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 The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms for Optimized Supply Chain
An area we spent lots of time in, Fraunhofer provides an introduction. Combinations of available solutions that can be quickly chosen from can be a key approach.
Algorithms for optimized supply chains
Cost-effective ways to minimize…
From insideHPC
2020 OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop Video Gallery
Welcome to the 2020 OpenFabrics Workshop video gallery. The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is focused on accelerating development of high performance fabrics. The annual OFA Workshop, held in virtual format this year, is a premier…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Online Conference 2020–Day Two
The first thing I did this morning was to prepare for my presentation. I may have made some last minute changes to my presentation deck.
The first thing I attended was a Birds of a Feather session called White Teachers as Anti…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cloud and Procter&Gamble Analytics
Using the Google Cloud, aiming at personalized experiences.
Google Cloud Helps Power More Personalized Experience for Procter & Gamble Consumers in PRNewswire CISION
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud…
From insideHPC
Flatiron Institute Expands beyond 1000 Nodes with Bright Computing Cluster Management Software
The Flatiron Institute, New York, a community of scientists using modern computational tools to advance the basic sciences, is deploying a 320-node addition to its research cluster that will be managed by cluster management software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Enables Efficiencies in Quantum Information Processing.
Good general introduction. Impressed by the approach being worked on.
AI Enables Efficiencies in Quantum Information Processing
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
July 8, 2020
Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maintaining the Measures
Like the general thought, measures are important, but what is driving and changing the measures? Another example of maintaining the model in use. Changes will happen.
Modern IT KPIs emphasize cloud, DevOps and user experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Automated Machine Learning
Emphasizing the automated, inevitable that such method will be more broadly integrated with general IT analytics. But will also require automated updating of their use in context.
AutoML: Not A Magic Bullet, But A Powerful Business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reverse Engineering of 3D-Printed Parts by Machine Learning
A new caution regarding how machine learning can lead to extraction of IP.
Reverse Engineering of 3D-Printed Parts by Machine Learning Reveals Security Vulnerabilities
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
July 1, 2020
Researchers at
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Security Tools?
Intriguing thought, though the actual result, 8 percent, seems it might be within the noise of measurement. Work recording the institute name, which I had not heard of.
Too many security tools weaken enterprise incident response…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies HPC Community Interview: Bob Wisniewski, Intel’s Chief HPC Architect, Talks Aurora, oneAPI
Intel is the prime vendor for the first US exascale supercomputer, the Aurora system, scheduled for delivery in 2021 at Argonne National Lab. The late Rich Brueckner of insideHPC caught up with Intel’s senior principal engineer…
From Schneier on Security
Enigma Machine for Sale
A four-rotor Enigma machine -- with rotors -- is up for auction....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2020 Conference Online–Day One
Day one of the online CSTA 2020 conference has been today. I’m blogging this as the day goes on and posting it at the end of the day. We started with welcome remarks and some tutorial about using the Hopin conference platform…
From insideHPC
Entries Open for Hyperion Research HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today that it and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee are accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The program started in 2011 and has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Food Butchers
The first steps in large scale replacement of human labor?
Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus Outbreaks
The Wall Street Journal
Jacob Bunge; Jesse Newman
Engineers and scientists at meatpacking company Tyson Foods…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Manipulating Cables
Been at times responsible for cable rooms, and know of the messiness in manipulating cable. Never thought of this being solved by robotics. In fact thought of it as a particularly difficult thing to do that way. This particular…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
Scientific inquiry, in The Edge
The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
A Conversation with David Kaiser
Most historians of science, certainly these days, consider themselves historians. That means we use historical methods of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes Text Fragment Links
Taking a look at this as a possible means for capturing contextual insights.
Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension
New feature can deep-link to specific text on a Web page, with highlighting. ...
Ron Amadeo…
From insideHPC
Google’s Dr. Patrick Flick Wins ACM SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dr. Patrick Flick, a software engineer at Google who earned his PhD in computational science from Georgia Tech in 2019, has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM…
From insideHPC
Industrial Servers Ramp Up AI for Robotic Arms
Ramping up AI technology holds the key to deploying robotic arms at-scale. This case study "Industrial Servers Ramp Up AI for Robotic Arms" from our friends over at Advantech explores the benefits of augmenting robotic arms with…
From Schneier on Security
A Peek into the Fake Review Marketplace
A personal account of someone who was paid to buy products on Amazon and leave fake reviews. Fake reviews are one of the problems that everyone knows about, and no one knows what to do about -- so we all try to pretend doesn't…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Neuromorphic Computing Leading to Intelligence?
A look at the history of neuromorphic computing. Or the use of some 'forms' of the biological brain to provide 'intelligence'. Artificial Neural Network methods already do this, but relatively weakly. Mentioned is Terry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Alibaba
Followed Unilever for years, an interesting direction for them in technology.
Latest Unilever Partnership to Focus on Next-Gen Digital Marketing
By Alarice Rajagopal - 07/07/2020 in ConsumerGoods
Unilever is partnering with the…
From Computational Complexity
Ronald Graham: A summary of blog Posts We had about his work
To Honor Ronald Graham I summarize the blog posts we had about his work.
1) Blog post New Ramsey Result that will be hard to verify but Ronald Graham thinks its right which is good enough for me.
Wikipedia (see here) says that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Voice Coming Back to Life?
Used to be an avid user, then it seemed to start to fail, with fewer updates. Now its coming up with some unique ideas. And perhaps the flurry of interest in remote multi agent work has made it look like a new portal for
Google…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing for Speed
McKinsey always does an interesting job looking at these problems.Increase the speed while minimizing the risk of error. reviewing.
Ready, set, go: Reinventing the organization for speed in the post-COVID-19 era
June 26, 2020 …
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts said Richard Feynman. Feynman had a Nobel prize in physics. He was a remarquable educator: his lecture notes are still popular. He foresaw nanotechnology and quantum computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Valuable AI Companies
Fascinating look from the Singularity Hub. Who are the 32 AI Unicorn Hubs? Useful to see the kinds of things that are being worked on.
The World’s Most Valuable AI Companies, and What They’re Working On
By Peter Rejcek In the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon: Sellers must Identify Themselves
Will this create a major change? As is said, creates half of Amazon's sales.
Amazon Is Making a Simple Change that Will Change the Relationship Between Sellers and Customers Forever. Starting September 1, sellers will have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Agency Curriculum
Still have not seen what I call voice-first strategies in many places. Like businesses. They are still matters of convenience, accessibility or cases where hands-free can be important.
Introducing the Alexa Agency Curriculum…