Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Xerox Cloud Deal With Oracle
To me an unexpected interaction
ACM NEWS
Xerox to Announce Multiyear Cloud Deal With Oracle, By The Wall Street Journal
December 16, 2021
Xerox Holdings Corp. on Thursday plans to announce a multiyear deal with Oracle Corp., which…From The Eponymous Pickle
Loops in Time
Programming Control sequence
By Robin K. Hill, CACM, November 28, 2021
Elementary programming introduces the standard programming control structures as blocks—sequence, condition, and iteration. These…From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversica Conversational AI
Blog: How Conversational AI Helps Revenue Teams Hit Q4 Goals
Conversica Blog
As we get closer and closer to marking two years of COVID-19, the pandemic continues to affect how we all interact with each other, both in our personal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmarks
Interesting, technical.
The Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark
Misha Laskin and Denis Yarats
The shortcomings of supervised RL
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful paradigm for solving many problems of interestA…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting the Risk of Schizophrenia Using Machine Learning
Never heard the breadth of this suggestion, the prediction from blood tests to a diagnosis of this type. Likelihood of accuracy? Personal data required?
Home/News/Predicting the Risk of Schizophrenia Using Machine.../Full Text…From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters – Part 3
[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters,” will show how the Silicon Mechanics Miranda CDI Cluster™ reference architecture can be a CDI solution blueprint…
From insideHPC
DOE: $9.25M for Research through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Partnership in Nuclear Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $9.25 million for research in the behavior and properties of structural materials under molten salt reactor conditions, via collaborations that enable effective use of DOE’s high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Threats in Apache Logging
Also mentioned and being discussed now in 'Schneier on Security' and ' Security Now https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-849-Notes.pdf, Page 7-, and in the Wikipedia Most activity has been scanning scanning, but clear opportunity to…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Quantum Computing Is on the Way to a $1B Market – And Sooner Than You Might Think
Quantum computing is as eagerly anticipated a technology as there’s ever been. The scientific and Wall Street communities, to name just two market segments, can’t wait to get their hands on quantum systems able to handle workloads…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
Implications of this?
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ACM TECHNEWS
Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
By MIT News, December 14, 2021
The 3D Scene Perception via Probabilistic Programming…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Wildfire AI and Global Data
As the power of drones increase the data and pattern recognitions to support their use is also advancing to support wildfire fighting. Will also address other disaster relief scenarios.
Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight…From BLOG@CACM
Framing the Description of the Shrinking Pipeline
The shrinking pipeline refers to the low percentages of women earning computer science academic degrees and holding faculty positions.
From insideHPC
IBM and Samsung Unveil ‘Semiconductor Breakthrough That Defies Conventional Design’
Today, IBM and Samsung Electronics jointly announced what they said is a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new transistor architecture that allows more transistors to be packed in an IC chip. The key: the transistors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Pushes Robotics for Supply Chain
Have mentioned Ocado and the supply chain here.
Robots Gathering to Help Beat Britain's Supply-Chain Shortages
By The Economist, December 13, 2021
Robots in the Hive, a giant fulfilment center in Erith, south-east London, operated…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperscaler Innovation
Idea was new to me, and podcast from Andreesson
How ‘Hyperscalers’ are Innovating — and Competing — in the Data Center
Innovation in the data center has been constrained by the traditional model of suppliers providing fixed-function…From The Eponymous Pickle
Research Brings Analog Computers One Step from Digital
Early on had experience of working with analog, nice to see this re-emergence.
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ACM TECHNEWS
Research Brings Analog Computers One Step from Digital, By Washington…From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Jetson Does Home Assistance
Interesting direction. General availability for test?
Jetson Project of the Month: Automate Your Household Duties with NVIDIA Jetson and DeepStack
The holidays should be a time for relaxation, and with NVIDIA Jetson technology…From insideHPC
GRC Launches Program for Liquid Immersion Cooling
AUSTIN, TX – December 13, 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), maker of immersion cooling for data centers, announced the launch of its Global Alliance Partnership, designed to enable its partners’ customers to capitalize on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing Automation
Interesting thoughts I have just discovered.
Edge, AI and IoT Combined are Driving the Hyper-Automation for Manufacturing
By Scot Kim | December 09, 2021 in the Gartner Blog
With Edge HW costs coming down, AI/ML becoming prevalent…From The Eponymous Pickle
Face ID Expands
As I go to get my booster booster shots. Inevitable that such identification will be the standard. The method will be suitably improved.
Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass, By The New York Times, December 13, 2021…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel and Quantum for Moore's Law Push
Where the advances should come from:
Intel Eyes Quantum Realm For Breakthroughs To Propel Moore's Law Beyond 2025 In HotHardWare
A couple months ago, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said he would exhaust the periodic table if necessary…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Metaverse and all that
Science fiction pointing the direction of real science?
Silicon Valley’s Metaverse Problem in IEEE Spectrum
Sci-fi expert Annalee Newitz wants would-be visionaries to sift satire from soothsaying 09 DEC 2021
Last week in New…From insideHPC
Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets
The allure of “technology resource disaggregation” – a.k.a., composable computing – doesn’t get old. It’s an ingenious yet common-sense strategy for addressing our increasingly heterogeneous HPC-AI world where no single system…
From Computational Complexity
Did Lane Hemaspaandra invent the Fib numbers?
(I abbreviate Fibonacci by Fib throughout. Lane Hemaspaandra helped me with this post.)
We all learned that Fib invented or discovered the Fib Numbers:
f_0=1,
f_1=1, and
for all n\ge 2, f_n = f_{n-1} + f_{n-2}.
We may have learned…From The Eponymous Pickle
War on Ransomware
Good overview on govt efforts.
By The Verge, December 10, 2021
(contains a number of good link references)
As long as there is a sustained effort against these somewhat decentralized and shifting crime…From The Eponymous Pickle
We Need AI Literacy
Yes, indeed, and how current capabilities might likey change from future developments.
By pnw.ai, December 9, 2021
Can artificial intelligence (AI) replace a doctor in the operating room? Are somePerhaps…From The Eponymous Pickle
Contact Training as Model
The model of the contact center as a means of effectivey deivering knowledge is interesring.
Knowledge Management: The Cure for Contact Center Agent Training Ills in the Variant-Era
Anand Subramaniam -December 10, 202108 views
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Worries about NFT
Thoughtful considerations.
Some Artists Found a Lifeline Selling NFTs. Others Worry It's a Trap
By MIT Technology Review, October 26, 2021
Anna Podedworna first heard about NFTs a month or so ago, when a fellow artist sent her an…From insideHPC
Frontier Exascale Install Teams Win ORNL Director’s Award
Teams responsible for installation of the Frontier exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory received recognition at ORNL’s Director’s Awards, an event hosted by lab Director Thomas Zacharia. Two teams received
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality with Heads-up Displays
Some of our earliest AR work was with heads up displays (HUDs) which replicated real maintenence environments. Here they are dealing with automotive examples, where fast reaction and realist attention would be key. Good detail…