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
Disney Scraps Metaverse?
It would seem a natural thing for Disney to experiment seriously with Metaverses.
Disney reportedly scraps its metaverse unit
Disney appears to be the latest company to pull back the metaverse, as CEO Bob Iger reverses more decisions…From insideHPC
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has…
From insideHPC
Drs. Joffman and Somojai Win Enrico Fermi Award
March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear chemist known for the study of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF and 5 other U.S. Agencies Launch Program to Build an Integrated Data and Knowledge Infrastructure
This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with five other U.S. government agencies, launched the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN). This $20 million initiative, will provide funding opportunities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson StudioAI at Masters?
Below possibly methods being used for Masters demonstration. I had previously looked at Chef Watson.
From OpenAI GPT:
IBM Watson Studio AutoAI is a cloud-based tool that helps users to automatically build, train and deploy machine…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Plans Predictive and Generative Masters Tournament Experience
Should be an interesting demonstration by IBM. Hint at some predictive analytics? Will watch and report on this.
IBM…From insideHPC
Dell: Threats and Opportunities for U.S. HPC Leadership
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Driving the development and leveraging the use of supercomputing technologies and systems is a critical strategic advantage for geopolitical players. The U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which champions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFT Plan Dropped
From the BBC, indicator of a bubble?
NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped
Plans for the NFT for Britain were launched when Rishi Sunak was chancellor
By Helen Catt & Sam Francis
Plans for a government backed non-fungible…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX
Satellite Internet Dominance
ACM NEWS
Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance
By MIT Technology Review, March 27, 2023
The rocket's inaugural flight will carry two prototype Project Kuiper…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar and more
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar" From Bard
Wharton researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool to help businesses identify and mitigate risks. The tool, called "Risk Radar," uses machine learning to analyze data from a variety…From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mood Gloves
When we watch a film, it's not just the pictures that make the experience, it's the soundtrack too. The music and sound effects play a big part in setting the mood of a film. They matter. If you are to get the sinking feeling…
From BLOG@CACM
Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory
Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.
From insideHPC
UK Researchers: Quantum Can Simulate Catalysts in Chemical Processes, Cut Environmental Impacts
Researchers from Riverlane quantum engineering company and sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey announced they have developed quantum algorithms to simulate the catalysts used in industrial chemical processes. The companies…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C++20: consteval and constexpr functions
Optimizing compilers seek try to push as much of the computation as possible at compile time. In modern C++, you can declare a function as ‘constexpr’, meaning that you state explicitly that the function may be executed at compile…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crewless Container Ships
Saw several example that indicated they were in test. Minimal crew still might add safety at low cost for a large ship?
Crewless Container Ships Appear on the Horizon
By BBC News, March 27, 2023
Eventually will navigate aided…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Flaw in ChatGPT
Schneier reports on this, as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight. Worh looking at.
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw…From insideHPC
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder and Semiconductor Pioneer, 94
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder Gordon Moore passed away on Friday, March 24 at the age of 94. The foundation reported he died peacefully…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Materials Discovery
New, lucrative and very interesting space
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 9-11 10.1145/3583080
3D chemical compounds floating in space,The…From insideHPC
HPE DoD Webinar April 27: Bringing Exascale HPC to the Masses
There will be an HPE DoD webinar on Thursday, April 27 from 2-3 pm ET entitled “Bringing Exascale to the Masses.” The speaker will be Steve Heibein, public sector AI chief technologist, HPE. For registration information, go here…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plugins for ChatGPT use
Good piece on current Open ChatGPT Plugins, including the ability to join the waitlist for their use.
ChatGPT plugins https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins…From The Eponymous Pickle
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
ACM TECHNEWS
By Interesting Engineering
March 22, 2023
The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System could revolutionize how we approach space robotics, according to MIT…From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
VIEWPOINT
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
By David Ott, Kenny Paterson, Dennis Moreau
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 29-32 10.1145/3567825
Shield-like structure with image…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Talking Concrete
Novel infrastructure idea.
'Talking' Concrete Could Help Prevent Traffic Jams, Cut Carbon Emissions
By Purdue University News
March 16, 2023
From beneath a concrete pour, this black circular sensor transmits data about the concrete's…From BLOG@CACM
The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
Marching into the future with an obstructed view.
From Schneier on Security
Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver:
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
William Wulf, 1939–2023
A great teacher and a great leader Bill Wulf just passed away. We send our best thoughts to his dear wife Anita Jones and the rest of his family. He is greatly missed. From the UVa
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
What the real Pros say
Here is what some (female) computer scientists and electronic engineers said that they most liked about their job and the subject.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Street talk: Wolfram Announcement
I mentioned the below announcement of being able to plug in WolframAlpha capabilities in ChatGPT. I found the the talk here to be insightful about how language models could interact with computational models. And how can this…
From Computational Complexity
The SIGACT Book Review column list of books it wants reviewed
I am posting this for Nick Tran who is the current SIGACT Book Review Editor (before him it was Fred Green for about 6 years, and before him it was me (Bill Gasarch) for 18 years. Nobody should have the job for more than 6 years…