Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2020
From Computational Complexity
Virtual Complexity
The Complexity Complexity Conference, the conference that shares its name and URL with this blog, originally scheduled for Saarbrücken will be held virtually next week. Registration is free for non-authors. Talks are already
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Exploration
A very old proposition has said that if only we could make a system as inquisitive as a child, and had it able to learn and extend its knowledge, we could get to intelligent machines. An ultimate form of Machine learning. Exploring…
From Schneier on Security
Update on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Program
NIST has posted an update on their post-quantum cryptography program: After spending more than three years examining new approaches to encryption and data protection that could defeat an assault from a quantum computer, the National…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Building Artificial Skin
Modeling chips more closely to biological neurons.
Researchers use Intel’s neuromorphic chip to build artificial skin By Maria Deutscher in SiliconAngle
Intel Corp. today revealed that researchers are using its neuromorphic chips…
From insideHPC
DOE Unveils Blueprint for ‘Unhackable’ Quantum Internet: Central Roles for Argonne, Chicago University, Fermilab
At a press conference held today at the University of Chicago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a strategy for the development of a national quantum internet intended to bring “the United States to the forefront of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Works with Consumers with Data via AI
Some useful details here. Note different forms of data being used as an asset.
P&G Gets Personal with Consumers through Data, AI Tech Collaboration
By Alarice Rajagopal - in Cnsumergoods
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has selected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Israeli Military Launches Radical New Google Maps Alternative
New approaches at detailed street maps.
Israeli Military Launches Radical New Google Maps Alternative
Forbes
Zak Doffman
June 30, 2020
The Israeli military has adopted artificial intelligence (AI), multi-source data fusion, and augmented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa-Live Sessions
Attended this, mostly either broadly general or deep technical. Dev and Device oriented. Like the direction, lots to do The on-demand pieces are at the link below, go to the bottom of the page at the link to register and see…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego Data Talk
Lego is a favorite company for a number of reasons, met with their management in the 90s. Here an upcoming talk via Retailwire, plan to participate.
LEGO: Brick by Brick, Built on the Foundation of Data
Expert Webinar on July
More…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image GPT
Been looking at GPT from OpenAI, and at their site found Image GPT. There a number of links to technical papers at the pieces below:
OpenAI first described GPT-3 in a research paper published in May. But last week it began drip…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Dr. Michael Resch Talks about the Leap from von Neumann: ‘I Tell My PhD Candidates: Go for Quantum’
Dr. Michael M. Resch of the University of Stuttgart has professorships, degrees, doctorates and honorary doctorates from around the world, he has studied and taught in Europe and the U.S., but for all the work he has done in
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Responsible Innovation
Google reports on what they believe is responsible. Considerable piece. Lots of words.
An update on our work on AI and responsible innovation
Kent Walker SVP, Global Affairs
Jeff Dean Google Senior Fellow and SVP, Google
Published…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meshing and Simulation
Design meshes are a means for determining the design of simulation, especially for design problems. Good discussion.
Better simulation meshes well for design software (and more)
New work on 2D and 3D meshing aims to address challenges…
From Schneier on Security
Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
I just co-authored a paper on the legal risks of doing machine learning research, given the current state of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Abstract: Adversarial Machine Learning is booming with ML researchers increasingly…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Invitation to Participate in a Study to Investigate the Compounding Impacts of Racism & COVID-19 on Learning & Employment in Computing & Technology (CIRCLE-CT)
AnitaB.org, The National Center for Women & Technology (NCWIT) and the STARS Computing Corps (STARS) are conducting a survey to understand the impact of the global pandemics on the conditions of work and educational environments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Good is Language Generator GPT-3?
Trying to understand the full range and usefulness of this, will schedule a test. I did take a look at GPT-2 for a client. Much more at the link ...
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless…
From insideHPC
University of Florida, Nvidia Plan to Build Fastest AI Supercomputer in Academia
The University of Florida and Nvidia have unveiled a plan to build what they say will be the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia, delivering 700 petaflops of AI performance and infusing AI throughout UF’s curriculum.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Plans to Lay off
Bell weather activity,especially when you would expect them to thrive in an era of increased job hunting and HR activity.
In A Scary Sign Of The Times, LinkedIn Plans To Lay Off 960 People By Jack Kelly in Forbes
In a sign
In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Latex Printing
Nteo the use use of an embedded 3D printing system,another example of added sensor applications. Potential healthcare applications.
Innovations Lead to 3D-Printed Latex Rubber Breakthrough
Virginia Tech News
July 13, 2020
Researchers…
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC: ISC, Student Cluster Competition Recap
By RadioFreeHPC Podcast In this episode, the RadioFreeHPC team looks back at the success that ISC20 was and discusses what attending an online-only conference was like. Big kudos and thanks to the ISC team who pulled off one
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From Schneier on Security
Fawkes: Digital Image Cloaking
Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren't recognized by facial recognition systems. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes to them that are invisible…
From insideHPC
Inspur Launches Server for Mobile Liquid Cooling Cluster
Data center infrastructure provider Inspur Information has announced a plate liquid-cooling 2U 4-node server, the i24M5-LC, that the company said is optimized for large-scale water-cooling server data centers with PUE
From insideHPC
Paradigm Change: Reinventing HPC Architectures with In-Package Optical I/O
This white paper fromAyar Labs, "Paradigm Change: Reinventing HPC Architectures with In-Package Optical I/O," discusses an important paradigm change: reinventing HPC architectures with in-package optical I/O. The introduction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA and U of Florida
An Alma of mine makes an interesting AI move with NVidia, loo
UF announces $70 million artificial intelligence partnership with NVIDIA
Artist's rendering of University of Florida's new AI supercomputer based on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters
When processing strings, it is tempting to view them as arrays of characters (or bytes) and to process them as such. Suppose that you would like to determine whether a string is ASCII. In ASCII, every character must be a byte…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Scout Delivery Robots Expand
Been awaiting for this, looking forward to see it operational in the suburbs, on the roads and sidewalks, among people. My camera is ready.
Amazon is testing its Scout delivery robots in Georgia and Tennessee
It’s already testing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum is 5, and is Talking
Been impressed by the direction of Blockchain player Ethereum, which has been ambitious and planning to publish a newsletter as part of their milestone. I ask: Where has it come from, where is it going? Where will it take…
From insideHPC
U.S. Launches $75M Push to Advance Quantum Information Science – 3 University Centers
The U.S. has launched a $75 million to accelerate quantum information science (QIS) research and development, funding that will establish three Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes. An announcement today from the White House Office…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Studies Remote Working
Good to see this being studied in the new context.
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
By Harvard Business Review
July 20, 2020
Microsoft employees found new touchpoints ranging from group lunches to happy hours…
From The Eponymous Pickle
KFC Testing 3D BioPrinted Chicken
One of those things that didn't even possible not too long ago. Now being tested by a major player.
KFC to 3D Print Chicken Using Lab-Grown 'Meat of the Future'
The fast food chain wants to develop the world's first laboratory…