Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dream First, Learn Later: DECKARD is an AI Approach
Interesting, new to me.
By Ekrem Çetinkaya -May 4, 2023
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a popular approach to training…From The Eponymous Pickle
Schneier on Post Quantum Crypto
NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance
NIST Draft Document on Post-QuantumCryptography Guidance
NIST has release a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A gendered timeline of technology
Women have played a gigantic role in the history of computing. Their ideas form the backbone to modern technology, though that has not always been obvious.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Driving Cars Must Learn the Language of Cyclists to Keep Roads Safe
ACM TECHNEWS
Self-Driving Cars Must Learn the Language of Cyclists to Keep Roads Safe
By University of Glasgow (U.K.) April 28, 2023
Dashboard of a self-driving car.
Said Stephen Brewster of the University of Glasgow’s School of…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 6 2023)
Artificial intelligence (ChatGPT) can provide better answers to patients than physicians. Eating chocolate might affect your brain and cognitive functions. It may not make you smarter, but it might brighten your mood. Obesity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Regulating Tech Platforms
New Broad EU Regulation
EU names 19 large tech platforms that must follow Europe’s new Internet rules
Rules apply to five Google sites, Facebook, Apple, Bing, Twitter, TikTok, etc.
JON BRODKIN - 4/25/2023, 2:49 PM in ArsTechnica…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharper 3D Holograms
Better focus with projection.
Sharper 3D Holograms Come Into Focus New projection method is key to depth control and reducing image bleed-through By SARAH WELLS in IEEE Spectrum
Actual 3D holograms may be achievable in a projected…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Discover Self-Assembled Crystal Structure
Researchers Discover Self-Assembled Crystal Structures
By Cornell Chronicle,May 2, 2023
Conceptual image showcasing several interaction potential shapes, represented by stems, that will lead to the self-assembly of new low-coordinated…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Operational Transformation
How do online word processing programs manage to allow two or more people to change the same document at the same time without getting in a complete muddle? One of the really key ideas that makes collaborative writing possible…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
Very useful piece, with how to set this up linking to computational resources. Technical.
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit April 27, 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deere Seeks Sat Network
Seen this demonstrated recently
Deere Seeks Satellite Network to Connect Far-Flung Farms
By The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2023, Credit: Bianca Flowers/Reuters
A Deere driverless tractor.
Deere needs widespread connectivity,Farm…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: “Mediterranean Beef Squid” Hoax
The viral video of the “Mediterranean beef squid”is a hoax.
It’s not even a deep fake; it’s a plastic toy.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read…From insideHPC
Dell: The Crucial Government-Industry HPC Link for Accelerating U.S. Global Competitiveness
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] HPC-based research and development is expensive, and lagging investments by U.S. industry in HPC could jeopardize this country’s global economic standing. This article provides a summary of a white…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Age Verification
In Internetmatters
Age verification in the UK explained
Parents’ guide: How will new law protect children online?
The Government has indicated that it will introduce new responsibilities on online platforms which host pornography…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing AI push rings in price change
More Bing.
Bing AI push rings in Price Change
Microsoft’s large investment in OpenAI has seen an expansion of AI in Bing. This appears to be reflected in new Bing API licensing
By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor in ComputerWeekly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexas in Trouble? Will AI Help? Google Pushes Bard
Is there room for an AI save? And Google Assistant goes to Bard.
As Alexa flounders, Amazon hopes homegrown generative AI can find it revenue
With voice assistants on the brink of death, Amazon targets Alexa large language model…From The Eponymous Pickle
Time Banking
Flexibility in payment.
The people turning time into a currency in the BBC
Published, 4 days ago, By Elna Schutz, Business reporter
After spending 10 years as a Buddhist nun in Myanmar, Coral Sunone realised that she needed some…From The Eponymous Pickle
Vector Databases
Databases and Generative.
How vector databases can revolutionize our relationship with generative AI
Rick Hao, Speedinvest @hao_rick
April 30, 2023 8:20 AM
Person's face with swirling dots and lines. Vector database and AI concept…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever's Use of AI in Recuitung
Late to this but have read Bernard Marr's book: AI in Practice: How 50 successful Companies used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems, published in 2019, where he describes the use of AI by a number of competitive companies…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A TTIC Talk
Julia Chuzhoy is a professor at TTIC—the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. She is giving a talk this Friday at TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue in the 5th Floor, Room 530. Her title is, “On Fixing Some Issues with Expanders…
From insideHPC
Dell Announces Three Managed Services to Accelerate AI/ML Development and Deployment
May 4, 2023, Austin — Dell Technologies today announced three services designed for data scientists and programmers who develop and deploy AI/ML models but whose other tasks force them to spend relatively little of their time…
From insideHPC
Vivian Blanchard Named VP Hardware R&D at SiPearl
Maisons-Laffitte (France), May 4, 2023 – SiPearl, the company building the high-performance low-power microprocessor for exascale supercomputers in Europe, has announced the appointment of Vivian Blanchard as vice president hardware…
From insideHPC
Metabob Launches New AI Generative VSCode Extension
PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 4, 2023 – Metabob announced today a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that the company says speeds software development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the U.S. Can Rewire the Pentagon for a New Era
I worked at the Pentagon, so interesting. During an earlier 'rewiring'. Crucial.
How the U.S. Can Rewire the Pentagon for a New Era, by Porter Smith and David Ulevitch
We are in the early stages of a generational defense cycle…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Planning and Beyond
Brought to my attention, from ICLR 2020
Deep Imitative Models for Flexible Inference, Planning, and Control
Nicholas Rhinehart, Rowan McAllister, Sergey Levine
Keywords: autonomous driving, imitation learning, planning ... '
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Bing and AI
Used this, fairly good, where will it go? Often annoyed with MS Windows. No stopping, it seems.
MICROSOFT/TECH/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon in The Verge…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Online Safety Bill And Encryption
Will the UK block the WP.
Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks
Published in the BBC
By Chris Vallance & Tom GerkenTechnology reporters
Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online…From Computational Complexity
Breaking Ground in Isomorphism Testing: A Leap Forward for a Bottleneck Case of Group Isomorphism
Guest post by Josh Grochow and Youming Qiao
There has, quietly, been somewhat of a breakthrough in isomorphism testing. No, not as big as Babai's 2016 Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time. But a first foothold in climbing…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Healthcare
Proactive direction.
9 ways AI is already shaping the future of healthtech in Fastcompany
Amid an increasing shift from reactive care to proactive care, here are some of the latest AI developments in healthtech.
9 ways AI is[Source…From Schneier on Security
Large Language Models and Elections
Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President…