Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Taking Over Gadgets
Now lets make them as secure as possible. And the AI does not have to be created on the edge, it can be encrypted and fed to devices. We will see both.
How AI Is Taking Over Our Gadgets By The Wall Street Journal. July…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reimplementing Software Interfaces is Fair Use
Somewhat surprising, and Beyond the US? Good overview of the technical implications.
Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair Use
By Pamela Samuelson Communications of the ACM, July 2021, Vol. 64 No. 7, Pages 24-26
10.1145…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Battery Free Internet of Things
A look at current state and technology advances and likely futures. We looked at these for RFID identification applications. Implications for applications, especially for local AI applications.
A Battery-Free Internet of Things…From The Eponymous Pickle
Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance
Useful definitions and opinions on the state and future of what is being called DeFi. Much on the Podcast and text below at the link.
The Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance
MIC LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Wharton’sAudio…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Autodesk Tandem
My continued look at Autodesk's Tandem Digital Twin Solution. Look for more posts here on digital twins.
DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMARTER OPERATIONS
Autodesk Tandem
Autodesk Tandem™ digital twin solution is here to free the data, to organize…From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetic Memory System for AI
Seems a memory device meant for learning from data in AI system. Faster it implies.
A More Robust Memory Device for AI Systems
By Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering
A research team from Northwestern Engineering…From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Networking by Radar
Interesting. Security? Might this kind location could be combined with other kind of location and movement information?
OmniConnect project: Radar beams for networking and localizing everyday objects…From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Wave of Computing Innovation will be Driven by Crypto
Andreessen Says it will all be about Crypto
Andreessen Horowitz A16z
Crypto Fund III by Chris Dixon, Katie Haun, and Ali Yahya
cryptocurrencies & blockchains a16z crypto announcements
We believe that the next wave of computing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Lecture on Deep Learning
Quite good, relatively non technical. Worth a look.
Turing Lecture
By Yoshua Bengio, Yann Lecun, Geoffrey Hinton from ACM
Communications of the ACM, July 2021, Vol. 64 No. 7, Pages 58-65 10.1145/3448250…From The Eponymous Pickle
Matterport for Creating 3D Virtual Tours
Had mentioned I was looking at simplified Lidar Solutions. Here just mentioner to me: Matterport. Below shows some of the technology supported. Examining this further.
3D virtual tours can take your business to a new dimension…From insideHPC
DDN Selected by Bytesnet to Provide Differentiated and Customizable ‘Pay-Per-Use’ Storage Services for Data-Intensive Organizations
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 30, 2021 – DDN, an artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced Bytesnet, a Dutch service provider, has selected DDN to address the diverse storage needs of …
From insideHPC
ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 16 projects totaling 6.75 million node-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)…
From insideHPC
PRACE Summer of HPC 2020 Award Ceremony at ISC
June 30, 2021 — Serge Bogaerts, PRACE Managing Director, announced the PRACE Summer of HPC Awards 2020 to Antonios-Kyrillos Chatzimichail, Igor Abramov, and Josip Bobinac during an online award ceremony held on Wednesday 30 June…
From Putting People First
AI still sucks at moderating hate speech
But scientists are getting better at measuring where each system fails.
From Putting People First
Human behaviour: what scientists have learned about it from the pandemic
Several Covid-19 policies have shown "just how deeply some governments distrust their citizens. As if the virus was not enough, the public was portrayed as an additional part of the problem". But, asks Prof. Stephen Reicher of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inhalio: Digital Scent as a Service
Recently received an update of this. Previously had examined for retail scent oriented applications as part of our innovation spaces. Impressive new directions, like use in automobiles. Note use for things like mood mapping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones for Space Rocks
Many rocks fall, but relatively few are found. A solution?
Meteorite-Hunting Drones Could Help Find Freshly Fallen Space Rocks By New Scientist
A team of scientists used drones and machine learning (ML) to try to find just-landed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Safe Trust for Vehicles
Threats of Quantum Powered Cyberattacks, safety of vehicles and their data.
A 2019 claim by Google AI on groundbreaking quantum computations, while welcomed by many, was met with an intensified sense of urgency by security professionals…From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Machine Learning and Quantum Computing
Experimenting with Quantum computers using Machine Learning
IBM Releases Qiskit Modules That Use Quantum Computers to Improve ML
VentureBeat, Chris O'Brien, April 9, 2021
IBM has released the Qiskit Machine Learning suite of application…From Schneier on Security
More Russian Hacking
Two reports this week. The first is from Microsoft, which wrote:
As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealing malware on a machine belonging to one of our customer support agents…From The Noisy Channel
Using AI to Understand Search Intent
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post advocating the use of AI for query understanding. I argued that holistic query understanding with embeddings and deep learning is a great way to look beyond keywords and not only classify queries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast food too Slow in Opening Dine-in?
An example of semi-permanent change from COVID? We certainly are doing far more drive through than before the pandemic. Been discussing dynamic for some time.
Is fast food going too slow in reopening for dine-in business?…From The Eponymous Pickle
Copilot Assistant Coding
Actually did this in the early days, with human co-pilots, but it never took off. Now with secure code more of a necessity, could be useful. This could drive closer to Lo-Code too. Hw well can this work today? Even flagging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Talent Mapping
Took a number of looks at advanced 'talent mapping' in the enterprise. Now is the time this could be very useful especially if we can measure talent well, predict needs and deliver.
NASA Is Using Data Science to Fill Its Data…From Schneier on Security
Insurance and Ransomware
As ransomware becomes more common, I’m seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping.
…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Sujata Banerjee (VMware) and William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) are joining the CCC…
From Computational Complexity
Intersecting Classes
If you have two complexity classes that have complete sets, the intersection might not, for example NP ∩ co-NP. The world of total-function classes acts differently.
Christos Papadimitriou and others defined a number of classes…From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Cars Here Yet?
Depends how you define them. Right now the definition means they can be driven around like a car and then take to the air as needed. Such things have existed for some time, but not yet even close to mass-produced and generally…
From BLOG@CACM
A Chance for Rebirth
Application of DECT technology in the concept of the Internet of Things.
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project and Exagraph: Applying Graph Algorithms
This podcast from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) examines the ExaGraph Project, an ECP co-design center, tasked with developing efficient implementation of graph algorithms. Along with technical aspects…