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 Putting People First
[Book] Experiments of the Mind
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An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social media
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
National Academy of Engineering Elects
The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it’s making them steal your ideas!—Howard Aiken Composite crop of homepage photos Taher Elgamal and Anna Karlin are among 111 new US members of the National…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Cloud HPC is Hot – But Is It Right for Everything?
Growth of cloud HPC for several years has outpaced overall HPC market growth, and public cloud providers continually add the latest and greatest chips, interconnects, memory and software applications to their HPC menus. No doubt…
From insideHPC
Google Cloud Chooses 3rd Gen AMD EPYC for HPC, EDA, CFD Workloads
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 10, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that AMD EPYC processors will power the new C2D virtual machine offering from Google Cloud, bringing customers strong performance and compute power for…
From insideHPC
SK Telecom Teams with Equinix on Quantum Cryptography Network Protection
Feb. 10, 2022: SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) of South Korea today announced an agreement with digital infrastructure company Equinix to expand the quantum business including ‘QKD as a Service (QaaS)’ in Korean and overseas markets. The…
From insideHPC
AMD: ‘All Necessary Approvals’ Received for Proposed Xilinx Deal
Silicon Valley — Feb. 10, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced it has received approval from all necessary authorities to proceed with the acquisition of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a deal estimated at $35 billion. With …
From insideHPC
Grid.ai Acquires AI Platform Tensorwerk
New York, February 10, 2022 – Grid.ai, a cloud-based platform for building and training machine learning (ML) models, announced the acquisition of Tensorwerk, a company developing open-source projects in the deep-learning space…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trusting Bitcoin
This article was pointed to me by the immediately preceding one, See also the comments at the link for further debate.
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Bruce Schneier, in Wired, February 6, 2019
In his 2008…From insideHPC
15th Annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference to Be In-person March 1-3
Hosted annually at Rice University in Houston by the Ken Kennedy Institute, the Energy HPC Conference examines challenges and opportunities in HPC, computational science and engineering, machine learning, and data science. Registration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Blockchain Hype
Good somewhat technical examination of work underway, including work by IBM, Hyperledger and hype of this space in general.
Blockchain For What, Exactly? By Doug Meil in CACM February 4, 2022
Blockchain is built upon multiple…From The Eponymous Pickle
7-Eleven Stores in Japan Get Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts
ACM TECHNEWS
7-Eleven Stores in Japan Get Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts By Gizmodo
Six 7-Eleven stores in Tokyo, Japan, will soon feature floating holographic displays that will allow customers to pay for their…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How many digits in a product?
We often represent integers with digits. E.g., the integer 1234 has 4 digits. By extension, we use ‘binary’ digits, called bits, within computers. Thus the integer 7 requires three bits: 0b111. If I have two integers that use…
From insideHPC
AMD Infinity Hub: Channeling the Power of AMD Accelerators for Faster Time-to-Science
[Sponsored Content] GPUs have revolutionized HPC and AI, carrying advanced performance forward where Moore’s Law dropped off. The result: exploding global demand for the chips. The GPU market reached $87 billion for 2021 with…
From insideHPC
Arm Veteran Matthew Mattina Joins Tenstorrent as VP of Machine Learning
Toronto — Feb. 8, 2022 — The same day Nvidia dropped its attempt to acquire Arm, Arm’s senior director of its Machine Learning Research Lab, Matthew Mattina, announced he is joining Toronto-based AI hardware startup Tenstorrent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Lab Tools
Had not thought of this, clever idea as it is applied.
Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench
BY JULIETA ARANCIO, SHANNON DOSEMAGEN in Issues.org
In 2015, Richard Bowman, an optics scientist, began experimenting with 3DOpenFlexure…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Commerce Media
The rise of commerce media
Commerce media is transforming advertising by using data to close the transaction loop.
The rise of commerce media: The opportunity for CPGs:
February 8, 2022 – Consumer packaged goods advertisers can71…From The Eponymous Pickle
Weird Computer-Generated Phrases Tip-Off Scientific Publishing Fraud
From Computational Complexity
A Book Break
I got the writing bug back while working on my recent CACM article and I'd like to try my hand at another book. Not sure the exact topic but something related to the changing nature of computing and its implications.
I'll cut…From insideHPC
Lenovo’s ‘Carbon-Negative’ Strategy for Customers Drives a Sustainable Energy Future
[Sponsored Content] The climate crisis – and, specifically, how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by power-hungry data centers – was a top-of-mind issue at Lenovo’s recent Winterstock virtual event. The company has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surface Finishing by Laser
A laser process for surface finishing
Lotus effects by laser, Research News / February 01, 2022 By Fraunhofer Institute
Nano- and microstructures can now be incorporated into surfaces in an instant using lasers. The technologyModern…From The Eponymous Pickle
Invent the Work of the Future
Good overview by Irving Wladawsky, including aspects of COVID influence, more at the links below.
The Work of the Future Is Ours to Invent Irving Wladawsky by IWB
The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent…From insideHPC
Nvidia and SoftBank: Attempted Arm Deal Is Off; Arm to Prepare IPO
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and TOKYO – Feb. 7, 2022 – NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (“SBG” or “SoftBank”) today announced the termination of the previously announced transaction whereby NVIDIA would acquire Arm Limited (“Arm”) from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twinning in the Metaverse
Digital Twinning in the Metaverse
Digital twins could be crucial to metaverse adoption?
BY DANIEL LIPSCOMBE in GMW3
April 13th 1970: The Apollo 13 spacecraft is 220,000 kilometres from Earth when an explosion rocks the crew and…From insideHPC
Quantum Company D-Wave Going Public
BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif. & MIAMI — D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software and services company announced today definitive transaction agreement with DPCM Capital, Inc. (NYSE: XPOA), a
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From insideHPC
Journal: NCAR Supercomputer ‘Up Against Complex Physics of Programming Thousands of Weather Variables’
The “Cheyenne” supercomputer, an Intel-powered SGI system installed in 2017 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, is at the heart of a major article on climate change appearing in yesterday’s Wall…
From insideHPC
Kao Data Expands UK Data Center with 16MW Facility in Slough
London, 7th February 2022 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has today announced the availability of a 16 Megawatt (MW), carrier-neutral data …
From insideHPC
Intel Joins RISC-V International
ZURICH – February 7, 2022 – RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization, today announced that Intel Corporation has joined RISC-V International at the premier membership level. “This move demonstrates…
From insideHPC
Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science to Team on Data Science for Energy Sector
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, February 7, 2022 – The Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) have signed a formal agreement to update two current certificate programs and to add a third, the Division…
From insideHPC
SiFive and Intel Foundry Services Launch $1B Partnership for RISC-V Markets
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2022 — Intel today announced a $1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem. A collaboration between Intel Capital…
From insideHPC
NSF Opens Nominations for National Medal of Science
Washington, DC — Feb. 7, 2022 — The National Science Foundation is seeking nominations for the National Medal of Science from today, February 7 through May 20, 2022 and encourages sharing of the NMS Call for Nominations flyer…