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
Penguin Computing Upgrades Corona Cluster with 7nm AMD GPU Technology
Penguin Computing has upgraded the Corona supercomputer at LLNL with the newest AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 accelerators. Based on the Vega 7nm architecture, this upgrade is the latest example of Penguin Computing and LLNL’s ongoing…
From insideHPC
Sandia and LBNL to lead Quantum Information Edge Strategic Alliance
A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain U.S. leadership in next-generation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships
The numbers continue to expand. The efficiency amazes.
Amazon Is Its Own Biggest Mailman, Shipping 3.5 Billion Parcels in SupplychainBrain
Source: Bloomberg
As Amazon.com Inc. works to speed orders to customer doorsteps before
In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Paid for Data
Considering the design of methods of payment and ensuring their security. An example.
AI Needs your Data and you should get pad for it. By Gregory Barber in Wired
ROBERT CHANG, A Stanford ophthalmologist, normally stays busy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shutters for Star Watching
Watching the skies for anomalous behaviour in real time:
NASA to demonstrate new star-watching tech with thousands of shutters
by Lori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center..... "
The Goddard-developed microshutter array technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Summarization Performance: Pegasus
A kind of AI. Summarization is useful and powerful concept. But consider that summarization also exists in a context. Its output is only useful in a particular context, and that exists based also on the requester. And
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Flex: Plug+Simple speaker
Amazon seems ready to inexpensively (for now $20) replace every wall plug with a link to Alexa. Now lets give these devices something more intelligent to do. Should every plug and switch plate be able to talk to you?
Amazom's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR Games for Grocery Aisles
Interesting, but how well will this interact with traffic in store? Gets in the way of of basic goals I believe. Article contains other examples of the concepts that have been tested.
Giant thinks AR-games are ripe for grocery…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sorting Legos is Intelligent
An example of sorting that is fun and interesting. Discerning, categorizing and selecting is a classic kind of intelligence
AI-powered Lego sorter knows the shape of every brick
It’s powered by motors, a Raspberry Pi and, of course…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vehicle Hacking Spreads
Increasing amount of vehicle hacking is occuring. Note the increasing ability to effect these cybercrimes remotely. Some telling statistics.
New Study Shows Just How Bad Vehicle Hacking Has Gotten
in CNet By Kyle Hyatt
December…
From insideHPC
Video: Optimizing Flash at Scale at CEA
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC19, Gael Delbray from CEA presents: Optimizing Flash at Scale. "The major challenges that the HPC will face in the coming years are manifold, such as the development of hardware and
…
From insideHPC
XSEDE Supercomputers Advance Skin Cancer Research
In this TACC podcast, UC Berkeley scientists describe how they are using powerful supercomputers to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in about 50 percent of melanomas. "The study's computational challenges…
From Putting People First
Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing
The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing, a multi-sited research project based at UCL Anthropology, employs a team of 11 anthropologists conducting simultaneous 16-month ethnographies in Ireland, Italy, Cameroon, Uganda…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches Quantum Computing Initiative for Japan
IBM and the University of Tokyo have announced an agreement to partner to advance quantum computing and make it practical for the benefit of industry, science and society. "Under the agreement, an IBM Q System One will be installed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twin for Electricity Grid
Grids have a potential for hacking, also the potential for reacting to things like solar mass ejections and other completely natural events. So stimulating them well makes lots of sense. As well as how the grids interact with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Connected Cars
No doubt increasingly connected cars are the future. And they can be hacked like other IOT systems can. Here a short piece on how this is evolving and companies are responding.
What to expect from car hackers in 2020 and beyond…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science in Film Industry
Fairly generalized thoughts, but an areas which is underdeveloped.
How Data Science Is Used Within the Film Industry
As Data Science is becoming pervasive across so many industries, Hollywood is certainly not being left behind…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predicting When P=NP is Resolved
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical conjectures.” Today Ken and I discuss…
From insideHPC
Student Cluster Winners Get Ready to take ISC by Storm
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC recaps the recent CHPC National Conference in South Africa. "Now a 5-day conference with two days of workshops as book-ends, multiple tracks and many speakers, and yes, a very exciting Student…
From insideHPC
The Coming Age of Extreme Heterogeneity in HPC
Jeffrey Vetter from ORNL gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "In this talk, I'm going to talk about the high-level trends guiding our industry. Moore’s Law as we know it is definitely ending for either economic or technical reasons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweden Examining E-Krona
After the recent information from China. Interest in E-Currency expanding.
Accenture Picked to Build Sweden’s E-Krona Digital Currency Pilot
By Danny Nelson in Coindesk
Sweden’s central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its
Accenture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Engine for Security Intelligence
Interesting look at an analytical and visual approach that is worth a look. Note the long term use of data, and the Digital Twin model evoked.
The Engine RF Uses for Security Intelligence Explained By Staffan Truve
Recorded
Having…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, Google and Amazon
More on this, good direction for assistants. And security is a good place to start. This is key way to make the average consumer invest in such infrastructure, the assurance that today and tomorrow they will work together.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Job Personalities
At very least an organization could see how these mapped internally, then use them to understand how they relate to internal skills, goals and results. Also, how about group clusters using the same idea?
Mapping Job Personalities…
From insideHPC
Video: Using Supercomputers to Explore the Earth’s Crust
In this video, Mark Lindsay from the University of Western Australia describes how his research enables Australia's mining industry to efficiently explore for important mineral deposits called e-minerals once associated with
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use 2-Factor Authentication for Home
Am a big proponent of 2 Factor Authentication, should be in general use
Protect your Ring camera from hackers by setting up two-factor authentication
A rash of takeovers of Ring cameras is a good reminder to lock down your security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Data Transfers Approved
Appears to be a fundamental result. Likely much more in the details.
Facebook Wins Landmark Case as EU Finds Data Transfers Legal
The Telegraph (U.K.)
By Hasan Chowdhury
December 19, 2019
An adviser to the European Court of Justice…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Computing Technical Facilitator at University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is seeking a Research Computing Technical Facilitator in our Job of the Week. "The Research Computing Technical Facilitator is an integral member of the University of Arkansas central IT Services research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Azure Kinect DK for AI Sensors
Microsoft continues to expand from the developer direction. Like I have said before was impressed by their capabilities for delivering in Azure from the basic knowledge structure level.
Azure Kinect DK
Developer kit with advanced…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 21st 2019)
The number of research papers with more than 1000 authors is increasingly quickly and reaching many fields. Researchers at Facebook use neural networks to solve fancy algebraic problems that may be out of reach of computer algebra…