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
WekaIO Announces Results with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage in Microsoft Research Lab
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 22, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), announced…
From insideHPC
BioNTech Chairman Helmut Jeggle Joins the Board of IQM Quantum Computers
MUNICH – March 24, 2021 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM) announced today that Helmut Jeggle, chairman of the BioNTech SE Supervisory board, has joined IQM ́s board of directors. He joins the company during an interesting phase. …
From insideHPC
MIT: Researchers’ Algorithm Designs Soft Robots that Sense
CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 22, 2021 — There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, on the other hand, may be able to interact with people more safely or…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Augmentation for Brain-Computer Interface
Very good piece that also connects with some of our neural explorations. The linking to GANs is fascinating. (See tag links)
Data Augmentation for Brain-Computer Interface
New Business applications combined with Brain-computer…From insideHPC
Industry Veteran Karl Freund Launches Analyst Firm Cambrian-AI Research
March 22, 2021 — Chip industry veteran Karl Freund has recently launched Cambrian-AI Research, a new firm specializing in helping providers of AI hardware and the firms that invest in them. Freund had previously been an analyst…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Smart City Offers Residents Quake, Privacy Protection
Makes much sense given the higher likelihood of natural disasters in Japan.
Japanese Smart City Offers Residents Quake, Privacy Protection By Thomson Reuters Foundation News
Digital tools launched in a Japanese smart city that…From insideHPC
Kick-off for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s Quantum Integration Centre
Munich, March 22, 2021-The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has opened its Quantum Integration Centre, or QIC for short. Bavaria’s leading scientific computing centre is taking…
From insideHPC
Stop the Lab Worship: Commercial HPC is Sexy, Too
There’s a trend in the data storage world to call out a growing “divide” between HPC and enterprise storage. We believe that’s an oversimplification. What’s worse, it reinforces popular myths coursing through the HPC landscape…
From insideHPC
XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data and Machine Learning, April 6-7
XSEDE, the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment virtual organization that shares HPC, supercomputing and other advanced computing resources, will present a Big Data and machine learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA New Dawn Chrysalis Changes Announced
Late to this but of interest, the IOTA Foundation, mentioned here a number of times, was an interesting change in the idea of blockchains and how they were delivered. I was impressed by the direction of their methods. But…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Majorana Meltdown Jeopardizes Microsoft's Quantum Computer,
This is an example of the danger of converting reported research results into working systems. Without the complete validation of those results. Large companies are willing to invest large sums towards potential novel results…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Protecting Critical Undersea Cables
This piece made me think. And consider from who, using what .... and what are the implications?
New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables in the BBC
A new Royal Navy surveillance ship is to be built to protect…From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the Humble Roundabout
In my very early days of analytics, much involved with civil engineering data. So this transcript of a Freakonomics article on the traffic roundabout was good. These traffic management structures are often seen in England…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Refining Audience Advertising Context Mixing
Interesting method altering acquired video and mixing it to change advertising context. Would seem the same method could be used for advertising with augmented reality contexts in goggles or smart glasses. Uses AI, theyPress…
From Geeking with Greg
Wisdom of the trusted
Flood-the-zone disinformation is a problem for crowdsourced data. Wisdom of the crowds, mass amateurization, and rejection of gatekeepers no longer works with coordinated disinformation campaigns overwhelming rankers, recommenders…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Robot Cooperation
More good thoughts on the complexity of human-robot cooperation.
How many robot helpers are too many?
Khari Johnson @kharijohnson March 20, 2021 6:21 AM TechCrunch via VentureBeat
AI that can follow a person seems like a simple…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers
Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers
Pointer to this in Schneier: In school one of my particular areas of interest was random number use and leverage. We detected the fact that a number of available sources of such…From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Emerging Smart Toothbrush
Showing how package goods, like Colgate and my former employer P&G are building smart devices to improve consumer health processes.
Smart Device Push Brings IT, R&D Teams Together By The Wall Street Journal in ACM
Information…From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird
A combination of favorite topics, small robots(nanoscale here) and Origami representations. Includes images and video of their prposed development and use.
Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird, Presages Nanoscale Robots…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Closing an Erdős Problem
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.—Tina Fey Daniela Kühn is the Mason Professor in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. She works in extremal…
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $12M for Research on 5G and Quantum Networking
March 19, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $12 million for basic research on advanced 5G and quantum networking. Our modern life has been transformed by wireless and cellular …
From insideHPC
Indiana U. Team First to Test Sandia’s Open-Access Quantum Computer
Albuquerque — March 19, 2021 — Sandia National Laboratories has announced its Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, QSCOUT, is now operational and available for public use. Scientists from Indiana University recently…
From Schneier on Security
Details of a Computer Banking Scam
This is a longish video that describes a profitable computer banking scam that’s run out of call centers in places like India. There’s a lot of fluff about glitterbombs and the like, but the details are interesting. The scammers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bats Hunting
Good example of the potential use of biomimicry
Tiny Computers Reveal How Wild Bats Hunt So Efficiently
Aarhus University (Denmark), Peter F. Gammelby; Laura Stidsholt March 3, 2021
Researchers at Denmark's Aarhus University and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Privacy via Fully HomoMorphic Encryption
Using ‘Holy Grail’ of Data Privacy Technology Dec 21, 2020 at 7:51 a.m. EST By Tanzeel Akhtar
FHE is an emerging technology – often described as the "holy grail" of encryption – designed to allow data to stay encrypted…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $34.5M for Data Science and Machine Learning for Climate Solutions
Washington, DC — March 19, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $34.5 million for research tools for scientific discoveries, including clean energy and climate solutions. Two new funding opportunities…
From insideHPC
Driver-Optional Monarch Tractor Closes $20M Series A with Global Partners
Livermore, CA — Monarch Tractor, a fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor manufacturer, announced the closing of its $20 million Series A funding round. The round includes global industrial equipment manufacturers, automotive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Seems quite a big move forward. Will we be able to learn which amino acid sequences will work best to fight cancer?
Using Machine Learning to Develop Personalized Cancer Vaccines
University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Your Order
Have been experiencing fast food faster over these months, and also wondered how fast, precise and predictive it can be. Here quick look at some examples.
.Drive-Throughs That Predict Your Order? Restaurants Are ThinkingThe…From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project’s EQSIM Team Helps Assess Infrastructure Earthquake Risk
By Rob Farber for the Exascale Computing Project As part of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the Earthquake Simulation (EQSIM) application development team is creating a computational tool set and…