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 insideHPC
SC 2020 Launches HPC Career Day
Fostering STEM education is a key to the future of high performance computing. Along these lines, ISC 2020 HPC Career Day will give 200 job seekers interested in HPC the opportunity to participate in the ISC 2020 conference on…
From insideHPC
Purdue University to open Scalable Open Laboratory for Cyber Experimentation
Purdue University’s CERIAS Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security has announced the addition of a new laboratory facility that dramatically increases Purdue’s cyber-physical research, emulation…
From insideHPC
IRIS and XSEDE to investigate the impact of research supercomputing
A partnership XSEDE and the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) will examine how access to advanced research computing resources and services available via XSEDE affect the collaboration networks and scientific…
From insideHPC
New Argonne etching technique could advance semiconductors
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new molecular layer etching technique that could potentially enable the manufacture of increasingly small microelectronics. "Our ability to control matter at the nanoscale…
From insideHPC
Visualizing an Entire Brain at Nanoscale Resolution
In this video from SC19, Berkeley researchers visualizes an entire brain at nanoscale resolution. The work was published in the journal, Science. "At the core of the work is the combination of expansion microscopy and lattice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confidence in Automated Systems
Interesting example of personal data being used in automated systems and how it is handled.
Confidence in automated systems from Fraunhofer
Research News / 3.2.2020
When it comes to cars that drive themselves, most people are still…
From Schneier on Security
DNSSEC Keysigning Ceremony Postponed Because of Locked Safe
Interesting collision of real-world and Internet security: The ceremony sees several trusted internet engineers (a minimum of three and up to seven) from across the world descend on one of two secure locations -- one in El Segundo…
From insideHPC
How HPC is Powering the Age of Genomic Big Data
In this special guest feature, Jeff Reser from SUSE describes how Linux and HPC are key enabling technologies behind the research and breakthroughs in Genomics. "The Human Genome Project is an excellent example of large-scale…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Announces Staff Changes Within Software Technology Group
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the following staff changes within the Software Technology group. Lois Curfman McInnes from Argonne will replace Jonathan Carter as Deputy Director
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Got a Job on an Oil and Gas Vessel
Was thinking that he would be great to test for security in some sort of high security fenced area. Would worry about its general interaction with the public. Oil vessel makes even more sense. Also would include some navigation…
From Schneier on Security
A US Data Protection Agency
The United States is one of the few democracies without some formal data protection agency, and we need one. Senator Gillibrand just proposed creating one....
From insideHPC
DOE Workshop Begins Mapping the Future of Quantum Communications
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, under the leadership of Under Secretary of Energy Paul Dabbar, sponsored around 70 representatives from multiple government agencies and universities at the first Quantum Internet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rewriting Wikipedia Articles with AI
Just mentioned the Wikipedia on another piece, here is another kind of bot that could be useful for internal articles and reports as well, depending on how well it worked.
AI can automatically rewrite outdated text in Wikipedia…
From insideHPC
Second GPU Cloudburst Experiment Paves the Way for Large-scale Cloud Computing
Researchers at SDSC and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center have successfully completed a second computational experiment using thousands of GPUs across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Cybersecurity Standards
New cybersecurity standards are being launched for industry working with the Pentagon.
In National Defense Mag. Brought to my attention:
Pentagon Rolling Out New Cybersecurity Standards for Industry By Jon Harper
"... The Defense…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovative AR in Automobiles
Some quite innovative AR systems being used to compete among upscale automobiles. But ultimately distracting?
With In-Car AR, Drivers Get a New View of the Road Ahead By Alex Davies in Wired
Navigation screens with augmented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Looks at Voice Assistants
Former colleague and correspondent Lou Killeffer of FiveMileRiver Marketing writes an interesting and cautious piece about voice assistants, AI and the future of tech for consumers. Entitled: Alexa, What just Happened here…
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches New HPC Infrastructure Services with Digital Realty
Today Award-winning Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D announced an agreement with San Francisco-based Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. MC Digital Realty will…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced recently the selection of four grand prize and three meritorious prize winners for its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition. One of the winners, Vincent Conitzer (Duke…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Way that Emerging Tech is Disrupting Business Strategy
Good piece from HBS Bus School in HBSWK, fairly obvious examples, but worth a look.
Workig Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy by Danielle Kost
How
Even…
From insideHPC
Microway powers Shared Research Computing Storage Project in Massachusetts
Powered by storage technology supplied by Microway, the Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) is changing the way Boston-area universities approach research data storage. "Born out of a groundbreaking regional high-performance computing…
From Schneier on Security
Companies that Scrape Your Email
Motherboard has a long article on apps -- Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox -- that spy on your email by scraping your screen, and then sell that information to others: Some of the companies listed in the J.P. Morgan document sell…
From insideHPC
Whitepaper: Accelerate Training of Deep Neural Networks with MemComputing
"The paper addresses the inherent limitations associated with today's most popular gradient-based methods, such as Adaptive Moment Estimation (ADAM) and Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), which incorporate backpropagation. MemComputing's…
From insideHPC
Using sound and light for ultra-fast data transfer
A research team of academics from the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham believes its has found a way of delivering ultra- fast modulation, by combining the power of acoustic and light waves. The findings were published…
From insideHPC
Call for Posters: Women in HPC Workshop at ISC20
The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop has issued its Call for Posters. The half-day WHPC workshop takes place June 25 at ISC20 in Frankfurt, Germany. "We are encouraging women who consider themselves to be ‘early career…
From insideHPC
Introducing HPC with a Raspberry Pi Cluster
Colin Sauze from Aberystwyth University gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. The motivation for this was to overcome key problems faced by new HPC users. "The talk will also discuss some of the technical challenges in deploying an
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla's Approach to Innovation
Been impressed, now how long will it last?
Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to Innovation
By Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer in HBR
Few companies have attracted as much scorn and adoration as Tesla. When Tesla launches a product like the Cybertruck…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Swarming Pods
A favorite topic, distributing tasks, combining to solve tasks.
Autonomous Pods SWARM Together Like Bees in World-First Demonstration
University of Warwick
January 30, 2020
Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-Europe Blog: Reflections on womENcourage 2019
This month’s guest blogger is Elif Akeli, a PhD student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. “I started my professional journey six years ago. During this time I have worked as both a software developer and a member…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Using Negative Nodes to Count
A deeper basis for generalized Tutte-Grothendieck invariants Via Psychology Today article Alexander Grothendieck peppered algebraic geometry with nilpotent elements. He augmented spaces with elements such that for some power…