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 insideHPC
Purdue’s ‘Anvil’ to Be Driven by Dell, AMD ‘Milan’ CPUs, Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs
Another in a series of National Science Foundation supercomputing awards has been announced, this one a $10 million funding for a system to be housed at Purdue University to support HPC and AI workloads and scheduled to enter…
From BLOG@CACM
Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Setting Up To Teach From Home
This past spring semester was my first time teaching remotely but not my first time working remotely. I worked from home while working in industry for jsut over 9 years. The latter probably helped me set up to teach remotely.…
From BLOG@CACM
Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
From Computational Complexity
The Committee for the Adv. of TCS- workshop coming up SOON!
(Posted by request from Jelani Nelson.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Meters not Influencing Electric Usage
Have always been interested in the influence of measurements, and the presentation of those measurements to influence behavior. Many of our smart home experiments have tried to include that aspect of delivery. Our home is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ring Adds Power Buttons
More add ons to security infrastructure. World getting to be a more insecure place.
Ring adds 'panic' buttons to its home security alarm in Engadget
You can instantly get in contact with police, fire or medical responders.
Ring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contracts and Demand Sensing
Good overview piece on the concept of a 'smart contract'.
How Smart Contracts Speed Up Demand Sensing and Fulfillment
Manish Grover & Rakesh Prasad, SCB Contributors
As consumer demand and buying patterns rapidly undergo changes…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report: HPC and AI for the Era of Genomics – Part 3
This special report sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes a deep dive into HPC and AI for life sciences in the era of genomics. The report also highlights a lineup of Ready Solutions created by Dell Technologies which are highly…
From Schneier on Security
Phishing Attacks Against Trump and Biden Campaigns
Google's threat analysts have identified state-level attacks from China. I hope both campaigns are working under the assumption that everything they say and do will be dumped on the Internet before the election. That feels like…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Golden: An Intelligent Knowledge Base
Brought to my attention: Golden
The intelligent knowledge base
Explore the world's first self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence.
Authoritative knowledge at your fingertips
Access a growing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connections from AI to the Pandemic
Increasingly deep applications, in AITrends
Updates on How AI Being Employed to Speed COVID-19 Treatments and Management
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Medical researchers are employing AI to search through databases of known drugs to see if…
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Upcoming $10M Delta System to Expand Use of GPUs in Scientific Workloads
Delta, a new supercomputer to be deployed before the end of 2021 at the National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA), has as part of its mission the expanded adoption of GPU-accelerated scientific computing. NCSA
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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Doomsday Argument in Chess
Framing a controversial conversation piece as a conservation law Snip from Closer to Truth video on DA John Gott III is an emeritus professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton. He was one of several independent inventors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Looks at Data and Analytics Trends
Things that are useful,have the most business impact.
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019
Augmented Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in the Spotlight at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit,
Augmented…
From My Biased Coin
CATCS Visioning Workshop
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualizing Mass Production
Seems a powerful idea, The data is all there, so to what degree and for what products can this be applied and scaled for manufacturing production? Proposed details at the link.
Mass production of individualized products
Fraunhofer…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 6th 2020)
A small number of people are responsible for a disproportionate number of inventions and innovations. Why are these people different? Using neuroimaging techniques, scientists find that superior individuals may not have distinct…
From Putting People First
[Book] Slowdown
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Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its about Common Sense
Have repeated this many times, it was clear in the late 80s when we built systems that could solve a problem, but not implement it among decision makers. For general AI, as well as installation of any system that interactsAllen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Skill Discovery
Can skills be dsicovered. That is, a means to find better behavior that leads to prescribed real-world goals? Here in the Google Research blog, addressing the use of unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL). Note the determination…
From insideHPC
San Diego Supercomputer Center Leverages Bright Cluster Manager in New Expanse Supercomputer
Bright Computing, a global leader in Linux Cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced that the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego will be using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building A More Resilient Data-Driven Economy
Building a better economy:
Irving Wladawsky-Berger's Blog
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects. ...
Building a More Resilient, Data-Driven…
From Putting People First
[Book] How to Future
How to Future is a guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and practices that illuminate new strategic pathways.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Status Checker App Asks for Physical Symptoms?
Trial implies actually blocking campus access based on stored information. Predictive? Seems some of the information us based on simple query. Implications of false positives and negatives?
U.S. University to Trial Covid-19…
From The Eponymous Pickle
South Korea Testing an Elderly Assistant
Hard to follow the depth and breadth of this precisely, but seems to be an assistant oriented to interact with lonely elderly. Prompted by recent pandemic pressure. With some aim to sense memory and cognitive functions and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UF Acquires NVidia DGX System
Notable former connection working with new Nvidia System.
UF becomes first U.S. university to acquire cutting-edge NVIDIA DGX A100 system, advancing its artificial intelligence initiative - News - University of Florida
Moving…
From insideHPC
TACC’s Frontera Supports Investigation of Subatomic Protons – ‘the Origin of the Mass of Objects’
A team of researchers are using the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to crack open the proton, a fundamental building block of the atomic nucleus that is used, among other ways, as a medical…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Shark vs. Squid
National Geographic has a photo of a 7-foot long shark that fought a giant squid and lived to tell the tale. Or, at least, lived to show off the suction marks on his skin. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Threats in Intimate and Personal Relationships
Fascinating thoughts on the topic, true is too little discussed. Though I would think divorce lawyers have seen it all.
Privacy threats in intimate relationships
Karen Levy and Bruce Schneier
Department of Information Science…