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
DARPA Announces FPGA-to-ASICs Program with Intel to Expand US-based Chip Making for Defense
March 18, 2021 — DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) today announced the Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program, which aims to expand access to domestic manufacturing …
From Schneier on Security
Easy SMS Hijacking
Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns out that with a little bit of anonymous money — in this case, $16…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CredChain to Safeguard Your Identity?
Blockchains to share credentials. More technical details at the link. Interesting here, but have not validated anything shown.
CredChain: Take Control of Your Own Digital Identity
UNSW Sydney Newsroom (Australia), Neil Martin…From insideHPC
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Takes Delivery of Atos Quantum Learning Machine
Paris and Munich — March 18, 2021 — Atos today said it has delivered an Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM), a commercial quantum simulator, to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences…
From insideHPC
LLNL Event Encourages Growth of Women in Data Science
March 17, 2021 — Coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s 4th Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event brought women together to discuss successes, opportunities and challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybersickness in VR Solved by AI?
Recall we looked at this issue when thinking about how ads might be presented universally in space. Here now closer to being solved? For other applications we examined, like machine maintenance, we never had this as a problem…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight: Improving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal Learning
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited to announce the new website feature, “CIFellows Spotlight”, which will highlight the work of the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) going forward. Announced in May 2020…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morgan Stanley Offers Bitcoin to Clients
Much more, podcast at the link.
Morgan Stanley Is First Big Bank Offering Bitcoin to Wealthy Clients, in Coindesk, Mar 17, 2021, Nathaniel Whittemore L
Three funds led by Galaxy Digital, FS Investments and NYDIG will give bank…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome Announces Captioning for Audio and Video
Conversion from audio. Considerable thing.
Chrome can now caption audio and video in the Google Blog
Captions make online content more accessible. If you’re in a noisy environment, trying to keep the volume down, or are part…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Validating Vaccines
Good to see them doing this:
Walmart becomes largest U.S. vaccine provider to join push for digital vaccination credentials.
March 17, 2021, 2:14 p.m. ETMarch 17, 2021 By Natasha Singer
People who get Covid-19 shots at thousands…From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future to Acquire Gemini Advisory
We followed Recorded Future here since its beginning
Recorded Future acquires Gemini Advisory in $52 million deal in ZNet
The company will leverage the purchase to carve a place in the fraud analytics market.
By Charlie Osborne…From The Eponymous Pickle
Atypon: Technology for publishing Important content
Brought to my attention: Atypon
Atypon: Technology for publishing the world’s most important content. Atypon helps online publishers deliver mission-critical content to practitioners and researchers in every field.
Necessity…From insideHPC
AccelerComm Selected for 5G Open Innovation Lab Spring 2021 Program
Southampton, UK and Seattle – March 18th, 2020 – AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has been selected by the 5G Open Innovation Lab…
From insideHPC
ScaleFlux Delivers Computational Storage with Support for Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage
SAN JOSE – March 18, 2021 – ScaleFlux, Inc., a company focused on Computational Storage at scale, today announced its flagship CSD 2000 solution will support Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage, enabling users to take full advantage…
From insideHPC
The New and Evolving Role of the Chief Data Officer
In this sponsored post, Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer for WekaIO, discusses the newest title in the C-Suite, the CDO: Chief Data Officer. As of 2018, almost 68 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have a CDO, yet…
From insideHPC
Proact Qualifies as Provider of IT Infrastructure Services for European Research and Education Community
Proact has signed a four-year framework agreement with GEANT, the pan-European network that coordinates Europe’s national research and education networking organisations (NRENs), to be able to supply IT infrastructure services…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product
If I multiply two 64-bit integers (having values in [0, 264)), the product requires 128 bits. Intel and AMD processors (x64) can compute the full (128-bit) product of two 64-bit integers using a single instruction (mul). ARMContinue…
From insideHPC
3 RISC-V Forums Scheduled
The RISC-V Forum will hold three conferences starting next month that are free of charge to members and non-members and designed to provide deep-dive technical content for the RISC-V community The first conference, the Security…
From Computational Complexity
I read the news today oh boy
I'm absolutely elated that Lázló Lovász and Avi Wigderson won the Abel Prize. More from the New York Times, Quanta Magazine and Gil Kalai. Another example of how complexity theory and theoretical computer science has reached…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Models Including Skepticism About Data
Deep Learning with embedded skepticism about inputs and data. Useful for imperfect sensor data, and data from human interactions and queries. Leading to safe decisions in context. Required for many kinds of applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non Reproducible Machine Learning
Always thought this was problematical. How many experiments in papers are ultimately repeated, validated, with the same data? Or ultimately are they just 'experientially' validated (or not) over time?.
Furious AI Researcher…From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Spectre Over the Internet
Google has demonstrated exploiting the Spectre CPU attack remotely over the web:
Today, we’re sharing proof-of-concept (PoC) code that confirms the practicality of Spectre exploits against JavaScript engines. We use Google Chrome…From The Eponymous Pickle
Models for Diagnosing Covid Diagnosis
Was wondering if validated ML models existed, had not heard of any. What is missing? The article suggests lack of data, can that be? Yes, if the needed validated supporting metadata was not gathered systematically. Passed…
From insideHPC
Achronix Ships 10 Millionth Speedcore eFPGA IP Core
Santa Clara, CA – Achronix announces today that 10 million Speedcore eFPGA IP cores have shipped in customers’ ASICs. Achronix said it is the only high-performance FPGA supplier to offer both high-performance standalone FPGAs…
From insideHPC
FSU Researchers Report Enhanced Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms
Florida State University researchers report they have found a way to automatically infer parameters used in an important quantum Boltzmann machine algorithm for machine learning applications. The work could help build artificial…
From insideHPC
Former Dell Technologies HPC Leader Appointed to GRC Board of Directors
AUSTIN, TX – March 17, 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced today the appointment of Thierry Pellegrino, former VP Workloads and Solutions, and…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Milan, Milan, Milan – and… How Will Intel Respond?
This is a breaking news edition of Radio Free HPC, so you should play dramatic music while listening to this episode. Wait, don’t do that, we want you to actually hear the episode. So just hum something exciting while you listen…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming using Text or Blocks? Why not Both?
Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. In this post, I take a look at Dual Modality Instruction & Programming Environments:.…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2021
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. Purchased from Etsy Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me or Ken once every year since we started GLL. We had never seen a leprechaun before we began the…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2021
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. Purchased from Etsy Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me or Ken once every year since we started GLL. We had never seen a leprechaun before we began the…