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
Algorithmic Design for Building
Algorithms both generating data and using data for the design and construction of buildings. Like managing pertinent metadata.
Algorithms are designing better buildings
Silvio Carta in The Conversation
Head of Art and Design,
When…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Creation
Good piece. Take care to carefully measure the value.
The Value of Value creation
By Marc Goedhart and Tim Koller, McKinsey Quarterly ( link to PDF)
Challenges such as globalization, climate change, income inequality, and the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 20th 2020)
UCLA researchers have achieved widespread rejuvenation in old mice through blood plasma diluation, a relatively simple process. (…) these results establish broad tissues rejuvenation by a single replacement of old blood plasma…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Aibo Updated, will Greet You at the Door
Seems to be only assistant system left that makes a claim to being mobile and family friendly. Home oriented. With elements of a home pet emphasized. We visited their lab early on, and that was one of the claims. But it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Survey for Telemedicine
Useful to get some real experience from this event:
Doctor.com's Patient Survey Reveals Surprising Trends About Telemedicine Adoption Amid Reopenings
PR Newswire
June 16, 2020
A nationwide survey of 1,800 patients by healthcare marketing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Quality Images of Moving Objects
I recall having to solve this problem for diagnosing from images of manufacturing machine parts.
Capturing Moving Subjects in Still-Life Quality
EPFL News (Switzerland)
June 18, 2020
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming ISSIP/CSG Talk: Robots in the Pandemic
Correspondent Jim Spohrer talks about robot tech in our pandemic futures. I will post about this and point to the transcript.
ISSIP Speaker Series: COVID-19 & Future of Work and Learning
Speaker: Jim Spohrer, Director, Cognitive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant and Duplex can Listen Better
This made me think a while about the implications. It does not necessarily imply a loss of privacy, these are the actions-skills that we accept as extensions to an assistant. Commands. So would seem it would be very useful…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Up on South African Beach
Fourteen feet long and 450 pounds. It was dead before it washed up. 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
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2020
Today is the second day of the thirteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. It's being hosted by the University of Cambridge, which in today's world means we're all meeting on Zoom. SHB is a small, annual, invitational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concept Mapping-based Platform for Learning and Knowledge Assessment.
Re connecting with Sero!, here is a repeat of a previous post:
Brought my attention by Brian Moon, a knowledge design practitioner we have worked with. I am a longtime proponent of concept mapping, we developed thousands. Can…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop for the CISE Community
By Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online meeting on Friday, September 18th from 1pm – 5pm EST. This event…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Physics: All the Way Down?
Descriptive. But will it show us something really predictively new?
THE THIRD CULTURE
Computation All the Way Down In the Edge
A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
We're now in this situation where people just assume that science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Money Reimagined?
Are we there yet? Still I think major regulatory issues ahead. Good piece:
Money Reimagined: Ethereum’s Renaissance Creates an Opportunity – And a Major Test Michael J. Casey in Coindesk
If, in the compressed time of blockchain…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do We Know Who Is Struggling In Learning CS
One of the interesting points Amy Ko makes in her presentation to Microsoft (CS education in higher education) is that “Most faculty have little insight into who is struggling most into their class, because the ones that struggle…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computational overhead due to Docker under macOS
For my programming work, I tend to assume that I have a Linux environnement. That is true whether I am under Windows, under macOS or under a genuine Linux. How do I emulate Linux wherever I go? I use docker containers. Effectively…
From insideHPC
‘Rocky Year’ – Hyperion’s HPC Market Update: COVID-19 Hits Q1 Revenues, Cloud HPC Boom, Shift in Server Vendor Standings
COVID-19’s impact on the industry will come in at a net first quarter decline of 15-18 percent, Hyperion predicted, due to delayed product shipments caused by worker illnesses and related precautions that “have reduced output…
From BLOG@CACM
'Underrepresented Minority' Considered Harmful, Racist Language
The foundation of any collective action, of any community, is language. It influences how we feel, react, and understand.
From insideHPC
HPC Guru Speaketh! Kind of…
In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an interview with him and we’re proud to have been chosen for this
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From Schneier on Security
New Hacking-for-Hire Company in India
Citizen Lab has a new report on Dark Basin, a large hacking-for-hire company in India. Key Findings: Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions on six continents…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Acquires Mapillary, Competes with Street View
First I had seen this. Generalized tool for looking at location. Commercial users for now.
Facebook acquires Google Street View competitor Mapillary
The street imaging platform will now be accessible to commercial users.
By Rachel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Add New COVID-19 Alerts
Useful updates regarding changes in status of Pandemic.
Google Maps adds new COVID-19 alerts as more cities reopen
Maps will remind you to wear a face covering on public transit
By Chris Welch@chriswelch in Theverge
Google is continuing…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Episodes ….In Case You Missed It
There are fresh episodes of Radio Free HPC out in the wild and, in case you missed them, here’s what’s new: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate May 7, 2020 The show starts with Dan, Jessi and Shahin in attendance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the Flow, Tempo and Rhythm of Process
Had been looking at how different streams of work and delivery could be combined and transferred between flows and tasks? And had some time ago thought of the analogy of the combination of streams of music, rhythm, tempoAlgoriddim…
From insideHPC
SC20 General Chair: We’re Planning for In-Person and Virtual Conference
SC20, scheduled for November 15-20 in Atlanta, is in the throes of planning for this year’s conference amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic – and conference General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi today said that in the months since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Spotify, Why?
Was exploring this and discovered one answer in Inc.
Walmart Just Made a Surprising Announcement and It's Very Bad News for Amazon. Watch out, Amazon: Small businesses may now have more options for reaching customers with their…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Wide-Area Data Analytics Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop report. The workshop was organized by Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University) and CCC Council Member Jen Rexford (Princeton University)…
From Computational Complexity
On Chain Letters and Pandemics
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches ThinkSystem Servers with GPU Support, Increased NVMe Storage
Lenovo this morning launched two new ThinkSystem servers, the SR860 V2 and SR850 V2, utilizing 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Deep Learning Boost, along with introduction of GPU support on the SR860 V2 (four…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reopening Businesses Safely
Important look by McKinsey on the topic.
Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businesses
After weeks of shutdowns and remote working, businesses around the world are gradually resuming on-site operations. Of course…