Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2023
From Schneier on Security
How Attorneys Are Harming Cybersecurity Incident Response
New paper: “Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys“:
Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help…From insideHPC
DDN Customer CINECA Recognized for Bandwidth Score on IO500 List for Production Systems
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 6, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NeuralAngelo from NVIDIA via Neural Networks
Impressive, high detail transformation. Could have used this in several past applications. See videos at link. Architectural and other 3D vision apps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQMNCXR-WF8
Digital Renaissance: Neuralangelo…From insideHPC
IBM to Open European Quantum Data Center in 2024
IBM today announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center next year in Ehningen, Germany, providing access to quantum computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies. The data center
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision Pro: Apple's New Augmented Reality Headset Unveiled
Pricey indeed, likely first specialty applications.
Vision Pro: Apple's new augmented reality headset unveiled By Tom Gerken & James Clayton at Apple Park in California in BBC News
Apple has unveiled a much-anticipated augmented…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson: On leveraging AI to improve productivity
Thoughts from IBM on getting AI to work for Productivity
Jay Migliaccio, IBM Watson: On leveraging AI to improve productivity
IBM has been refining its AI solutions for decades and knows a thing or two about helping businessesIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Not Yet Intelligent Enough to Be a Trusted Research Aid
But can take over a number of time consuming sub tasks.
AI Not Yet Intelligent Enough to Be a Trusted Research Aid
By The Scholarly Kitchen, April 27, 2023
I was still stuck without a confirmed reference to new information suggested…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations on AI in Education
Pat Yongpradit from Code.Org tweeted an image of what they are seeing in conversations about AI and Education. (The link on the image below goes to that tweet)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
But not there yet.
Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
By The New York Times, May 17, 2023
Microsoft researchers in March published a 155-page research paper arguing that an artificial intelligence system they…From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips
Remember being told this was effectively impossible.
Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips
By UC San Diego Today, May 31, 2023 A prototype of the blood pressure monitoringResearchers…From Schneier on Security
Snowden Ten Years Later
In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well.
I wrote the essay below in September 2013…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSET Releases Reports to Help Organizations Implement Responsible AI
With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its increasingly ubiquitous role in society, the Biden administration, a multitude of government agencies and nonprofits are turning their attention to the assurance and implementation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
Can we be doing Consumer market research with Generative AI? Something we thought about in the 80s.With exactly these consumer products. So are we close enough to now get a meaningful answer?
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers…From insideHPC
HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction
HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and a portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings,
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From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing
In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed growth in attendees and number of exhibitors, if not a return to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.
Fascinating aspect. Thinking impact.
AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.
By The Washington Post, June 5, 2023
ChatGPT running on a smartphone.
The tech giants staking their future on AI rarely discuss…From BLOG@CACM
ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity
It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.
From insideHPC
Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term…
From BLOG@CACM
What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton: On the Rise of AI
Podcast
Wharton Ripple Effect
Rise of AI: How Do We Coexist With Algorithms?
THIS EPISODE Professor Kartik Hosanagar discusses how AI is impacting the world as we know it and how we can keep up.
Knowledge at Wharton is the free…From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Simulations
Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Situations
MIT News
Adam Zewe, May 31, 2023
An algorithm developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Technion—Israel Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweden is developing its own big language model
More Language models.
Sweden is developing its own big language model
Artificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not only for Swedish, but for all the major languages in the NordicBy…From Schneier on Security
The Software-Defined Car
Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car.
For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The gender shades audit
Face recognition technology is used widely, such as at passport controls and by police forces. What if it isn't as good at recognising faces as it has been claimed to be? Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru tested three different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Using Chatbit Bing to Answer Questions
ChatGPT Using Bing to Answer Questions
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 23, 2023 at 1:00 pm
ChatGPT will start sourcing answers using Bing, Microsoft announced at its Build conference. OpenAI’s explosively popular generative AI chatbot…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
Classic Problem.
Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
By Popular Science
May 11, 2023
Is there an optimal way to assign flights to gates?
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving…From Computational Complexity
Quantifiers: To Parenthesize or not to Parenthesize? Matrix of Formula: To Bracket or not to Bracket?
For the book
Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds
by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi
(See here for a link to a first draft.)
we had to make some choices about which notation to use. One of the leastWhen…From CERIAS Blog
AI and ML Sturm und Drang
I recently wrote up some thoughts on the current hype around ML and AI. I sent it to the Risks Digest. Peter Neumann (the moderator) published a much-abbreviated version. This is the complete set of comments.
There is a
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Playing the weighting game
How do search engines find the best web pages. It is like a giant talent contest where you want the best web pages to win. Karen Spärck Jones worked out how best to do it and her algorithm is the basis of most search algorithms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind
Example of how Country/region regulation can stall uses, increase training, mauntenance needs.
Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind in Nextweb
The bloc's frosty reception of generative AI could be to…