Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Cloud Satellites: Watson and the Edge
Towards more secure data via satellites. Secure Data as a Service.
Lumen Technologies is a key edge compute partner to integrate…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 31 – Autonomous Flight and Landing on Mars with Behçet Açikmeşe (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior Program Associate) interviews Dr. Behçet Açikmeşe. Behçet was a…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence is Critical to National Security, Defense, U.S. Economy, and Worthy of Significant New Investment, Congressionally-chartered Commission Argues in Final Report
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressionally-chartered committee charged with reviewing AI and related technologies and making recommendations to address U.S. national security and defense needs…
From insideHPC
New Cornell Virtual HPC, Data Science, Machine Learning Workshops at XSEDE
ITHACA, NY – Cornell University announced today that four new Cornell Virtual Workshop training topics are available at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) User Portal: Getting Started on Frontera…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Variances in Digital Trust
Digital Trust, supposedly accurately measured. Had not seen this before, probably useful if accurate. The components of the measure also seem they would be hard to generally measure. And likely have considerable variance…
From insideHPC
Panasas Expands Senior Team with Addition of Tech Veterans Todd Ruff and Brian Reed
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 1, 2021 – Panasas announced today that Todd Ruff, vice president of marketing, and Brian Reed, vice president of product and alliances, have joined the company’s senior management team. Richio Aikawa…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DigiDog Policing Dog and Privacy
Seems the outgrowth of the 'Spot' dog, design from Boston Dynamics, which I have been following. Here called DigiDog. Not sure what this sure what this has to do with 'privacy', but clearly does have to do with the safetyDigidog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tezos and Wolfram for Blockchain
New to me, and interesting, with quite a bit of detail and even sample code. Will be examining smart contract implications.
Third-Generation Blockchain Functionality with Tezos and the Wolfram Language
As CEO of Wolfram Blockchain…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Makes Encryption Paradox Practical in IEEE Spectrum
More on FHE and IBM. From IEEE Spectrum ...
IBM Makes Encryption Paradox Practical in IEEE Spectrum
“Fully homomorphic” cryptography allows partial access to digital vaults without ever opening their locks
By Dan Garisto
HowIBM…From insideHPC
HPC Industry Analyst Firm Intersect360 Research Hires Dan Olds as Chief Research Officer
SUNNYVALE, CA—March 1, 2021— HPC, AI and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research has named Dan Olds its chief research officer, effective March 1. A 25-year industry veteran, Olds comes to Intersect360 Research from OrionX…
From insideHPC
NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL GPU Compiler
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are working with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU…