Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2021
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Picking up Squid on the Beach
Make sure they’re dead.
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Cameras for Observing Squid
Interesting research paper.
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 The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Helps Customers Adopt a Zero Trust Approach to Security
New security architectures, alliance moves by IBM.
IBM Helps Customers Adopt a Zero Trust Approach to Security
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today introduced a new Software as a Service…From insideHPC
Caterpillar and Argonne Use HPC to Simulate Better Efficiency, Reduced Emissions in Diesel Engines
Heavy-duty diesel engines power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States. To tackle problems of fuel efficiency and pollution, researchers at the U.S. Department
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From Schneier on Security
New Spectre-Like Attacks
There’s new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically engineered to be resistant to the Spectre/Meltdown attacks of three…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulate, Constrain, Repeat, Learn
Berkeley Bair posts an interesting look at Reinforcement Learning. Made me think, But once you get beyond the paras below this gets quite complicated and technical. Anyone who has written significant simulation packagesLearning…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Constructing arrays of Boolean values in Java
It is not uncommon that we need to represent an array of Boolean (true or false) values. There are multiple ways to do it. The most natural way could be to construct an array of booleans (the native Java type). It is likely that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vocalis Health Determines Health Changes via Voice
An interesting and perhaps very useful direction. How much is this a diagnosis?
The Doctor Will Hear You Soon By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff
Tal Wenderow knows what it takes to make it big with a technology startup…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How to Teach Math?
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics—Paul Halmos Angie Hodge is an Associate Professor of mathematics at Northern Arizona University. Her interests as stated on her website are focused mainly on education, mentoring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argo LiDAR has 400 Meter Range
How much does it add to effectiveness in context?
Argo AI says its latest LiDAR sensor has a 400-meter range
The tech could bolster Ford and Volkswagen's self-driving ambitions. In Engadget, Kris Holt @krisholt, May 4th, 2021
…From insideHPC
ISC 2021 Early Bird Registration Ends May 6
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 3, 2021 – The organizers of ISC 2021 Digital would like to remind everyone in the high performance computing (HPC) community that early bird registration will end this Thursday, May 6. The conference and…
From insideHPC
RPI Computer Scientist Wins NSF Award to Match Exascale Systems with Petascale Data Volumes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty member and computer scientist George Slota has been granted a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to work on the problem enabling exascale-class…
From insideHPC
Red Hat Introduces Open Source StackRox Community – Cluster Security for Kubernetes
May 4, 2021 – Red Hat today introduce the StackRox community, the upstream project that will work to open source and manage the code that powers Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. The goal is to support innovation…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Sciences Elects 120 Members and 30 International Members!
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 120 new members- including a record number of women- and 30 foreign members. Five computing researchers are among those elected this year. They include Gilles Brassard (Universit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for, testing for, Behaviors.
Can this be taken beyond automated driving systems? We were always looking for behaviors we could predict. And might be fundamental enough to simulate for broader purpose? Its what simulations, properly constrained, can do…
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Computing Integrates tket Platform with Strangeworks Ecosystem
CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 4, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a developer of quantum software and algorithms, today announced that Strangeworks, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based company focused on making quantum computing more …
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager Picked for Sweden’s Fastest HPC System at LinköpingUniv.
Amsterdam – Tuesday, May 4th – Bright Computing, a global leader in automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager has been selected to support…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Hacked from Drone without a Click
But, It is stated that you cannot get driving control of the car from the hack.
Tesla Car Hacked Remotely From Drone via Zero-Click Exploit
By Eduard Kovacs in SecurityWeek Via piece in Schneier (Which often will contain thoughtful…From Schneier on Security
Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone
This is an impressive hack:
Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click security vulnerabilities in an open-source software component (ConnMan)…From insideHPC
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ Family
London – May 4, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data center solutions, today announced the introduction of their Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the …
From insideHPC
LRZ Expanding Flagship HPC System to Integrate AI
Garching/Munich – May 4, 2021 – The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will expand its flagship HPC system SuperMUC-NG, which is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). In addition to performance in simulation and…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC Opens Access to Atos ‘Vega’ Supercomputer, More on Way
With the first EU supercomputer now operational, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is ready to accept applications to access Vega’s HPC system computing power. Access time is allocated to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Catching Counterfeits with AI
Worked on counterfeit identification for CPG Products,would have helped to be be to quick scan products and packaging.
By Neil Savage Communications of the ACM, May 2021, Vol. 64 No. 5, Pages 13-14 10.1145…From The Eponymous Pickle
SMU ChemGen for Drug Discovery
An example of rigorous prep work that must be done consistently well.
SMU's ChemGen Completes Essential Drug Discovery Work in Days
Southern Methodist University, April 14, 2021
Southern Methodist University (SMU) researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
LiDar and Digital Twins
From LiDAR News Home of the LiDAR Industry:
USIBD Announces White Paper for Facility Owners and Operators Considering Digital Twins
April 22, 2021, Irvine, CA: The U.S. Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD) is pleased…From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment – Part 2
In this insideHPC technology guide, “How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment,”we will present things to consider when building a customized supercomputer…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The benefits of locality in random access
Modern computers have several layers of memory, from fast cache (sometimes called L1) all the way to main memory (RAM). A lot of performance-critical code relies on what programmers call random access. Random access is somewhat…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Knowledge Skills for Business
In the current Amazon Skills kit, a number of interesting things, including some minimal code things.,which is useful to see. While the really remarkable knowledge things will need deep coding for now, how nice to be able…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Fence? Traffic Cop for Low Earth Orbit.
With all the communications things going up wonder this. Worried about the loss our clear skies, but also just getting in each others way. Its getting crowded up there. Will a "Space Fence' Work?
A Traffic Cop for Low Earth…From insideHPC
May 6-7: AI Policy Forum to Present Proposals for Managing Impacts, Building More Equitable Systems
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7, the AI Policy Forum – a global effort convened by researchers from MIT – will present their initial policy recommendations aimed at managing the effects of AI and building…