Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stacking the Deck for Computer Security
New idea: Safe Stack, to analyze and classify security. Useful at least to flag possible problems.
Stacking the Deck for Computer Security
Penn State News
WennersHerron Ashley J., June 17, 2022
An international team of researchers…From insideHPC
Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Google’s Lifelike LaMDA AI Chatbot and Questions of Being or Nothingness
When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fabric Hears Your Heartbeat
Quite interesting idea, As a former employee of a detergent company we looked at how smart clothing could be cleaned.
Fabric that Can 'Hear' Your Heartbeat Developed by MIT Scientists
By Study Finds, June 21, 2022
Fabric that can…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan tries—again—to revitalize its research
Followed and visited Japan during the first AI wave, was impressed, but they did seen to take a downturn. No clear enough way to integrate their Uni efforts? Now emerging? Next? A Solution?
Japan tries—again—to revitalize …From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to do Sam's Self Driving
More autonomous elements of the supply chain.
Self-Driving Truck Will Deliver Goods to 34 Sam's Club Locations
The Dallas Morning News
Alexandra Skores, June 7, 2022
Starting in July, Gatik, a California-based autonomous trucking…From insideHPC
Pasqal Named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing
Paris, June 21, 2022 – Pasqal, a neutral atoms quantum computing company, today announced the company has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing by Gartner. This report is designed to highlight interesting, new and…
From insideHPC
RISC-V Announces First Specifications of 2022
Nuremberg, Germany – June 21, 2022 – RISC-V International, the open-design standards organization, announced its first four specification and extension approvals of 2022 – Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E-Trace), RISC-V Supervisor…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winners
June 21, 2022 — Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced 10 U.S. scientists and engineers as recipients of the prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for their exceptional contributions in research and development…
From insideHPC
Castrol and Submer to Collaborate on Immersion Cooling
June 21, 2022 — Lubricant brand Castrol and Submer, an immersion cooling systems solutions maker, have signed an agreement aiming to accelerate the adoption of immersion cooling as a path to more efficient and sustainable data…
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 7.0 Specification to Reach 128 GT/s
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– PCI-SIG today announced that the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s and is targeted for release to members in 2025. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing …
From insideHPC
Berkeley Lab Scientists Say Barium Titanate Could Revolutionize Low-Power Microelectronics
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have turned a century-old material, barium titanate, into what the lab today said is “a next-gen, thin-film material that shows potential for achieving the memory storage properties…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum Mining Going Away
As I understand it, this seems like a very big deal. Miners out of work. Will this decrease its security?
In Bloomberg: Olga Kharif; David Pan, June 16, 2022
Ethereum mining could end soon due to…From insideHPC
AWS Launches Center for Quantum Networking
June 22, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN), whose mission is to address scientific and engineering challenges and to develop new hardware, software, and applications for quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Work in Useful Ways
Standardizing probably the best overall solution. Clear connections to shared work. Have now worked with a half dozen systems.
ACM TECHNEWS
Hybrid Work Meetings Are Hell. Tech Is Trying to Fix Them By The Wall Street Journal…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Guide to Quantum Computing from LANL
Worked with LANL, seems useful looking to see how this is linked to, will post. See here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517340
Quantum Computer Programming for Dummies By Los Alamos National Laboratory News, June 20, 2022
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Cryptocurrency and Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scanned Objects by Google
We looked at common things as we constructed a 'world' to use. This looks useful, a place to start. For robotics and beyond. Lots of links in the below to examples.
Scanned Objects by Google Research: A Dataset of 3D-Scanned…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots for Data Management
Obvious, with stats, but worth considering as a first step for using ...
How Companies Are Using Bots in Data Management in Datanami
Data has become the lifeblood of most organizations. It provides a wealth of information about…From Putting People First
How Touchless User Interfaces Can Amplify the User Experience
A touchless UI has an edge over devices that require touch interactions because decreasing physical contact is helpful in diverse contexts—from food-processing plants to an airport’s self-service registration kiosks.
From Putting People First
Harvard Business Review discovers design fiction
By force of habit, most executives tune down their imagination when strategizing. This is counterproductive, the authors argue. Instead, they offer an alternative: Design fiction. A design technique that immerses executives and…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Digital Republic
How can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?
From Putting People First
An anthropologist on talking about the metaverse
How we describe the metaverse makes a difference – today’s words could shape tomorrow’s reality and who benefits from it
From insideHPC
PRACE Announces Winner of Inaugural €20,000 HPC Excellence Award
June 20, 2022 — The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has announced that the first edition of the PRACE HPC Excellence Award has been awarded to the team of Nicola Marzari of EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale…
From BLOG@CACM
Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Acquihires
Understandable, but the term is new to me. Some reasonable thoughts.
The Complete Guide to Acquihires in Future.com
Peter Blackwood, Tina Ferguson
In today’s ever-competitive environment to drive growth, identifying and hiring…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials
Notable use of piezoelectric effect, detecting obstacles. See full article below.
Engineers Create Single-Step 3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials
By UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, June 17, 2022
University of…From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Standards
Brought to my attention, again:
Raising the Standards in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS)
At the IEEE SA our global community is developing accessible and sustainable approaches and solutions for…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Made Inventions
Artificial Intelligence Is Breaking Patent Law
By Nature, May 24, 2022 (note related previous article)
Within a few years, numerous inventions could involve artificial intelligence (AI), which could create one of the biggestCourts…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Graph of Ancestors
Is there an “Implex Method” in complexity theory? Wikipedia src Bill Wyman was the bass guitarist of the Rolling Stones until 1993. He married Mandy Smith in 1989. A few years later, in 1993, his son, Stephen Wyman, married Mandy…