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
Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager
This whitepaper, "Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager," from our friends over at Bright Computing discusses how hybrid cloud infrastructures allow organizations to strategically manage their compute requirements from core…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Lineage Platform
First I had heard of this kind of platform, we had used semantic web models. to create models of enterprise data. Can this be used in conjunction with semantic models? Also addresses the data as an asset measure.
Solidatus…From The Eponymous Pickle
US Infrastructure Attack
Broadly reported last week. Was later pointed out that such local systems are universally poorly funded and protected. And this is unlikely to be improved given the current business models of such systems.
A relatively rare.…From Schneier on Security
US Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles
The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.”
Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the page down.)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Engineering Announces Newly Elected Members
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 foreign members. Several computing researchers are among those elected this year. They include National Science Foundation Assistant Director for Computer…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Pigenhole Principle
Mathematics is based on the application of simple ideas over and over: From tiny nuts do big trees grow. Jorgen Veisdal is an assistant professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also the editor in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Uses Continual Learning
Forgetting in Neural Networks. Intro is good, well worth understanding the topic, then becomes technical.
IBM Uses Continual Learning to Avoid The Amnesia Problem in Neural Networks
Tags: IBM, Learning, Neural Networks, Training…From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Technology’s 20 Years in Business
February 15, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded on Feb. 14, 2001, the company was originally billed as “Your source for peak performance computing.” The company’s mission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Swarming Satellites
Recall our interest in swarming cooperating solutions here.
Robot Satellite Swarms Increase Communication Possibilities, By ZDNet, February 11, 2021 in ACM
Carnegie Mellon University researchers prepare CubeSats for space.
A National…From The Eponymous Pickle
Try Solving with Optimization
With all the talk about AI in the air, some of the other fundamental methods are being forgotten. I spent most of my career using and teaching direct optimization methods in the enterprise. Below a quick overview. I amWhat…
From insideHPC
Altran Collaborates With Qualcomm to Deliver 5G NR Software for Enhanced Public & Private 5G Network Solutions
New York – February 15, 2021 – Altran, part of the Capgemini Group, announced plans today for its pre-integrated and validated 5G NR (new radio) software offering on the Qualcomm 5G RAN platform for small cells (FSM100xx), in…
From insideHPC
Spotting HPC, Exascale Bottlenecks with TAU CPU/GPU/MPI Profiler
Programmers cannot blindly guess which sections of their code might bottleneck performance. This problem is worsened when codes run across the variety of hardware platforms supported by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). A…
From Computational Complexity
Two examples of Journalists being... Wrong. One BIG one small
Journalists sometimes get things wrong.
This is not news, but it is interesting when you KNOW they are wrong.
1) Scott Aaronson has a GREAT example regarding an IMPORTANT story. I recommend you to read his blog post here. Most…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready for the Next Pandemic
Lets do this without destroying the education of the current generation.
A number of articles on the proposition that we will be ready. in IEEE Spectrum
COVID-19 has galvanized tech communities. The tens of billions we’re spending…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quality Assurance and IOT
Been involved in the testing and utilizing of many IOT devices for the smarthome, and in the process found many bugs in process and software, So quality assurance is a big deal to hope to effectively test and deliver robust…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Updated Look at No-Code/Lo-Code
A long time interest of mine: How do we make complex things with much less code ... with no code if possible? More productive. Making it more secure as well. Also includes much automated coding. Here an update of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualized Quantum Computing
Nicely done, largely non technical. Visual look by an academicjust learning about the topic.:
Visualizing Quantum Computation in TowardsdataScience
From Zero to Understand What the Hack is Happening!
Alessandro Berti
Hi there!…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
This month we feature ACM-W leadership team this month comes from Bushra Anjum, Standing Committees Co-Chair, with an interview about her involvement with Celebrating Technology Leaders, a webinar project of her own creation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Cyber Defense for Zero-Day Threats
Don't see how this works without lots of operational data to leverage. And might it not be thwarted by adapting the system in some way? And a good understanding of system context. I like the experimental thought though. Algorithm…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Driven 3D Printing
See images at the link. Improving speed and precision.
Dynamic 3D Printing Process Features Light-Driven Twist
By Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering, February 12, 2021
Northwestern University engineers developed aResearchers…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 13th 2021)
Researchers make inexpensive transparent wood. Our cells produce energy using their mitochondria. Researchers show that you can efficiently enrich cells with mitochondria. Vitamin D supplementation could save tens of thousands…
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micrometeorites are Falling
Now for something completely different, from studies of mine long ago. Did you know that there is a near continuous shower of space dust falling down on us? Tiny cosmic meteorites. And there are simple means of gatheringhttps…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weaknesses in ML
I like explanations of how a solution works in real world contexts. Lots of work to still do.
Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning Google Blog., Thursday, February 11, 2021
Posted by Lora Aroyo and Praveen Paritosh…From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnichannel Search Using AI
Brought to my attention, they link to an e-book they offer. Note the below is ad. I am unconnected, have not tried this, but the thoughts and offer looked interesting.
The flexible AI-powered Search & Discovery platform
See:…From insideHPC
Google Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories from CNBC and Bloomberg report that Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm…
From insideHPC
The Quantum Comprehension Gap and the Emergence of Quantum Ethics
Though years from potential fruition, quantum computing and its control has emerged as an issue among technology ethicists. But if a YouTube video released last week voicing the concerns of six quantum experts is any indication…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has appointed Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Kevin Fu (University of Michigan and the Archimedes Center)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting COVID Spikes
Hmm, caution with such causal seeming predictions. But interesting.
Google Search Can Help Predict Covid-19 Spikes The Jerusalem Post, Zachary Keyser, February 8, 2021
Researchers from the U.K.'s University College of London…From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Robot Operating Systems
Just because they use the same software does not mean they will 'get along'. Still the use of software that can communicate will make them easier to update and exchange information.
As Robots Fill the Workplace, They Must …