Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Breakthrough
Been following Fusion forever, was involved in a tech progress analysis in college. Had been the first I hear of such a technique.
Nuclear fusion breakthrough achieved with new projectile technique in New Scientist
NuclearRead…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ray Predicts the Technology Future
Good thoughts, below just the intro, much more at the link:
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future By Sveta McShane and Jason Dorrier -Apr 19, 2016
This is the last in a four-part series looking at the…From insideHPC
$25M Federal Funding for Quantum R&D for GlobalFoundries and PsiQuantum
Federal funding of $25 million has been awarded to semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries and quantum development company PsiQuantum for quantum computing research and development. This funding, secured as a part of the recently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math Trick for AI Development
Considering this ......
Simple Mathematical Trick Could Slash AI Development Time in Half
In New Scientist, Matthew Sparkes, March 10, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Oxford have cut the two-stage back-propagation process…From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Regulating Cybercurrency
Clearly required, with Podcast:
Why the U.S. Government Should Regulate Cryptocurrency
March 28, 2022 • 5 min read In Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton’s Kevin Werbach explains why the Biden administration’s executive order to develop…From The Eponymous Pickle
Still Waiting for Fully Self-Driving Cars
What's the real status Among the real players? Here is quite a lot of data to use.
Still Waiting for Self-Driving Cars
By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, April 2022, Vol. 65 No. 4, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3516517
Over…From BLOG@CACM
Forced Labor at Bührle's Arms Factory
As has only recently become known, forced labor occurred at a former Bührle textile factory in Toggenburg, Switzerland. This and other Bührle companies played a significant role in Swiss IT history.
From insideHPC
San Diego Supercomputer Center to Offer Two Summer Institutes
April 7, 2022 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has planned summer institutes for June and August, one focused on cyberinfrastructure-enabled machine learning and the on high-performance computing (HPC) and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Going to Happen to all those Office Buidlings?
Article and Podcast:
What’s Going to Happen to All Those Empty Office Buildings? in Knowledge @ Wharton
February 28, 2022 • 4 min read
The demand for office space is unlikely to rebound to pre-COVID levels because workers want…From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Launches Quantum Research Hub with La Trobe and RMIT Universities
MELBOURNE, April 8, 2022 – Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian provider of quantum computing hardware and software, today announced a joint research and development hub with La Trobe University and RMIT University to enhance…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI: Applications Open for National Lab HPC to Improve Energy Efficiency
The US Department of Energy’s HPC4EI (High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation) program, designed for companies interested in helping the U.S. move toward an equitable clean energy future, is now accepting applications…
From insideHPC
Habana Labs and Grid.ai Collaborate for Training on Gaudi with PyTorch Lightning
April 7, 2022 — The Habana team announced it is collaborating with Grid.ai to make it easier for developers to train on Gaudi processors with PyTorch Lightning without code changes. Grid.ai and PyTorch Lightning make coding …
From insideHPC
FocusCoE Completes Mission for Consolidation of CoEs’ Role in EU HPC Ecosystem
April 7, 2022 — As of 31 March, 2022, the EU-funded coordination and support action FocusCoE said it has successfully completed its project activities, which have supported the European High-Performance Computing Centres of Excellence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pulls Apps Harvesting Data
This kind of thing has been done for a long time, good to see Google noticing in this case, but Google gathers lots of data too for advertising purposes.
Google pulls apps that may have harvested data from millions of Android…From The Eponymous Pickle
Prosthetic Hands and a Sense of Touch
New and better sensory Haptics
Touchy Subject: 3D-Printed Fingertip 'Feels' Like Human Skin
University of Bristol News (U.K.), April 6, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Bristol have developed a three-dimensionally (3D)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Talks Multisearch
In the Google blog a very interesting and considerable piece about using search via image and beyond. Impressed by what they have done with capabilities like Lens. Using it more. Also thing more about integrating it with capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI-Powered Apps May Speed Up Stroke Treatment
Interesting healthcare application of AI.
Using AI-Powered Apps May Speed Up Stroke Treatment
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Anya Sostek, March 20, 2022
Pittsburgh hospitals are using artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications…From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We need a MetaMeta Verse?
Games and potential simulations.
A MetaMask Founding Architect Is Building an Interoperable ‘MetaMetaverse’
The cube-based virtual landscape is aiming to be the most interoperable metaverse to date, featuring its own programming…From Putting People First
Experientia seeking a senior business development manager
Experientia is looking for a Senior Business Development Manager with specific experience in either healthcare, energy, consumer goods, and/or the mobility industry, to drive business development in Italy.
From Putting People First
Experientia seeking a senior service designer
Experientia is looking for an outstanding Senior Service Designer with specific experience in either healthcare, energy, circular economy and/or the mobility industry.
From Writing
Terraform: Up & Running, 3rd edition Early Release is now available!
Today, I’m excited to announce that the Early Release of the 3rd edition of Terraform: Up & Running is now available! The 3rd edition adds over 100 pages of new content, including two completely new chapters (Managing Secrets…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Oak Ridge Assoc. Director Dr. Jeff Nichols on Frontier, on History-making HPC – and on His Retirement
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, join us for a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Frontier exascale supercomputer, how it was built in the middle of a pandemic and how it’s being prepared for full user-readiness. Frontier…
From insideHPC
MLPerf Results Highlight Advances in Machine Learning Inference Performance and Efficiency
SAN FRANCISCO – April 6, 2022 – Today MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for three MLPerf benchmark suites – Inference v2.0, Mobile v2.0, and Tiny v0.7. MLCommons said the three benchmark suites measure…
From insideHPC
Microsoft and UK Met Office Select AI Start-ups for Environmental Sustainability Program
April 2022 — Ten companies focused on reducing carbon emissions and waste, preserving water and protecting ecosystems have been selected to take part in Microsoft’s AI for Environmental Sustainability Accelerator program. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miniaturized Laser Systems?
Other uses for miniaturized laser systems? Considerable detail at the link.
Miniaturized laser systems to seek out traces of life in space
Research News / April 01, 2022
Was there life on Mars? This is the question that the European…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Ukraine has Defended Itself against Cyberattacks
Something to learn here.
How Ukraine has defended itself against cyberattacks—lessons for the US
by Robert Peacock, The Conversation
In 2014, as Russia launched a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea, and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Chemical Reaction Design
ew approaches to chemical design
Chemical Reaction Design Goes Virtual
Hokkaido University (Japan),March 14, 2022
A virtual ligand-assisted (VLA) screening method developed by researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University could reduce…From insideHPC
Fujitsu Launches Computing as a Service via Public Cloud Service for HPC and AI
Tokyo, April 6, 2022 — Fujitsu today announced “Fujitsu Computing as a Service” (CaaS) offering computing resources such as Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology; AI and machine learning software applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web3 as a New Economic System
Another Good Piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, here explaining Web3, with lots of useful links.
Via Irving Wladawsky-Berger's excellent Blog:
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny, Cheap Solution for Quantum-Secure Encryption
Advances for Quantum Encryption
Tiny, Cheap Solution for Quantum-Secure Encryption
By Washington State University McKelvey School of Engineering, March 29, 2022
Researchers at Washington State University in St. Louis have proposed…