Deployed on Polaris Supercomputer at Argonne
SC22, Dallas, TX. November 14, 2022 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced the use of the on-demand workload manager and scheduler – Altair PBS Professional – to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Library of Medicine’s Impact on AI Research
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been providing the medical field with information since 1836. Starting off as a small collection of books, the entity has grown into the world’s largest biomedical library, housing biomedical…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Gerrymanders Have It
The real winner of the 2022 midterms in the House David Wasserman is an elections analyst for the Cook Political Report. He is known for forecasting the results of elections after people have voted. His words “I’ve seen enough…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined…