Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Mapping Moods
We took at cut at the basic idea to determine changes in moods that might indicate purchases. And also mapping to actual behavior. Note pharmaceutical use implications.
By Stanford University, FebruaryMachine…From insideHPC
Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships
Grad students wanting to focus on their research have a new opportunity to do just that. The New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend…
From insideHPC
RIKEN Center to Hold Annual Symposium on Fugaku and ‘Society 5.0,’ Feb. 15-16
The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN R-CCS) will hold its third annual international symposium on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16 focusing on HPC and Fugaku, the world’s top-rated supercomputer, and its role in…
From insideHPC
Hyve Managed Hosting Launches HPC cloud solution
Brighton, UK, 4th February 2021 – Hyve Managed Hosting, a UK cloud hosting provider, has launched a new high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution designed to offer prime performance at an affordable price. Hyve’s cloud…
From insideHPC
UberCloud and NI SP in HPC Partnership
Tübingen, Germany and Los Altos, California – February 03, 2021 – NI SP GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. have announced a strategic partnership combining NI SP’s 3D VDI and high performance computing (HPC) solutions with UberCloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensing the Household
Talk about potential invasions of privacy .... note the use of multiple sensors and analyses
Household Radar Can See Through Walls and Knows How You’re Feeling
Modern wireless tech isn’t just for communications. It can also sense…From BLOG@CACM
The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Amazing Video of a Black-Eyed Squid Trying to Eat an Owlfish
From the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
How squid fly.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Details of SpaceX Starlink
Some interesting details of the progress and details of the effort. Will the earth soon be wrapped with a coating of sensors and transceivers? Following.
SpaceX filing reveals Starlink internet service has over 10,000 users…From The Eponymous Pickle
Perfect Product Launch
Simplified, but useful look at product at product launch
Three Fundamentals to a Strong Product Launch
February 1, 2021, Scott McPhaden, SCB Contributor and Drew Andrews, SCB Contributor
Bringing the perfect product to marketBusinesses…From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Cancer Cells
A Computational means of differentiating cells.
Computational Tool Reliably Differentiates Between Cancer, Normal Cells From Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data By The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, January 28,…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Graph Products
The power of definitions and notations Leopold Kronecker was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. deeply. We highlighted him before—well not deeply. Today I thought we would talk about some core math ideas arising…
From insideHPC
Intel and Google Cloud Join NIH’s ‘All of Us’ Medical Data Research Program
Intel and Google Cloud have joined the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, designed to improve population health by making biomedical data from underrepresented groups available to COVID-19 researchers…
From insideHPC
New EU Consortium Launches 4-year Quantum Scaling Project
A European consortium has been launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), it’s a four-year four-year, €15 million ($17.7 million) EU project coordinated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Tracking Smells
We did lots of work examining smells, and sought means to detect and track them. Here an update in the space. Could have used tested for forestry and agriculture application. See many posts on digital smell her over a number…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Tacit Knowledge
Useful, mostly non-technical paper on the topic. We learned much about this when we trained with explicit rules. How do we effectively leverage the statement: 'we know more than we can tell"?
Polanyi's Revenge and AI's New …From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Searches for Covid-19 Treatments
Treatments using deep learning, based on human gene interactions with drugs.
Computer Model Makes Strides in Search for Covid-19 Treatments
Ohio State News, Emily Caldwell, February 1, 2021
A deep learning computer model developed…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI for Good Global Summit – AI to Prevent Modern Slavery and Child Trafficking Webinar
The AI for Good Global Summit, “an all-year digital event, featuring weekly programming across multiple formats, platforms and time-zones,” will hold the AI to Prevent Modern Slavery and Child Trafficking webinar on Wednesday…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adapting Liquid ML Networks
Adapting ML networks over time is an important idea. How much better will this be than simply recreating the networks with new data? Automating maintenance would make sure it is done. And note too the claim of 'exploring degrees…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Announces Record Revenues and Bookings in 2020
San Jose – February 4, 2021 – Bright Computing, focused on automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced record revenues and milestones achieved in 2020 despite the on…
From insideHPC
Iteratively Raises $5.4 Million to Address Trust in Data
Seattle, Feb. 4, 2021 — Iteratively, a SaaS tool that helps data and product teams define, instrument and verify their analytics tracking, announces today that it has secured $5.4 million in new capital led by Google’s AI-focused…
From insideHPC
Xilinx in 5G Partnership with Fujitsu
FPGA chip maker Xilinx, whose acquisition by AMD was announced last October, and Fujitsu, developer along with Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science of Fugaku, the world’s no. 1 supercomputer, today announced plans to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Science Foundation to Support a Series of Workshops on Pandemic Prediction and Prevention
The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also been working in this space and recently published a 2020 Quadrennial Paper on Pandemic Informatics: Preparation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of the VPN
Intriguing history, now finally becoming universal. Saw it first in the enterprise.
Everything VPN is New Again in ACM Queue
The 24-year-old security model has found a second wind.
David Crawshaw in
The VPN (virtual private network)…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Quantum Computing
IBM seeing the future of quantum computing.
IBM unveils ambitious plan for quantum computing software By Jeremy Kahn in Fortune
The company wants to make it easier for programmers to use the new technology without having to understand…From insideHPC
MediQuant’s Kel Pults Joins the Active Archive Alliance Board of Directors
Boulder, Colo., February 3, 2021 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Kel Pults, DHA, MSN, RN, and Chief Clinical Officer at MediQuant, has joined its Board of Directors. Dr. Pults will be instrumental in advancing…
From insideHPC
Azure Quantum Now in Public Preview
February 1, 2021 — Azure Quantum, the world’s first full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, is now open for business, according to Krysta Svore, general manager, Microsoft Quantum. Developers, researchers, systems…
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Profitability
Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019.
Based on the company’s data, among last year’s top earners, there were groups…From Schneier on Security
SonicWall Zero-Day
Hackers are exploiting zero-day in SonicWall:
In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: “Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat affects the SonicWall SMA 100 series devices. We are…