Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for Uncertainty in Commercial Aerospace
Aerospace and Uncertainty
Planning for uncertainty in commercial aerospace in McKinsey
February 15, 2023 Article
By Frank Coleman, Chris Daehnick, Morgan Holecek, Vik Krishnan
Commercial aviation faces its most uncertain future…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Releases Software Platform for Quantum Computing Developers
Intel Releases Software Platform for Quantum Computing Developers
Reuters Jane Lanhee Lee, February 28, 2023
Intel Corp. has rolled out the Intel Quantum SDK, a software platform developers can use to build quantum algorithms.…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $12M Quantum Testbed Funding Opportunity
March 1, 2023 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) has announced a $12 million quantum testbed funding opportunity. Agency contacts and more details, including eligibility…
From insideHPC
Quantum: Oxford Instruments and MagLab Partner on Superconducting Materials
March 1, 2023 — Aiming to leverage the knowledge and skills available at the National MagLab’s Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) in combination with its own superconducting magnet design knowledge, Oxford Instruments, a
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From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Claims First Demonstration of 4-Tbps Bi-directional Optical I/0
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 1, 2023 – Silicon photonics company Ayar Labs today announced what it said is the first demonstration of 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bi-directional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical technology…
From BLOG@CACM
Serendipity: When Research in One Area Leads to a Positive Result in Another
A problem of the extremely optimal family of circulant graphs: when research in one scientific field gives an unexpected result in another.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Vending
Has been happening, more being done.
Adding Smarts to Vending Machines Drives Convenience, Efficiency
Advanced feature sets and functionality are projected to drive the market for connected vending to nearly nine million units…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chocolate Printing
3D Printing in new domains, but had seem foodexamples
Want Healthy Chocolate? You Can 3D-Print It
By The Jerusalem Post (Israel), February 22, 2023
For the study, the researchers experimented with different ratios of the ingredients…From The Eponymous Pickle
Revealing Metaverse Identity by Moving
Metaverse identification
ACM TECHNEWS
In the Metaverse, Your Identity Can Be Revealed Just by Moving
By TechRadar, February 22, 2023
As the University of Calilfornia, Berkeley, research shows, all that's needed to identify a Metaverse…From Schneier on Security
Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice
A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
SODA 2023
Traces of strings, plus ways of tracing accepted papers Anindya De was at Northwestern University and is now at the University of Pennsylvania—see here. He was advised by two of the top advisors ever there were: Luca Trevisan…