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
Combining iPhone Videos for 4D Viz
Another example of gathering more data that you would normally with a sensor, then combining the data in order to make it useful for more than normal, purely typical human-visual needs. Also to create manipulative and illusional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Problem with Google's Open Usage Commons
IBM Suggests there is a Problem:
IBM has a problem with Google’s Open Usage Commons
The ties between the Open Usage Commons and Google may be too strong and clear. By Jim Salterin in ArsTechnia
This Wednesday, Google announced
From…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS And Microsoft Azure
Intriguing to see the linking of Azure and SAS. Some particularly novel sample problems.
3 world-changing examples of SAS® on Azure by Oliver SchabenBerger
Last week we announced a new strategic partnership with Microsoft to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 11th 2020)
Some upcoming Mercedes cars will have augmented reality head-up displays. Intel’s new standard for high-speed cables (thunderbolt) supports 3 GB/s bandwidth. (This is very fast: internal disks usually cannot sustain such speeds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bio-Ink for 3D Printing Inside the Body
Quite a remarkable possibility when linked to medical robotics.
Bio-Ink for 3D Printing Inside the Body
IEEE Spectrum
Charles Q. Choi
July 1, 2020
Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) have developed a bio-ink that can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Close to Level 5
The legendary level 5 means completely autonomous, no driver input. Once we get that level there is likely to be an explosion of data to gather, and answering questions like how safe is it versus car with driver?
Elon Musk says…
From Schneier on Security
China Closing Its Squid Spawning Grounds
China is prohibiting squid fishing in two areas -- both in international waters -- for two seasons, to give squid time to recover and reproduce. This is the first time China has voluntarily imposed a closed season on the high…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACMW Communications Co-Chairs: Bettina Bair and Sarah McRoberts
The goal of the Communications Committee is to empower the communications of all chapters and levels of leadership with tools, frameworks, and our global platforms. We are growing our organizational communication to bring in…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Interview about ACM-W Scholarships
In this column we have conversations with the members of our panels about the Scholarship program and it's history.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Kind of Open Source: Open Commons
Google Open Usage Commons. Considering this, there will be more to follow. Thoughts?
Announcing a new kind of open source organization
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Google has deep roots in open source. We're proud of our 20 years
One…
From Schneier on Security
EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream
It's the EFF's 30th birthday, and the organization is having a celebratory livestream today from 3:00 to 10:00 pm PDT. There are a lot of interesting discussions and things. I am having a fireside chat at 4:10 pm PDT to talk…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ron Graham, 1935–2020
Ron Graham passed away, but he lives on… Cropped from tribute by Tom Leighton Ron Graham just passed away Monday at the age of in La Jolla near UCSD. Today Ken and I wish to say a few words about Ron. Tributes are being written…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Webinar: Opportunity Marketplaces
Brought to my attention by Michael Schrage, a correspondent at MIT:
Organizations constrained to offer workers financial incentives might consider a new approach: opportunity marketplaces.
The COVID-19 crisis has made organizations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Robotic Lab Assistants
Robotic Lab assistants are being tested broadly, here some initial results.
Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting research
Working 22 hours a day, seven days a week, in the dark By James Vincent
Researchers…
From Schneier on Security
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according to researchers from the email security firm Agari, particularly…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers for In-Memory Computing Summit 2020
FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 09, 2020 — GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, today announced the call for papers for the In-Memory Computing Summit 2020 virtual worldwide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth: 15 Years and Still Mapping
Been a fan since the very beginning. Used it at work. It has replaced very messy geography. The ability to answer geographic questions visually very quickly. Here some good examples of use:
Here’s to you: 15 years of Google…
From Computational Complexity
Reflections on Ronald Graham by Steve Butler
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teams Improving Capabilities with Cortana, Stadium Seating
Teams adds group meeting features. More competition putting together useful capabilities for group remote meetings. Transcripts. Like to see what kind of assistance Cortana might give, could be just the thing to get people…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society
Lenovo is installing a Neptune liquid cooled supercomputer at the Max Planck Society, a delivery that began two months ago and is scheduled to be completed early next year. The €20 million project includes a 100,000-core Neptune…
From insideHPC
Inspur Introduces Leading Designs of A100 Servers for AI and HPC
In this special guest feature, our friends over at Inspur write about how the company is delivering new servers that address the most demanding performance from companies that are implementing AI and ML into their workflows. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Have People Responded to Pandemic?
Fascinating piece, recall using data from 'discovered' cameras to determine city walking traffic patterns. Also using data from public cameras, with scrubbed facial images, could be acquired for similar analysis. Today with…
From Schneier on Security
Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what's going on in front of the camera, and infer when there is someone home. News article. Slashdot…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Lab to Tackle Ethical Implications of Tech
Another effort in the space. Good to have multiple efforts addressing this problem to get competing analyses and solutions.
Notre Dame, IBM Launch Tech Ethics Lab to Tackle the Ethical Implications of Technology
Notre Dame News…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI gets a Poor grade of B- in Covid-19 Fight
A look about how AI is helping with vaccine development efforts. Sounds like a reasonable criticism, mainly that the event is too novel to learn from. But is it that novel, or have we just never seen it in the modern world.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biomimicry for Regenerative Medicine
Could the cells in these simple worms point towards a mechanism for regeneration of organs in humans? Considerable, non technical article with links to more .....
Flatworms muscle new eyes' wiring into their brains
Peter Reddien's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Buy WDG Automation
IBM linking process to detect AI opportunities to approaches like RPA. And they already have integrated BPL capabilities. WDG Automation is in the process of building/using RPA methods.
IBM to buy Brazil's WDG Automation to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime
Good expert comments on the just announced Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime. With some more details and comments by experts in the area. Like I have said, the competition is good.
Will Walmart’s best shoppers ditch Amazon Prime for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need for Loaded Dice
I remember having to explain to managers why dice had to be 'loaded' in some of the simulations we built. Isn't that biased? Yes, but being loaded is required in accurate models. The article in Quanta Magazine shows why. …