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
New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs
San Jose, June 28, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology, announced Supermicro servers that will support the latest NVIDIA technologies. Both 3rd…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Registration Open for First CRA-Industry Committee Virtual Roundtable: Corporate Responsibility and Computing Research
The following is a message from the new CRA-I Industry Committee. The CRA-Industry Committee is hosting a series of virtual roundtable meetings focused on issues of interest to our computing research industry partners. The first…
From insideHPC
Atos Launches ‘ThinkAI’ for High Performance AI Applications
Paris, June 28, 2021 – Atos today launched ThinkAI, which the company described as its secure end-to-end scalable offering which enables organizations to successfully design, develop, and deliver high-performance AI applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion AI creator Affectiva acquires Smart Eye
Another example of Acquisition of Advanced AI Capabilities.
Emotion AI Creator Affectiva Acquires Smart Eye for $73.5M
By Ryan Daws | May 26, 2021 | TechForge Media
Categories: Applications, Connected Cars, Face Recognition,
Ryan…From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Zero Trust Security
Security in Industrial Networks
Extending Zero Trust Security to Industrial Networks
Ruben Lobo, Cisco
Recent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical infrastructures have made it clear: operational and IT networks…From insideHPC
insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with a host of vendor interviews with leading companies. ISC Off Hours Event…
From insideHPC
Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?
The 56th edition of the Top500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that the list organizers said shows a somewhat static and flattening performance growth curve. While two new systems…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Phun with Phidgets
Recently I requested a free (for educators) starter kit from Phidgets. Phidgets are small controllers and sensors that are easy to use and with a helpful API. The starter kit includes a bunch of things to introduce the platform…
From Computational Complexity
Someone thinks I am a fine artist! Why?
A while back I got an email asking me to submit to a Fine Arts Journal. Why me? Here are some possibilities:
1) They were impressed with my play:
Sure he created the universe, but would he get Tenure? (see here) which did get…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and UK NHS
Given what we have seen China and Europe doing, makes lots of sense to continue to push AI.
NHS Gets £36-million Boost for AI Technologies
By Scientific Computing World, June 22, 2021
Thousands of patients and staff at the U.K.'s…From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation with Python
By far my biggest effort in the enterprise was doing simulations. Often integrated with optimizations, and later AI applications, both knowledge based and neural approaches. Nice to see how it can be integrated with Python…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Model
Pretty wooden model.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Best Squid-Related Headline
From the New York Times: “When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray.” The article is about the eel; the squid is just eel food. But still….
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the…From insideHPC
Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’
For at least four years, Lenovo has been vocal about its high ambitions in high performance computing, and by all appearances the company is progressing toward its objectives. This is the eighth year since China-based Lenovo
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From insideHPC
Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC
Atos, with its BullSequana line of supercomputers, will no doubt be a prominent player at this year’s ISC conference. While ISC is an international HPC event, it has, after all, a strong European flavor – even if this year’s
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China and AI
In McKinsey, China needs watching on this, has fewer constraints.
Forward Thinking on China and artificial intelligence with Jeffrey Ding
This researcher is making sure more AI information flows back from China to the West, and…From Putting People First
The potential of behavioural interventions for optimising energy use at home
Individuals and households can adopt a variety of measures to optimise their energy consumption, writes Elisabatta Cornago of the International Energy Agency. This article focuses on the potential for enhancing energy efficiency…
From Putting People First
[Report] Behavioural insights for demand-side energy policy and programmes
During its first year of activity, the Behavioural Insights Platform of the UsersTCP, with the IEA (International Energy Agency), has developed an environment scan report assessing how behavioural insights have been applied to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI at the Edge
UK and elsewhere, attempts at merging advanced tech efforts.
Towards Broad Artificial Intelligence (AI) & The Edge in 2021 by 7wData
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickened its progress in 2021.
A new administration is inOn…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 26th 2021)
Reportedly, half of us own a smartphone. It is often reported that women or visible minority earn less money. However, ugly people are doing comparatively even more poorly. We have highly efficient and cheap solar panels. However…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Does Quantum Data Link
This apparently uses 'quantum key distribution', a method we have also recently examined. Details are interestingly beyond limits we have seen.
Quantum Data Link Established Between 2 Distant Chinese Cities
By New Scientist,Researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Tires
Sensors and adapting AI to drive better maintenance.
By The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2021
Tire manufacturers Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Bridgestone are launching new smart tire features for last-mile…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Contributing to Marketing
Some of our earliest work touched on this, but its hard.
How Much Can AI Contribute to Increasing Efficiency for the Marketing Department? by 7wData
Many businesses — and their marketing teams — are increasingly adopting intelligent…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is Picking a First Programming Language the Hardest Problem in CS Education?
All of a sudden the subject of the first programming language is getting discussed everywhere. OK, maybe not every where but it is in Twitter, Blogs, and Facebook. At least. Mark Guzdial gets part of the blame (credit?) for this…
From insideHPC
HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’
Since we last saw HPE at ISC a year ago, the company embarked on a strong run of success in HPC and supercomputing – successes the company will no doubt be happy to discuss at virtual ISC 2021. This being the year of exascale…
From insideHPC
insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with a host of vendor interviews with leading companies. ISC Off Hours Event…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in AI Lecture
Of considerable interest, pointers to the future?
"Deep Learning in AI," the Turing Lecture of Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton, describes the origins and recent advances of deep learning, and its future challenges…From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting, Recognizing Voices at a Distance
Hmm, talk about loss of privacy. Will this do it through a mask? Will we be wearing new kinds of 'voice' masks? Note the training data. Probably will be quickly restricted for use in the West. But elsewhere?
Biomimetic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Verification
Not something we did formally in the enterprise, a couple of experiments with externally developed systems. but its high time it were included.
Formal Software Verification Measures Up By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the…From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Talks ISC Highlights and the Virtuous HPC-AI Circle
At virtual ISC 2021, we talked with Trish Damkroger, Intel’s Vice President and General Manager, High Performance Computing about the state of HPC and Intel’s place in it. In this interview she discusses virtual activities the…