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
Google Ad Manager
Late to notice this, intriguing approach managed by Google. In the Google Blog. Note there are 4 previous posts on this.
Use insights to make better business decisions
Chelsea Rice
Product Manager, Google Ad Manager
This is the
Today…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knee, Hip Replacement with 3D Printed Artificial Cartilage
Novel approach to a common kind of replacement.
People with Damaged Knees, Hips Could Be Treated with 3D-Printed Artificial Cartilage
Daily Mail (U.K.)
Joe Pinkstone
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) scientists three-dimensionally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivery Drones will be taking the Bus?
Clever proposal for integrating transport, lowering energy costs. Adds complexity to bus capabilities.
Stanford Lab Envisions Delivery Drones That Save Energy by Taking the Bus
VentureBeat
By Khari Johnson in ACM
In an effort to…
From Schneier on Security
Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they -- and the research into the Intel ME vulnerability…
From Putting People First
[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique
![[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
Sur la base d‘une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Innovation
Thoughts on innovation:
It’s Time to Rethink How You Innovate via K@W:
Solutions for Leading Innovation
The fallout from the pandemic has created new opportunities that organic growth leaders are best able to capture. By investing…
From insideHPC
NetApp Deploys Iguazio’s Data Science Platform for Optimized Storage Management
Data science platform specialist Iguazio has announced that hybrid storage and data management vendor NetApp is using Iquazio’s platform to analyze 10 trillion data points per month for automated support and optimization of storage…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reusing a thread in C++ for better performance
In a previous post, I measured the time necessary to start a thread, execute a small job and return. auto mythread = std::thread([] { counter++; }); mythread.join(); The answer is thousands of nanoseconds. Importantly, that is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clarity Langage for Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention as a part of a continuing look at smart contracts for supply chain and related analytic systems.
Clarity Language for Smart Contracts
Clarity Language
Clarity is a new language for smart contracts. Clarity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation Manipulation with Collusion Networks
Had such a thing mentioned to me some time ago, and I just discovered this ACM study/paper on the topic. How can such 'collusion networks' be effectively detected? Facebook seems to be the target here.
Technical Perspective:…
From insideHPC
Podcast: ‘Let’s Talk Exascale’ – Major Update of the MFEM Element Library for Broader GPU Support
In the latest in the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series, Tzanio Kolev of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describes the work at the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED), one of six co-design centers within…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
Fascinating piece, with some real world examples. I admit I did not know this was being done. With how tos and cautions.
Hiring from the Autism Spectrum By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, June 2020, Vol. 63 No. 6,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is the Pent up Shopping Demand?
To adjust demand in supply chain models.
How Much Pent up Shopping Demand?
by George Anderson in Retailwire with further expert comment at the link.
When retail stores across the country began closing to customers back in March…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Ocean Bed Riches
We were involved in early regional estimates of such efforts. This gets better information about the specifics vs high costs. Data for further predictive 'mining'. Have heard of Konigsberg Maritime.
Underwater Drones Join Hunt…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Blockchain Domain Names
Note the similarity to the Cosmos Network. A useful direction.
Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than Cosmos
Jun 1, 2020 at 15:00 UTC
Alibaba says its “unified domain name scheme” would simplify and improve
In…
From insideHPC
The UK Innovation Corridor: HPC and the Bio-Technology Revolution
Sponsored Content By Spencer Lamb, Vice President, Kao Data The Innovation Corridor is the beating heart of the UK life sciences community, bringing together high performance computing (HPC), AI and bio-computational analysis…
From Schneier on Security
Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
New research on using specially crafted inputs to slow down machine-learning neural network systems: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks shows how to find adversarial examples that cause a DNN to burn more…
From insideHPC
AI Supercomputer at PSC to Combine Cerebras Wafer Scale Chips and HPE Superdome Flex
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has won a $5 million award from the National Science Foundation to build Neocortex, an AI supercomputer designed for accelerated AI research that incorporates the Cerebras Systems Wafer Scale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classification of Relational Data
A simplification by classification. Would this work in any context? Application to social networks is of interest.
Training Agents to Walk with Purpose By KAUST Discovery
The new classification algorithm that can dramatically…
From insideHPC
IBM Sunsets Facial Recognition and Analysis AI Software
The biggest news story today in the world of AI is IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s letter to Congress explaining the company’s decision to sunset its facial recognition and analysis artificial intelligence software products, a statement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmos Network: Interoperable Blockchains
Intriguing direction: A network of Blockchains
Cosmos Network
The foundation for a new token economy
Join the most interoperable
ecosystem of connected blockchains
About
The Cosmos Network is a decentralized network of independent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sewage as New Data Source
A long time promoter of finding new sources of data, especially where they can be predictive early warning indicators. An argument for experimenting with data from new sources. Here an example that shows the possibilities.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memristor Chips Emerge for Local Intelligence
The idea has been around for a while. Getting closer to real synapses in real brains. But still a considerable way to go. As mentioned a means to produce IOT capabilities on local devices. Paper and techical detail pointed…
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
New research: "Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System": Abstract: Democracy Live's OmniBallot platform is a web-based system for blank ballot delivery, ballot marking, and (optionally) online voting. Three…
From insideHPC
MIT’s New Memristors: Networks of Artificial Brain Synapses for Neuromorphic Devices
A possible glimpse at a future form of high performance edge computing – networks of artificial brain synapses – developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is showing promise as a new memristor design…
From BLOG@CACM
The Advantages of Teaching Soft Skills to CS Undergrads Online
On the added value of teaching an online soft skills course to undergrad computer science students.
From Putting People First
Nordic lessons for people-first smart cities
While it is argued that smart city development is at an impasse, we argue that it is at a crossroads. It is possible to simultaneously develop and adopt new technologies and strengthen people’s rights. This has been proven in…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming CCC Blue Sky at International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied…
From Schneier on Security
Gene Spafford on Internet Voting
Good interview....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reports on Recent Advances in Translate
Google reports measure improvements in their Translate, but there are still contextual challenges. I would be tempted to try to construct a risk analysis regarding its context, but that too would be hard. Though impressed,
Recent…