Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2019
From insideHPC
Inspur Showcases HPC & AI Solutions at SC19
In this video from SC19, Vangel Bojaxhi from Inspur describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC & AI. At the show, the company featured a broad array of HPC & AI servers based on x86 and OpenPOWER as well as a new liquid…
From insideHPC
Moving HPC to the Cloud with Easy8 and Bright Cluster Manager
In this video from SC19, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing announces the latest release of Bright Cluster Manager software for HPC, OpenStack, and Data Science. Now available for free for clusters up to eight nodes with the Easy8…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Expands Leap API into Amazon Braket
Today D-Wave Systems announced the expansion of the Leap API into Amazon Braket, a new, fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers…
From insideHPC
Introducing the oneAPI Software Stack for HPC & AI
With oneAPI, Intel delivers a unified and simplified programming model for application development across heterogenous processing architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and NNPs. "HPC and AI workloads demand diverse architectures…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding for Fun and Advent of Code
My friend Mike Zamansky is a big proponent of the Advent of Code – 25 days of coding problems leading up the Christmas. Since I have been thinking I want to write more code for my personal enjoyment I started in on it myself.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain not Bitcoin
Likely approach for approaches that address problems like secure identification and control.
US Military’s DARPA Program Hops on the ‘Blockchain Not Bitcoin’ Bandwagon
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Further Value of Demo Data
At first I didn't understand the claim being made here, but after I understood it, remembered we had done sometime similar for a manufacturing application, but this takes it further yet. This still requires that the program…
From Schneier on Security
Becoming a Tech Policy Activist
Carolyn McCarthy gave an excellent TEDx talk about becoming a tech policy activist. It's a powerful call for public-interest technologists....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Rewards Failure
But not failure to learn. We did not do enough to understand and document precisely why we failed.
Coke CEO: Why we have an award for projects that fail By Catherine Clifford
Coca-Cola was invented in 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
End-to-End Encryption: A Problem
Bopuifs fodszqujpo qspcmfn. “Unsung Entrepreneur” source Adolph Ochs was the owner of the New York Times. In 1897 he created the paper’s slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” We at GLL would like some suggestions on our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chat in Google Photos
A surprise, perhaps. But have been impressed with what they are doing in the photo area. And while pictures are worth a K, then pictures that are of meaning to us must be worth at least 100 X of that. No? And to chat with,…
From Schneier on Security
RSA-240 Factored
This just in: We are pleased to announce the factorization of RSA-240, from RSA's challenge list, and the computation of a discrete logarithm of the same size (795 bits): RSA-240 = 12462036678171878406583504460810659043482037465167880575481878888328…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. CCC conducts activities that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking to Eliza in Private
As a player in AI since nearly its beginning, I knew the story of Eliza, and quoted its value and its cautions many times. In talks, development and training. In the chatbots we built to join our brand equity. Today inEliza…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congratulations to the 2020 IEEE Newly Elevated Fellows!
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has released its 2020 list of newly elevated fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is given to a IEEE member with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Quantum Error Correction
The results in Quantum Computing are statistical, yet the results need to be precise. How do we correct the results to precision? A mostly non-technical discussion of the progress in CACM.
Closing In on Quantum Error Correction…
From insideHPC
De-RISC Computing Platform for Space will be built with made-in-Europe Technology
A new European project called De-RISC is preparing a hardware-software platform based on RISC-V for the space and aviation market. Combining a multicore system-on-chip by leading space solutions provider Cobham Gaisler with fentISS…
From insideHPC
New Intel Facility in Hyderabad to Focus on Exascale and other Breakthrough Technologies
Today Intel announced the expansion of its innovation footprint in India with the unveiling of a new design and engineering center in Hyderabad. According to Intel, the 1500-seat facility will focus on important tasks like Exascale…
From insideHPC
LIqid Steps up with Composable Infrastructure at SC19
In this video from SC19, Sumit Puri from Liqid describes the company's innovative composable infrastructure technology for HPC. "We don't build servers statically. We build servers dynamically by taking software and reconfiguring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IQMetrix: Business Case for Store Technology
Received, of interest. New takes on measures are always useful to consider.
Free whitepaper on ROI of in store technology:
IQMetrix
ROI Uninterrupted:
How to Build a Business Case for New In-Store Technology
How to align the team…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft AI to Replace Driving Instructors
Makes sense, and I am sure something like this is already in general use.
Microsoft’s A.I. project will replace human driving instructors By Allison Matyus in Digitaltrend
A new artificial intelligence project from Microsoft
Known…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Blocks Etherscan
An indication of the beginning of global regulation of accessibility of 'intelligent' applications.
China’s Internet Firewall Has Blocked Access to Ethereum Block Explorer Etherscan.io in Coindesk
China's Great Firewall, used by…
From insideHPC
Amazon Braket to offer Multivendor Quantum Computing Service
Today AWS announced Amazon Braket, a fully managed service that enables scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from quantum hardware providers (including D-Wave Systems, IonQ, and Rigetti)…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems does AI on the Fly at SC19
In this video from SC19, Jan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes how the company delivers AI on the Fly. "With AI on the Fly, OSS puts computing and storage resources for the entire AI workflow, not in the datacenter, but
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zapier for Automating Workflows
Had looked at this some time ago, interesting approach.
Connect Your Apps and Automate Workflows
Easy automation for busy people. Zapier moves info between your web apps automatically, so you can focus on your most important work…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Data Classification
The Quantum internet is an interesting concept, can this mean understanding how information has been derived, and thus its identity and ownership?
Quantum Data Classification Protocol Brings Us Nearer to Future 'Quantum Internet'…
From Schneier on Security
The Story of Tiversa
The New Yorker has published the long and interesting story of the cybersecurity firm Tiversa. Watching "60 Minutes," Boback saw a remarkable new business angle. Here was a multibillion-dollar industry with a near-existential…
From Computational Complexity
Julia Robinson's 100th birthday
On Dec 8, 1919 Julia Robinson was born, so today is here 100th birthday (she passed away at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Builds an AWS Deep Composer
A keyboard to develop machine learning at any skill level? Like composing riffs on a piano? This is something I have to see. I like to see Amazon's innovation. Much more including images at the link.
Press play on Machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dimensional Analysis of Failure and Fixing
Brought to my attention. We also attempted to use neural methods to determine when agents, machine or otherwise, were likely to fail, and afterwards what were the necessary means of repairing the problem. Scale may be
Fast…