Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2020
From insideHPC
Arizona State University becomes Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence
Arizona State University has added to its international reputation for innovation, being named a Dell Technologies HPC and AI Center of Excellence. This recognition provides ASU with access to a worldwide program that facilitates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Using Contract Tracing App with Employees in India
The general idea seems to be expanding, with resulting data. Systems to date are voluntary. Some details at link about use, data, privacy implications.
IBM testing COVID-19 contact tracing app with employees in India
IBM is testing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Helps Neighbors in Community
An example of a grocery retailer aiming at improved local community regarding services tailored to current emergencies.
Walmart launches ‘Neighbors Helping Neighbors’ program
Partnership with Nextdoor allows customers to shop for…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Honeywell’s Trapped Ion Quantum computing initiative. Quantum computing initiative. "Shahin gives us a good overview of digital vs. analog and classical vs. quantum science.
…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 25th 2020)
People’s muscles tends to become weaker with age, a process called sarcopenia. It appears that eating more fruits and vegetables is associated with far lower risks of sarcopenia. Unfortunately, it is merely an association: it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Belgian Port Testing Virus Bracelets
Aimed at enforcing social distancing, while gathering data.
Belgian Port to Test Virus Bracelets Amid Tech Tracing Fears
Associated Press
Mark Carlson; Lorne Cook; Sylvain Plazy
Teams of workers at the Belgian port of Antwerp are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Data from Tracking Studies
Friend Kaiser Fung looks at some of the tracking data is being used in studies. Instructive about how data is being gathered and used. Extensive piece at the link.
The first major study using Covid tracking app data stumbles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Graphs versus Property Graphs
This came in the mail, it had been asked in an interaction recently. Worth a look. We worked with TopQuadrant.
New White Paper: Knowledge Graphs versus Property Graphs
We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Your Chatbot Engaging?
Well yes, at least as it contributes to some goal. If I want a question answered quickly and accurately it requires a certain level of engagement, for example enough to get the details of the question across. If my Goal is
That…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Mid-Career Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
"We are seeking an HPC Tools Software Engineers for our Engineering Support team on the HPC contract. Lockheed Martin provides High Performance Computing services throughout the HPC lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking and Tracing Pineapple
More food tracking and tracing as a key application. As part of the IBM consortium.
The Dole Food Company has a five-year blockchain plan for stronger food safety. By Danny Nelson in Coindesk
Dole aims to launch blockchain
The…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Backlight Themselves to Communicate More Clearly
This is neat: Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators. Known as "red devils," the squid can rapidly change the color…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizing Information in the Age of the Coronavirus
From the recent Webinar, has links to a version of the Covid Brain.
Organizing Information in the Age of the Coronavirus
Covid-19 Online Brains from TheBrain Big Thinker Web Event
Check out our distinct Brains on the world pandemic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Helping Astronauts
Heard about this a while back. Uses IBM Watson AI. But what were they helping with? Specific micro tasks. Anticipating needs. Supporting technical conversations? Providing information at the right time and place? Reducing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Remote Does not Feel the Same
Interesting thoughts, mostly about the micro aspects, useful to think about during your next remote meeting. Like the thoughts about how conversations really work, which we will need to promote intelligent results.
The Google…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplemental Funding in Computer and Information Science and Engineering
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). April 24, 2020 Dear Colleagues…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Legal Analytics: Contracts and Liabilities
Our recent looks at eDiscovery and related AI and analytics alerted us to this. Accenture's connection would seem to indicate seriousness of these efforts. It is a very obvious space for advanced natural language processing…
From insideHPC
Azure Looks to Real-Time Derivatives Pricing using Riskfuel AI Technology on GPUs
In this special guest feature, Ian Finder from Microsoft Azure writes that GPU VMs with Riskfuel's derivatives models based on artificial intelligence are much faster than previous methods. "Using conventional algorithms, real…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Continues the Climb, with New Vulnerability
Looks to be something that can be easily patched once understood. Now that Zoom is under the microscope, this is a good thing.
Zoom passes 300M daily users as new security vulnerability discovered
By Duncan Riley in SiliconAngle…
From insideHPC
GTC 2020 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang Set for May 14
NVIDIA will post its GTC 2020 keynote address by CEO Jensen Huang on YouTube on May 14, at 6 a.m. Pacific time. "Huang will highlight the company’s latest innovations in AI, high performance computing, data science, autonomous…
From insideHPC
TACC Powers Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 Analysis
Researchers are using TACC supercomputers to power the Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 analysis. More than 30,000 biomedical researchers run approximately 500,000 computing jobs a month on the platform. "Since 2013…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New Elected Members Including CCC Council Member Ronitt Rubinfeld
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences recently announced that more than 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2020, including Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Ronitt Rubinfeld from…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Planning for the End of the Year
My school will be on our regularly scheduled April break next week. It’s a nice breather for me and probably for the students as well. It’s been a long time since I have had a school aged child in the house so I don’t know what…
From insideHPC
Video: The Impact of the Cray Acquisition on HPC Storage
This presentation describes Storage capabilities that HPE has added to its High Performance Compute portfolio through the Cray acquisition. It looks at how these capabilities prepare and support the needs of the exascale era
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From Schneier on Security
Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the use of smartphone location…
From insideHPC
Astera Labs lands funding for purpose-built connectivity solutions
Today Astera Labs announced that it has closed its Series B funding with renowned technology investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, Intel Capital, Avigdor Willenz, and Ron Jankov. This investment round, along with a strategic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI For Drug Design
See in particular how these methods are designed
AI for Drug Design By Sandrine Ceurstemont
Some recent breakthroughs in drug discovery have come about thanks to the use of artificial intelligence.
Traditional drug development…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Academic Data Science Alliance List of Resources for COVID-19
The following is a letter to the community from Micaela S. Parker, Executive Director of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA). ADSA was launched in May 2019 to provide an independent national resource network for academic…
From Schneier on Security
Chinese COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
The New York Times is reporting on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns coming out of China: Since that wave of panic, United States intelligence agencies have assessed that Chinese operatives helped push the messages across…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC and AI Market Update from Intersect360 Research
Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "As the global shutdown continues, inquiring minds want to know what the effects will be on the HPC and AI market. Intersect360 Research has…