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
Safety and Leadership in a Time of Change
Good overview of current and future considerations.
Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of flux
Two renowned scholars and two McKinsey experts illuminate the leadership imperatives of our time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid Changing the Way we Eat?
Implications for food related industries.
How COVID-19 has changed the way we eat, according to five experts
Top executives from General Mills, Impossible Foods, Land O’Lakes, and more talk about how the pandemic has changed our…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Intellectual Fireworks?
Some different ideas for marking the Fourth “Founding Frenemies” source John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did not use Zoom. Their correspondence, from 1777 up to their deaths hours apart on July 4, 1826, fills a 600-page book.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes
My son Steve is an expert at drone deployment and photography, Need any help in that domain, let me know and I will introduce you.
Drone-Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes Could Check Spread of Insect-Borne Illnesses
in TechCrunch
By
French…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NBA Uses Smart Tech Wearables
Expect continued use of wearable sensors. Here another example. Brings to mind the question of who owns the captured and derived data. Similar agreements to what is currently done with the results of doctor's exams?
Inside…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Doug Ball Talk CFD, Autonomous Mobility and Driving Down HPC Package Sizing
Doug Ball is a leading expert in computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic engineering, disciplines he became involved with more than 40 years ago. In this interview with the late Rich Brueckner of insideHPC, Ball discusses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Purpose
I often follow university and lab work of interest that matches my long problem solving experience. Sometimes I mention it for my own future purposes, or if I know someone else could find it useful. We had many people visit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing Cost Predictor
Overall a good idea, especially if a process model of existing manufacturing systems are maintained and this can be used to price out changes.
Manufacturing Cost Prediction
Purdue University News
Chris Adam
May 26, 2020
Researchers…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing CRA Workshop Series on Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans
The following is a guest blog from the BPC Plan Workshop Steering Committee. We are pleased to announce the Workshop Series on Writing Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans. As part of the National Science…
From Schneier on Security
Hacked by Police
French police hacked EncroChat secure phones, which are widely used by criminals: Encrochat's phones are essentially modified Android devices, with some models using the "BQ Aquaris X2," an Android handset released in 2018 by…
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC Podcast: NSF, QIS Funding, But First…
....we discuss some recent government news. First is that the US House is looking to devote an additional $1.25 billion over the next five years. But even bigger is the proposal to expand the US National Science Foundation by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Network Effects
Had mentioned this once before, the topic has come up again, so I repeat it again. Good overview.
Andreessen Horowitz
16Ways to Measure Network Effects
by Li Jin and D'Arcy Coolican
Network effects are one of the most important
For…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Launches Watson Works
Addressing return to work challenges
IBM launches Watson Works to address the challenges of returning to the workplace
Provides data-driven insights to help employers make informed decisions on workplace re-entry and safety
ARMONK…
From insideHPC
Samsung, IBM, Tencent Lead AI Patent Race, Europe Lagging
Three companies – Samsung, IBM and Tencent – dominate the global AI patent race over the past 10 years, while fierce competition between the U.S, and China overshadows other countries and regions, including the EU. These are
…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Releases Evolving Methods for Evaluating and Disseminating Computing Research White Paper
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has released a white paper titled Evolving Methods for Evaluating and Disseminating Computing Research. This white paper was written by Future of the Research Enterprise (FRE) task force…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Software Defined Power Grid
Definition and value of a software defined power grid.
The Software-Defined Power Grid Is Here in IEEE Spectrum
It’s time to move away from our antiquated, hardware-dependent power grid to a modern, digital software-based grid
By…
From insideHPC
Frédéric Hannoyer Appointed COO of SiPearl, Designer of Europe’s Exascale Chip
Frédéric Hannoyer (48, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Ecole des Ponts Paris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed chief operating officer of SiPearl, the microprocessor designer for the European exascale supercomputer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Activ Surgical Joins with Qualcomm Smart Cities
Intriguing connection for healthcare in the smart city.
Activ Surgical Joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program
Participation to include a collaboration with Innominds to develop next generation surgical sensing capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on AI in the Future of Work
How much and in what context will the human touch be most important? Ultimately an important aspect. Seeing some testing of that now.
Does the Human Touch + AI = The Future of Work?
By Bryan Becker In Datanami
Artificial intelligence…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Call for Position Papers
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering challenges in adiabatic/ reversible classical computing. This…
From Schneier on Security
The Security Value of Inefficiency
For decades, we have prized efficiency in our economy. We strive for it. We reward it. In normal times, that's a good thing. Running just at the margins is efficient. A single just-in-time global supply chain is efficient. Consolidation…
From insideHPC
Reinventing HPC Architectures with In-Package Optical I/O
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Ayar Labs indicate that although the industry has long recognized the potential of optical I/O as a solution for many HPC challenges, it is only in recent years that economic in-package…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Does Smart Home Virtual Summit
Does this mean more emphasis on 'Smart Home' from Google? Will like to hear about their plans for ecosystem for the home. Hope to attend virtually.
Google I/O Replaced with “Hey Google” Smart Home Virtual Summit
By Eric Hal Schwartz…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harnessing Graphs in a New Business Climate
Of interest, upcoming:
Tuesday, July 14 8:00 a.m. PT | 11:00 a.m. ET
Harnessing Graphs in a New Business Climate
Hi Franz,
As economies continue to reopen across much of Europe and North America, many organizations turn to graph…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cough Detection for IOT
Fascinating little application for real-time IOT, potentially as an inexpensive detector on a mobile phone. Quite considerable and instructive detail at the link.
Cough Detection with TinyML on Arduino in IOTCentral
Posted by…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Computer Science in K-12
Full disclosure: I haven’t read all of “Computer Science for K-12” edited and compiled by Shuchi Grover yet but a couple of chapters was enough to convince me I should recommend it to other computer science teachers. The books…
From insideHPC
Record Number of Student Teams to Participate in the APAC HPC and AI Competition
The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) in collaboration with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore today announced the teams competing in the co-organized, third annual APAC HPC-AI Competition supporting student …
From insideHPC
Xilinx Names Hasmukh Ranjan Chief Information Officer
Xilinx has announced that Hasmukh Ranjan has joined the company as chief information officer. As CIO, Hasmukh will lead Xilinx’s information technology group and drive internal IT strategy, systems and processes in support of…
From insideHPC
DDN Data Storage in 7th-ranked Nvidia Supercomputer
DDN announced that its data infrastructure is used in the NVIDIA supercomputer that achieved the seventh position in the most recently announced TOP500 supercomputing list announced last week during ISC 2020 Digital conference…