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
Making Sense of Contradictory Science Results
How do we make make sense of contradictory results?
How to Make Sense of Contradictory Science Papers in Nautil.us
Published research is less about conclusions than science at play.
BY HAIXIN DANG & LIAM KOFI BRIGHT
The scienceNaturally…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wheelchairs with Smarter Voice Controls
Seems a very natural solution. Especially for integrating with chair and smartphone and other aids. Incudes data important to data and operator.
Permobil Connects Electric Wheelchair App to Alexa and Google Assistant By Eric…From Schneier on Security
Paul van Oorschot’s Computer Security and the Internet
Paul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn a Single Image into a Looping Video: Uses?
Experimented with something like this. Took a single image of part of a machine or process, then applying some images of specific known maintenance issues, and apply likelihood under specific contexts. Then show to a human…
From insideHPC
MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark
Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons released a new benchmark, MLPerf Tiny Inference to measure trained neural network AI inference performance for low-power devices in small form factors. MLPerf Tiny v0.5 is MLCommons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind Learns Football from Motion Capture
Intriguing, with the implication that you can go from direct motion capture to broader contexts. Team work, which implies both individual skills, planning and team strategy. Consider it being used for corporate resource use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefining What a map Can be With New Information and AI
Google re-defining mapping. Very nicely done. Started with Google maps, and the ability to link in data as needed for usage contexts. And AI being used to look for patterns in data.
Redefining what a map can be with newBy…From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights
In this recent interview, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable and sustainable exascale computing ecosystem for the nation.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Inobtrusive Wearables Monitoring Health
Interesting out of Purdue, where we connected in the retail modeling world. Here it seems novel methods of self powering. We called it 'smart clothing'. Got a call from marketing execs about washing such clothing. An internet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting Algorithms
Algorithm, Malgorithm, Jalgorithm? Fairness in Judgement.
Right, algorithm just means a standardized method. Like iany tool can be used or misused. Good piece here.
Misnomer and Malgorithms By Robin K. Hill in CACM
In response…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Continues Grab-and-Go Rollouts
Amazon still thinks the 'Go' concept is a good one, perhaps with locational interests, now a roll out in London.
Amazon will open the doors to a grab-and-go, checkout-less grocery store on Thursday By Tonya Garcia
Amazon Fresh…From insideHPC
Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks
This article describes the extensive evaluation testing of the optimal operational configuration for running Ansys RedHawk-SC Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool on Microsoft Azure. The results identified two categories of…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Excited for CSTA 2021
As a member of the CSTA Conference Committee, I attended the first of two presenter training sessions today. Wow! CSTA 2021 will be good. Now I have read most of the proposals for presentations and helped select them so I had…
From insideHPC
ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject) that will address several questions concerning the Extreme…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University where she leads the Innovatory for Cells and Neural Machines.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Open Sources Hyperledger
Had examined this sometime ago, seems IBM wants it and blockchain to succeed. This will promote it it be be better tested.
IBM Donates Code Improvements to Open Source Hyperledger
“The intent is to improve the usability of Hyperledger…From Schneier on Security
VPNs and Trust
TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country they are incorporated in, and so on.
Most interesting to me…From Schneier on Security
Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit
Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire.
Based on preliminary reports published by the team of experts that New Hampshire engaged to examine an election discrepancy…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – June 2021
We’ve reached the end of another year of programming for ACM-W. And what a year it has been! In spite of the challenges we’ve faced, ACM-W activity worldwide continued in the form of virtual Celebrations, Chapter activities,…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thursday—June 17th—A Debate on Program Correctness
There are two ways to write error free programs; only the third one works–Alan Perlis Perlis on Coding Joy source Alan Perlis, the first Turing Award winner, summarized the whole issue of program correctness in his single quote…
From insideHPC
Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC
Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an HPC chip, have entered into a strategic partnership intended to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Chip Shortages Leading to Fakes
Chip shortages leading to fakes and safety in the operation of systems.
The Global Chip Shortage is Creating a New Problem: More Fake Components By ZDNet
From face masks to hand sanitizer and onto vaccine passports: almost all…From insideHPC
Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market
San Antonio, TX, June 15 , 2021 – Subzero Engineering, a maker of data center containment solutions, and Armstrong World Industries (AWI), a designer and manufacture of commercial and residential ceiling, wall, and suspension…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Autonomous Warehouse Robotics
Advances in Amazon Warehouse robotics to improve safety and operations. Note includes autonomous operation.
Amazon Details Warehouse Robots, 'Ernie' and 'Bert'
CNBC, Lauren Feiner, June 13, 2021
Retail giant Amazon is testing new…From insideHPC
Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit Targets Hyperscaler Data Centers
Intel has unveiled a programmable networking device for hyperscalers and their massive data center infrastructures. Called the Infrastructure Processing Unit and announced at Intel made the announcement during the Six Five Summit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Space Weather Prediction
Ultimately a very important function, Coronal Mass Ejection is dangerous to many technical functions on earth. Neural methods for pattern analysis for coronal holes.
AI Spots Coronal Holes to Automate Space Weather Prediction…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How long should you work on a problem ?
Lev Reyzin says that working too long on a problem might be unproductive: I, personally, have diminishing (or negative?) returns to my creative work as I explicitly work on a problem past some amount of time. I often have insights…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Based TikTok Says it Will Collect US Biometric Data
See also Bruce Schneier with further comments on this.
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints By Sarah Perez in TechCrunch
A change to TikTok’s…From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Positions for Inflation
My former and longtime employer writes, on the threat of Inflation Challenges. With innovation.
P&G Is Positioned for Inflation Challenges
Procter & Gamble Vice Chairman and COO Jon Moeller tells investors it has winning products…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Long Will it be Until we can Talk to Animals?
First I thought this was a silly question. But it is really a primary question of intelligence. Its not just a translation, but a need to parse into a useful structure so it can be translated into/from our world. Peoples…