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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On SQUIDS
A good tutorial:
But we can go beyond the polarization of electrons and really leverage the electron waviness. By interleaving thin layers of superconducting and normal materials, we can make the quantum electronic equivalents…From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Sharing Across Silos
From the APQC Blog:
Why Knowledge Sharing Across Siloes Is More Important in 2021
Team-based collaboration got a huge boost in 2020
However, we don’t seem the same upswing when it comes to open, boundary-spanning collaboration.…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Should We Evaluate High School Teaching Records?
Mark Guzdial posted several articles about evaluating the teaching records of undergraduate faculty. (Links below) They really got me thinking. Now evaluating secondary school (high school) and university teaching is pretty different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Everywhere: Implications of?
Thoughtfull. But I don't consider just algorithms to be AI. AI is adaptable and evolving abilities to do things that currently humans do best. Like reading or writing or learning or reacting.
A.I. Here, There, Everywhere…From The Eponymous Pickle
Example of Question Answering Application: Jarvis
Question Answering Applications
Developing Question a Question Answer Application with NVIDIA Jarvis By James Sohn | February 25, 2021 Tags: AI/Deep Learning, BERT, cloud computing, featured,
There is a high chance that you…From insideHPC
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Announces Virtual Event July 19-23
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe’s annual conference will be a free, online event and is scheduled for July 19-23, 2021. Featuring virtual ICM seminars on HPC and computational science, it will be broadcast from Warsaw, Poland…
From Computational Complexity
Complexity is the Enemy of Speed
The title of this post came from an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday on vaccine distribution. Many attempts to get the vaccines to the right groups first have slowed down distribution and sometime even caused…
From insideHPC
How GPU Acceleration is Fueling Modern Insights
Currently in position as providing the world's fastest analytics database, according to an independent benchmark, Brytlyt offers accessible GPU solutions to any business aiming to accelerate their data analytics and take their…
From insideHPC
Scaleway to Hold Breakathon March 25, Stress-test Kubernetes Kapsule’s Performance
Paris – February 25, 2021 – Scaleway, an alternative European infrastructure and platform as-a-service provider, has announced “the Breakathon” centered on its container orchestrator, Kubernetes Kapsule. On March 25, developers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search and Rescue Drone uses Phones
Makes sense, and a way to coordinate the search for multiple kinds of search conditions and requirements.
Search-and-Rescue Drone Locates Victims by Homing in on Their Phones By IEEE Spectrum, February 24, 2021
The Search-And…From insideHPC
D-Wave Introduces Leap Quantum Cloud Service to Singapore
SINGAPORE – Quantum computing systems, software and services company D-Wave Systems Inc., has announced the introduction of Leap quantum cloud service to Singapore. Developers, researchers, and businesses in Singapore can now…
From insideHPC
TACC, with NSF, Dell and Intel, Expands Frontera for Urgent Computing
This update is from Aaron Dubrow, science and technology writer, TACC. Frontera — the 9th fastest supercomputer in the world, deployed at The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) — has expanded…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Demonstrates Performance Advantage in Quantum Simulation of Exotic Magnetism
BURNABY, British Columbia — D-Wave Systems Inc., the quantum computing systems, software and services company, has published a milestone study in collaboration with scientists at Google, demonstrating a computational performance…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Exec Council Member Nadya Bliss on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Vice Chair Daniel Lopresti. AI for Good Global Summit hosted a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour today and featured Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Knowledge Graphs
Great piece on a favorite topic from CACM. Only mildly technical. Its all about usefully and efficiently representing knowledge. Essential for anyone considering the future of string and using knowledge. We experimented with…
From insideHPC
Dell Names New HPC Leadership Team
Dell Technologies has announced its new HPC and AI leadership, a triumvirate management group comprised of Pete Manca, SVP for integrated solutions engineering; Caitlin Gordon, VP of product management, Integrated Solutions…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quiz of Quotes
Everything that can be invented has been invented—Charles Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 MathQuotes src George Cantor has been featured here and here and here before on GLL. Of course, he invented modern set…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quiz of Quotes
Everything that can be invented has been invented—Charles Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 MathQuotes src George Cantor has been featured here and here and here before on GLL. Of course, he invented modern set…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Dogs at Work for NYPD
See that the NY City Police department has again utilized one of the Boston Dynamics 'Spot' dogs. Apparently for a situation with potential human danger involved. . The impressive look of 'dog-like' droids is coming to life…
From insideHPC
Katana Graph Secures $28.5 Million Series A Financing Round Led by Intel Capital
AUSTIN, TX – February 24, 2021 – Katana Graph, the high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has completed a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital with…
From insideHPC
SiPearl and Open-Silicon Research Team to Accelerate Custom Silicon for HPC
MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France — SiPearl, designer of high-performance, energy-efficient microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer and Open-Silicon Research, the India-based entity of OpenFive, a leading provider of custom…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schank Academy
I had mentioned reading some comments by Roger Schank. Also noted he now has an 'academy', Emphases in Cyber Security, Software Development and Data Analytics. Always liked his fresh approaches, even criticisms of our efforts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metalens: Zoom-able Lenses without Moving Parts
Continued advances in lenses, leading to more capabilities in computational sensors. Continue to be amazed by abilities to take pictures on phones, and capture in real time information about the world and react to it. Advances…
From insideHPC
10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 3
In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Worldwide Web as We Know Ending?
Certainly changing. What drives such changes, more legislation, which are likely to produce yet more and likely less creative participants. It was lack of govt oversight that drove that creativity.
The worldwide web as we…From insideHPC
5 Cloud Risk To-do’s
Suggestions from Tim Mercer, founder of IBOXG, which provides technology services and solutions to government agencies and corporations. Cybersecurity breaches have become all too common, putting public health, individuals’ private…
From insideHPC
Samsung Begins Mass Production of Data Center SSD for Hyperscale Environments
SEOUL — Feb. 24, 2021 — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced it has begun mass producing its most advanced line of data center SSDs, the PM9A3 E1.S. The new PM9A3 fully complies with the Open Compute Project (OCP) NVMe…
From insideHPC
CrownBio and JSR Life Sciences Partner with Cambridge Quantum Computing to Leverage Quantum Machine Learning for Novel Cancer Treatment Biomarker Discovery
SUNNYVALE, CA and CAMBRIDGE, UK, February 24, 2021 – Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), JSR Life Sciences and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced a partnership agreement to explore the application of quantum technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Solves Simulation
Recall our previous mentions of D-Wave Quantum Methods.
Using a method called quantum annealing, D-Wave's researchersBy…From insideHPC
Atos Boosts Supercomputing Power for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET
Paris and Madrid, February 23, 2021 – Atos announced it has been selected by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage technology, through the tender “Contracting of Supply…