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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
NYCWiC-Virtual Celebration
The New York Celebration of Women in Computing 2021 (NYCWiC'21) was held virtually on April 9-10, 2021. Organizers used a combination of real-time interaction through Gather, Zoom, and Slack.
From insideHPC
RMACC 11th Annual HPC Symposium Program Set, Registration Underway
BOULDER, CO. – Registration is continuing for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium, scheduled on-line for May 19-20. The Symposium will be offered free …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Invests in Self-Driving
Somewhat unusual, but Wal-Mart is making a considerable play here. Cruise is only indicating a self driving Taxi for now. Possibilities for delivery?
Walmart invests in self-driving startup Cruise
Cruise says it's about two…From insideHPC
Lenovo Announces Ready-to-Deploy AI Solutions
Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) today announced the expansion of its partner ecosystem and launched five artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. The company said the ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs)…
From insideHPC
DOE Funding $10M for Research on Data Reduction for Science
April 15 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for foundational research to address the challenges of managing and processing the increasingly massive data sets produced by today’s scientific instruments…
From insideHPC
Meet 6 Trailblazing Women in HPC
Women are severely underrepresented in the field of HPC. While they comprise about 51 percent of the general population, women account for only about 17 percent of the HPC workforce1. Those numbers are slowly improving, thanks…
From insideHPC
SingleStore Powers IEX Cloud with Real-Time Application Analytics
SAN FRANCISCO – April 15, 2021 – SingleStore, the unified database for fast analytics, today announced its collaboration with IEX Cloud to deliver technology that disrupts the financial data market. IEX Cloud connects developers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roadblocks to a Vaccine Passport
Gave this thought after innoculation. What serves as proof, and with what groups?
What Are the Roadblocks to a 'Vaccine Passport'? By The New York Times
The Heliix Health Passport is one of many developers are working on as…From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Anomalies with AI
Classic aspect using AI in smart manufacturing. Had interacted with Fujitsu in the past.
Fujitsu develops AI to detect product abnormalities during manufacturing
By Ryan Daws | March 29, 2021 | TechForge Media, Categories: Manufacturing…From insideHPC
Carleton Univ. and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for Workforce Development
OTTAWA — April 15, 2021 — Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Going for Nuance
MS has been backing off Cortana, at least for consumer facing applications. This would be a big major buy of the Siri developer and its patents.
Microsoft considers acquiring Siri creator Nuance for $16 billion in AI News…From insideHPC
European HPC Exascale Project DEEP-EST Completed
Jülich/Munich, April 15, 2021 – The project “DEEP Extreme Scale Technologies,” funded by the European Union, has come to a successful conclusion. DEEP-EST started in 2017 to develop a modular architecture for high performance…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Scott Wins a Prize
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense—Roger Penrose Scott Answers Big Questions source Scott Aaronson has just been named the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing, Penrose’s…
From insideHPC
PCIe 4.0 Rugged Short-Depth Server Appliance for Edge AI HPC
AI Transportable™ applications such as autonomous vehicles, situational command and control, aerospace, and high-complexity video-based inference and security often require real-time decision-making with limited 5G or no network…
From Computational Complexity
Ordering Beauty
First, congratulations to fellow complexity theorist and blogger Scott Aaronson for receiving the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for "groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing". The prize is ACM's highest honor for mid-career…
From Schneier on Security
DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment
The office of the Director of National Intelligence released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Cybersecurity is covered on pages 20-21. Nothing surprising:
Cyber threats from nation states and…From The Eponymous Pickle
IonQ now Supports IBM Qiskit Quantum development kit
Providing a seems another and we assume better means of developing quantum applications. Would be good to compare applications.
IonQ now supports IBM’s Qiskit quantum development kit
Frederic Lardinois@frederick
IonQ, the trapped…From insideHPC
OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology
SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, today announced the successful tape out of a high-performance SoC on TSMC’s N5 process, with integrated…
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to Hold Virtual User Meeting June 22-24
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Meeting will be held June 22-24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Time. This meeting will be held as a virtual (online-only) event via Zoom. The registration form and agenda can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and TikTok
Not a big fan of TikTok, but its still booming. What's Wal-Mart doing with it? Will it last? What will be next? The right influencers in the right context. Will two syllable services rule?
Live from TikTok, it’s Walmart…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold on the Pandemic Impact
Former Microsoft and Procter & Gamble exec, and my colleague there, Bob Herbold, writes about the Pandemic impact:
Bob's Gutsy Leadership Blog
The Pandemic Impact: Massive Change Yielding Winners and Losers! by Bob Herbold. …From insideHPC
DDN Unveils AI Product Innovations at NVIDIA GTC 2021
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, has announced features for itsA3I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) solutions, advancing its AI and deep learning Intelligent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation
Interesting thought here, how do we do it effectively?
Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation By University of Utah
April 13, 2021 in CACM
Humor might help combat scientific misinformation published online…From The Eponymous Pickle
Winner Takes All Effect and Automation
Had not heard it stated that way. But agree, automation is less threat than we think. As is mentioned, we will be building working relationships with our machines.
Automation and the 'Winner Take Most' Effect
By Workflow, March…From insideHPC
At Virtual Nvidia GTC: Today’s Sessions on HPC and AI at Scale
Here’s an overview of HPC-related sessions at Nvidia’s GTC virtual conference today. Note that recording of these sessions can be accessed by conference registrants. Accelerating Large-Scale AI and HPC in the Cloud – 2-2:40 pm…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Discovery Cloud
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation,…
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the later days when the Chinese probably realized that the vulnerabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FBI to Cleanse Microsoft Exchange Servers
Somewhat unusual for FBI to take an effort like this, will see how well it can cleanse the servers.
FBI launches operation to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in TechCrunch
A court in Houston has authorized…From insideHPC
Research Centers at Cambridge and Durham Universities Add Nvidia, Dell EMC HPC Resources
At GTC this week, Nvidia and Dell EMC released details of HPC installations at two UK academic supercomputing centers to accelerate computing resources at the two sites. At Durham University, the COSMA-8 supercomputer — to be…
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Names Prof. Stephen Clark Head of AI
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Clark joins CQC from DeepMind where he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist…