Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2019
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Second Place America?” Major Report Detailing the Nation’s Declining Leadership in Research and Technology Released at Capitol Hill Event
The following is a Computing Research Association Government Affairs Blog post by CRA Policy Analyst, Brian Mosley. Mosley served as the co-chair of the report “Second Place America?” Major Report Detailing the Nation’s Declining…
From insideHPC
Video: Atos Partners with Google Cloud for HPC
Today Atos announced that the Google Cloud has selected the company as an HPC services partner, expanding the global partnership with new services for enterprise customers. "Leveraging the skilled workforce, speed and scale of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dust Sized Brain Implants
Lots of uses for the very small
Wireless Network Brings Dust-Sized Brain Implants a Step Closer
Engineers have designed a scheme to let thousands of brain implants talk at up to 10 megabits per second By Samuel K. Moore
Wireless…
From Schneier on Security
International Spy Museum Reopens
The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Edge: Rodney Brooks on Models of Brains
From the Edge, thoughts, podcast and transcript regarding Computation, machines and minds.
A Talk By Rodney A. Brooks [5.13.19]
Have we gotten into a cul-de-sac in trying to understand animals as machines from the combination of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics Update
Some time ago I mentioned I had taken a look at the immersive data visualization and analysis environment Virtualitics. Have received an update of their work with demonstration videos and motivations that is worth a look:
Virtualitics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Tech Giants Known as the BATs
New to me. Video at the link.
Who are the Chinese tech giants know as the BATs? : BBC
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google have become formidable tech giants. But China has come up with its own champions - Baidu, Alibaba…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Join My Meeting
Slightly surprising given Google's recent moves, will work with Google Suite and also MS Office, Skype, Zoom, Chime and others. For a limited time open to all Alexa users, but apparently later will revert to only subscribers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain: Why, When and How? Link it to Process
Cautionary tale about Blockchains and all that in the TechRepublic. With links to Gartner stats. Fatigue only if it is not appropriately linked to real process and business goals. If you have not developed a process map…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Setting up a ROCKPro64 (powerful single-card computer)
A few months ago, I ordered ROCKPro64. If you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi, then it is a bit of the same… an inexpensive computer that comes in the form of a single card. The ROCKPro64 differs from the Raspberry Pi in that…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at Oxford University on Monday, June 17, 2019. The list is maintained on this page....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Redesigns their Overall Shopping Experience
They needed to, and the outcome is worth understanding. Remove confusion, intelligently combine sources, frictionless ....
Making it easier to shop across Google By Surojit Chattarjee Vice President, Product Management, Shopping…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Set Deep Learning Performance Record on ResNet-50
Today Intel announced a deep learning performance record on image classification workloads. "Today, we have achieved leadership performance of 7878 images per second on ResNet-50 with our latest generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable…
From insideHPC
Quadric.io to Build “Supercomputer for Edge Devices”
Today chip startup Quadric.io announced plans to build the world’s first "supercomputer" specifically designed for the real-time needs of autonomous systems. "Instead of building a heterogeneous system with CPUs/GPUs/FPGAs &
…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC – The EU Strategy in High Performance Computing
Thomas Skordas from the European Commission gave this talk at EuroHPC Summit Week in Poland. "The EuroHPC Summit Week brings together relevant European supercomputing stakeholders and decision makers, allowing them to share on…
From insideHPC
Univa Powers ASIC Designs at eSilicon
Today Univa announced that eSilicon has selected Univa’s Grid Engine to help manage its complex FinFET ASIC and IP designs and scale its environment, as well as better manage its ever-increasing workload and demand for capacity…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 9 – Interview with Beth Mynatt Part 1
A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now! In this episode Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Beth Mynatt, the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), a College of Computing…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Internet, Dogs, and the ABC Conjecture
An inappropriate comment on the ABC conjecture Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser are famous for their independent discovery of the ABC conjecture. Today I want to point out an unfair comment about their discovery. On the Internet…
From insideHPC
Aerospace Moving Forward with Modeling and Simulation
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Gemma Church writes that the aerospace industry is stuck in the past – but it isn't due to a lack of new simulation and modeling techniques. "While there have been…
From Wild WebMink
OSI Board Evolution
I spent last week in New York at the annual new-inductees face-to-face Board meeting of the Open Source Initiative Board (pictured below – Christine Hall is also a member but was unable to join us). Having spent the last 11…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clothes Folding Robot Closes
One of the ultimate examples for home chore completion was washing, drying, folding, ironing and putting away your laundry. Well the company that had a demo doing that has folded (closed). Implications for classic home
Is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Dark Web
Intriguing interactions. Again a pointer towards looking for patterns of data and activity.
Artificial intelligence shines light on the dark web
by Kylie Foy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To match users from different…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–May 2019
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Europe Welcome from the ACM-W Chair On April 12-13, ACM-W once again hosted a group of international guests to attend the 2019…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Adds Home Security Feature
An unexpected security feature for the smart home. No additional hardware required.
Amazon’s Echo can now detect when someone is breaking into your home in Fastcompany
Amazon has announced that all Echo devices in the U.S.
Alexa…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64
A weird paper was posted on the Cryptology ePrint Archive (working link is via the Wayback Machine), claiming an attack against the NSA-designed cipher SIMON. You can read some commentary about it here. Basically, the authors…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request Comments on Draft: A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US
CCC Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Vice Chair Liz Bradley, and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis provided significant contributions to this post. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) requests comments by May 28, 2019 on a draft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shape Structuralizing for Design and More
Liked this, especially as it could be connected to supply chains, procurement, compliance ....
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — If you don’t…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA DGX-2 Delivers Record Performance on STAC-A3 Benchmark
Today NVIDIA announced record performance on STAC-A3, the financial services industry benchmark suite for backtesting trading algorithms to determine how strategies would have performed on historical data. "Using an NVIDIA DGX…
From insideHPC
Diagnose Network Problems Faster with Mellanox WJH Technology
Today Mellanox announced an advanced Network Telemetry technology that provides visibility into Data Plane Anomalies – for public cloud, private cloud and enterprise computing. "What Just Happened (WJH) is a new intelligent monitoring…
From insideHPC
Turkey Joins European HPC Joint Undertaking
The nation of Turkey has joined the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking. Established in November 2018, the joint initiative aims to develop a supercomputing ecosystem in Europe, building top-of-the-range machines…