Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2020
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Announces New Working Group Leadership for 2021
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Administrative Group is pleased to announce the UA working group leadership selections for the 2021 term (1 January-31 December 2021). UA working group members were able to self-nominate…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
In 2011, I predicted that the iPhone would have 1TB of storage in 2020
Someone reminded me of a prediction I made in 2011: Your iPhone will have 1TB of storage by 2020, assuming exponential growth, see my plot: http://t.co/iDiT1J7y — Daniel Lemire (@lemire) November 18, 2011 At the time, an iPhone…
From Schneier on Security
Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
Bellingcat has investigated the near-fatal poisoning of Alexey Navalny by the Russian GRU back in August. The details display some impressive traffic analysis. Navalny got a confession out of one of the poisoners, displaying …
From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: 2 Dell Distinguished Engineers Talk Compute Optimization and Extreme Scaling Problem Areas
In this interview, we speak with Garima Kochbar and Michael Pittaro, distinguished engineers at the Dell EMC HPC & AI Innovation Lab, which designs solutions at the leading edge of emerging technologies. Both of them are active…
From insideHPC
SiPearl Joins ETP4HPC to Help Drive Europe’s Sovereignty for HPC
SiPearl, the company designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that groups together the leading European players for high performance …
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on SolarWind: A Kill Switch
FireEye on the SolarWind backdoor, from last week.
And work by Microsoft on the problem:
FireEye, Microsoft create kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor By Lawrence Abrams in BleepingComputer
Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have…From insideHPC
Report: Global 5G Coverage to Grow 253% by 2025
Data presented by Bankr indicates that the 5G technology global coverage will grow by 253.84 percent in the next five years. By 2025, about 53 percent of the global population at 4.14 billion will have access to the technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics
More on this, implications? From what I have seen the largely remotely operated tele-robotic systems have particular value in remote security and remote data and information gathering and analysis. Adding a particularly impactful…
From insideHPC
Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards: The HPC Community Steps Up
The year 2020 will stand out in our memories, and sad to say, many of those memories are not happy ones. In the HPC community, this includes the untimely passing in May of Rich Brueckner, editor-in-chief of this publication and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
We are already there and working hard, but how that will be done efficiently still remains to be established.
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
The Wall Street Journal, Chip Cutter
Amazon plans to…From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
The microphones on voice assistants are very sensitive, and can snoop on all sorts of data:
In Hey Alexa what did I just type? we show that when sitting up to half a meter away, a voice assistant can still hear the taps you make…From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward Hybrid Approaches of Problem Solving
We knew this long ago, but only since approaches like machine learning have done some surprising things have we become ready for more contextually useful advances.
Ushering in the third wave of AI By Tolga Kurtoglu Head of…From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Joins MLCommons to Accelerate the Machine Learning Community
Taipei, Taiwan, December 22nd 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced GIGABYTE as one of the founding members of MLCommons, an open engineering consortium…
From insideHPC
Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications
In this comprehensive technology white paper, "Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications,"written by Evaluator Group, Inc. on behalf of Red Hat, we delve into OpenShift, a key component of Red Hat's portfolio…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limitations of Deep Learning
About limitations of deep learning problems with higher dimensional data. Technical.
Geometric Deep Learning Advances Data Science By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, January 2021, Vol. 64 No. 1, Pages 13-15
10.1145…From insideHPC
Beyond Limits Aligns its AI with Nvidia in Energy Discovery Sector
AI company Beyond Limits today said it will collaborate with Nvidia on joint strategies leveraging Nvidia technical support and GPU-optimized AI software, including containers, models and application frameworks from the Nvidia…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is it the Year the Password will Die?
Still a few things to think through, but looking forward to it.
Microsoft: 2021 is the Year Passwords Die By Neowin
Removing the password.
Microsoft is making an effort to transition people to passwordless solutions.
Microsoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Assistive Disaster AI
A clear example of the interactions of sensors, logic, decisions and leveraging experience. Some general ideas of the possibilities.
Assistive AI in Decreasing Natural Disaster Damage
Assistive AI is an invaluable tool to minimize…From insideHPC
Accern Upgrades No-Code, AI Platform with Features for Financial Services
New York, December 18, 2020 — Accern Corporation, a no-code, artificial intelligence (AI) company, today released an upgrade of its platform providing designed for easy navigation, accelerated performance and customizable features…
From BLOG@CACM
From Solar Sunrise to SolarWinds
The hack of critical departments of the U.S. government—and of many leading corporations—should come as no surprise.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security with Threat Hunting
Is this ultimately the means to thwarting security failures?
Threat Hunting Offsets the Technology Gaps
Caitlin Mattingly, Recorded Future
Our guest this week is John Ayers, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Product Officer…From insideHPC
Juniper Research: Driven by 5G, Edge Computing Investment by Network Operators to Hit $8.3B by 2025
Hampshire, UK – A study from Juniper Research has found that network operator spend on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020, to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Business Transformation Projects Often Fail
Thoughts and links from an IBM exec we worked with:
Why Business Transformation Efforts Often Fail by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A 2019 study found that the average digitization level across all industry sectors was only around…From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Movements Predicting Mental Health
What appears to be a reasonable pattern detection type application
AI gauges the mental health of cancer patients through eye movements
It's an early project, but shows potential.
Jon Fingas, @jonfingas in Engadget
Good mental health…From insideHPC
GSA: 5G Passes Network and Device Milestones in 2020
21st December 2020, London – The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today reported that 2020 has seen sustained investment in, and deployment of, 5G globally, with over 85 live networks and 300 devices now commercially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix Digital Experiments with Content Decisions
With lots of interesting links to presentations I am looking at. How Netflix works with its content has always interested me. Exploring this:
Netflix Technology Blog
In November, Netflix was a proudEskil…From The Noisy Channel
The 3 Rs of Search: Relevance, Recall, and Ranking
In grade school, we were taught the three Rs: reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. In search, we can be thankful that the three Rs actually start with the letter R: relevance, recall, and ranking.
Relevance
Relevance is the primeunderstanding…From insideHPC
Unleash the Future of Innovation with HPC & AI
This whitepaper, "Unleash the Future of Innovation with HPC & AI," reviews how cutting-edge solutions from Supermicro and NVIDIA are enabling customers to transform and capitalize on HPC and AI innovation. Data is the driving…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decoding the Neural Activity of Computer Programming
Intriguing, especially as it differs from other intense activity. Is age dependence very different from individual dependence? Language vs logic? Kinds and method of scans?
Scientists Decode Neural Mechanisms of Computer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Occams Razor and Ensemble Learning
Thoughtful piece. Much more at the link. Here the intro:
Ensemble Learning Algorithm Complexity and Occam’s Razor by Jason Brownlee on December 21, 2020 in Ensemble Learning
Occam’s razor suggests that in machine learning…