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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Machine Learning
Biresh Kumar Joardar began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from Washington State University in Summer of 2020. Joardar is at Duke University working with Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor…
From insideHPC
Chenbro Announces Chassis Reference Motherboard Program for Intel Ice Lake Processor Platform with Ma Labs
Taipei, Taiwan — Chenbro (TWSE: 8210) announced its reference motherboard program, launching in collaboration with Ma Labs (USA), which will provide pre-tested 3 rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (codename ‘Ice Lake’) server …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combatting Ransomware: A Comprehensive Recommendation
Will this be sufficient to address the problem and likely variants of the ploy that re likely to arise?
RTF Report: Combatting Ransomware
A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Sniffing COVID
Interesting robot sensor approach to COVID detection.
Startup bets on new coronavirus testing alternative: COVID-sniffing robots
By: Bloomberg - 02 Oct, 2020
Startup bets on new coronavirus testing alternative: COVID-sniffing robots…From insideHPC
Red Hat Announces New OpenShift DevOps Features
RALEIGH, N.C. — May 3, 2021 — Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. today announced GA of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new features of the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform. These capabilities…
From Schneier on Security
Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so that it was hard to figure out where any individual coins came from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Smart Identifying Finger Ring
Seems out of place for Fraunhofer, but the breadth of application is interesting.
Press Release Fraunhofer
Additive manufacturing
Smart finger ring with integrated RFID chip
Research News / May 03, 2021
House key, wallet, health…From The Eponymous Pickle
From Computational to Generalized Thinking
Interesting view that I am not quite understanding. Shall we think as computers, the way the exist today or should we break through from this approach? Thought provoking, but very technical.
HCDA: From Computational Thinking…From The Eponymous Pickle
VW Will Design its own Self-Driving Chips
Perhaps expected, adds some control, link to driving data
VW will design its own chips for self-driving cars in Engadget
It's borrowing its strategy from Apple and Tesla.
Volkswagen won't settle for off-the-shelf computing power…From Computational Complexity
The Mythical Man-Month, Hen-Day, and Cat-Minute (Fred Brooks Turned 90)
The Mythical Man-Month is a great book which talks about the (obvious in retrospect) fact that putting more people on a project may slow it down. It was by Fred Brooks who turned 90 in April (he is still alive). It's a goodThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Airport Optimizes Takeoff Operations with Machine Learning
I see that our local airport is using this scheduling application. A presentation on the method is linked to in the article. Deep earning and scheduling using NVIDIA. Useful example of operations application. Uses cameras…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qauntum Computing Catching up for Market Analysis
Quite an interesting prediction. Will there be a post-quantum market analysis era? I can see some of the combinatorics coming in, but the accuracy of results are not yet there.
Goldman Sachs Predicts Quantum Computing is…From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Examples of Anomaly/Outlier Detection
A common need, nicely and simply put here in KDNuggets. Very classic and should be done with most every set of data you are seriously working with. With more tech and coding at the link:
Four Techniques for Outlier Detection…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Allowing ALKS , Self Driving this Year
Things continue to move in this space, though lots of issues remain. But note this appears to be only ALKS (Automateed Lane Keeping) only.
'Self-driving' cars to be allowed on UK roads this year By Cristina Criddle In the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and Claro Chile Deploy Private Wirelesss Network for Minera
See more about mining applications at the link and my topic label:
Nokia and Claro Chile deploy private wireless network for Minera Gold Fields GlobalNewsWire:
Press Release Nokia and Claro Chile deploy private wireless network…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Laser Weeding
Another attempt at the classic problem, seen it posed for many years, now with Ai and lasers.
The Carbon Robotics Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technologyUnlike…From The Eponymous Pickle
Merck Challenging Quantum Hype and its Future
Good thoughts regards the hype. Whats it for? Nice to see a Pharma company taking a closer look.
How Merck works with Seeqc to cut through quantum computing hype Chris O'Brien @obrien in Venturebeat
When it comes to grappling…From The Eponymous Pickle
Re the Future of Info Warfare
Increasingly a dangerous direction. Need to analyzse threats, determine risks and address appropriately. We have the skills, build ahead to emerging threats.
DOD Isn't Armed to Combat Growing Threat of Info Warfare, Experts …From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Pushes Means for more Accurate Quantum Computer
Amazon seems to take some new approaches to error correction. Schrodingers cat in action?
AWS Reveals Method to Build More Accurate Quantum Computer By ZDNet
Amazon cloud subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed a new…From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Ideas from the Crowd
Only part of an article from Sloan on creative uses of crowdsourcing. Also a favorite topic and means of our data gathering. How much is the crowd (generally) biased, and how do we reasonably adjust for that? Elements ofGet…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 1st 2021)
Growing your own food could lower your carbon footprint by 3-5%. In recent years, we have acquired the ability to measure biological age: your chronological age does not necessarily match your biological since some people age…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth Becomes a (Selective) Time Machine
Quite an interesting development. Look forward to testing it soon. Always have been a fan of Google Earth and how it has changed geography. But do understand the data you are seeing over time and location is selectively…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Law, Rule of Law and Computer Science
Lots to consider here, and it seems we are not close to understanding the implications. The pressure to automate lots of this is very strong.
Understanding Law and the Rule of Law: A Plea to Augment CS Curricula, By Mireille…