Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections-July 2019
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Europe News from ACM-W India Welcome from the ACM-W Chair In response to the call for nominations for various leadership positions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argonne Makes Biggest File Transfer
Impressive, as suggested, useful for very large combinatorial problems with related data.
Argonne Team Makes Largest Single File Transfer in History
By Oliver Peckham in DataNami
A team of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: ISAV 2019 In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization
The ISAV 2019 Workshop has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with with SC19, the In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization Workshop takes place Nov. 18, 2019 in Denver. "The workshop…
From insideHPC
Large-Scale Optimization Strategies for Typical HPC Workloads
Liu Yu from Inspur gave this talk at PASC19. "Ensuring performance of applications running on large-scale clusters is one of the primary focuses in HPC research. In this talk, we will show our strategies on performance analysis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Revolution of AI will be Unsupervised
I attended the ACM Webinar by Yann LeCun mentioned below. Well done, about the history and future of AI. I will point to the slides and audio when they are announced this week. A great, although often technical Deep Learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Reality Glasses
Having been involved in early looks at 'smart glasses' for the enterprise, am still intrigued by when they might become become more common as a replacement for smartphones. In particular what design will make them work best.…
From BLOG@CACM
What Help Should We Provide to Students Learning to Program?
Insights from a recent Dagstuhl Seminar on "Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockstack for Digital Rights
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fill the Data Moats?
Had never experienced the idea formally, But after reading the description here understand the caution. In how many domains can you assure having the data that forms a moat? Perhaps by having a transitional algorithm to
In…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Black Hat USA 2019 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, August 7 and Thurdsay, August 8, 2019. I'm speaking on "Information Security in the Public Interest"…
From insideHPC
HPC Goes Green at Goonhilly Earth Station with Submer Immersive Cooling
"As an innovator in hyper-efficient immersion cooling technology, Submer Technologies is partnering with Goonhilly and 2CRSI to provide HPC solutions with higher performance at less than half the energy consumption of traditional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Kitchens
Been a close watcher, but no practitioner of restaurant world. Most recently seen: Cloud Kitchens. Not new, but their digital implementation could be. Further automation of selection cooking, assembly, delivery?
Are cloud kitchens…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Application Engineer for Arm in Austin
Arm in Austin, Texas is seeking an Application Engineer in our job of the Week. "The Applications Engineer is part of a focused professional services team part of the Development Solutions Group, that has responsibility for supporting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google on Design of Data Viz
Useful view. Its good to set up a standard and teach that within an enterprise. Consider also its application to mobile devices.
Six Principles for Designing Any Chart
An introduction to Google’s new data visualization guidelines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Goes CallJoy for Small Business
Google approaches small business to AI automate phone use. like blocking unwanted calls, and providing basic response information about your services and hours. A concierge like service with a virtual agent to save you time
Helping…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 13th 2019)
Drinking juice increases your risk of having cancer. College completion rates are increasing and this may have to do with lower standards. Australia is going to try a flu vaccine that was partially designed with help from anContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing and Chemical Industry
Was unaware of this particular connection. Description below. Improved Modeling.
The next big thing? Quantum computing’s potential impact on chemicals
The chemical industry is poised to be an early beneficiary of the vastly expanded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storing Data in Music
Intriguing idea, in theory not that hard. Why might it be used? A kind of Steganography?
Storing Data in Music
ETH Zurich
By Fabio Bergamin
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed a method for embedding data in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants a Rolling Home Assistant
Have now seen a number of rolling smart home assistants fail, will this take it forward by using the Alexa infrastructure?
Amazon continues work on mobile home robot as it preps new high-end Echo, says report
Prototypes for the…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: When the Octopus and Squid Lost Their Shells
Cephalopod ancestors once had shells. When did they lose them? With the molecular clock technique, which allowed him to use DNA to map out the evolutionary history of the cephalopods, he found that today's cuttlefish, squids…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s Really About the Teacher
CSTA 2019 gave me a lot to think about. Today I was thinking about what was impressive and I thought about the Tuesday lunch panel. Microsoft brought a panel of high school students to talk about how computer science education…
From Schneier on Security
Clickable Endnotes to Click Here to Kill Everybody
In Click Here to Kill Everybody, I promised clickable endnotes. They're finally available....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanoid Sign Language
Robotic Sign Language
A robotic hand making a gesture in sign language. UC3M Programs a Humanoid Robot to Communicate in Sign Language
Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)
July 8, 2019
The_UC3M_programmes_a_humanoid_robot_to_communicate_in_sign_language…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA DGX-Ready Program Goes Global
Deploying AI at scale can be an extreme challenge for data centers. To ease the process, NVIDIA has expanded its DGX-Ready Data Center Program to 19 validated partners around the world. "DGX-Ready Data Center partners help companies…
From insideHPC
John Shalf from LBNL on Computing Challenges Beyond Moore’s Law
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe interviews John Shalf from LBNL on the development of digital computing in the post Moore’s law era. "In his keynote speech at the ISC conference in Frankfurt…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Tackling Massive Scientific Challenges with AI/HPC Convergence
In this Chip Chat podcast, Brandon Draeger from Cray describes the unique needs of HPC customers and how new Intel technologies in Cray systems are helping to deliver improved performance and scalability. "More and more, we are…
From insideHPC
Time to Value: Storage Performance in the Epoch of AI
Sven Oehme gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting at ISC 2019. "New AI and ML frameworks, advances in computational power (primarily driven by GPU’s), and sophisticated, maturing use-cases are demanding more from the storage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation on Future of US Manufacturing
Podcast and transcript from K@W in a realm of advanced automation and robotics.
How the U.S. Can Regain Its Manufacturing Edge
BCG's Justin Rose discusses what the U.S. can do to regain its manufacturing edge.
Manufacturing in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams Surges Ahead of Slack
Microsoft shows the numbers, somewhat unexpectedly. Have used Teams since its rollout. A quite fast pickup. Its well done for basic chat and beyond. Probably because its integrated with the commonly installed Office.
Microsoft…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tools and Sensitivity
Cutting right through a 30-year-old conjecture Cropped from Emory homepage Hao Huang is a mathematician and computer scientist at Emory University. Last week he released a paper of only six pages that solves the Boolean Sensitivity…