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
Robot Hair Untangling
This got some rare general press, since it deals with a real concern/chore in the home. And I do have a general 'hair care' link below from my Consumer package company goods days. Perhaps they want to pick this up, but IUntangle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets Used to Rethink Material Design
Somewhat different approach, training from equations. Closer to the efforts we used during the early uses of neural nets. Combining learning methods and existing algorithms.
Neural Nets Used to Rethink Material Design
Rice University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart All-in on Telehealth
Wal-Mart wants to do Telemedicine.
Walmart is going all in on 24/7/365 telehealth
By George Anderson n Retailwire
Walmart announced yesterday that it has acquired MeMD, a telehealth company offering nationwide virtual medical and…From insideHPC
Winter Classic Student Cluster Invitational – Winners of Rich Brueckner Scholarships to Be Named Today
By Dan Olds Today, Friday May 7, is the 2021 Winter Classic gala awards ceremony, from 4 – 5 pm Pacific Time on a Zoom webinar. Here’s the link. We reveal the winning teams and bestow six $1,000 Rich Brueckner Award Scholarships…
From insideHPC
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ NVMe-based Software-Defined Storage for the Edge
London – SoftIron Ltd., a data center solutions company, has announced their newest Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the AMD EPYC 3000 processor, the new Performance…
From insideHPC
VAST Data: $83M in Series D Funding
New York – May 4, 2021 – VAST Data, the storage software company, today announced $83 million in Series D funding, led by Tiger Global Management, at a post-money valuation of $3.7 billion – a tripling of the company’s valuation…
From BLOG@CACM
Charles Babbage and the Loom
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serverless Computing as the Next Phase of Cloud
What's next?
What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing
By Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao Carreira, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez…From Schneier on Security
Teaching Cybersecurity to Children
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity:
The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children — an age at which Australian kids first attend school…From The Eponymous Pickle
Speeding New COVID Treatments
Speeding/Improving COVID Treatment with machine learning
Speeding New COVID Treatments with Computational Tool
University of New Mexico, Michael Haederle, May 3, 2021 in CACM
Scientists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Now Broadcasts to Phones
I have been using the similar broadcast by Alexa for some time. Our family is now small, so not needed as much, but still good to have to get to every corner of the house. Adding to this to phones anywhere is a good idea.
The…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Launches AI.gov
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative Office launched the new AI.gov website. This website is the home of the National AI Initiative Act of 2020…
From insideHPC
DOE: $10M for Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics Research
May 6, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for interdisciplinary research in Quantum Information Science (QIS) and nuclear physics. The aim of this funding is to draw on the expertise and capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Ransomware Task Force
Some useful comments on the recent announcements about the Ransomware Task force. Essentially saying good idea, but criticizing its lack of serious global participation.
Comments by Steve Gibson in Security Now! #817…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Provides Show Mode for Lenovo
Nice idea to provide echo 'show' mode on a laptop. Work well in a kitchen say for displaying recipes and pix. Or show people at the front door or on camera. With voice greeting and interaction. But only for people that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
O'Reilly Looks at Trends
Short excerpt below from the O'Reilly Trends Feature
O'Reilly home Trends. Do subscribe below at the link, nice overview of what going on.
By Mike Loukide, May 3, 2021
Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther.
Join the O'Reilly…From insideHPC
2 Seconds of Hair Growth: IBM Claims World’s First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology
IBM today unveiled what it said is with the development of the first chip announced with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Though still more than two years from commercial availability, the company said the 2nm chip will…
From Computational Complexity
Negotiations
So you got an offer to be an assistant professor in the computer science department at Prestigious U. Congratulations!
Time to negotiate your offer with the chair. Don't be nervous. This shouldn't be adversarial. Both of youLet's…From insideHPC
Brytlyt’s Accelerated Analytics – powered by GPU
This featured whitepaper, "Brytlyt's Accelerated Analytics - powered by GPU - Why today’s data-driven businesses need GPU acceleration," discusses the analytics challenges businesses are facing today, and how the Brytlyt platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bioactive Paper for Food Packaging
for Reducing plastic waste
Bioactive paper coatings to replace plastic for packaging foods
Press Release: Research News / May 03, 2021
The amount of plastic waste increases every year. Some of this waste is due to plastic packaging…From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Launches iLab 2021
Procter continues to work innovation:
PR NEWSWIRE: P&G launches iLab 2021 in partnership with the Singapore EDB to strengthen Singapore's innovation ecosystem
P&G launches iLab 2021 in partnership with the Singapore EDB to strengthen…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia Launches Blockchain Data Market Place for Data Traing and AI Models
Interesting use for blockchain: Secure Data and AI model monetization.
Nokia launches blockchain-powered Data Marketplace for secure data trading and AI models
GlobalNewswire: Press Release Nokia launches blockchain-powered Data…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Far Side Squid Comic
A classic.
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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: COVID Relief Funds
A town in Japan built a giant squid statue with its COVID relief grant.
One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective in the long run, the money could have been used for “urgent support…From insideHPC
DOE’s Best Practices for HPC Software Developers Webinar Series — May 12
May 5, 2021 — The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) will resume the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC…
From insideHPC
PsiQuantum and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Claim Quantum Computing Breakthrough
PALO ALTO, Calif. and Malta, New York – May 5, 2021 – PsiQuantum, the quantum computing company focused on delivering a 1 million-plus qubit quantum computer, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), a feature-rich semiconductor manufacturer…
From insideHPC
DOE’s HPC4EI Program, HPC for Manufacturing and Materials Development Companies, Opens to Applicants
The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program, consisting of two subprograms — for manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and for materials (HPC4Mtls) — is now open to companies seeking access…
From The Eponymous Pickle
eCommerce and AI
Some good examples of typical uses in the space.
How eCommerce leaders use AI to woo their customers with Personalization
Posted by Kateryna Reshetilo in DSC
Once upon a time, customers simply walked into stores and met a friendly…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blackboxes in Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction
A recent CNN article titled “Black or ‘Other’? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health,” discusses how race has both historically affected and currently impacts the medical decisions that doctor’s make…
From Schneier on Security
The Story of Colossus
Nice video of a talk by Chris Shore on the history of Colossus.