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 The Eponymous Pickle
Communications of The ACM, May 2020
Welcome to the May 2020 Communications of the ACM. The full issue and related content is available through the CACM Online Edition.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adversarial Attack Risks
Interesting case study, stability not a common measure of this kind of system.
How Adversarial Attacks Could Destabilize Military AI Systems
Adversarial attacks threaten the safety of AI and robotic technologies. Can we stop them…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games for Education
Will games work for this purpose? Look forward to see a report on how well. A very quick look at this makes me wonder, but look forward to seeing more details. Gamification can provide a means of engagement, but must also
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science: Enabling a FAIR- Data Ecosystem
What if we could link the Framingham Heart Study (NHLBI) with Alzheimer’s health data (NIH) to better understand the correlative effects in cardiovascular health with aging and dementia? What if journal articles could directly…
From BLOG@CACM
Holding a Conference Online and Live, Due to COVID-19
A report on EDBT/ICDT 2020.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle White Paper on Financial and Inventory for Retail
Interesting comparison, but do note the author.
Oracle White paper
Unifying Financials and Inventory for Retail
Why Retail Brands are Moving from QuickBooks to NetSuite (Oracle)
As innovation evolves faster than ever, heightened…
From insideHPC
European SiPearl Startup Licenses Arm for First-Generation Microprocessor
Today SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has signed a major technological licensing agreement with Arm, the global semiconductor IP provider…
From insideHPC
BittWare Introduces New TeraBox FPGA Accelerated Edge Server
Today BittWare introduced their new TeraBox 200DE edge server. The TeraBox series of certified server platforms feature the latest FPGA accelerators enabling customers to develop and deploy quicker with reduced risk and cost.…
From insideHPC
AMD and Penguin Computing Upgrade Corona Supercomputer to fight COVID-19
Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Penguin Computing, and AMD announced an agreement to upgrade the Lab’s unclassified Corona HPC cluster with AMD Instinct accelerators, expected to nearly double the peak performance…
From insideHPC
New Weka AI framework to accelerate Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipelines
Today WekaIO introduced Weka AI, a transformative storage solution framework underpinned by the Weka File System (WekaFS) that enables accelerated edge-to-core-to-cloud data pipelines. Weka AI is a framework of customizable reference…
From insideHPC
Video: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider
In this video, Philip Harris from MIT presents: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider. "Only a small fraction of the 40 million collisions per second at the Large Hadron Collider are stored and analyzed due to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Its Now Free to Sell on Google
This struck me, A way to more directly compete with Amazon? Implications for that and for retail in general?
Its now Free to Sell on Google
Bill Ready on The Google Blog.
President, Commerce
The retail sector has faced many threats…
From Schneier on Security
Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Reports Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
Nicely done, details at the link. Taking a look.
ACM Reports Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
HPCwire
April 16, 2020
A new report from ACM outlines best practices for replacing live science and technology conferences with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
News from the Grocery Supply Chain
Been watching indications in the Grocery and general retail supply chain, so far, except for might be called illogical hoarding, things are going well. Suppliers are running manufacturing overtime.
Head of grocery group talks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Officially Part of China's Tech Strategy
Meaning?
Blockchain Now Officially Part of China’s Technology Strategy
By Paddy Baker in CoinDesk
An influential government authority responsible for planning China's economy has said blockchain will form an integral part of the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Next Generation Computer Hardware
Computing technologies have revolutionized the world, from how we grow food to our social interactions. At the core of this revolution is computing hardware, the shrinking of which has allowed for powerful computation in the
From insideHPC
Update on the HPC AI Advisory Council
In this video, Gilad Shainer from the HPC AI Advisory Council describes how this organization fosters innovation in the high performance computing community. "The HPC-AI Advisory Council’s mission is to bring the beneficial capabilities…
From insideHPC
Dan Martin from Berkeley Lab takes on new role at Exascale Computing Project
The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Dan Martin, a computational scientist and group lead for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, as team lead for their Earth…
From Computational Complexity
The Summer Virtual Conference Season
Both STOC and Complexity have announced they will go virtual for the summer. ICALP moved from Beijing to Stuttgart to online. I expect every major summer conference and workshop will be cancelled, postponed or virtualized.
From insideHPC
Time Lapse Video: Building the Attaway Supercomputer at Sandia
In this time lapse video, technicians build the new Attaway supercomputer from Penguin Computing at Sandia National Labs. In November 2019, the Attaway was #94 on the TOP500 Supercomputers list. "On February 28, 2019, Sandians…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protecting Control Systems from Hackers
Was asked to produce a comment on this area, previously mentioned, probably one of the most important aspects of advanced infrastructure.
New Approach Could Protect Control Systems From Hackers
This algorithm creates “background…
From The Noisy Channel
Opportunity Analysis for Search
I’m a big fan of opportunity analysis. I’ve seen far too many organizations underinvest in opportunity analysis and thus waste enormous — and avoidable — effort on experiments that produce negative or neutral results.
When I’m…From insideHPC
Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 2
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research…
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get stored across over 100 AzureDevOps and GitHub repositories. To better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors for Plant Stress
Possible applications for sensing problems with crops.
Nanosensor can alert a smartphone when plants are stressed
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
Anne Trafton…
From insideHPC
Podcast: WarpX exascale application to accelerate plasma accelerator research
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from LBNL discuss how the WarpX project are developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research. "The new breeds of virtual experiments that the WarpX team is developing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examination of Machine Ethics
In preparation for an upcoming talk and effort that touches on ethics regarding autonomous systems, such as vehicles, but not necessarily restricted to them, I had reason to look at now the classic 'trolley problem'. Which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon can now find Acoustic A capella Versions of Songs
This struck me as interesting, have followed the way musical pieces are classified, combined and described online. In fact have had much trouble with systems like Alexa and Google Home, and voice search within their systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reimaging Jobs in Crisis
Useful piece from McKinsey:
How to rebuild and reimagine jobs amid the coronavirus crisis
Public-, private-, and social-sector leaders are taking urgent steps to manage the fast-evolving crisis of jobs and work. But there is room…