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 insideHPC
Innovium Announces TERACertified Networking with Open-source SONiC Software
SAN JOSE – March 23, 2021 — Innovium, Inc., a provider of networking switch solutions for cloud and edge data centers, today announced Innovium TERACertified switch solutions that the company said delivers up to 2X or more TCO…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Bockchain
On the emergence of enterprise Blockchains.
Enterprise Blockchain Is at a Private-Public Crossroads
By Guido Molinari in Coindesk
Looking back 12 months, our (Prysm’s) review of 2019 was naive, to say the least. We cited challenges…From insideHPC
Amazon Names Adam Selipsky Next AWS CEO
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told AWS employees in an email today that Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of the behemoth public cloud services provider. In so doing, Selipsky takes the post held until January by Jassy, who was promoted…
From insideHPC
Intel CEO Gelsinger Delivers Upbeat Update, Company to Expand Manufacturing in U.S., Europe
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered an upbeat corporate update this afternoon in the form of a webinar that emphasized Intel’s integrated device manufacturing, “IDM.2.0” strategy for manufacturing and product development that…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Launches QGraph for Graph Analytics
LEESBURG, Va., March 23, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), bridging the power of classical and quantum computing, has launched QGraph which analyzes graphs (i.e., collections of vertices and edges) with QCI’s…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
COMPUTER SCIENTIST AVI WIGDERSON AND MATEMATICIAN LÁSZLÓ LOVÁSZ ANNOUNCED AS 2021 ABEL PRIZE WINNERS
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters recently announced the award of the 2021 Abel Prize going to matematician László Lovász (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Eötvös Loránd University) and computer scientist…
From insideHPC
Vega, EuroHPC supercomputer, Operational Next Month
March 23, 2021 — On 10 March 2021, the EuroHPC supercomputer Vega was officially delivered. The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Institute of Information Science in Maribor Slovenia (IZUM)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DHS Promises Help for States Struggling with Digital Attacks on Critical Services
Notable are the recent increases in ransomware, and the broad issues with Microsoft servers, and how much we depend on digital systems. This will have to be the solution until we develop others.
The Cybersecurity 202: DHS …From insideHPC
Sweden’s Fastest Supercomputer for AI Now Online
March 23, 2021 — Berzelius is now Sweden’s fastest supercomputer for AI and machine learning, and has been installed in the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University. A donation of EUR 29.5 million from the Knut and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is AI Moving Too Fast for Retail?
Not well enough, not fast enough. Unless we want China to eat our lunch.
Is AI adoption moving too fast? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with further expert comment.
According to KPMG’s “Thriving in an AI World” study, 53 percent…From insideHPC
Teradici Enhances CAS Manager to Support Remote Work
Burnaby, Canada — March 23, 2021 — Teradici, creator of PCoIP technology and Emmy Award-winning Cloud Access Software (CAS), today announced enhancements to CAS Manager to support the tremendous growth in CAS accelerated by remote…
From insideHPC
Scality Announces Enhancement to RING Scale-out File System for Business Continuance
SAN FRANCISCO – March 23, 2021 – Organizations across industries need “always-on” business continuity and disaster protection to get the most from their enterprise and service provider cloud deployments, while also maintaining…
From insideHPC
Room Temperature Diamond-based Quantum Accelerator Coming to Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
CANBERRA, Australia — March 24, 2020 — Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian quantum computing startup from The Australian National University, will install the world’s first diamond quantum accelerator at the Pawsey…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To Many Ways to Add One
Someone posted a questions asking which sort of programmer one was from a list of ways to add one to a variable:
X++
++X
X+=1
X = X + 1
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Moby Dick Meet Theory
People seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that’s such a shame, because I don’t think it’s as hard as people seem to think it is. —Heidi Hammel Sarah Hart holds a chair that dates back to 1597—Gresham Professor of Geometry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Validating Vaccines
From BLOG@CACM
Anna Karenina On Development Methodologies
The quest for development productivity.
From insideHPC
Intel’s New CEO Makes 1st Appearance Today – Here’s What Gelsinger May Say
Speculation abounds about Pat Gelsinger’s first public appearance as CEO of Intel at a webinar (5 pm Eastern Time) today that will capture close attention among a host of the company’s core audiences: customers, business partners…
From Schneier on Security
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From Schneier on Security
Determining Key Shape from Sound
It’s not yet very accurate or practical, but under ideal conditions it is possible to figure out the shape of a house key by listening to it being used.
Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference
Abstract…From Schneier on Security
Accellion Supply Chain Hack
A vulnerability in the Accellion file-transfer program is being used by criminal groups to hack networks worldwide.
There’s much in the article about when Accellion knew about the vulnerability, when it alerted its customers,…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Recommendation Systems
Anther well considered piece, on recommendation systems, link to original post includes more useful references. Note the inclusion of elements of 'trust'. Intro below.
The Increasing Influence of Recommendation Systems in by…From Computational Complexity
A Taylor Series Problem
I post a problem today and its solution on Thursday.
Comments are fine, though if you don't want to get a hint, don't read them.
Find the coefficient of x100 in the Taylor series for the rational function which has
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cade Metz and Nathan Benaich: Podcast on the Emergence and Direction of AI
By Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital@nathanbenaich ... Looking forward to hearing this.
Dear readers, This week I had the opportunity to interview Cade Metz, New York Times technology correspondent and author of Genius Makers…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pandemic Informatics: Vaccine Distribution, Logistics, and Prioritization
Contributions to this post were provided by Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia), Melanie Moses (The University of New Mexico), William D Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana…
From insideHPC
NOAA Upgrades Global Weather Model
The U.S. National Oceanic and and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said today it is upgrading its Global Forecast System (GFS) weather model to improve hurricane genesis forecasting, modeling for snowfall location, heavy rainfall…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continued Worsening of Ransomware
Is there no solution? A means of detecting the patterns left by this kind of malware?
The Worsening State of Ransomware in the ACM By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, April 2021, Vol. 64 No. 4, Pages 15-17 …From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Device to Spot Hidden COVID-19
What appears to be a unique solution. Cautions in the article say this does NOT claim to diagnose.
FDA clears first AI device to spot hidden signs of COVID-19 in Engadget
The armband uses light sensors and a processor to identify…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Points to Future Disruptions of Work
Microsoft has done a good job in following the changes that have happened in the last year, Now they need to make sure they protect that work by better securing their systems.
Microsoft releases findings and considerations from…From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Storytelling
Thoughts on better storytelling
3 Ideas for Better Storytelling in Knowledge Management By Mercy Harper in the APQC Blog
In her role, Mercy works with APQC’s Principal Research Leads to create whitepapers, case studies, andStorytelling…