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 insideHPC
DDN Global Leader in Intelligent Infrastructure and Technology Announces Record Breaking Revenue of $400 Million in 2020
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Feb. 23, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today announced record-breaking annual revenue of $400 million and its highest ever profitability in…
From Schneier on Security
Mysterious Macintosh Malware
This is weird:
Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new commands the malware should run or binaries to execute. So far, however, researchers have yet to observe delivery of any payload on…From Schneier on Security
Threat Model Humor
At a hospital.
From insideHPC
Chenbro Unveils Update to Open-Bay Product Line with New Server Chassis Models
Taipei, Taiwan, Feb 23, 2021 – Rackmount server and storage manufacturer, Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), has announced a new line of updates to its open-bay server chassis products. Joining Chenbro’s existing open-bay products, the new…
From insideHPC
NAG Delivers Machine Learning Guidance via New Azure HPC + AI Collaboration Centre
23 February 2021 – Oxford, UK: The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) will provide machine learning guidance to Microsoft Azure users via the new Azure HPC & AI Collaboration Centre. In partnership with NVIDIA, this new centre …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Voice AI with Clouds: Podcast
Of interest, the future of Voice nd AI. Will be following.
Voice Talks Rises to the Clouds for February 25 Episode by Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Modev’s VOICE Talks Presented by Google Assistant will peer into the future…From insideHPC
Hyperion HPC User Study: Demand for Sim-Analytics Systems, a Throughput Boom, AMD GPUs and FPGAs on the Move and Other Findings
Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has completed its latest study of high performance computing buyers and users, it’s first since 2017, and the report reveals a quickly evolving and innovating industry in which, among other…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cloud Access for NSF CISE Research
An increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs (for which SMALL Projects do not have a submission deadline), are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pin Screens to the Walls
Is it the future of display to have information pinned on the wall. Or floating in space?
Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to your walls
Lenovo adopted the design for its ThinkReality glasses
By Adi…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AI. An Abandonment of Watson?
I see that our interesting correspondent and critic from before the first AI winter, Roger Schank, has posted a note strongly criticizing IBM on AI and cognitive claims. Below an excerpt, link through to more:
They are not …From insideHPC
Xilinx Alveo Platform for Networking and AI Video Analytics
SAN JOSE, Feb. 23, 2021 – Addressing the demands of the modern data center, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a range of new data center products and solutions, including a new family of Alveo SmartNICs, Smart World…
From insideHPC
RISC-V International Unveils Fast Track Architecture Extension Process and Ratifies ZiHintPause Extension
Zurich – Feb. 23, 2021 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), unveiled its Fast Track…
From insideHPC
Semtech to Enable 50Gbps PAM4 Front Haul 5G Wireless Deployment with 5G Front Haul Tri-Edge CDR IC Solution
CAMARILLO, CA, Feb. 23, 2021 –Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced sampling of a new solution (GN2255), Semtech’s Tri…
From insideHPC
AIOps Company ScienceLogic Raises $105M from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital
Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raised $105 million in growth financing. Silver Lake Waterman led the company…
From Computational Complexity
Good Names and Bad Names of Game Shows and theorems
In my post on Alex Trebek, see here, I noted that Jeopardy! is not a good name for the game show since it doesn't tell you much about the show. Perhaps Answers and Questions is a better name.
The following game shows have names…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing Floating-point Numbers Really Fast in C#
Programmers often write out numbers as strings (e.g., 3.1416) and they want to read back the numbers from the string. If you read and write JSON or CSV files, you do this work all of the time. Previously, we showed that we could…
From Schneier on Security
The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity
Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.”
From the introduction:
Treating data like it is property fails to recognize either the value that varieties of personal information…From The Eponymous Pickle
Linux and Open Source Go to Mars
Big follower of astronomy and astronautics. Connections to modern computing are also of continued interest. The latest efforts to Mars are instructive. What else can be done to support the capability for modern, long distance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Big Quantum Win was a Mistake
Interesting, recall the announcement then, mostly technical points are made here, but worth noting. Not clear then hw this will effect Microsoft's work in the space, if at all.
Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was …From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernizing Data Dashboards.
Good thoughts, somewhat obvious, but still useful tips about the ideas involved.
Modernizing Data Dashboards. Posted by Technovert Solutions on February 21, 2021 in DSC.
Modernizing is critical to apply the latest technologies…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier Institute, where he leads Larremore Lab. In addition, he holds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Crowdsources New Products
Interesting approach will examine further and post here. Thoughts about usefulness?
Amazon is using crowdsourcing to create new products by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with further expert comment at the link.
Amazon launched a…From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Impacting Supply Chains
Good thoughts, all players should examine these methods.
Blockchain and RPA Leading Supply Chain Trends in 2021 By Marisa Brown, APQC
It is worrisome to note that 1 in 5 supply chains barely survived the COVID-19 crisis. It’s…From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating with Dreaming
Recall our early dream experiments. Could this re-open our sleep learning goals?
Scientists Communicated With People While They Were Lucid Dreaming By Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub
We’ve probed the depths of Earth’s deepest…From insideHPC
Octopai Announces Support of Snowflake
Tel Aviv – February 22, 2021 – Octopai, the leader in Automated Data Lineage and Data Discovery, announced today its support and analysis of Snowflake, the fastest-growing cloud-based database in the industry. This follows a …
From The Eponymous Pickle
More No and Low Code Emerges
More solutions, but have yet to see them widely used. Would want to see them strongly tested for security issues. Probably open source to allow that?
Low-code software platform provider Creatio raises $68M By Mike Wheatley…From insideHPC
Storage as a Service in AWS
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explores “storage as a service” in using AWS, and how this is made possible with Weka’s Limitless Data Platform. And you can plan your cluster…
From insideHPC
10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 4
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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Riemann Hypothesis—Why So Hard?
“If I were to awaken after having slept a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?” — David Hilbert Steklov Institute memorial page Sergei Voronin was an expert in number theory, who…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Riemann Hypothesis—Why So Hard?
“If I were to awaken after having slept a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?” — David Hilbert Steklov Institute memorial page Sergei Voronin was an expert in number theory, who…