Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2022
From insideHPC
DOE: $125M for Small Business Climate Change R&D
Feb. 28, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $125 million for small businesses pursuing clean energy research and development (R&D) projects. The projects range from grid modernization and carbon removal…
From insideHPC
Tartabit and Quectel Collaborate on Microsoft Azure IoT Deployment
BARCELONA – February 28, 2022 – Today, Tartabit LLC announces the availability of new Quectel BC66 low-code solution templates within their IoT Bridge designed to enable frictionless pathway into Microsoft Azure. This new update…
From insideHPC
Fungible Picks Avery Design Systems PCI Express VIP for Hyperscale Compliance, Connectivity
Tewksbury, MA., Feb 28, 2022 — Avery Design Systems, maker of functional verification solutions, today announced its PCI Express Verification IP (VIP) has been selected by Fungible Inc., a data center infrastructure company, …
From insideHPC
Testsigma Raises $4.6M for Open Source Test Automation
San Francisco – February 28, 2022 — Test automation company Testsigma has secured a $4.6M seed funding led by Accel and STRIVE, with participation from BoldCap and a host of well known entrepreneurs and operators. These include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shrinking AI?
AI, computational demand, complex contextual scenarios. Can we make it happen?
Shrinking AI? By Chris Edwards
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3495562
The computational demand made…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Special Edition: HPC/AI-Powered Geopolitcal Cyberwar and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine may involve a heavy measure of cyberwar, a new and shrouded form of espionage and sabotage with potentially devastating impacts. Here we offer a special edition of the @HPCpodcast to discuss the…
From BLOG@CACM
The Expression of the Rhetorical Triangle in Data Science
In data science, good storytelling means that data-driven solutions are communicated clearly, concisely, and directly to each relevant target audience group.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACMW- Rising Star Award Recipient: Minlan Yu
ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Minlan Yu as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award. The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline…
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing for R&D
[SPONSORED POST] In this eBook, "High Performance Computing for R&D," sponsored by Rescale, Microsoft Azure and AMD, we take a look at HPC deployments in support of R&D efforts. In many ways, the HPC solution in the cloud offered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kirkland Brand Has Done Well
Costco's Kirkland signature brand has done very well. Comparison to CPG giants. by Tom Ryan
The Kirkland Signature brand exceeded $59 billion in sales in Costco’s 2021 fiscal year, up 13.4 percent year-over-year and accounting…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pretraining for Autonomous Systems
More on Microsoft's pretraining system
Microsoft Research Blog
COMPASS: COntrastive Multimodal Pretraining for AutonomouS Systems
Published February 23, 2022
By Shuang Ma , Senior Researcher Sai Vemprala , Senior Researcher Wenshan…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hypergraphs Examined
Always interested in better ways to use visuals to come to useful conclusions in contexts. Is this one? Has anyone some good concrete examples?
A Group Effort By Chris Edwards in the ACM
Communications of the ACM, March 2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking innovatively like a Kid
Kids have a special way of cultivating creativity--and some even see their crafty ideas develop into lucrative business opportunities. Did you know that kids invented the trampoline, popsicles, and earmuffs?
'''On…From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Cars Building Virtual Cities
Virtual city models developed from car imaging to create tests, training from virtual models.
Google, Waymo Used Driverless Cars to Make Virtual San Francisco
By New Scientist, February 24, 2022
Researchers at driverless car company…From The Eponymous Pickle
NHTS Approval of LED Headlights
Further automotive directions, regulations,
Adaptive LED Headlights Get NHTSA Approval in the U.S.
By motor1.com, February 18, 2022
The U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration issued a new rule permitting the…From Computational Complexity
I did an Instagram Live with Mohammad Hajiaghayi
Today I did an Instagram Live with Mohammad H. He was the host, asking me questions. We discussed
Our lives
Blogging (which I do but he does not)
Parenting (which he does but I do not)
P vs NP (which we both care about)
Zero Knowledge…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware used in Ukraine Attacks
Such tools will likely become tools in other kinds of cyberattacks.
Ransomware Used as Decoy in Destructive Cyberattacks on Ukraine in SecurityWeek By Ionut Arghire
The cyberattacks employed HermeticWiper, a piece of malware that…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM: Celebrating 75 Years
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter—Jack Benny Jennifer Chases, Francine Berman, Susan Dumais, Deborah Estrin, James Hendler, Michael Jordan, Butler Lampson, Valerie Taylor are the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cyber Security Social Contract
The current state of the affairs', and related threats are pointing to a need for this.
The Cyber Social Contract in Foreign Affairs
How to Rebuild Trust in a Digital World
By Chris Inglis and Harry Krejsa, February 21, 2022
In…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions from O'Reilly Group
From OReilly AI: emerging tech Radar
1. What’s ahead for AI, VR, NFTs, and more?
Mike Loukides makes some Predictions:
Thoughtful looks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic vs Real Training Data?
The real world is messy and needs direction.
Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?
500+IEEE Spectrumby Eliza Strickland / 3d//keep unread//hide
It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems…From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Introduces Direct Liquid Cooled Servers Powered by NVIDIA for Baseboard Accelerators and CPUs
February 24th 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, today introduced two new liquid cooled HPC and AI training servers, G262-ZL0 and G492-ZL2, that can push…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Digital Twins
I worked at the University of Florida on modeling medical procedures. This would have been a very useful modeling extension.
Medical Digital Twins: a New Frontier
By Allyn Jackson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 24, 2022…From insideHPC
UAE Ministry of Defense to Host Defense Industry, Technology and Security Conference March 2-3
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 25 February 2021 — The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence (MoD) will host the International Defense Industry, Technology and Security Conference (IDITSC) at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for the Future
Some time ago I wrote for the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto.
Here is their current online presence, just revisited.
MAKING THE FUTURE WITH FORESIGHT ...
Someone from the IFTF interested in collaboration? Contact me. …From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Sense of Smell
A sensory space we also experimented with
E-Nose Sniffs Out the Good Whiskey
IEEE Spectrum, Michelle Hampson, February 18, 2022
New research describes an electronic nose (e-nose) that can analyze whiskies and recognize a whiskey…From The Eponymous Pickle
Decentralized Science
Decentralized science, new to me as a concept.
A Guide to DeSci, the Latest Web3 Movement By Sarah Hamburg
A growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs are leveraging blockchain tools, including smart contracts and tokens…From insideHPC
Woman in Data Science Worldwide Conference to Be Held March 7
Women in Data Science will hold its conference on Monday, March 7, 2022, a technical conference featuring outstanding women doing exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a variety of domains. For more information…
From insideHPC
NCI Australia Selects SoftIron for Ceph-based Storage for Integrated HPC Environment
London – February 24, 2022 – SoftIron Ltd., a maker of task-specific data infrastructure appliances, today announced their selection by National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Australia, to provide Ceph-based object storage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZugZwang! Compelling Moves
Game strategy
I remember this from learnings in tactical interactions. Good overview here.
Play First and Lose: Zugzwang in Chess, Math and Pizzas in Quantamagazine
How to win games by going second and leaving your opponent…