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
Wharton says Robots are Coming, but Just for Your Management
Robots are Coming, is Your Firm ready?
Audio Player at the link above.
Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume…From insideHPC
Intel Changes Leadership, Structure of Data Platforms Group
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced the addition of two new technology managers to its executive leadership team, as well as several changes to Intel business units. Current Intel executives Sandra Rivera and Raja Koduri will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Camera Can Illuminate Bacteria Causing Acne, Dental Plaque
Diagnosis Application.
Smartphone Camera Can Illuminate Bacteria Causing Acne, Dental Plaque
By University of Washington News, June 17, 2021
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a technique to identify potentially…From insideHPC
Diane Bryant, Former Intel and Google Cloud Exec, Named to Platform9 Board of Directors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June, 22, 2021 — Platform9 today announced the appointment of Diane Bryant to its Board of Directors. Bryant, a technology executive who COO of Google Cloud and Group President of Intel’s Data Center…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Demonstrates Industrial Simulations on Fugaku
Tokyo, June 23, 2021 — Fujitsu Limited successfully leveraged on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of the Waves of COVID on Internet Traffic
Quite an interesting piece on how changes in external context can change the ebb and flow of the internet. And an attempt to make sense of the numbers. Useful for future planning and redesign. And more consideration of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Claims to Exceed GPT-3 Language
Continued push on more powerful language models.
China outstrips GPT-3 with even more ambitious AI language model
By Anthony Spadafora in TechRadar, First Published 2 weeks ago
WuDao 2.0 model was trained using 1.75tn parameters…From Schneier on Security
Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries:
Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam’s interception products, dubbed “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler,” are capable of remotely…From insideHPC
DOE Funding $29M to Develop Advanced Chemical Sciences Software
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $28.9 million in funding for nine research projects to advance the development of sophisticated software for the chemical sciences. Funding totals approximately $8.4 million…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Trust in AI
Accurate measures in context would be very useful.
NIST Wants to Measure Trust in AI By Wired, June 22, 2021
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology wants to quantify user trust in artificial intelligence.
"Trust and…From insideHPC
Xilinx Announces FPGA EDA Tools with ML
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced Vivado ML Editions, which the company said is the industry’s first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine-learning (ML) optimization algorithms, as well as team-based design flows, intended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving the Virtual Classroom
Presentation and paper on efforts at improving the virtual classroom.
How To Improve the Virtual Classroom
By University of California, San Diego, June 21, 2021
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego studied the"'It…From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop the Ransomware Pandemic
Excerpt from The Economist via ACM:
Stop the Ransomware Pandemic, Start with the Basics By The Economist, June 22, 2021
TWENTY YEARS ago, it might have been the plot of a trashy airport thriller. These days, it is routine. On…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Test Your Email Provider’s Support for Digital Inclusivity
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Do you know if your email provider is digitally inclusive? Can you send email to and receive email from any valid address around the world? You might assume so, but many organizations…
From insideHPC
CPG Adds ML Capabilities to Data Center Battery Monitoring Service
ASHBURN, VA. – June 22, 2020 – CPG, an end-to-end data center technology partner, today unveiled upgrades to its cloud-based Insight for Batteries predictive analytics and monitoring platform, which now includes advanced machine…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Launches AI LaunchPad: AI Enterprise Infrastructure
NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA AI LaunchPad, a program delivered through hybrid-cloud providers designed to give enterprises access to NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and software. Digital infrastructure company Equinix will be…
From insideHPC
DOE: 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Call for Nominations
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which is presented by the Secretary of Energy to honor mid-career U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laundry in Space
Former employer activity. Not new, recall some similar activity in the 70s.
How do you do laundry in space? NASA taps P&G to find solution
By Andy Brownfield – Staff Reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier
Dec 9, 2020, 7:16am…From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Use Face Masks
Former employer tech activity
Circular economy for plastics
Press Release / June 16, 2021
The Fraunhofer Cluster…From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data
This insideHPC technology guide, insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data, discusses how organizations need to adopt a Fusion Computing Model to meet the needs of processing…
From insideHPC
SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona
Maisons-Laffitte,France and Barcelona, June 22, 2021 – SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is opening its Barcelona office as the second…
From insideHPC
Fugaku in Joint Research for COVID Therapies
Tokyo — June 22, 2021 — Fujitsu Japan Limited today announced a research project leveraging Fugaku, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, to identify small molecule inhibitory compounds that could be used to treat COVID-19…
From insideHPC
HPE Buys Startup Open Source ML-HPC Platform Determined AI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup with a software stack designed to train AI models faster using its open source machine learning (ML) platform.…
From insideHPC
Dataiku Launches in AWS Marketplace
NEW YORK — AI and machine learning platform Daitaku announced today that it is available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors designed to make it easy to …
From insideHPC
Ceph Foundation Announces Formation of Ceph Market Development Group
San Francisco — June 21, 2021 – The Ceph Foundation, dedicated to enabling industry members to collaborate and pool resources to support the Ceph community, today announced the formation of the Ceph Market Development Group. …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Are Arrays So Hard For Beginners?
Beginner programmers often, dare I say usually, struggle with arrays. Sometimes it is hard for experienced programmers like myself to understand why but with years of using them in many languages they’re second nature for us
While…From Schneier on Security
Apple Will Offer Onion Routing for iCloud/Safari Users
At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called “iCloud Private Relay.” That’s basically its private version of onion routing, which is what Tor does.
Privacy Relay is built into both the…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Related Game
It’s called “Squid Fishering.”
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Listen to Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 36 – Computer Architecture with Mark D. Hill (Part 2)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior Program Associate) interviews Dr. Mark D. Hill, the Gene M. Amdahl…
From Computational Complexity
Collusion Rings
Grigory Yaroslavtsev now maintains the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet, a crowd-sourced listing of where your favorite CS theorists have taken new positions. Read his blog post for more info.
Michael Littman wrote a CACM Viewpoint onthis…