Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cision Reports on Digital Events in May
Useful events in May:
Blogger Conferences: Digital-Only Events to Attend in May
May 07, 2020 / in Media Blog, US Blog / by Rocky Parker
As we continue to practice social distancing and many of us are working from home, learning…
From Schneier on Security
Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information
Used Tesla components, sold on eBay, still contain personal information, even after a factory reset. This is a decades-old problem. It's a problem with used hard drives. It's a problem with used photocopiers and printers. It…
From insideHPC
Katie Antypas Named Director of Hardware & Integration at Exascale Computing Project
The Exascale Computing Project has selected Berkeley Lab’s Katie Antypas as its new Director for the project’s Hardware & Integration Focus Area. “Katie has more than 14 years of experience at Berkeley Lab and is a widely recognized…
From insideHPC
Podcast: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate
"ColdQuanta is headed by an old pal of ours Bo Ewald and has just come out of stealth mode into the glaring spotlight of RadioFreeHPC. When you freeze a gas of Bosons at low density to near zero you start to get macroscopic access…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearview AI Stops Selling to Private Companies
Seems the basic capabilities are still out there, well known, and are likely in the short term likely to be more sloppily done. And will now be in the hands of government. So what is the result?
Clearview AI Has Promised To…
From insideHPC
Interview: Fighting the Coronavirus with TACC Supercomputers
In this video from the Stanford HPC Conference, Dan Stanzione from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes how their powerful supercomputers are helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic. "In times of global need like this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Find Answers in Tables with TAPAS
Quite intriguing, a very common kind of sub problem for interacting with data. Good descriptive technical piece. Released. Worth a look.
Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables
Posted by Thomas Müller, Software Engineer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alphabet Sidewalk Labs Abandon's Toronto Smart-Neighborhood
Heard a report early on on this, because it linked to some of our own smart store efforts, details will be interesting to see. Where will the result be published?
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs abandons its Toronto smart neighborhood…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University William…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Fun With Live Coding
Live coding or as I like to call it coding without a net is a wonderful way to teach.There was a time when I thought that having prewritten code that was pasted in during a demo was a good thing. You see it a lot in demos atIt…
From insideHPC
New material could make AI more energy efficient
Researchers have developed hardware that can learn skills using a type of AI that currently runs on software platforms. Sharing intelligence features between hardware and software would offset the energy needed for using AI in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lens Copies Handwritten Text
Further advances in Google Lens:
Lou Wang: Group Product Manager, Google Lens and AR
Lately our family dining table has also become a work desk, a video conference room and … a kid’s playground. As I learn how to become a full…
From insideHPC
Lifebit Launches Federated Genomics Cloud Operating System
Today Lifebit Biotech announced the general release of Lifebit CloudOS. The fully federated, cloud-native system is designed for companies in the pharmaceutical, drug discovery, direct-to-consumer genetics, healthcare, and population…
From insideHPC
TYAN Launches AI-Optimized Servers Powered by NVIDIA V100S GPUs
Today TYAN launched their latest GPU server platforms that support the NVIDIA V100S Tensor Core and NVIDIA T4 GPUs for a wide variety of compute-intensive workloads including AI training, inference, and supercomputing applications…
From Schneier on Security
iOS XML Bug
This is a good explanation of an iOS bug that allowed someone to break out of the application sandbox. A summary: What a crazy bug, and Siguza's explanation is very cogent. Basically, it comes down to this: XML is terrible. iOS…
From insideHPC
Asperitas and Shell to showcase new immersion cooling solutions at OCP Virtual Summit
Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas and Shell will launch Shell Immersion Cooling Fluid S5 X at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Virtual Summit, May 12-15. Asperitas has also added an additional immersion cooling solution to…
From Computational Complexity
Vidcast on Conferences
Bill and Lance have another socially-distanced vidcast, this time with Lance telling the story of two conferences (ACM Economics and Computation and the Game Theory Congress). As mentioned in the video the Game Theory Congress…
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Shift to Modern C++ Programming Models
In this Code Together podcast, Alice Chan from Intel and Hal Finkel from Argonne National Lab discuss how the industry is uniting to address the need for programming portability and performance across diverse architectures, particularly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New YouTube Navigation Capabilities
The virus also got us to look at YouTube more closely, contains some good adaptations that are worth understanding Worth looking at.
New YouTube features to help you navigate the streaming boom
Debbie Weinstein in The Google Blog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are We Part of a Giant Lab Experiment?
Still believe we are nowhere near this, even the most amazing results from AI are in narrow contexts. Though it may be useful to post these strange ideas to have some refutations ready.
‘Short window’ to stop AI taking control…
From insideHPC
A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations
Alexandros Ziogas from ETH Zurich gave this talk at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe. "The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio #quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal…
From BLOG@CACM
Hacking the Axis
The role of early high-performance computing capabilities in World War II.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Contact Tracing.
Have now heard several analyses that have doubted that Tracking can work.
How Digital Contact Tracing Could Work in the US, and Why It May Never Happen
By David Cardinal
It…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes at Instacart
Early on talked to Instacart to understand it as a business. and implications for CPG and Retail.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Instacart’s Frantic Dash From Grocery App to Essential Service
The grocery delivery startup added 300,000
For…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the forms of Curiosity
Intriguing idea, is creativity just adding a goal to curiosity?
Automating the Search for New 'Curiosity' Algorithms
MIT News
Kim Martineau
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have used machine learning to identify…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DESIGNING OUR FUTURE: A Webinar Panel Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
The following is an upcoming webinar on how AI is being used in the fight against COVID-19, hosted by NSF, Axios, and the British Embassy. Artificial Intelligence is poised to transform the modern world. In the short term, AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain on Adapting for Back to Work
Mor ecomments on the process and implications of getting back to work.
Back to Work
Recovery from Covid-19 will require resilience as companies advance, retreat, adapt—and repeat as necessary.
By Hernan Saenz, Dunigan O'Keeffe,in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loon for Disaster Response
Recently mentioned some updates on Project Loon Balloons, some updates for disaster response"
Loon partners with AT&T to ready internet balloons for disasters globally
Providing emergency internet in times of crisis
By Jon Porter…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking, Rethinking Innovation
Innovation thoughts from the Cisco Blog
Architecting Innovation for Speed, Impact, and Scale
By Patrick Bikar
The COVID-19 pandemic compels every organisation in the world to find innovative ways to deals with the New Normal. At…
From insideHPC
Video: Fighting COVID-19 with HPE’s Sentinel supercomputer through the cloud
At HPE, we believe in being a force for good, so when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, HPE quickly made available supercomputing resources, along with a dedicated technical staff, free of charge to help scientists tackle complex…