Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Moving UK Data
Note that 'where' data is held may start to become an important issue. Note also the specific considerations that Google is indicating here, as part of Brexit and other data uses. Also related to spatial web designs?
Google Moves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Spatial Web
Brought back to my attention, dated (2018) , The Spatial Web, still relevant?
The Spatial Web Will Map Our 3D World—And Change Everything In the Process By Peter H. Diamandis, MD
The boundaries between digital and physical…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 22nd 2020)
In a large cohort study, the highest probability of reaching 90 years old was found for those drinking between 5g and 15 g of alcohol per day. This does not mean that if you are not drinking, you should start. The Earth is getting…
From insideHPC
Video: A Preview of SC20 in Atlanta
In this video, SC20 General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi from the DoD Modernization Program previews the Supercomputing conference coming to Atlanta in November. "Christine Cuicchi is director of the Navy Department of Defense
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books by Stephen Few
A look at all of Stephen Few's books on the viz and use of data, including his latest:
The Data Loom, Stephen Few, $15.95 (U.S.), Analytics Press, May 15, 2019
Data, in and of itself, isn't valuable. It only becomes valuable
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple innovations are the Most Used
Anyone in this space for a while knows the drill.
Larry Tesler: Computer Scientist Behind Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies at Age 74 BBC News
Larry Tesler, inventor of the "cut," "copy," and "paste" commands, recipient of ACM SIGCHI's…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Architect at NVIDIA
NVIDIA is seeking an HPC Architect in our Job of the Week. "NVIDIA is developing processor and system architectures for accelerated high performance computing, machine learning, AI, datacenter and automotive computing. We are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Clinical Trials
General overview of the state of the technical advances.
Artificial Intelligence Ushers in a New Era of Cost-Effective Clinical Trials
Contributed Commentary by James Streeter, Global Vice President Life Sciences Product Strategy…
From BLOG@CACM
Getting a Program Right (1)
Why it is good to have a systematic approach to software verification.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tag of Everything to Protect Supply Chain
Tagging everything uniquely. Authenticity. Devil in the details. " ... Tiny, battery-free ID chip can authenticate nearly any product to help combat losses to counterfeiting. .. "
Cryptographic 'Tag of Everything' Could Protect…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 13-foot Giant Squid Caught off New Zealand Coast
It's probably a juvenile: Researchers aboard the New Zealand-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA) research vessel Tangaroa were on an expedition to survey hoki, New Zealand's most valuable commercial…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My thoughts on how research funding is attributed in Canada to Computer Science
In Canada, most computer science professors seek funding with NSERC, the main Canadian funding agency for science and engineering. It is more or less the equivalent of the American NSF. The core NSERC program is called “discovery…
From Schneier on Security
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central control points for our data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Short History of Ethereum
Ethereum provides an instuctive aspect of blockchains, including a more generalized aspect of smart contracts that is useful.
Blockchain: A Very Short History Of Ethereum Everyone Should Read
in Forbes By Bernard Marr
Even those…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Few on Logarithms
Data viz expert Stephen Few on Logarithms. I recall very early in my experience in the enterprise, having to work with execs on this concept and how it could improve their understanding of visual measures, but also confuse…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing adds more than 100 new customers In 2019
Commercial enterprises, research universities and government agencies are turning to Bright Cluster Manager to reduce complexity and increase flexibility of their high-performance clusters. Along these lines, the company just…
From insideHPC
Big Compute Fireside Chat with Sam Altman from OpenAI
In this video from the Big Compute 2020 event, Sam Altman from the OpenAI research laboratory discusses artificial intelligence Shawn Hansen, COO of Rescale. "I think of the most exciting developments in the field in the last…
From insideHPC
NOAA to triple weather and climate supercomputing capacity
The United States is reclaiming a global top spot in high performance computing to support weather and climate forecasts. NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, today announced a significant upgrade to compute capacity, storage…
From insideHPC
Inspur Re-Elected as Member of SPEC OSSC and Chair of SPEC Machine Learning
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has finalized the election of new Open System Steering Committee (OSSC) executive members, which include Inspur, Intel, AMD, IBM, Oracle and three other companies. "It is…
From insideHPC
oneAPI: Single Programming Model to Deliver Cross-Architecture Performance
Bill Savage from Intel gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. "Learn about oneAPI, the new Intel-led industry initiative to deliver a high-performance unified programming model specification spanning CPU, GPU,
…
From Schneier on Security
Policy vs Technology
Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. Matt Blaze and Ron Rivest were with me; I don't remember who…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting Short Course from The Edge
Quite interesting, free, have followed the concept for some time, but have yet to apply it. Videos embedded at the link. Good to see this followup. Is enough said about embedded risk analysis? Following.
A Short Course in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Automation
Been thinking the topic late. Goals, risks, Results?
Automation Maturity Still Woeful?
Howard Sewell in Customerthink
Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum…
From Schneier on Security
Internet of Things Candle
There's a Kickstarter for an actual candle, with real fire, that you can control over the Internet. What could possibly go wrong?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coronavirus Influences P&G China Business
My former employer reports. Would seem now that the prediction of epidemics and their influence needs to be added to supply chain demand.
Some in-store demand has shifted to the Internet, but delivery capability is limited,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalization of Cyberattacks
Disconcerting news in this
The New Attack Surface is Your Life in Andreessen Horowitz
by Martin Casado a 19 minute talk and supporting Deck, Notes
From business email compromise to SIM ports, cyberattacks have shifted from networks…
From insideHPC
Swiss Conference & HPCXXL User Group Events Return to Lugano
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will host the 11th annual Swiss Conference and bi-annual HPCXXL Winter Meeting April 6-9 in Lugano, Switzerland. "Explore the domains and disciplines driving change and progress at an
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Event-Based Cameras
This was brought to my attention based on a project we addressed some time ago, the term 'event based camera' was brought up as a potential solution. To address the significant monitoring of lab work. Here advances in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Defender Expands
Been a user of Defender for some time now, as long as it has been available.. It seems to work, at least in the fact that no malware has gotten through recently, that I know about. Good to have multiple capabilities at work…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
P=NP: A Story
The P=NP story without symbols. [ The Movie ] Dr. Strangelove is the classic 1964 movie about the potential for nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and…