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
Braille Keyboard
Good to see additional efforts in this direction. Augmenting the senses. Passing the reference on to our friends.
Google Launches Braille Keyboard for Android Devices
VentureBeat
Kyle Wiggers
Google’s new virtual braille keyboard…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W India Regional Celebrations Report
The Regional Celebrations 2020 of the Association for Computing Machinery – Women’s Council (ACM-W India) was held at Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna, on 13th March 2020. The Annual mega-event was jointly organised…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space. We are seeking a Multi-Level Security Subject…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look at Technology For Remotely Teaching Computer Science
While I do believe that people are the most important part of emergency remote teaching, technology does have a serious role to play. One key piece of technology that my school is using is virtual machines that students connect…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Amazingly Realistic Squid Drawings
The squid drawings of Yuuki Tokuda are simply incredible. I tried to figure out how to buy one of them, but everything is in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news…
From Putting People First
Videos of Interaction20
The videos of the Interaction20 conference that took place in Milan early February are starting to become available. 20 are already online, including 7 of the 9 keynotes.
From insideHPC
South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System joins EMC3 Consortium
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) recently welcomed its first international partner, the South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS). "We are pleased…
From insideHPC
MemCPU XPC SaaS Platform available free for COVID-19 Research
Today MemComputing announced that its Xtreme Performance Computing (XPC) Software as a Service (SaaS) will be made free for evaluation to all researchers and developers working in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This initiative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany, France: Virus Tracing Apps in Development
Also discusses similar efforts in France. Would seem this would be very important to determine actual rather than speculated transmission details. Leading to bad decisions via bad data. Determination of real chains of transmission…
From insideHPC
SDSC Expanse Supercomputer from Dell Technologies to serve 50,000 Users
In this special guest feature, Janet Morss at Dell Technologies writes that the company will soon deploy a new flagship supercomputer at SDSC. "Expanse will deliver the power of 728 dual-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 servers…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Emergency Remote Teaching is About People Not Technology
Attendance at my emergency remote teaching classes has been very close to 100%. Frankly, this didn’t surprise me at all. Apparently I should have been surprised. According to a poll reported by NPR, 4 In 10 U.S. Teens Say They…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Andrew Younge from Sandia National Laboratories describes the new SuperContainers project, which aims to deliver containers and virtualization technologies for productivity, portability, and…
From insideHPC
Video: Energy Efficient Computing using Dynamic Tuning
Lubomir Riha from IT4Innovations gave this talk as part of the POP HPC webinar series. "This webinar focused on tools designed to improve the energy-efficiency of HPC applications using a methodology of dynamic tuning of HPC
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking Good on that Conference Call
Just used these simple tips on a call, were useful.
How Not to Look Distractingly Awful on Your Next Video Call
A couple of quick tweaks will make you wildly more comfortable on your next Zoom call.
By Jessica Stillman in Inc.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Remote Work Challenges
Less on the technical side of the challenges involved, and more on the human aspects.
Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
Decentralized teams face a number of challenges that can have damaging consequences if unaddressed — but they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Worrying What others Think of Us
Useful piece, we all practice this.
Why We Should Stop Worrying About What Others Think of Us
Mar 31, 2020 Research North America In Knowledge@Wharton
Standing in the spotlight can be daunting. Giving that third-quarter report…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Teams
Adding somenewand novel capabilities to the conferencing method. Have used it and others since their inception. Well done. They also provide some usage numbers.
How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Nina Balcan Wins
Congrads and More [ CMU ] Nina Balcan is a leading researcher in the theory of machine learning. Nina is at Carnegie-Mellon and was previously at Georgia Tech—it was a major loss to have her leave Tech. Today we applaud her winning…
From Schneier on Security
Kubernetes Security
Attack matrix for Kubernetes, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. A good first step towards understand the security of this suddenly popular and very complex container orchestration system....
From Putting People First
Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 4
Fourth (and particularly rich) edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead.
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Work with Chip Maker Intel
New connections to resolve security issues using machine learning methods.
DARPA snags Intel to lead its machine learning security tech
Zack Whittaker in TechCrunch ...
DARPA snags Intel to lead its machine learning security tech…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences Program
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Detecting, Combating, and Identifying Dis and Mis-information
Over the last twenty years, the proliferation of Internet access, coupled with the explosion of online social networks, has allowed people around the world to share their ideas and experiences with the click of a button. Beauty…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $30 Million for Machine Learning and AI Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $30 million for advanced research in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for both scientific investigation and the management of
…
From insideHPC
Maria Balcan to Receive Grace Murray Hopper Award for Significant Contributions to Machine Learning
Today ACM named Maria Florina Balcan of Carnegie Mellon University the recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning. “Although she is still…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VentureBeat on AI and Security
What looks to be a good overview of this issue:
VB Special Issue on AI and Security
Note from the Editor:
Both AI and cybersecurity are nearly omnipresent in our daily lives, and the intersection of the two is of increasing importance…
From insideHPC
Why WINS Is an Ideal Opportunity for Women in IT Networking
The SC20 WINS program offers a terrific opportunity for women in networking help build the SCinet at the conference, working side-by-side with the world’s leading network and software engineers and top network technology vendors…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputers are being used to battle the coronavirus. "We discuss how the supercomputing community has joined the fight and the impact on the battle against the virus.
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From insideHPC
Video: State of ARM-based HPC
In this video, Paul Isaacs from Linaro presents: State of ARM-based HPC. "This talk provides an overview of applications and infrastructure services successfully ported to Aarch64 and benefiting from scale. "With its debut on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Multimodel Alexa Design for Devs
New efforts from Amazon on toolkits to improve skills. Technical.
Design Engaging Multimodal Experiences with Our New Alexa Design System Toolkits for APL
Anna Van Brookhoven Feb 21, 2020
Design Build Tips & Tools Multimodal
We’re…