Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2021
From The Noisy Channel
Putting Search Ranking in Perspective
For feeds and recommendations, ranking is critical. All the inputs are implicit, so machine-learned ranking is the only practical way to optimize engagement.
Search is different.
A search engine elicits the searcher’s explicitForemost…From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Opens Registration for HPC Market Update During ISC
St. Paul, MN, June 4, 2021 – Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update session to be held in conjunction with the ISC High Performance 2021 Digital conference. The annual session is free of charge…
From Schneier on Security
The Supreme Court Narrowed the CFAA
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court just narrowed the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act:
In a ruling delivered today, the court sided with Van Buren and overturned his 18-month conviction.
In a 37-page opinion written…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Giant Squid Hunting Prey
Fantastic video of a giant squid hunting at depths between 1,827 and 3,117 feet.
This is a follow-on from this post.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered…From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2021
Today is the second day of the fourteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. The University of Cambridge is the host, but we’re all on Zoom.
SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects…From Computational Complexity
What happened to self-driving cars?
In 2014, I wrote a blog post about a fake company Elfdrive.
With a near record-setting investment announced last week, the self-driving car service Elfdrive is the hottest, most valuable technology start-up on the planet. It …From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given the integer 1000, you want 4. It is effectively the integerContinue…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Executive Director Job Description and Advertisement
Last week, we announced the retirement of Computing Research Association Executive Director Andrew Bernat. The description and advertisement for the Executive Director position, which we are hoping to fill this fall, can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Amazon sell Marijuana?
Is this imminent? Certainly there will be negative publicity, regardless if it is fully legalized by congress. More generally cannabis? Is Amazon the likely the supplier that would be most likely retailer to take on such…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Location Services
Notified of this capability.
AWS announces general availability of Amazon Location Services
By Sage Lazzaro @SageLazzaro in Venturebeat
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service…From The Eponymous Pickle
Vineyard Smartphone Yield Calculation
I know some people in viticulture, In place/field analysis has its benefits.
Cheap, User-Friendly Smartphone App Predicts Vineyard Yields
Cornell Chronicle, Krishna Ramanujan, May 17, 2021
Cornell University engineers and plant…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Trip Report: Teaching as a Long Term Sub
Well, this is not actually a trip report but its something like it. I spend the last couple of months teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy as a long term substitute. It was an interesting experience for many reasons. Not the least…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Offers More NVIDIA-Certified GPU Servers
June 3, 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced additional GIGABYTE servers that have been added to the growing list of NVIDIA-Certified Systems. This program…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel AI Builders Program
Further and detailed look at Intel's effort here. Clear connections to advanced chip plans. Had previously seen some of their work that related to retail marketing, but this takes it much broader in application. Driving towards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AppTech Partners with Intel for AI Enabled Speech
A new partnership emerges. In Cision PRNewswire
MCLEAN, Va., June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTek, a leader inIntel…From insideHPC
cPacket Networks Announces Solutions for 100Gbps Network Observability
SAN JOSE – June 3, 2021 – cPacket Networks, a provider of intelligent observability for the hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks, today announced two new products designed to deliver low-latency, high-performance, high-density…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Cluster as a Service for VMware
This whitepaper, “Bright Computing Cluster as a Service for VMware,” from Bright Computing discusses how through advanced automation, Bright Cluster Manager eliminates the complexity of building and managing high-performance
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From insideHPC
Icelandic AI Company Miðeind Leverages atNorth’s HPC & AI Cluster-as-a-Service for NLP
Reykjavik, Iceland June 2, 2021 – atNorth, formerly known as Advania Data Centers, has delivered an AI and deep learning system to Icelandic start-up Miðeind. The Supercomputer – built on HPE servers and powered by the latest…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’ll be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is “Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a …From insideHPC
DOE Picks 32 Students for Computational Fellowships
June 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)announced the selection of 32 outstanding undergraduate and graduate students across the nation to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Book of Interest: Event Mining
Brought to my attention via ACM for possible application.
EVENT MINING: CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
By: Laleh Jalali, Ramesh Jain - May 2021
DOI: 10.1145/3462257
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8482-7Table of Contents https://doi.org/10.1145/3462257…From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining End-to-End Encryption
Good piece, especially interesting the drawbacks of general end to end encryption are less obvious.
End-to-End Encryption: Important Pros and Cons by Shelby Hiter in CIOInsight
According to the 2020 Cost of a Data BreachEnd…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virus Alert Apps Had Limited Success
Having followed some of the Virus tracking software, found this to be insightful. Though late. Fundamentally the approaches won't work without elements of privacy being violated, limiting participation and having the potential…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project: RAJA Portability Suite Enables Performance Portable CPU and GPU HPC Codes
A growing number of HPC applications must deliver high performance on CPU and GPU hardware platforms. One software tool available now and showing tremendous promise for the exascale era is the open-source RAJA Portability Suite…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Albertsons Tests Electric Truck Fleet
Only two Volvo trucks for now.
Albertsons takes first baby step towards an electric truck fleet by George Anderson in Retailwire
Albertsons Companies is serious about cutting costs and reducing its environmental impact. The grocery…From Schneier on Security
The DarkSide Ransomware Gang
The New York Times has a long story on the DarkSide ransomware gang.
A glimpse into DarkSide’s secret communications in the months leading up to the Colonial Pipeline attack reveals a criminal operation on the rise, pulling …From insideHPC
TYAN Highlights AI, Cloud and Storage Server Platforms Powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series Chips
Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, brings a variety of AI, cloud and storage server platforms incorporating the latest AMD EPYC …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Looks at an Assistant Again
We tested Samsung's Bixby assistant offering for product interaction tests. Now they appear to be replacing it with a new or updated approach. With hint of an interface in 3D.
Samsung May Replace Bixby With a 3D Virtual…From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Forward Look into Inflation
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Wharton’s Itay Goldstein speaks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about how the Federal Reserve may respond to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiscale risk analysis with information entropy applied to portfolio optimization
Brought to my Attention. Regards portfolio investment, Risk and entropy. Authors are colleagues of mine. Technical.
Multiscale risk analysis with information entropy applied to portfolio optimization By George G. Polak and…