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 Eponymous Pickle
Causal Machine Learning
Another area we experimented with, causal elements in the AI knowledge being used. Would have liked to experiment with Alice.
Microsoft Research Podcast
Econ2: Causal machine learning, data interpretability, and online platform…From Schneier on Security
NFC Flaws in POS Devices and ATMs
It’s a series of vulnerabilities:
Josep Rodriguez, a researcher and consultant at security firm IOActive, has spent the last year digging up and reporting vulnerabilities in the so-called near-field communications reader chips…From Schneier on Security
AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
News from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology:
China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights…From Putting People First
Top 10 books of everyday social anthropology
Gillian Tett, anthropologist and chair of the US editorial board of the Financial Times, has published - in the Guardian - her list of 10 books offering insights into how we structure our lives.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Software for a Critical Future
I am inclined to think the critical future will be Lo and No-Code rather than old languages and methods.
Code as Infrastructure
The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won’t Be Fortran via O'Reilly and ACM
By Mike Loukides, June 8,…From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One
Tokyo — June 24, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D Inc. today announced the launch of AXXE-L One, the company’s first server product. The appliance comes with AXXE-L by XTREME-D pre-installed, providing…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Addresses Exabyte-Scale Data Management with ActiveScale 6.0
SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced a new release of ActiveScale object storage software that reshapes the way organizations store, manage, and extract value from their growing stores…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Collaborates with Supermicro on Object Storage Software
SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) is collaborating with global enterprise computing leader Supermicro to deliver object storage solutions to customers demanding the ability to extract more value from…
From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: XTREME-D’s Plans to Expand its Supercomputing-as-a-Service Market Presence
At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with supercomputing-as-a-service company XTREME-D, a venture-backed company founded in 2015 with the goal of making HPC cloud computing access easy, fast, efficient and economical. The company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finalists for P&G Innovation Challenge
P&G Ventures:
Procter & Gamble : P&G Ventures Announces Four Finalists in Latest Innovation Challenge
06/24/2021 | 01:31pm EDT
CINCINNATI, June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- P&G Ventures, the early stage startup studio within P&G (NYSE…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), along with Code 8.7, is pleased to announce the release of the CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report. This March 2020 workshop brought together…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pharma and Quantum Computing
McKinsey writes:
Pharma’s digital Rx: Quantum computing in drug research and development
Quantum computing could be game-changing for drug development in the pharmaceutical industry. Businesses should start preparing now. ...…From BLOG@CACM
Inclusive Integration of Computing in School Districts: Two Essential Tradeoffs
When integrating computer science and computational thinking in a school district through inclusive learning pathways, school district leaders face challenging tradeoffs regarding ambition and specificity.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Someone's Mind
(Click though to Podcast for complete article)
Changing Someone’s Mind: A Powerful New Approach
Jun 22, 2021 North America
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Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education…From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Neural Networks
Speed for solutions and speed for alternative maintenance updates of models.
Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before
Two new approaches allow deep neural networks to solve entire families of partial…From Schneier on Security
Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising.” From the Introduction:
The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are…From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: Talking Cloud-based AI with VMware
At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Andrew Nielsen, VMware’s senior director of cloud migration and technical enablement, for a discussion about major trends driving growth in cloud-based AI as well as a technical and product…
From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: AMD Talks EPYC 7nm CPUs and Instinct GPUs, in HPC, Exascale
At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Brock Taylor, AMD’s global HPC solutions director, to talk about the HPC community’s response to AMD’s launch last March of its EPYC 7003 Series 7nm CPUs and to its Radeon Instinct GPUs –…
From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: Catching up with High End Server Maker Inspur
At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Vangel Bojaxhi, high end server maker Inspur System’s global AI & HPC director. A five-year veteran of Inspur, Bojaxhi talked with us about the announcements the company will make at ISC …
From insideHPC
AI Transportable Market
This whitepaper, "AI Transportable Market," from One Stop Systems, describes how the requirements for AI in the field form a specific and distinct segment in the big, fast-growing edge computing market, separate from the familiar…
From Putting People First
Review and insight on the behavioral aspects of cybersecurity
Since the majority of cyber incidents are human enabled, this shift requires expanding research to underexplored areas such as behavioral aspects of cybersecurity. This paper provides a review of relevant theories and principles…
From Putting People First
Understanding the human aspects of cyber security
CyberBitsEtc. is a website and blog by Ganna Pogrebna (Professor of Behavioural Economics and Data Science, Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute) and Boris Taratine (Cyber Security Architect and Visionary) that focuses a lot on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Companies Impact Households
Quite a considerable piece here from McKinsey, with lots of graphics
A new look at how corporations impact the economy and households
May 31, 2021 | Discussion Paper (84 pages)
By James Manyika, Michael Birshan, Sven Smit, Jonathan…From Computational Complexity
I went to the ``debate'' about Program Verif and the Lipton-Demillo-Perlis paper
On Thursday June 17 I went to (on zoom- does that need to be added anymore?)
A Debate on Program Correctness
There was no subtitle but it could have been:
Have the points made in Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Security
Long look at the topic covering many aspects of the idea.
Machine learning security needs new perspectives and incentives By Ben Dickson in BDTechTalks
At this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Flawed Algorithms
Always looking at data and context involved when algorithms fail. Like any kind of predictive approach, its rarely perfect. The same for classing analytics and for machine learning based methods. And for that matter for human…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating 'Digital Twins' at Scale
Relates to something I am thinking about now. Good find.
Creating Precise Computer Simulation Twins at Scale
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Michael Kapteyn and colleagues have designed a model for generating…From insideHPC
Atos-CEAs’ ‘Topaze’ at CCRT
Paris, France – June 23 2021 — ‘Topaze’ is part of Atos‘ range of HPC supercomputers, acquired following a call for tenders, and is the result of joint R&D by Atos and the CEA’s Military Applications Directorate (DAM). It has…
From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: Joint Venture Revs up Altair Solvers with AMD EPYC 7003 Chips
In this interview at virtual ISC 2021, Altair and AMD discuss their joint venture in which the performance of Altair applications, such as the RADIOSS finite element solver for linear and non-linear problems, is accelerated when…
From BLOG@CACM
Is Computing a Team Sport?
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.