Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Ways to Conquer Supply Chain Disruption With S&OP Technologies
Have recently looked at analyzing disruption scenarios.
Five Ways to Conquer Supply Chain Disruption With S&OP Technologies
November 18, 2022 Sponsored by Logility in SupplyChainBrain
Supply chains large and small are under siege…From Computational Complexity
Harry Lewis's talk on The Birth of Binary on Dec 8 (Thats today!)
More on the information on Harry Lewis's talk is in his blog post about it:here
1) On Dec 8, 2022 Harry Lewis is giving the annual Thoraf Skolem Memorial Lecture on
The Birth…From insideHPC
Former Hyperion HPC Analyst Steve Conway Joins Intersect360 Research
In the potboiler world of HPC industry analyst firms this is a surprising development: Steve Conway, longtime senior member of Hyperion Research, a firm he left last summer to start Conway Communications, has joined Hyperion’s…
From insideHPC
A Year of Quantum Information Science on NERSC’s Perlmutter Supercomputer
Last November, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory launched its QIS@Perlmutter program to provide researchers working on quantum information science (QIS)
…
From insideHPC
How You Can Use Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Industry
In financial services, it is important to gain any competitive advantage. Your competition has access to most of the same data you do, as historical data is available to everyone in your industry. Your advantage comes with the…
From Schneier on Security
Leaked Signing Keys Are Being Used to Sign Malware
A bunch of Android OEM signing keys have been leaked or stolen, and they are actively being used to sign malware.
Łukasz Siewierski, a member of Google’s Android Security Team, has a post on the Android Partner Vulnerabilityleaked…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reaction to Persistent Theft at Wal-Mart
Have now seen several examples of this, reaching epidemic levels
Will persistent theft compel Walmart to raise prices or close stores?
32 EXPERT COMMENTS by George Anderson in RetailWire
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon yesterdayMr…From insideHPC
At SC22: Atos Updates on the BullSequana XH/3000, Nimbix Cloud Supercomputing Suite and Quantum
At SC22, we caught up with Emmanuel LeRoux, Atos Group SVP and Head of HPC & Quantum for updates on several fronts: LeRoux told us Atos now has its highest number — 43 — of systems in the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member, Jennifer Rexford named Princeton’s next provost
Jennifer Rexford, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Engineering Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University was just named Princeton’s provost. The provost position…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Circuits in the New York Times
Can quantum circuits have something to do with wormholes? Wikipedia src Maria Spiropulu, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is featured in an article in last week’s Tuesday Science section of the New York…
From insideHPC
HPE GreenLake Adds Application, Analytics and Developer Services for Hybrid Cloud Environments
Dec. 7, 2-22 — At HPE’s Discover conference in Frankfurt, Germany today, the company announced new application, analytics and developer services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform designed to enable organizations to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting the Joint Force as One
Northrup Grumman: Connecting the Joint Force as One
Future mission success will lay in highly-effective Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
‘Joining Forces’ has always been a critical factor in creating extra strength…From The Noisy Channel
Is The Valley Getting Cannier?
In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a machine seems close-but-not-quite human, it triggers a negative response. We especially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space
Obviously, but what developments should we wait for? Specify? Need?
Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space
SciTechDaily, December 1, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Lincoln (UoL) designed an end…From The Eponymous Pickle
How China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track Protesters
China Policing
How China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track Protesters
The New York Times
Paul Mozur; Claire Fu; Amy Chang Chien, December 2, 2022
China's police used an advanced surveillance system to track protesters who rallied…From BLOG@CACM
Bad Reasons to Reject Good Papers, and Vice Versa
(or, am I Reviewer #2? Should I be?)
From The Eponymous Pickle
RobotTaxis Thrive
Where Else? Good place for live tests, proof of use in complex use, Uber complexity ... On to LA they say ...
Uber and Motional's robotaxis arrive in Las Vegas
It marks the first time public riders and access the autonomous…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Helps Generate Building Blocks for New Drugs
Generating New Drugs
AI Helps Biotech Labs Generate the Building Blocks for New Drugs
By Adrianna Nine on December 6, 2022 at 7:56 am Comments
Myotis daubentonii. (Credit: Generate Biomedicines)
Proteins are an essential part ofBut…From insideHPC
Deutsche Bank in AI Partnership with NVIDIA: Risk Models, HPC and a 3D Virtual Avatar
Deutsche Bank today announced a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA intended to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial services sector. The goal is to develop regulatory-compliant AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
Yes, please.
Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
By R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 8, 2022
EnOcean’s wall-mounted pushbuttons harvest the energy from the finger pushing them to generate an…From The Eponymous Pickle
Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms
Free Space Optics
Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms
IEEE Spectrum. John Boyd.December 1, 2022
Researchers at Australia's International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) established a laser-guided free-space…From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Presents RRAM’s ‘Promising Advantages’ For Neuromorphic/In-Memory Computing at IEDM 2022
SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 7, 2022 – A CEA-Leti tutorial presented at IEDM 2022 highlighted promising advantages that resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technologies hold for implementing novel neuromorphic/in-memory computing systems…
From Schneier on Security
The Decoupling Principle
This is a really interesting paper that discusses what the authors call the Decoupling Principle:
The idea is simple, yet previously not clearly articulated: to ensure privacy, information should be divided architecturally and…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow
Let us say that I ask you to find the number I am thinking about between -1000 and 1000, by repeatedly guessing a number. With each guess, I tell you whether your guess is correct, smaller or larger than my number. A binary search…
From insideHPC
Intel and Penn Medicine Conduct Cancer Using Federated Learning to Analyze (and Protect) Sensitive Medical Data at Scale
Calling it the largest federated learning study in the medical field to date, Intel Labs and Penn Medicine have announced a joint research study to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain…
From insideHPC
IonQ and Hyundai Expand Quantum Partnership
Dec. 6, 2022 — COLLEGE PARK, Md.– Quantum Computing copany IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced new stages of its partnership with Hyundai Motor Company to develop machine vision algorithms capable of conducting object detection…
From insideHPC
At SC22: One Stop Systems’ Jim Ison on ‘AI Transportable’ Liquid Cooled HPC at the Edge
One Stop Systems’ veteran Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Jim Ison talked with us at SC22 about OSS’s unque HPC-class hardware that supports “AI Transportable” applications. These are ruggedized AI workloads at the edge — and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Key Takeaways from Meta's Galactica AI
Galactica AI, general idea is good, navigating complex forms of data is useful. One of our early AI successes did exactly this for key internal knowledge. Make it easy to easy to use, and importantly make it easy to validate…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Optimizing compilers reload vector constants needlessly
Modern processors have powerful vector instructions which allow you to load several values at once, and operate (in one instruction) on all these values. Similarly, they allow you to have vector constants. Thus if you wantedContinue…
From insideHPC
dotData Feature Factory Technology Adds Feature Discovery Capabilities to Azure Synapse Analytics
SAN MATEO, Calif., December 6, 2022 – dotData announced that its Feature Factory technology is now integrated with and available on Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics, an integrated, cloud-native platform for data analytics.…