Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2022
From insideHPC
Composable Memory within CXL 2.0 Protocol Shown by Liqid, Samsung, Tanzanite
The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium is chasing the utopian tech dream, now being realized in an increasing number of high performance servers, of a high-speed, open-interface interconnect that enables the heterogenous Babel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metals Use and Availability: Nickel
Brought to my attention in another study. Am a follower of materials use and supply chain of need and availability. Here as it related to electric vehicles (EVs).
The perfect storm increasing the cost of a crucial metal …From insideHPC
DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate Students
May 3, 2022 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2021 Solicitation 2 cycle. Through…
From insideHPC
Sustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO Transition
Amsterdam – May 3, 2022 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announced Ronald Monster is stepping into the position of CEO following a milestone with a new investor and prepares the award-winning company for a prosperous …
From insideHPC
NSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement Funding
Work of a computer program to improve predictions of the physical behavior of industrially important materials, designed with leadership from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has been awarded $150,000 through the National Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts of Mining Asteroids
Was also involved in an analysis of making this possible. Still difficult thing to do if we cannot easily determine the value of resources there. Not too much different from mining the earth or ocean, though the risks and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets Speed Simulations
Very interesting piece, Often the speed of complex simulations can be key. Below an introductory text, makes a good case. More at the link.
Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations By Chris Edwards
Communications of the…From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Relieving Pain
Recall this being studied some time ago. Seeking study.
Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?
Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining popularity.
The New York Times Magazine, From ACM TechNews | MayVirtual…From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearview and Facial Recognition.
Remain intrigued by facial recognition. consider the similarity of its emergence to fingerprint techniques. A comparison is useful. Can having enough data ultimately remove error?
Why Facial Recognition Technology Has an Uncertain…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Investing in Robotics and Logistics
Makes considerable Sense.
Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion in Logistics and Robotics Companies
April 21, 2022 Bloomberg
Amazon.com Inc. says it plans to invest $1 billion in companies developing technologies in logistics, supply…From insideHPC
Proposals Open to Research Community for ALCF AI Testbed’s Cerebras and SambaNova Systems
Proposals are now being accepted by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for access to its AI Testbed, a collection of advanced artificial intelligence accelerators available for science. Researchers interested in using
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From The Eponymous Pickle
NReal Glasses
Still awaiting these,
NReal AR glasses set to launch this spring in UK
Details on a release date of the product’s release or pricing remain unclear
Chinese augmented reality (AR) startup Nreal will be bringing its smart glasses…From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a Burst
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In a recent Dell Technologies interview on this site, we talkied about HPC-as-a-Service with R Systems, provider HPC-on-demand resources and technical expertise in partnership with Dell HPC Cloud Services…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Expands Analyst Team
St. Paul, MN — May 2, 2022 – HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, covering high performance computing, AI, cloud, quantum and associated emerging markets, is adding new analysts and announcing promotions among existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepmind Startup Factory
How successful in the current climate?
The team that built an AI to dominate poker is now picking stocks in TheNextWeb
DeepMind's becoming a talent-churning startup factory
Three of the developers responsible for DeepStack, the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Animals with Deep Learning
Unusual Application
Time to Get Social: Tracking Animals with Deep Learning
EPFL (Switzerland), April 22, 2022
Researchers at Switzerland's École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) enhanced their DeepLabCut software to enable…From Computational Complexity
Elon Musk To Buy Complexityblog
Elon Musk has offered to buy out Complexityblog. The money is too good to turn down. As part of the contract we can't say how much or in what cryptocurrency, but suffice to say it will be more than the royalties from our books…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the End of Passwords
Please, still will the crooks still be ahead of us, looking for new vulnerabilities.
The end of passwords Short piece in Technology Review, here an intro of the article.
Companies are finally shifting away from notoriouslyBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia will Quit ISS Space Station over Sanctions
Long of implications, here, loss of technical collaboration, other work threatened?
Russia Will Quit International Space Station Over Sanctions Via Bloomberg
Russia space agency head says partners to get 12 months notice
Agency…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese VR Piloted Robotics for Rail Productivity Management
Having had some amount of experience in the use and maintenance of rail-based equipment, can understand the usefulness and safety issues involved here.
ACM TECHNEWS
Japanese Rail Company Rolls Out VR-Piloted Gundam Robot Worker…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can a robot vacuum work as an air purifier?
Comments on multi function digital /physical assistants. Useful?
Can a robot vacuum work as an air purifier? By Patrick Hearn in DigitalTrends
April 24, 2022 6:00AM
Robot vacuums put out a lot of air, especially the high-powered…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Handwriting Skills
Always looking for things that will look for patterns that need to be selectively taught. Here a good example, teaching children to improve handwriting. Other examples? Coding? AI Management?
Innovative application helpsEPFL…From The Eponymous Pickle
Proposed Easier Way to teach Robot Skills
Work out of MIT, of particular efficiency and relearning interest
ACM TECHNEWS
An Easier Way to Teach Robots New Skills, By MIT News, April 28, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a machine…From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Like Chips
And hw do we apply them?
Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
By R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, April 26, 2022
Today's deep neural networks (DNNs) must be taken off-line to update their learned skills…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Collaborative Intelligence
We have better tools, yes, but how well do they get to innovative solutions?
How Collaborative Intelligence Can Boost Business Innovation, April 14, 2022
Ineffective meetings cost businesses $541 billion a year globally in lost…