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
Inspur Information Introduces 3 AI Servers to Support NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA A10 GPUs
SAN JOSE – April 12, 2021 – At NVIDIA GTC 2021, Inspur Information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, introduced three GPU servers (NF5468M6, NF5468A5 and NF5280M6), which support the latest NVIDIA A30, NVIDIA A10 and …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows 2021 Webinar Thursday, April 15th, 2:30 PM ET
Last week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2021. This program recognizes the significant disruption to the academic…
From Putting People First
Towards an anthropology of data
Special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whiff, A Scent Revolution?
I had cause to review the book "Whiff! The Revolution of Scent Communication in the Information Age", by C Russell Brumfield. A good overview the concept of the idea, especially in retail. Now somewhat dated, but nicely covers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Emotion: Fundametally flawed?
We did long time tests with emotion reading, in retail starting with work using MIT 'emotion glasses', Was interesting for initial tests, but not spot on accurate. Pay attention to the measurement aspects, and validate with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppable Indoor Maps by Google
Not a new thing, we saw several examples of this in retail in the 90s. Put it in our retail experiments. Even Google was experimenting with the idea then. Though it did not evolve. Some saw it as a means of deliveringWill…
From insideHPC
LLNL’s Falgout named to 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Rob Falgout as an esteemed member of its 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows. The prestigious…
From Computational Complexity
Is the following reaction to getting the first COVID shot logical?
Alice works at a charity that puts together bag and box lunches for children.
They all wear masks and they are 12 feet apart and very careful, and nobody there has gotten COVID.
Then Alice gets here first COVID shot and says:
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Install Quantum Computer at Cleveland Clinic
To include Hybrid cloud services and AI. And to be called an 'Discovery Accelerator'
By Chris O'Brien in Venturebeat March…From The Eponymous Pickle
UV Light Robotics for Plane Disinfection
Sounds like a good idea, how well does it work?
Swiss Robots Use UV Light to Zap Viruses Aboard Passenger Planes
Reuters, Arnd Wiegmann; John Miller, April 1, 2021
A robot developed by Swiss startup UVeya is using ultraviolet…From The Eponymous Pickle
US Venture Funding Soars
Following new ventures and their funding.
Venture funding soared to record $64 billion in Q1
Ari Levy @LEVYNEWS
Key Points
Venture funding in the U.S. hit $64 billion in the first quarter, according to analysis from Ernst & Young…From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Innovation in the Workplace
Below just the intro, an interesting piece our of Microsoft Research. An example they say of using machine learning to derive and measure insights from connected data. In a work environment that has changed considerably in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the State of the Cloud, now with Innovation Added
Useful details on the topic, with many links by a former IBMer who we worked with. A good follow. Below the intro paragraph.
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Harnessing Chaos to Secure Devices
Seems a quite clever idea. A means of securing devices.
in Ohio State News, By Jeff Grabmeier, April 7, 2021
A new version…From The Eponymous Pickle
Snythetic Data in Medical Research
Sounds like a bad idea, but you can use the idea of synthetic data to construct innovative models as starting points for serious research. We did this to understand how product sold in mock stores, then moved the models to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Remote Assistants
Had not thought of this specifically, ot a bad idea if it can be done well. Needs to be taken beyond voice. But what takes it most effectively beyond the screen? Does now ubiquitous conference call show the way?
Augmented…From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Apple Examining Fingerprinting
Some of my former colleagues at work. But is it narrowing our privacy further?
P&G Is Looking for Ways Around Apple's New Privacy Rules
Procter & Gamble is testing an advertising technique that would allow for targeted ads,P&G…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped Bike Rack
There’s a new squid-shaped bike rack in Ballard, WA.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Blobs of Squid Eggs Found Near Norway
Divers find three-foot “blobs” — egg sacs of the squid Illex coindetii — off the coast of Norway.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my bloghere…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Squid and Prey
A 180-million-year-old Vampire squid ancestor was fossilized along with its prey.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Smartphone Data
Steve Gibson in TWIT Pages 10-15 'A Spy in Our Pocket" Talking about how smartphone handsets communicate with their manufacturer, beyond simple test data, and provide information when combined with other data, that can…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you sort arrays of integers in Java?
Programming languages come with sorting functions by default. We can often do much better. For example, Downs has showed that radix sort can greatly surpass default sort functions in C++. Radix sort is you friend if you wantContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA CropX for Agriculture
From my agriculture and forestry connections. A report from NASA on their Harvest and CropX efforts for sustainable agriculture. Very good sensing effort with learning for other applications.
'NASA Harvest and CropX Partner…From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Added — But Found — in PHP
Unknown hackers attempted to add a backdoor to the PHP source code. It was two malicious commits, with the subject “fix typo” and the names of known PHP developers and maintainers. They were discovered and removed before being…
From BLOG@CACM
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases
SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar schemas or key-value pairs. One is relational, the other not so much.
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Working on COVID Detection with SmartPhones
Quite interesting idea, accuracy and other details unclear. On surfaces too? Could be very useful in the current and upcoming pandemics.
GE is working to put COVID-19 virus-detecting sensors in phones in Engadget.
The system…From insideHPC
7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added seven Chinese supercomputing organizations to the Entity List “for conducting activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign
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From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Previews May HPC User Forum
Hyperion Research today announced the near-final agenda for the upcoming HPC User Forum meeting, a virtual three-day event to be held May 11-13 for Western Hemisphere participants and May 12-14 for those in Europe and the Asia…
From insideHPC
Advantech Launches Server and Appliance Range with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for 5G, AIoT & HPC
IRVINE, CA — Advantech (TWSE: 2395.TW), an industrial IoT company, has announced 12 new platforms based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, ranging from ultra-short-depth wireless access and IoT edge servers to high-throughput…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI for the Supply Chain
As a long time practitioner in the supply chain space, here an example. Notable here the forecast of demand as we transition to new context. No direct how mentioned here, but taking a look.
In ACM Tech News
Supply Chain…