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 insideHPC
UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson Awarded ACM Price for Work in Quantum
New York, April 14, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Scott Aaronson has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duplex Now Available in 49 States
Noted this, have seen Duplex demonstrated, but never used it. Concern rightly exists about its misuse. I am sure that Google is thinking through regulatory issues in some detail.
Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now…From The Eponymous Pickle
China Creates Own Digital Currency
Interesting to see how this could change payment, collection and monitoring activity.
China Creates Its Own Digital Currency
The Wall Street Journal, James T. Areddy, April 5, 2021
China's digital yuan cryptocurrency is expected…From insideHPC
SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance in Agreement on High Performance Data Center Infrastructures
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced an agreement to improve standards-based, open source management of high-performance fabrics and remote network services or
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From insideHPC
dRISK Retrains AVs to Detect High Risk ‘Edge Cases’
London, 13 April 2021 — dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time commercially – employed its edge case retraining tool to achieve…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LiDAR Test Starts up Again
Am now finally getting into my LIDAR test, on a Apple 12 Pro phone for now. Using the package Polycam, which looks easy to use and is free for the initial testing ... then has a monthly fee. And allows you to share scanned…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS
LEESBURG, Va., April 13, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) today announced that QCI’s Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for…
From insideHPC
DDN and Nvidia Certified AI Channel Program for VARs and Distributors
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today launched a certified DDN and NVIDIA set of AI solutions designed to optimize value and performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks
Not surprising, language is communications. Between us and everything else. Spent lots of time trying to make that work.
Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks Seen as Dawn of New Era By AI Trends Staff
Researchers at Accenture…From The Eponymous Pickle
API's Again: Building Blocks for Transformation
The recent thing about the Supreme Court ruling in a 6–2 decision that Google's use of the Java APIs fell into fair use, made us think of API's again. Are they still relevant now? Well yes, and for a bunch of reasons. HBR…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Lifecycle for IOT
This issue of the process involved came up recently, here a good intro. Images provided are very
The 3 Stages in Secure Product Lifecycle Management in IOTCentral
Posted by Jacob Beningo on April 9, 2021 at 8:50 in Software,Nearly…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration
Cyn Liu began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington in Fall of 2020. Liu is at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) working with Paul Dourish, Chancellor’s Professor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods AI
Simple example of use of AI and automating paid search.
Lingerie Brand Leverages AI for Automating Paid Search and Social Media Marketing in Emerj.com
Daniel Faggella is Head of Research at Emerj. Called upon by the United Nations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Deep Learning
Quite well put, thoughtful about neural nets. Much more at the link.
Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization
By Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio, Moritz Hardt, Benjamin Recht, Oriol Vinyals
Communications…From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter
Security Boulevard recently listed the “Top-21 Cybersecurity Experts You Must Follow on Twitter in 2021.” I came in at #7. I thought that was pretty good, especially since I never tweet. My Twitter feed just mirrors my blog.…
From Schneier on Security
More Biden Cybersecurity Nominations
News:
President Biden announced key cybersecurity leadership nominations Monday, proposing Jen Easterly as the next head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and John “Chris” Inglis as the first ever national…From insideHPC
DOE INCITE Program Calls for Proposals by June 18
April 12, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad…
From insideHPC
CSCS to Stand Up ‘Grace’ Arm-based AI Supercomputer from Nvidia, HPE
LUGANO, Switzerland, April 12, 2021 — The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA have announced what they says is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer…
From insideHPC
StorMagic Joins the Active Archive Alliance
BOULDER, Colo. – The Active Archive Alliance announced today that StorMagic has joined the organization, which provides end-users with technical guidance to design and implement modern solutions for data growth challenges. StorMagic…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Wobble in the Standard Model
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future—Niels Bohr Boston Globe “Uncertainty” source Lisa Randall is a professor of theoretical physics at Harvard. Her research has touched on many of the basic questions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holograms Improved?
Seen a number of examples, never satisfying will this improve them? But note 'doodles of light', not full images. Possible applications interacting with health care images?
Technological Leap for Holograms: Real 'Doodles of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Bionic Eye
As a means for providing new kinds of eye like sensors? Many efforts in this space.
Computer Model Fosters Potential Improvements to 'Bionic Eye' Technology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Wayne…From insideHPC
Los Alamos National Lab 1st to Receive Nvidia ‘Grace’ Arm CPU-based Supercomputer
April 12, 2021 – Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the first United States customer to receive a supercomputer based on Nvidia’s new “Grace” Arm-based CPU, announced today, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as the system…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Supports and Qualifies New NVIDIA GPUs
Taipei, Taiwan, April 13th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high performance servers and workstations, today announced testing and support for new AI and high-performance computing (HPC) enterprise GPUs as…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Partners with Schrödinger on Drug Discovery
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—GTC—April 12, 2021—NVIDIA today announced a strategic partnership with Schrödinger that harnesses NVIDIA DGX A100 systems to further expand the speed and accuracy of Schrödinger’s computational drug discovery…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands Its Nvidia Ampere Architecture GPU Product Line, Includes 5PF in a 4U Tier 1 AI Platform
SAN JOSE — April 12, 2021 — Server maker Supermicro today announced expansion of its Nvidia Ampere Architecture-based GPU-product line, including achieving 5 petaFLOPS of AI performance in a 4U form factor with the latest NVIDIA…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Melanie Mitchell on Munk Debate Podcast – “The Rise of Thinking Machines”
Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University, was recently on the Munk Debates podcast, in an episode titled “The Rise of Thinking…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Jumps into Data Center CPUs, Also Launches DPUs and DGX Superpod for HPC and AI
Nvidia announced a slew of new products today on the first day of its annual GTC conference, including a first-time foray into data center CPU that has pushed Intel stock prices down and Nvidia shares up. Nvidia’s new “Grace”…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dubai RoboTaxi Service: GM's Cruise Origin
More self driving, here a taxi service. More data and experience with the customers and concept.
GM's Cruise will operate a robotaxi service in Dubai in Engadget
It's the first time the Cruise Origin will serve outside of the…From insideHPC
Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 12, 2021 — Cloudera, (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will integrate NVIDIA RAPIDS-accelerated Apache Spark 3.0 libraries, intended …