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 insideHPC
AI Chipmaker Hailo Partners with Lanner Electronics to Launch AI Inference at the Edge
Tel Aviv, Israel and New Taipei, Taiwan June 1, 2021 – AI chipmaker Hailo announced today its partnership with Lanner Electronics, a maker of intelligent edge computing appliances, to launch AI inference solutions for real-time…
From insideHPC
Sunlight and Altos Computing Align for Edge-to-Core Hyperconverged Applicances
Cambridge, UK – June 1, 2021 – Sunlight.io, a developer of virtualization technology for data-intensive applications, today announced an OEM partnership with Altos Computing, a subsidiary of Acer Inc., to deliver the industry…
From insideHPC
ASC 2021 Student Cluster Competition: Wrap Up
The final awards were handed out at the ASC20-21 Student Cluster Competition and what a competition it was! This was really a dual event this year, with a set of 21 teams working out of a stadium at Southern University of Science…
From BLOG@CACM
New Areas for Application of Self-Organizing Routing
To organize the productive work of multiprocessor chips, it is necessary to establish an efficient distribution of computational processes between computational cores.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing VR from Youtube Fails
Clever idea here, look for fails shown in YouTube to design-in resilience to fails. An example of a huge source of data to design in such patterns. Also the associated metadata. Perhaps with other sources of such broad…
From insideHPC
Atos Completes Acquisition of Video Analytics Software Maker Ipsotek
Paris and London, June 1, 2021 – Atos announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Ipsotek, a leading AI enhanced video analytics software provider. This acquisition enables Atos to strategically reinforce its leading…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Night-Vision AR
An AR ability with enhanced low light vision. Integration of maps. When we tested plant applications we added blueprint and technical data, but also were sometimes also in low-no light locations. So could see the application…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Read “A Vision to Compute Like Nature: Thermodynamically”
The June issue of the Communications of the ACM (CACM) features the Viewpoint article “A Vision to Compute Like Nature: Thermodynamically.” Based on the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Thermodynamic Computing workshop,…
From BLOG@CACM
The Art Of Speedy Systems Conversions
System conversions represent a type of development in which project scope includes all the effort of an initial software release, plus an entirely new set of complexities.
From BLOG@CACM
Soresini: A Very Rare Book on the History of Computing
The work is an extremely instructive, rich history of calculating technology. It also includes the analog world and automata, and is written in Italian.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Europe blog
We are delighted to host guests on ACM-W Europe blog, and this quarter we had fantastic contributions.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
5 Reasons to Join Us at womENcourage 2021
womENcourageTM 2021 that is going to be virtual (coordinated from Prague, Czech Republic), 22-24 September, 2021.The slogan of this year’s event is “Bridging Communities to Foster Innovation”.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SLAM and Mobile Mapping
Brought to my attention for a proposed project. Below the intro, much more at the link, will follow with more.... Note, aspects of autonomy.
The definitive guide to SLAM & mobile mapping
SLAM 101
Simultaneous localization and…From BLOG@CACM
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document
Document databases are particularly useful in app development.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apologetic AI is a Trend?
Wonder how well that works. Having worked with consumer-computers since the very early days, never recall an attempt at apologies in this way. Even when we built avatars to represent products, it never had 'sorry' in its vocabulary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wifi Attack Vulnerabilities
Had cause to take a closer look at IOT, and other often Wifi enabled systems. So their vulnerabilities is of concern. Good intro piece in Wired:
Decades-Old Flaws Affect Almost Every Wi-Fi Device
The so-called Frag AttackA…From The Eponymous Pickle
Micrososft Back at Voice Again?
Wondered where Cortana had gone. Would seem in particular Team-like efforts could use smart voice interaction. Why rename it when you already have name recognition? Because the recognition was negative?
Microsoft is Developing…From insideHPC
Academia Sinica Chooses Infortrend Storage for HPC Application
TAIPEI, June 1, 2021 — Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495), the enterprise storage provider, enabled Academia Sinica with enterprise SAN/NAS unified storage EonStor GS 3000 Gen2 to provide high performance infrastructure…
From insideHPC
How to Integrate GPUs into your Business Analytics Ecosystem
This whitepaper, "How to Integrate GPUs into your Business Analytics Ecosystem," discusses how GPU technology can augment data analytics performance, enabling data warehouses and other solutions to better respond to new, yet
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From The Noisy Channel
New Choice
In improv, there’s a fun game called “new choice”. At any point during the improvised scene, the host can call for a “new choice”. The player who last spoke has to backtrack and substitute a new line. At its best, the substitution…