Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2022
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The 2021 Turing Award
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.—Alan Turing Jack Dongarra has just won the 2021 Turing Award. Congrats to him. Dongarra is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Releases New Version of Extreme-Scale HPC Scientific Software Stack
The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) high-performance computing (HPC) software ecosystem—an ongoing broad collection of software capabilities continually developed to address emerging scientific needs for the US
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACM-W Chair – Spring 2022
A lot of ACM-W activity has happened during the first quarter of this calendar year, some of which was previously reported via blog postings and listserv announcements, but is included in this edition of our newsletter in case…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
1st Greek ACM-W Chapter Winter School on Fairness in AI
Starting this year, the Greek ACM-W Chapter, with the support of the ACM Europe Research Visibility working group (ACM Europe RAISE), organizes a series of annual winter schools, on timely computer science related topics. The…
From insideHPC
OpenNMS Group Releases OpenNMS Meridian 2022 for Network Monitoring and Security
RALEIGH, N.C. – March 31, 2022 – The OpenNMS Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NantHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: NH), today announced the release of OpenNMS Meridian 2022. With this next major release, the fully open source Meridian product…
From insideHPC
Rescale Helps Zero-Emissions Energy Company Amogy Develop Clean Ammonia Solution
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31, 2022 — Rescale, the maker of high performance computing solutions built for the cloud to accelerate engineering innovation, today announced it was collaborating with clean energy pioneer Amogy to develop…
From insideHPC
TCO Developmand and the SDIA Collaborate on Sustainable Data Centers
March 31, 2022 — TCO Development, the organization behind the sustainability certification TCO Certified, today presented a new international collaboration with the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA). Details …
From insideHPC
GRC Secures $28 Million C Series Investment Led by SK Lubricants
AUSTIN, TX – March 31, 2022 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), a producer of single-phase immersion cooling for data centers, today announced it has secured a $28 million C Series investment led by South Korea-based SK Lubricants…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ruth Lennon selected as the next ACM-W Chair
Ruth Lennon, current chair of ACM-W Europe, has been selected as the next Global Chair of ACM-W. Ruth is the director of Craobh Technology Consulting, an organization that provides personalized solutions to industry problems.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of the Mag Amp
I recall talking to an engineer at the U of P about them investigating the Mag Amp after the war. Quite interesting. Easier to build and maintain he said, and usable difficult environments. A considerable history below ..…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autodesk Aquires The Wild
Worked with Autodesk in the enterprise when they were helping us maintain machine and device blueprints for key processes. Now they are going beyond.
Autodesk Acquires Enterprise Collab Platform The Wild
It follows The Wild’s…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Drugs for Personalized Pharma
If done well and efficiently raises a number of interesting applications.
3D-Printed Tablets Offer Taste of Personalized Medicine By New Atlas, March 30, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.'s University College London (UCL) have demonstrated…From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: R Systems and its HPC-on-Demand Partnership with Dell
HPC-as-a-Service is one of the hot growth sectors of the high performance computing industry. R Systems is a significant player in this arena, providing HPC-on-demand resources and technical expertise to commercial and institutional…
From insideHPC
ALCF and NVIDIA to Hold July GPU Hackathon; Applications Due May 24
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, in collaboration with NVIDIA, will host a free GPU hackathon on July 19 and July 26-28, 2022. Applications to participate are due May 24, 2022. More information is available here. Those…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get Ready for the Metaverse
Talk I attended today, A positive view of the emerging Metaverse.
Metaverse Continuum: 4 Technology Trends Everyone Must Get Ready For Now (from Linkedin)
every year, Accenture releases its technology vision with the key trends…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Google Alerts Service
Notable, more details at the link
Hackers are using Google Alerts to help spread malware in ITPro
Fake news gives rise to fake alerts that install phony Adobe Flash updates
by: Rene Millman 22 Feb 2021
Hackers have managed to subvert…From insideHPC
ACM Names Jack Dongarra Winner of 2021 Turing Award for Contributions to HPC
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Jack J. Dongarra recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software…
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Partners with Paul Scherrer Institute to Support Quantum Computing Scale-up
SYDNEY, March 30, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum technologies, today announced a partnership with The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), a research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, to pioneer …
From insideHPC
ISC 2022: Registration Open, 3,000 On-site Attendees Expected, Updated COVID19 Rules
The International Supercomputer Conference, ISC 2022, is now open for registration and as such, this year’s ISC will be the first major HPC conference to be held on-site (with partial online streaming) since SC19 in Denver. Conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spooky Action Could Help Boost Quantum Machine Learning
In my earliest days of physics was mystified with the spooky part, now it turns out to the key to the value?
Spooky Action Could Help Boost Quantum Machine Learning
IEEE Spectrum, Charles Q. Choi, March 7, 2022
Researchers at Los…From insideHPC
Samsung and Western Digital Form Zoned (Block) Storage Collaboration
Samsung Electronics and Western Digital today announced a collaboration around zoned storage, which is a form of block storage, focused on data placement, processing and fabrics (D2PF) technologies. Western Digital has said zone…
From insideHPC
Quantinuum Updates to Quantum Natural Language Processing Toolkit lambeq
OXFORD, UK — MARCH 29, 2022 — The quantum natural language processing team at Quantinuum, an integrated quantum computing company, has released an update to its open-source Python library and toolkit, lambeq (pronounced “lambek…
From insideHPC
Aruba ESP Delivers Cloud-native Services to Deploy Edge-to-Cloud Networks
SAN JOSE & LAS VEGAS — Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced advancements to Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), with new functionality in Aruba Central to enable organizations to keep pace …
From insideHPC
Quantum: Multiverse Computing Submits 22 Patent Applications for 2021 Research
TORONTO and SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN – March 29, 2022 – Multiverse Computing, developer of quantum computing solutions for the financial industry and other industries, today announced it submitted 22 patents from its research efforts…
From insideHPC
LLNL Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Inducts 1 Current, 2 Former Lab Scientists
One current and two former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have been inducted into the Laboratory’s Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame (EHF). The trio, who represent the third class of inductees into the Lab…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Taking Part in KDDI’s Immersion Cooling POC
March 29, 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced participation in KDDI Corporation’s one-phase immersion cooling proof of concept intended to demonstrates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging Stations Increasing Threats?
More is being talked about how changes in infrastructure will enable threats. This is a good example of how such approaches can be examined.
ACM NEWS Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?
By Paul Marks, Commissioned…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Demand Forecasting
Converting retail data to demand forecasting.
Snowflake readies Amazon Retail Data for Demand Forecasting
Andrew Brust in Venturebeat March 29, 2022 6:00 AM
To further strengthen our commitment to providing industry-leadingCloud…From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Sensing Examined for the Metaverse
Emotional Sensing, much examined, new methods for the metaverse?
Nemesysco spinoff unveils emotional detection and AI tools for metaverse excerpt in Venturebeat
As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobility of Tomorrow Examined.
Excerpts from Fraunhofer piece.
“Mobility is about more than the proverbial concept of getting from A to B. When it comes to cars, there are factors that go beyond the purely objective.” Sebastian Stegm…