Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Zero Power Electronics
Particularly useful for communications, IOT, Sensors
Energy-efficient sensor nodes from Fraunhofer
Economical wireless communication
Research News / April 01, 2021
In today’s world, more and more devices are being wirelessly connected…From The Eponymous Pickle
Experts on Conversational Marketing Trends
Good thoughts on how conversation supports marketing and decisions. Stats about the conversational AI spac ealso interesting.
5 Experts Weigh in on Conversational Marketing Trends to Watch in the Alexa Blog
With the conversational…From insideHPC
Cleveland Clinic and IBM Partner on HPC, AI and Quantum Computing
ARMONK, N.Y. and CLEVELAND — Cleveland Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced a planned 10-year partnership to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint effort to advance the pace of discovery in healthcare and life sciences…
From insideHPC
June 25: 2nd International Workshop on HPC for Business and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik
The second International Workshop on High Performance Business Computing and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik will be held virtually and free of charge on Friday, June 25. Registration is here: https://events.uni-paderborn.de…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uses of Process Mining
Had heard the term 'Process Mining' relatively little used lately. But as I mentioned in recent posts, it helps you to understand how existing process and related decisions are done today. Once that is understood, you can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redeffining Decision Making aith AI and BI
Interesting claim, but it does assume we understand how business decision making is made in our enterprise. Something we attempted to understand over many years. It still makes sense to study the processes being used andHow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Recommendation using a Knowledge Graph
An example of an interaction between a knowledge graph and a specific task. Have used Neo4j Graphs, so this was instructive. A number of reco examples are shown at the link, beyond this intro.
Amazon Product Recommendation using…From insideHPC
Porting a Particle-in-Cell Code to Exascale Architectures
By Nils Heinonen on behalf of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility As part of a series aimed at sharing best practices in preparing applications for Aurora, we highlight researchers’ efforts to optimize codes to run efficiently…
From Schneier on Security
Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors
The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors:
In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about…From insideHPC
April 7 Cloud HPC microSUMMIT – Hyperion, Microsoft and Rescale
On Wednesday, April 7, industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, Microsoft and Rescale will discuss the latest trends and forecasts in cloud HPC and how they affect IT and R&D. Hyperion will share data from their latest industry…
From insideHPC
HPC vs. HIV-1: Stampede2, Bridges and Darwin Uncover Nucleotide Infection Process
By Jorge Salazar, Science Writer, Texas Advanced Computing Center Viruses lurk in the grey area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like living things, they replicate but they don’t do it on their own…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auto Updating Facts
When we sought to construct a company Wiki, we found one of the most important issues, after validating it, was updating knowledge. Here MIT CSAIL is looking at that problem.
Auto-Updating Websites When Facts Change
MIT Computer…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 500-Million-Year-Old Cephalopod
The oldest known cephalopod — the ancestor of all modern octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses — is 500 million years old.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I…From insideHPC
CircleCI Extends Arm Support to CI/CD Cloud Offering
SAN FRANCISCO — Mar. 30, 2021 — CircleCI, a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced a preview of additions to its build fleet with the introduction of Arm-based compute. The Arm architecture…
From Schneier on Security
Malware Hidden in Call of Duty Cheating Software
News article:
Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” (Gamers looking to flout the rules will typically go to such…From Schneier on Security
Fugitive Identified on YouTube By His Distinctive Tattoos
A mafia fugitive hiding out in the Dominican Republic was arrested when investigators found his YouTube cooking channel and identified him by his distinctive arm tattoos.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Gets Army Augmented-Reality Headset Contract
Such uses could lead the way to business application, still uncommon.
Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented-reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years By Jordan Novet
Microsoft will deliver to the U…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS: Fraud Detection and Machine Learning
Intro to a piece by SAS worth taking a look at.
Fraud detection and machine learning: What you need to know from SAS
Fraud detection is a challenging problem. The fact is that fraudulent transactions are rare; they representMost…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bitcoin Aiding Ransomware
Fairly obvious. Had a discussion with a government employee early on about bitcoin, who asked "How will we track criminal activity'?
Bitcoin Is Aiding the Ransomware Industry
We are living in a world where the second-order effects…From Computational Complexity
Want to Buy a Theorem?
This is embarrassing to admit but after a few badly timed trades on GameStop options I find myself a bit tight on money. To raise some cash, I reluctantly decided to sell one of my prized possessions, one of my theorems.
For Sale…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Plans a Re-Skilling with Linkedin
An interesting approach of Microsoft to use their data and marketing capabilities via Linkedin to target jobsand job markets. Makes the assumption that Microsoft will be making the right calls with their forecasts.
Microsoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Honda Launches Level 3 Driverless Cars in Japan
Still saying a Level 4 car, requiring no driver, is still far off. I think there will pockets of use where regulation is less stringent, which creates large amounts of testing and data. Guaging demand is also a key aspect…
From insideHPC
Let’s Invent the Future Together!
Join Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA at GTC21! Grow your expertise and help shape what’s next for AI innovation. We’ll demonstrate the collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA that brings a new, deep learning-powered experience.…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Computer Science Gets Noted
All non-metallic UK currency to feature Computing and Data Science pioneers Cropped from BBC source Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace will be reunited. Their work on designing and programming a computing device, a century before…