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 Eponymous Pickle
P&G Admits What Worked, What Didn't in Pandemic
Some rare inside information re Digital details from my former colleagues at P&G. Recall I have mentioned here that P&G was an early pioneer in AI based methods. Its good you can admit to what did not work. Lets you adjust…
From insideHPC
Avery Design Systems and Rambus Extend Memory Model and PCIe VIP Collaboration
Tewksbury, MA. and San Jose – May 19, 2021 – Avery Design Systems, maker of functional verification solutions, and Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of chips and silicon IP designed to make data faster and safer, announced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boxes with Personality
Does personality buy you something with speaking devices? With Robots? Maybe, sometimes, in the right environment. Its been tried many times. Alexa does a bit, but not enough. A stronger conversational flow, with active…
From insideHPC
An Update on Aurora Exascale Readiness at Argonne
Argonne Science Writer Nils Heinohen wrote this article on the work of JaeHyuk Kwack, computational scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), who is responsible for the readiness of scientific applications…
From insideHPC
Asian Student Cluster Competition: Brutally Difficult
By Dan Olds The Asian Student Cluster competitions held by the Asian Supercomputer Community (ASC) have always had a reputation of being particularly demanding for the student participants. However, for this year’s upcoming competition…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Controlling Drones with Minds
Not unexpected, have seen the forerunners of the idea. Will also require much in the way of collaboration between drones, goals, controllers and troops. It will ultimately succeed.
The US military is trying to read minds
A…From The Eponymous Pickle
Malware Tricks
Recorded Future, a podcast and text. With a look to the future of cybersecurity. This is an area where you are likely to see advanced tech applied, for good and bad.
Malware Party Tricks and Cybersecurity Trends
APRIL 26, 2021…From BLOG@CACM
The Name Game
Is there a better name for the Association for Computing Machinery?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of AI Factories
Most interesting, what are the particular skills involved? Software tools at what level. Linkages to data? Considerable effort if there are 60 projects underway.
Mayo Clinic, Others Use 'AI Factories' to Speed AI Development…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cryptographers on Non Fungible Tokens
Not quite sure why they had a direct problem with NFTs. Besides some general level of incredulity. I will agree.
ACM NEWS
Cryptography Experts Trash NFTs on First Day of RSA Conference By Mashable
The annual RSA Conference brings…From insideHPC
LogicPlum Publishes AI Food Production Article in Agricultural Research & Technology Journal
FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 19, 2021 — LogicPlum (https://logicplum.com/) announced it had published research in “Agricultural Research & Technology” that provides information on global agricultural science. LogicPlum joins the ranks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Agents
Virtual Agents, not commonly mentioned these days. Adding 'intelligent' implies some goal, directive. Typically at the individual agent level. When we often built these we constructed them at a level where they represented…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hilbert Tenth On Rationals
We must know. We will know—David Hilbert Mihai Prunescu is at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He works in logic and complexity theory. We recently discussed his work on Hilbert’s Tenth. Today we thought…
From insideHPC
Vayyar Claims 1st Single Chip 4D Imaging Radar Sensor ‘XRR’ Covering Distances 0-300M
TEL AVIV – 19 May, 2021 – Vayyar Imaging, a 4D imaging radar company, has launched what it said is the world’s first multi-range “XRR” chip, a single RFIC with a range of 0-300m, designed for passenger cars, trucks and motorcycles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Project Starline for High Quality Personal Comm
Google has created and writes about their Project Starline. Which they say a very high quality communications capability that mimics live face to face interaction. Including eye movements and other emotional cues. Without…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale – ECP Director Kothe Provides Project Update
In this May 2021 interview, ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable and sustainable exascale computing ecosystem for the nation. New audio podcast interview with Kothe. https://soundcloud…
From insideHPC
GRC Releases New Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling, Claims PUE Yield of <1.03
AUSTIN, TX – May 18 , 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), maker of single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, today announced the latest redesign of its immersion cooling solutions: ICEraQ Series 10. Redesigned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signal Analytics and Baby Care
I see some of my former employers are involved. Platform for predictive demand forecasting based on marketing decisions is a good thing.
Signals Analytics Launches AI-Driven Intelligence Platform for Booming Baby Care Market…From The Eponymous Pickle
Massive Cell Data sets
Analyzing organisms with minimal computing power.
Algorithm Uses Online Learning for Massive Cell Datasets
Michigan Medicine, Kelly Malcolm, April 19, 2021
An algorithm developed by University of Michigan (U of M) researchers employs…From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Transitions
Makes you think.
A Theory of (Almost) Everything
A new book / Podcast analyzes the seven grand transitions that have formed the modern world By Steven Cherry
We’ve been speaking with Václav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus…From insideHPC
A New Approach to Storage and Data Management
In this sponsored post, Olivier Multon, Storage & Data Management Product Manager, Atos, BDS - Big Data & Security, believes that
with the expansion of data-intensive applications, storage has been highlighted as a critical factor…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members Starting July 2021
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Sven Koenig, University of Southern California…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting Update
For some time have followed GoodJudgment and their 'superforecasting' services. Most recently got a new overview with considerable efforts and claims. Since very accurate forecasting would seem to be fundamentally unbeatable…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From My Students
Being back in the classroom has been a learning experience for me. For one thing I have had to learn a bit of Processing (the IDE) as students had been using it prior to my coming in as a replacement teacher. That’s been funI…
From Schneier on Security
Apple Censorship and Surveillance in China
Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance.
From Schneier on Security
Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware
A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs wonders if this could be a useful defense:
In Russia, for example…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Tries Smart Glasses
A number of companies have tried the wearable assistant idea, announced originally in December, now Amazon will try the idea in earnest. Will the idea work this time. What key aspects are important? In some tests we did with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using the Rust Language for Code Safety
In a recent dev oriented conversation someone mentioned Rust as a programing Language to improve code safety. I heard about it again today re Facebook's usage. Also the Rust Foundation seems to have support from major players…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Machine Learning Glossary
Ajit Jaokar Sends along his AI Newsletter, he writes:
Open this article on LinkedIn to see what people are saying about this topic. Open on LinkedIn
Edition 4: A simplified glossary for machine learning and deep learning
Our course…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting binary integers to ASCII characters: Apple M1 vs AMD Zen2
Programmers often need to write integers as characters. Thus given the 32-bit value 1234, you might need a function that writes the characters 1234. We can use the fact that the ASCII numeral characters are in sequence in the…