Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2020
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Select Solutions for Genomic Analytics at the Broad Institute
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Geraldine Van der Auwera from the Broad Institute describes how her organization leverages Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics. "Genomics analysis creates enormous amounts…
From insideHPC
How Supersonic Commercial Flight is Possible with Big Compute
In this video from Big Compute 2020, Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic describes how high performance computing in the cloud has opened a new era of high-speed flight. "We’ve done about 66 million core hours of computing, mainly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Uses of RPA in Business
Good example of the simple use of RPA in business
AI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks By Will Knight in Wired
Routine work, like cutting and pasting between documents, is increasingly being automated. But for
In…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 14th 2020)
Mothers, but not fathers, possess gender-related implicit biases about emotion expression in children. Chinese researchers used to be offered cash rewards for publishing research articles. The Chinese government has banned such…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Firms Seek to Head off Bans on Facial Recognition
Don't expect foreign uses to be banned.
Tech Firms Seek to Head Off Bans on Facial Recognition
The Wall Street Journal
By Ryan Tracy
March 8, 2020
Technology companies increasingly are backing proposed laws that would limit the use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak Math, not Code
Makes sense to understand the math and its implications. I would add that the logic involved in implementation is often ignored by the mathematicians involved.
Speak Math, Not Code
By Singapore Management University
March 4, 2020…
From insideHPC
Qumulo Offers Free Cloud Software to help Fight the COVID-19 Outbreak
Today Qumulo announced it is offering its cloud-native file software, for free, to public and private sector medical and healthcare research organizations that are working to minimize the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Linux System Administrator at UC Riverside
UC Riverside is seeking a Linux System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "UC Riverside's research computing infrastructure is provided by a central HPC facility. This facility operates Linux clusters with over 6,000 CPU cores…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of the FuzzBench
A means to support debugging code and thus searching for code vulnerabilities. We used it the early days. Google uses it and recently published some public capabilities. See a past article here on this: Fuzzing for Testing…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Report on Squid Markets
This report costs $2,000. (Please don't buy it for me.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 0
Well it happened. Like so many schools and school districts, Bishop Guertin has decided to close the building because of COVID-19. I say closing the building because we are going to attempt to continue teaching online. TodayLet…
From insideHPC
Schrödinger Taps Google Cloud HPC Solution to Bolster Drug Discovery
Schrödinger has entered into a three-year agreement with Google Cloud to substantially increase the speed and capacity of its physics-based computational platform for drug discovery. "We’re excited to harness Google Cloud’s highly…
From insideHPC
SQream teams with StorONE for High Performance Data Analytics
Today StorONE announced a joint solution with SQream that provides users with high-performance massive data analytics. "SQream is a data analytics engine, which rapidly integrates into existing Hadoop and legacy data warehouse…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hack the Pentagon was Very Successful
As a former Pentagon DOD employee who worked security issues, this is both surprising and impressive. Much more at the link on success of the effort.
Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program on the DOD the Hackerone Platform
Hackerone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraunhofer and IBM with Quantum in Europe
Notably bringing in the IBM Q quantum computer for exploration.
Milestone for quantum computing research and development in Europe
IBM and Fraunhofer bring Quantum Computing to Germany
Research News / 13.3.2020
Stuttgart, Munich,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Longer Form Translation for Assistants
Have mentioned some experimentation with real time longer form translation, as it can exist within the framework of voice driven assistants. Impressive so far.
Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app…
From insideHPC
MEEP Project to support European technology in Exascale Supercomputers
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) launched the MareNostrum Experimental Exascale Platform (MEEP). The new project will support EuroHPC in its effort to create competitive European technology integrated into future…
From insideHPC
SDSC Announces Comprehensive Data Sharing Resource
SDSC has announced the launch of HPC Share, a data sharing resource that will enable users of the Center’s high-performance computing resources to easily transfer, share, and discuss their data within their research teams and…
From insideHPC
Pangea III: A Seismic Shift in Total’s Computing Platform
Diego Klahr from Total gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "Oil and Gas industry is continuously challenged to increase its hydrocarbon production in response to the growing demand for energy. Finding new oil and…
From Schneier on Security
The EARN-IT Act
Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it's really about forcing the tech companies to break their encryption schemes: The EARN IT Act…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Epidemics and Other Complex, Dynamic and Dangerous Events.
And several decades ago, we also examined these data and methods, also aimed at epidemics, that aimed at doing this and bioterror as well. We did not have all the methods or computing of today, but could have done lots with…
From BLOG@CACM
Clean Code Isn't Enough; It Must Be Crystal Clear, Too
Writing clean code is a great start, but for programmers who really want to master their craft, you have to go further. You need to write clear code that other programmers can quickly understand and work with. Here's why.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Group Testing For The Coronavirus
Plus other mathematical ideas that may be helping History of Econ. Thought src Robert Dorfman was a professor of political economy at Harvard University, who helped create the notion of group testing. Today Ken and I discuss…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debater Improves the way Watson Uses Language
Things that came of of the 'Debater' project, some interesting ways to include in a system the way we construct words and phrases creatively. The kinds of things I try hard not to use with my assistants. Avoiding 'complicated…
From BLOG@CACM
Getting a Program Right (7)
Have you run a program proof before? Now is your chance!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Books for ACM Members
I have been a member of and blogger for ACM https://acm.org for decades and a big proponent for membership in this professional society, now much more practically based than it used to be ...
More eBook Titles for ACM Members…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Bank of England banknotes?
Some indication that major countries are considering/testing possible implementations.
Is this the digital future for Bank of England banknotes? By Kevin Peachey in the BBC
Personal finance reporter
The Bank of England is considering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA Execs Refund Hack Losses
I have in the past talked about IOTA, a unique kind of blockchain system. This past February it was a subject to a hack and lost some $1.4 Million in cybercurrency. Now the losses are being refunded. No details about the
An…
From insideHPC
Micron Acquires Machine Learning Startup from Purdue
Micron has acquired FWDNXT, a machine learning software and hardware startup that spun out of Purdue. Micron is integrating FWDNXT’s artificial intelligence hardware and software technology with its advanced memory to explore…
From insideHPC
New Paper: A novel error-correction scheme for quantum computers
By taking advantage of the infinite geometric space of a particular quantum system made up of bosons, the researchers, led by Dr Arne Grimsmo from the University of Sydney, have developed quantum error correction codes that should…