Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2019
From insideHPC
DOE Extending Quantum Networks for Long Distance Entanglement
Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are collaborating on an experiment that puts U.S. quantum networking research on the international map. Researchers…
From BLOG@CACM
Blockchain Was the First, but Will Not Be the Last
What is the outlook for Zero-Trust Decentralization, and should we expect other products aside from Blockchain?
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Medicine and the Ownership of Your Health Data
Implications? How will users sign up for sharing, usage, reapplication?
In the future, A.I. medicine will let patients own their health data
As A.I. takes over the grunt work, doctors can get back to healing
A.I. has the power…
From insideHPC
Turbocharge your HPC Hybrid Cloud with Policy-based Automation
While there are many advantages to running in the cloud, the issues can be complex. Users need to figure out how to securely extend on-premise clusters, devise solutions for data handling and constantly keep an eye on costs.
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From Schneier on Security
TajMahal Spyware
Kaspersky has released details about a sophisticated nation-state spyware it calls TajMahal: The TajMahal framework's 80 modules, Shulmin says, comprise not only the typical keylogging and screengrabbing features of spyware,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Pushes Use of VR
Playful use and experimentation can lead to new uses. Considering aspects of technology use to be normal and part of a toolset to gather data, experience context and develop new methods.
China's Virtual Reality Arcades Aim for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decreasing Network Training Times
Anyting that significantly decreases training time can be useful, especially for adaption to changes in updated data. Which also has likely similarities in data. A kind of priming the pump, which we also experimented with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies Take Piecemeal Approach to Automation Tech
Fairly obvious. Has been the case with every emerging tech since computing emerged. We saw it with early analytics. You test at small scales. To understand results versus goal, consequences known and unintended. And deployment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superintelligence Possible?
As a mere dabbler in the concept, always interested, here a chat in The Edge. Also, what is it, and should we delight at even the possibility of it, or be very, very afraid?
Is Superintelligence Impossible?
On Possible Minds:
David…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation names Jennifer Dionne and Mark Braverman its 2019 Alan T. Waterman awardees
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named materials scientist Jennifer Dionne and computer scientist Mark Braverman the recipients of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman Award annually recognizes an outstanding…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel to power Anthos Google Cloud Platform
In this Chip Chat podcast, Paul Nash from the Google Cloud Platform discusses the industry trends impacting IaaS and how Google Cloud Platform together with Intel are driving innovation in the cloud. "The two companies will collaborate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Hires Ian Goodfellow
Noted because Goodfellow is known for working on GAN networks. Looking at a first use of this soon.
Apple hires senior Google AI scientist as director of machine learning By
Apple recently poached Ian Goodfellow, a noted artificial…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for LUG 2019 in Houston
The Lustre User Group has posted their speaker agenda for LUG 2019. The event takes place May 14-17 in Houston. "LUG 2019 is the industry’s primary venue for discussion and seminars on the Lustre parallel file system and other…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Assistant Robots
Good summary of what they are up to, but not necessarily direction. Agree they seem to be ahead, but not in interaction with consumers. I often need an assistant in the aisle to help, and help based on my buying history.…
From insideHPC
Qualcomm to bring power-efficient AI Inference to the Cloud
Today Qualcomm announced that it is bringing the Company’s artificial intelligence expertise to the cloud with the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100. "Our all new Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator will significantly raise the bar for the…
From insideHPC
SingularityPRO comes to Google Cloud
Today Sylabs announced a multi-phase collaboration with Google Cloud as a technology partner. Aimed at systematically addressing enterprise requirements in a cloud-native fashion, the first phase of the collaboration will be
…
From insideHPC
Video: A History of Los Alamos National Lab
In this video from the HPC User Forum, Terry Wallace, Director Emeritus for Los Alamos National Lab presents: A history of LANL. The Laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose:
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting the Bot in Journalism
Quite an interesting podcast and transcript. Bt sill continue to grown in our environment of getting information. Why does it matter? Is it only a matter of efficiency? Great current examples below.
Will AI Save Journalism…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on AI and Human Resources
HR is a very natural area to think abut analytics. We did exactly that for decades before AI. Its even better linked to AI because the patterns sought for are more subtle. And by its nature more data is constantly being acquired…
From Schneier on Security
How the Anonymous Artist Bansky Authenticates His or Her Work
Interesting scheme: It all starts off with a fairly bog standard gallery style certificate. Details of the work, the authenticating agency, a bit of embossing and a large impressive signature at the bottom. Exactly the sort of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Kind of Flexible Aircraft Wing
Remarkable idea for manipulable surfaces.
MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.
By David L. Chandler…
From insideHPC
Spectra Swarm Brings Ethernet Connectivity to LTO Tape Libraries
Today Spectra Logic announced enhancements to its family of tape libraries that help end users simplify and enhance their workflows. With the introduction of Spectra Swarm ethernet connectivity, the company makes tape connectivity…
From insideHPC
WekaIO HPC Storage Solutions come to Central Europe
Today WekaIO announced the opening of an office in Germany, along with the appointment of Kim Gardner as Regional Sales Manager. Gardner, a seasoned storage veteran, will continue the rapid market expansion of Matrix in Germany…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Seeing Is Believing
Introducing a notion that captures information flow [ Her own hall ] Anita Jones is, of course, a famous computer scientist, a famous Carnegie Mellon University graduate, and a decorated past government official. She was the…
From insideHPC
Big Compute Podcast: Boom Supersonic looks to HPC Cloud
In this Big Compute Podcast, host Gabriel Broner interviews Josh Krall co-founder and VP of Technology at Boom Supersonic. Boom is using HPC in the cloud to design a passenger supersonic plane and address the technical and business…
From insideHPC
ThinkParQ Brings BeeGFS to E8 Storage
Today E8 Storage announced a technology partnership with ThinkParQ to enable the integration of BeeGFS with E8 Storage’s NVMe-oF solution. The combined solution will offer customers new levels of improved performance and scalability…
From insideHPC
Making HPC Cloud a Reality in the Federal Space
Martin Reiger from Penguin Computing gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Built on a secure, high-performance bare-metal server platform with supercomputing-grade, non-blocking InfiniBand interconnects infrastructure, Penguin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curate Libraries for Truth?
Internet pioneer dicusses truth and knowledge on the Internet. Mentions the rare word 'Internaut'.
Libraries Considered Hazardous By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, February 2019, Vol. 62 No. 2, Page 5
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From The Eponymous Pickle
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From Schneier on Security
Hey Secret Service: Don't Plug Suspect USB Sticks into Random Computers
I just noticed this bit from the incredibly weird story of the Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang on the day of her arrest, testified at the hearing. He stated that…