Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacker GoldRush: Business Mail Compromise better than Ransomware?
From Wired via ACM
Ransomware attacks, including those of the massively disruptive and dangerous variety, have proved difficult to combat comprehensively. Hospitals, government agencies, schools, and even critical infrastructure…From The Eponymous Pickle
Affiliation Influences Our Fear of Data Collection
Instead of trusting or distrusting #government #surveillance based on party affiliation, #Americans must demand #transparency into how government as a whole gains access to and uses their #data, write @eredmil1 @angelicagoetzen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Blog is Acting Strange
Have been noting a number of odd responses and blocking posts on this blog. Never seen that before. Don't know if this will continue. Let me know of your experiences. Franz
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 23rd 2022)
Compared to 1800, we eat less saturated fat and much more processed food and vegetable oils and it does not seem to be good for us: Saturated fats from animal sources declined while polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oils rose…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Negative incentives in academic research
In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded. Yet it has been convincingly argued that these scientists were massively more productive. We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webb Space Telescope Has Profound Data Challenges
Useful example to consider.
The Webb Space Telescope's Profound Data Challenges
By IEEE Spectrum, July 15, 2022
The Lagrange points are equilibrium locations where competing gravitational tugs on an object net out to zero. The James…From insideHPC
Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22
July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s program on Advanced Scientific Computing Research…
From insideHPC
MemVerge to Host CXL Forum at the Flash Memory Summit Aug. 2
MILPITAS, Calif. – July 21, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge will host a full-day forum during the Flash Memory Summit on Tuesday, Aug. 2. The forum, “CXL: Getting Ready for Takeoff,” will give attendees a 360-degree…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient
Do I recall this having been done elsewhere? Checking. Note the many kinds of brain tasks mentioned. Considerable capabilities implies.
BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient By Bloomberg, July 20, 2022
Brain-computer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Charging Robot
From insideHPC
The More You Scale, the Less You Pay … No, Really
Ansys Cloud, the managed cloud service provided by Ansys and enabled on Microsoft Azure, recently announced availability of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-Cache with HBv3 virtual machines (VMs). The development unites…
From Computational Complexity
What is known about that sequence
In my last post I wrote:
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From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers
In this interview with Supermicro’s Vik Malyala, he discusses the company’s latest editions of its AMD-based server products, the third generation of AMD processors that Supermicro has offered within its server line. Malyala,…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you convert floats to doubles (and back)?
Many programming languages have two binary floating-point types: float (32-bit) and double (64-bit). It reflects the fact that most general-purpose processors supports both data types natively. Often we need to convert between…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What AI Still Can't Do
Thoughtful Piece
What AI Still Doesn't Know How to Do, By The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2022
A few weeks ago a Google engineer got a lot of attention for a dramatic claim: He said that the company's LaMDA system, an example…From insideHPC
Quantum: Claims Solving 3,854-Variable Optimization Problem in 6 Minutes for BMW
LEESBURG, Va., July 20, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced it has solved an optimization problem with over 3,800 variables in six minutes by applying a new quantum hardware technology called Entropy Quantum Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Storing Genomes
Makes sense, encoding.
Blockchain Can Secure, Store Genomes
YaleNews, Bill Hathaway, June 29, 2022
The SAMchain technology developed by Yale University scientists leverages blockchain to give users control over their own genomic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Voices of the Dead
Consider the complexity ...
Raising the Voices of the Dead By Tim Hornyak, Commissioned by CACM Staff July 19, 2022
Artificial intelligence experts and ethicists are urging caution about potential adverse effects of using…From The Eponymous Pickle
Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?
Vocabulary vs Language, implications for IP to be considered.
Do AI systems really have their own secret language? by Aaron J. Snoswell, in Techexplore
A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce…From insideHPC
The Evolution of HPC Storage: More Choices Yields More Decisions
[SPONSORED CONTENT] The past few years have brought many changes into the HPC storage world, both with technology like non-volatile memory express (NVMe) or persistent memory, and the growth of software defined storage solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?
Has to be considered, along with many other kinds of stealth and related implications for that.
Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom mutually assured destruction in IEEE Spectrum
SUBMARINES ARE VALUED…From The Eponymous Pickle
DNA Typewriter
Quite interesting.
DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside Cells
Howard Hughes Medical Institute News, July 8, 2022
Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have developed a DNA typewriter that can encode text in cells…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Freedom To Teach Computer Science Our Way
Mike Zamansky had another interesting post (CS - it isn't all that) that got me thinking. The last three paragraphs started me going. For example
As CS becomes more part of the system I expect teachers to have less freedom inIn…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: US Pressures ASML on Exports to China; US vs China Exascale; HPC Software
Following recent reports that Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML is under diplomatic pressure from the U.S. to regulate the export of its fabrication equipment to China, we discuss market data, other suppliers of
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From Computational Complexity
An open question about a sequence mod M.
In this post n/2 means floor{n/2}
From insideHPC
Nominations Are Open for NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award
July 18, 2022 — The Alan T. Waterman is the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Highest Honor, an award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the NSF. In addition…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Workers Long Got What they Wanted?
How true?
Tech Workers Long Got What They Wanted. That's Over
The Wall Street Journal, By Katherine Bindley, July 15, 2022
Technology workers who once could name their salaries and expect to be allowed to work from anywhere increasingly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Marketing Mix Using Smoothing Splines
Recall a similar set of problems occurring in the enterprise, this could be useful. Computing and statistical -Technical.
Modeling Marketing Mix Using Smoothing Splines By Slava Kisilevich in TowardsDataScience
Capturing non-linear…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools
More info at the link, More secure? Note mention of better scientific discovery. Could have been useful, when we sought to add internal knowledge to external for application. Reading that right? Technical.
IBM Research…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Scaring Birds
Makes sense, fairly obvious .... Effective?
Drones Could Scare Birds Off Agricultural Fields
Washington State University, Scott Weybright, June 1, 2022
An autonomous system developed by Washington State University (WSU) researchers…