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
Proposing a Digital Red Cross
An attempt to make healthcare institutions more secure.
Interesting, but we note that Bruce Schneier has a number of cautions about the idea. With lots of additional expert comment at the link.
Red Cross Wants Digital Symbols…From The Eponymous Pickle
Logistics Slowdown
A Logistics Slowdown.
U.S. Warehouse Sector Loses Jobs for Fourth Month in Cooling Sign in SupplyChainBrain
The U.S. warehousing sector lost jobs for a fourth month in October, suggesting employment in an industry that’s boomed…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Workers Want Now
Seeking the new World of Work.
Workforce
What workers want now in Strategy-Business
Episode 8 of the Take on Tomorrow podcast features Standard Chartered’s group head of human resources, Tanuj Kapilashrami, and the joint global…From Schneier on Security
Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American
Computer code developed by a company called Pushwoosh is in about 8,000 Apple and Google smartphone apps. The company pretends to be American when it is actually Russian.
According to company documents publicly filed in Russia…From The Eponymous Pickle
Irving Wladawsky: The Changing Structure of Global Supply Chains
Nicely done piece by my former IBM connect Irving Wladawsky, excerpt below, more at the link. Right up my deepest interest alley.
The Changing Structure of Global Supply Chains
“The golden age of globalisation, in 1990-2010,But…From The Eponymous Pickle
Grace Hopper Superchip Design
Nice to see this effort named after my former Pentagon colleague. See previous mentions of her in this blog at the 'Grace Hopper' label Link. Technical.
NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip Architecture In-Depth
By Jonathon Evans,CUDA…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Could Turbocharge Solving Cold Cases with DNA
Decsision tree application to improve success rate.
Algorithm Could Turbocharge Solving Cold Cases with DNA
Popular Mechanics, Caroline Delbert
November 4, 2022
Researchers from Stanford University, forensic genealogy company Identifinders…From The Eponymous Pickle
ML Generates Pictures of Proteins in 5D
Classification of Protein Images.
ML Generates Pictures of Proteins in 5D
Washington University in St. Louis McKelvey School of Engineering
Brandie Jefferson, November 1, 2022
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego and 3D Printing
Would like to see more. Demonstrating a future.
Lego Animated 3D-Printed Duck is a Peek at the Toy's Future
in Gizmodo
Andrew Liszewski, November 7, 2022
Lego is offering visitors to the Minifigure Factory experience at the…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium just held a two-part workshop, “Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations”. The workshops were sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s new Directorate…
From insideHPC
650 Group Research: Data Center Interconnect Semiconductor Market to Approach $25 Billion in 2027
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada, November 15, 2022 – According to a new report published by 650 Group, “Interconnect Semiconductor Market 2022-2027,” the worldwide market for the portion of semiconductors used for interconnect in data…
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Announces Scyld Software Updates for HPC Deployment
SC22 – November 14, 2022 – Penguin Solutions, provider of HPC, AI and IoT technologies for edge, core, and cloud, has announced the release of new versions of Scyld ClusterWare and Scyld Cloud Workstation software. Penguin’s …
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Supply Chain Mindset and Examples
Have just reviewed a number of storm and weather related supply chain examples.
The New Supply Chain Mindset: From Just-in-Time to Just-In Case
EVER GIVEN SUEZ CANAL STUCK SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION OLD.jpg
November 15, 2022
Valerie…From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation Healthcare
Next-Generation Healthcare: Enabling Technologies for Emerging Bioelectromagnetics Applications
Publisher: IEEE,PDF
Asimina Kiourti; Amin M. Abbosh; Maria Athanasiou; Toni Björninen; Aline Eid; Cynthia Furse; Koichi Ito; Gianluca…From Schneier on Security
Another Event-Related Spyware App
Last month, we were warned not to install Qatar’s World Cup app because it was spyware. This month, it’s Egypt’s COP27 Summit app:
The app is being promoted as a tool to help attendees navigate the event. But it risks giving…From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeted Billboard Ads as Privacy Nightmare
Saw this kind of approach presented for retail advertising.
Targeted Billboard Ads Are a Privacy Nightmare
Gizmodo, Mack DeGeurin, October 13, 2022
A report from the U.K. civil liberties group Big Brother Watch highlights privacy…From Computational Complexity
Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?
(Updated version of Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bound by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi is here)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seek AI Launches to Automate Access to Organizations’ Data
Seeking Organization's Data
Seek AI Launches to Automate Access to Organizations’ Data
News Editor -
AI-powered automation platform eliminates mundane coding projects while giving knowledge workers access to meaningful on-demand…From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Market Adoption of H100 GPUs and Quantum-2 Infiniband, including by Microsoft Azure
SC22, Dallas — NVIDIA today announced broad adoption of its next-generation H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including new offerings on Microsoft Azure cloud and more than 50 new partner systems for accelerating…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast at SC22: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List
This special SC22 edition looks at the new TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, released today. It marks the 60th edition of the list, repesenting 30 years of systematic data on the highest performing computer…
From insideHPC
TOP500: Frontier Maintains Big Lead, Europe at Nos. 3 and 4, China Quiet
The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released today at the SC22 conference in Dallas, while short on surprises underlines several significant HPC trends. First the headline: the HPE-built, AMD-powered…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight: Gokul Subramanian Ravi
Gokul Subramanian Ravi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD (focused on computer architecture) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2020. Gokul is currently at the University of Chicago…
From insideHPC
At SC22: New Offerings from NetApp-NVIDIA Partnership for Scalable, Flexible AI Deployments
Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about the multi-year partnership between the two companies, along with its latest joint solutions, which are considerable. From NetApp we have Firmware…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Balkan Micronation in the Metaverse?
I continue to have my near-term doubts about all this. But comes with 7000 residents!
Inside Liberland, the Balkan Micronation Becoming First Country to Be Built in Metaverse
In EuroNews
By Lisa Gibbons, November 7, 2022
The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Physicists Get a Quantum Computer to Work by Using the Fibonacci Sequence
Thinking this, why?
Physicists Got a Quantum Computer to Work by Blasting It With the Fibonacci Sequence
An experiment involving a Fibonacci pattern of laser pulses apparently yielded a new state of matter.
By Isaac Schultz in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems With KPI's
Thoughtful.
Nicholas Zeisler -November 11, 202201 views in CustomerThink
Anybody who’s read much of what I have to say about Customer insights and Voice of the Customer (VoC) knows I’m quite critical…From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind
How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind (?)
By The Washington Post, September 6, 2022 Opinion
The conventional expectation is that ever-growing computing power will be a boon for humanity. But what if those expectations…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking at the 24th International Information Security Conference in Madrid, Spain, on November 17, 2022.
The list is maintained on this page.
From insideHPC
SambaNova Delivers AI for Science System to Argonne
SC22, Dallas, TX. November 14, 2022— SambaNova Systems is delivering its SambaNova’s DataScale system to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory to provide a new resource for accelerating AI for science workloads…
From insideHPC
SiPearl and AMD in Partnership for Exascale Supercomputing in Europe
Maisons-Laffitte (France), 14th November 2022 – SiPearl, the HPC microprocessor designer for European supercomputers, and AMD announced a joint offering for exascale supercomputing in Europe combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor…