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
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out! Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Full Proposal Deadline…
From BLOG@CACM
New Social-Economic Trends in Computer Science Education
Considering new social-economic trends in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Data Science education.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams now for Friends, Family, Fun, Slack .... and Free too
Players have decided that free group software in all contexts is the way to win big and broadly post pandemic.
Microsoft Teams is ready for 'friends and family'
After almost a year in preview, Teams has a bunch of new featuresBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical US Infrastructure and Fair Fights
Recent direct attacks on critical US infrastructure lead us to ask: How much of that is there?
Bruce Schneier asks:
Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building AIs that Feels Emotion, Empathy
Work by Microsoft's 'Human Understanding and Empathy' group. New to me but likely useful as a component of other sensory measures. In context, as always.
AI systems with emotional intelligence could…From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Flexibles the Future?
Samsung seems to think so, but have still not seen the argument made that they are more convenient overall.
Samsung teases its next generation of flexible displays
It also showed off an under panel camera in a notebook.
In Engadget…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AWS Colaboration
Was unaware of the depth of this, especially the connection of SAP, who we worked with extensively.
IBM’s and AWS’ five-year anniversary shows maturing relationship By Patrick Nelson in Siliconangle
It’s been about five years…From insideHPC
Future of Data Visualization and Agile Business Intelligence
The biggest trends we’ve seen in data over the past decade are; the sheer growth of data set sizes, coupled with the increasing complexity of analysis and data science, and the resultant realization of extremely dynamic, data…
From Schneier on Security
Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in — say — Ohio — up against the Russian cybercommand, which isn’t a fair fight…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Digital Images with Machine Learning
Akin to somethings we experimented with in a startup years ago. Taking it much farther, it seems. Need to see more about this! A sort of knowledge extraction process from images.
ML Approach Brings Digital Photos Back toBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
On TAB Overloads in Chrome
Well yes, will give this a try.
Overcoming Tab Overload By Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
In a study of Internet browser tab usage, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that tab…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cleaning Messy Data Tables
Looks to be efficient at least. Check out the code. Note the use of Bayesian reasoning.
Home/News/System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically/Full Text
ACM TECHNEWS System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically By MIT News…From Computational Complexity
Why do countries and companies invest their own money (or is it?) in Quantum Computing (Non-Rhetorical)
There have been some recent blog posts by Scott (see here) and Lance (see here) about the hype for SHORT TERM APPLICATIONS of Quantum Computing, which they both object to.
I have a question that has been touched on but I want…From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Company to do Automated Welding
some intriguing aspects to the overall task.
Path Robotics raises $56M Series B for automated welding in Techcrunch
Brian Heater@bheater / 8:00 AM EDT•May 3, 2021
Factory_Scenario_Perspective
Columbus, Ohio-based firm Path Robotics…From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice for any IOT
New idea. Easier voice for any IOT. Secure?
Ambiq Debuts Voice-on-SPOT Kit to Bring Voice Controls to Battery-Operated Devices By Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Microcontroller developer Ambiq has launched a new product…From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Magnonic Devices
New word to me : Magnonic. The quanta of spin waves. Based on the article, seems to be a useful thing.
Feedback Algorithm Boosts Design of Magnonic Devices By University of Vienna May 12, 2021
Researchers at the University…From The Eponymous Pickle
About the Colossus Computer
Am a long time follower of the history of computing since I worked with one of the people who had a part in maintaining the ENIAC computer at the U of P. This talk does a good job of presenting the math-technical-operational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagnosing Windows Internet Connections
I am sure you have all run into this. Just did and played with the router and wifi box for some time. Then found it very helpful. But the internet diagnosis capability, which runs forever, does not execute these or suggest that…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 15th 2021)
There were rainforests near the south pole 90 million years ago. Though commercial exchanges are typically win-win for both the buyer and the seller, people tend to view the buyer as more likely to be taken advantage of. People…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topology and Homology Address the Form of Data.
Nice short piece on Topology. I was introduced to it at an early age, and liked aspects of how it linked to the real world in a special ways. But I never saw very much direct use for it. Except, as the article suggests,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The French Army Tests the Spot for Recon
Unexpected, but real uses in reconnaissance and supply applications. And just exposure of the French army and command to future, possibly more autonomous means of warfare. In another report, New York City stopped using its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Assistant to Roll on 700K Ford Vehicles
Pretty impressive rollout here. Like to see additional novel uses as well. My own Echo Auto continues to run well.
Amazon’s Alexa Gets Biggest Auto Rollout in Six-Year Ford Deal By Matt Day in Bloomberg
Digital assistantAmazon…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Smart Neighborhoods to Emerge
I know this has created some stir about privacy and invasiveness, but it seems most of the privacy gurus that have taken a closer look are seeing it as benign. Course, like their current means of easily sharing photos with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Explosive materials
Can think of several projects we connected with that would have benefitted by this effort. Depending on its efficacy. Is supported in part by the DHS. Department of Homeland Security.
New sensors detect explosive materials…From insideHPC
IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023
As expectation-setting goes in the technology, this is one of the boldest we’ve ever seen. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated the company’s declaration to deliver a 1,121-qubit IBM Quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulations Beat Quantum Computing
Toshiba work of interest. Linking to Microsoft Cloud. Would you expect a simulation to beat out an actual implementation? Depends. But a simulation usually means it does not include all the physical constraints involved. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teeth Tapping Control
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Letter to ACM-W Chapters
Whew. What a year it has been. And you survived. Or maybe, even found a way to thrive. I want to let you know that we see the work you are doing, and we appreciate your dedication to supporting, celebrating, and advocating…
From insideHPC
ALCF Webinar May 26: NVIDIA Profiling Tools Ecosystem for HPC and AI
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) on May 26 will host a webinar in which NVIDIA will present their profiling tools, Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, and will discuss how they are used in HPC and AI use cases.…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI Spring 2021 Solicitation Webinar May 18
HPC4EnergyInnovation (HPC4EI) leadership will present a live webinar titled “National Laboratories Partner with U.S. Manufacturers to Increase Innovation and Energy Efficiency.” On Tuesday, May 18 at 1 pm PT. Presentation will…