Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price of Personal Data
Looking for the full report mentioned here, will post when I get a reference. Back to the our long time looked at question of what the price of private data should be, and how should people be made to understand the implications…
From insideHPC
ISC 2020 Student Cluster Competition: The Winner Is….
Students from China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) won first place in this year’s annual Student Cluster Competition at the ISC 2020 Digital conference. This year’s competition focused on the global fight against…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Slow Neuroinformatics Private?
I have worked with companies which used machine learning image analysis to determine, for example, if a person was 'of age' in various locations. To match with local regulatory provisions. Could be done quite accurately,
The…
From insideHPC
Empowering Edge Cloud in the 5G & IoT Hyper-Connected Era
It is well documented that the amount of data that is being produced on a daily/monthly/yearly basis is growing at astronomical rates. IDC have estimated that by 2025, 175 zettabytes of data will be created each year and will…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Scams
Really interesting research: "An examination of the cryptocurrency pump and dump ecosystem": Abstract: The surge of interest in cryptocurrencies has been accompanied by a proliferation of fraud. This paper examines pump and dump…
From insideHPC
Car as ‘Computing Device’: Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia Team to Build Software-defined Vehicles for 2024
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz today said they plan to create an in-vehicle computing system and AI infrastructure for 2024 Mercedes-Benz vehicles equipped with “upgradable automated driving functions.” The resulting cars and trucks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Research Director on Science and HPCC
Continued work with high performance computing by IBM.
IBM's research director on how tech can push science beyond the pandemic
Dario Gil, who's been nominated to the National Science Board, wants to create a "science readiness…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner Talks with Paul Muzio about His Hopes, Concerns for HPC and AI
Industry luminary Paul Muzio, holder of prominent positions in academia and private industry over a multi-decade career in HPC, is bullish on supercomputing – and deeply concerned. In this video, Muzio spoke with the late Rich…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Changing Shape
An example of how defensive activities of Drones are also at play.
Research Leads to Army Drones Changing Shape Mid-Flight
U.S. Army
June 16, 2020
Researchers at the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Segway's Done
We had a Segway very early in in our future stopping store. It turned lots of heads in those days. We taught incoming visitors to drive them. Were they just hype?
In FastCompany: By Mark Wilson
Exclusive: Segway, the most …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber Crosses the road
A good example of the complexity of data mining / machine learning data. Via O'Reilly.
Inside Uber ATG’s Data Mining Operation: Identifying Real Road Scenarios at Scale for Machine Learning By Steffon Davis, Shouheng Yi, Andy…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request for Community Feedback on BPCnet.org
The following is a guest blog from the BPCnet.org Steering Committee. To the computing community, With this particularly challenging academic year coming to an end, and the upcoming NSF CISE program submissions, it is a good…
From insideHPC
Arm Throwing Elbows: LRZ to Deploy Arm-based HPE Cray CS500
It’s been a good week for Arm: the Fugaku supercomputer at Japan’s Riken research center was named no. 1 on the TOP500 listing of the world’s most powerful HPC systems, and today, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Munich…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sketch to Realistic Image
Seen several attempts on this, but none that impressive. We used one to quickly map out possible process decisions. Implications of 'fake' are always there, but if is attempting to construct and refine a sketch for clear illustration…
From Schneier on Security
Nation-State Espionage Campaigns against Middle East Defense Contractors
Report on espionage attacks using LinkedIn as a vector for malware, with details and screenshots. They talk about "several hints suggesting a possible link" to the Lazarus group (aka North Korea), but that's by no means definite…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 24 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 2)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr. Erik Verlage, a research scientist at MIT who creates digital learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Doing Drone Forestry Inspections with AI
Recall I worked with forestry management applications, so the need here rings true. Note the system mentioned PaddlePaddle is open sourced.
Baidu’s deep-learning platform fuels the rise of industrial AI
PaddlePaddle lets developers…
From insideHPC
ARM-based Fugaku Stands on Summit of New Top500
The new no. 1 system on the updated ranking of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning, is Fugaku, a machine built at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. The
…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report: Citizens Benefit from Public/Private Partnerships – Part 2
This special report sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes a look at how now more than ever, agencies from all levels of government are teaming with private Information Technology (IT) organizations to leverage AI and HPC to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Considerable and interesting piece, well worth reading if you are considering blockchain use. And a proposition of the Blockchain's value. Not very technical.
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
By Christian Catalini, Joshua…
From Schneier on Security
Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on when they started their investigation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Relaunches Cortana without Alexa
Was initially impressed by the cooperation between Microsoft and Amazon, but admit I saw little from it. Why not not have a joint effort to provide assistant intelligence? All I saw was that you could ask Cortana things like…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Nature of Visual Illusions
Always have been interested in visual illusions, and here a study of probably the most famous one. These gives us insight into how our brains and seeing apparatus work together in practice. Shows also too that direct biomimicry…
From Computational Complexity
Winner of Ramsey Meme Contest
My REU program had a Ramsey Meme Contest.
The winner was Saadiq Shaik with this entry:
I Don't Always...
I challenge my readers to come up with other Ramsey Memes! or Complexity Memes! or point me to some that are already
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Introduces Watson Works with AI
Newly introduced:
Watson Works
Work safe, work smart, and ensure the health and productivity of your people in a changing workplace ...
Watson Works is a curated set of products that embeds Watson AI models and applications to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marty the Robot at Stop&Shop
Good view of what they are doing with robots at Stop@Shop. Mostly to map and feed video images and alerts to spills. Will not talk to the shopper. Impressive rollout. One of the first examples of in store walking with the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogger Being Updated
I have been alerted that the underlying Blogging capability here will be updated by the end of June. A quick test seems to show that no problems should occur, but it's possible attached resources will change. If you see anything…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oil and Gas use of AI Technology
Worked with this industry for a while. Here a good non-technical overview:
Oil & Gas Industry Transforming Itself with the Help of AI By AI Trends Staff
The oil and gas industry is turning to AI to help cut operating costs, predict…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Self Driving Cars, But Robots that Could Drive cars?
Interesting and bold challenge. Build a robot that would autonomously drive cars. With vision, decision making, interaction with car systems. Adapting to various kinds of cars. Not necessarily an android, looking like…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Some Real and Some Virtual News
Gossip and more. Composite of , src1, src3 Jessica Deters, Izabel Aguiar, and Jacqueline Feuerborn are the authors of the paper, “The Mathematics of Gossip.” They use infection models—specifically the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered…