Blogs Archive
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2020
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session early and we chatted for a while. We talked mostly about how things were different learning…
Alfred Thompson | May 19, 2020 at 01:53 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intrigued by the use of robotics for agricultural and other classic farming applications. Here the use of the Boston Dynamics Spot ... and a link to a video of it herding sheep in New Zealand. And doing other farming tasks…
Franz Dill | May 19, 2020 at 12:00 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
This link is first a reminder to myself that we need to continually promote means of risk and uncertainty awareness in models. Meta-reasoning is always important. Thinking about the context in which your models will be used…
Franz Dill | May 19, 2020 at 10:27 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Good illustrations at the link. Clever thought, we still will use paper (and other media) How can we effectively get important virtual content there too. Saw this presented one time as a means for advertising in AR spaces.…
Franz Dill | May 19, 2020 at 10:07 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continuing to follow this. Since Europe has different ideas about security, some disagreement was inevitable.
Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus-Tracking Technology
The Wall Street Journal
Sam Schechner; Jenny…
Franz Dill | May 19, 2020 at 09:58 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
I used to take a stronger point on this, but now think that powerpoint works, is understood by many people, and I have lots of my previous presentations there I can work from. But there are alternatives, if you are looking…
Franz Dill | May 19, 2020 at 09:52 AM
From Schneier on Security
Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading....
Bruce Schneier | May 19, 2020 at 07:18 AM
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published a new country-based evaluation of email acceptance rates based upon previous testing of the top 1,000 websites done in 2017 and 2019. You can view the new report (UASG027)…
Don Hollander | May 19, 2020 at 03:23 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
This struck me at first as being even more interesting than it actually seems to be: Detect what machines you are using. And derive some health measures from behavior. It turns out I had just placed a large long russet potato…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 03:44 PM
From CERIAS Blog
The Paper
IEEE Test of Time Award
Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One of the papers recognized was "Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack…
Prof. Spafford | May 18, 2020 at 02:53 PM
From CERIAS Blog
The Paper
IEEE Test of Time Award
Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One of the papers recognized was "Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack…
Prof. Spafford | May 18, 2020 at 02:53 PM
From CERIAS Blog
The Paper
IEEE Test of Time Award
Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One of the papers recognized was "Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack…
Prof. Spafford | May 18, 2020 at 02:53 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Had an idea that universities would change greatly. Was struck by the prediction below. My own was more process-systematic. That Universities would be replaced by individual teachers, or groups of professors, empowered by…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 01:59 PM
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part two of Khari Douglas’ interview with Liz Bradley, the current Vice-chair of the CCC Council. Bradley has…
Khari Douglas | May 18, 2020 at 12:35 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
A topic rarely addressed well, we discovered early on it had to be carefully done. Upcoming DSC webinar:
Embracing Responsible AI from Pilot to Production
Join us for the latest DSC Webinar on May 27th, 2020
register-now: https…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 11:49 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
A good non technical look at AGI, why its not solved yet, while the narrow kind continues to spread. I would further suggest that the narrow kind is also context limited in many ways. Often in unexpected ways. Impact regulation…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 11:28 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Also a space we examined. Especially about how these fabrics could be maintained. Good to some thoughts about how this is evolving.
3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics
Soon, your clothes may be able to…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 09:49 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
When we built our retail innovation spaces, which sought to help us understand what the future of these spaces when inserting innovations, we looked at several museum solutions. One approach would be to allow remote interactions…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 09:42 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better complex 3D models, that require less adjustments, can lead to beter understanding and manipulation and thus use of the model.
Automating Complex 3D Modeling
Sandia Labs News
April 27, 2020
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories…
Franz Dill | May 18, 2020 at 09:30 AM
From insideHPC
This white paper from Bright Computing, "Increasing HPC Cluster Productivity Through System Resource Tracking" addresses the necessary steps to give administrators, managers, and users the information they need to use HPC system…
staff | May 18, 2020 at 09:00 AM
From Schneier on Security
A new malware, called Ramsey, can jump air gaps: ESET said they've been able to track down three different versions of the Ramsay malware, one compiled in September 2019 (Ramsay v1), and two others in early and late March 2020…
Bruce Schneier | May 18, 2020 at 07:15 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
What will the implications be for broad rollout of 5G?
Qualcomm President: 5G Rollout Is Doing Just Fine
Qualcomm has spent three decades working on the next big thing in wireless. The company’s sales peaked at $26.5 billion in…
Franz Dill | May 17, 2020 at 04:52 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
We determined this early on, the challenge remains on how to pass along the 'work' in context and asess the results and aportion the
Microsoft chief scientist: Humans and AI work better together than alone
Khari Johnson in VentureBeat…
Franz Dill | May 17, 2020 at 02:50 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Or poor associated metadata.
Poor data quality is the leading cause of digital transformation failure. It’s time to prioritise data transformation! in 7wdata
In a digitally empowered age, businesses across the globe have grand…
Franz Dill | May 17, 2020 at 01:11 PM
From insideHPC
Today Liqid announced that it has worked with industry leaders AMD and Dell Technologies to deliver one of the fastest one-socket storage rack servers on the market. "Liqid’s composable Gen-4 PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric technology…
staff | May 17, 2020 at 11:10 AM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Always liked SAS as a analytical problem solving company, here a new paper from them of interest, register for it at the link.
How AI Changes the Rules
New Imperatives for the Intelligent Organization
About this paper
Many leaders…
Franz Dill | May 17, 2020 at 08:55 AM
From insideHPC
Epidemiologists have turned to the power of supercomputers to model and predict how the disease spreads at local and regional levels in hopes of forecasting potential new hot spots and guiding policy makers' decisions in containing…
staff | May 17, 2020 at 03:23 AM
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Can one maintain privacy while publicly congratulating? X Facemask src X, who shall go nameless here, recently won a prize for research. Today we congratulate X and wish to talk a bit about their work while safeguarding X’s identity…
RJLipton+KWRegan | May 16, 2020 at 04:58 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice and Brand. What ties them together to make them work, engage. Stll not ure if the works unless your voice recognition and delivery is near perfect. Good thoughts on connection if that is the case.
What Does It Mean…
Franz Dill | May 16, 2020 at 03:38 PM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Well, ok, used it. For only historical purposes. I have to record here it was one of the first languages I ever used professionally. The article below well describes why it is relevant. But things like this won't have very…
Franz Dill | May 16, 2020 at 01:19 PM
