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
Digital Privacy Looking Grimmer
From ACM: So to what degree do we accept it? And how? While protecting everyone else?
In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer By The New York Times, July 15, 2022
Welcome to the post-Roe eraIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
First Formal Computer Art
Was reminded of this, from long ago ... Art is? Remember plotting some art myself.
ACM OPINION Interview
Code Breaker: Meet the Man Who Virtually Invented Computer Art
By Elephant, May 26, 2022
It's not every day that people…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Summary Look Back at #CSTA2022
From insideHPC
Dotmatics Launches Chemistry Solution for Small Molecule Drug Discovery
Boston, July 18, 2022 – Dotmatics, an R&D scientific software company connecting science, data and decision-making, today announced the release of its Chemistry Solution for Small Molecule Drug Discovery, a package of scientific…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Complexity 2022
Weaving patterns of proof and the accepted papers for this week’s conference her bio page Karen Donde is the Chair of Complexity 2022, which is being held this month in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is not the same as the Computational…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Day Four at #CSTA2022
It’s a short day today but with plenty to learn. Last night was a great party at the Museum of Science and Technology. I left early (age?) but I know that a lot of people stayed late and partied hardy. There may be some tired…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Reshaping Warehouses
Towards improved supply chains.
Robots Aren't Done Reshaping Warehouses
By The New York Times, July 13, 2022
When Digit spends an afternoon unloading boxes from a tractor-trailer in 100-plus-degree heat, co-workers never hear aThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Helping Hand for Robotic Manipulator Design
A Helping Hand for Robotic Manipulator Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created an integrated design pipeline that enables a user with no specialized knowledge to quickly craft a customized 3D-printable…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Day Three at #CSTA2022
I got an early (for me ) start this morning. I attended a briefing session for session proctors (after missing yesterday’s) so that was good. A hot up of tea and some review of the schedule and I was good to go.
First sessionlink…From The Eponymous Pickle
Honda Says No to Fixing Security Bug
Apparently Honda has disavowed fault regarding this easily addressed security problem, and say they won't fix it. Schneier reports with further comment:
Security Vulnerabilities in Honda’s Keyless Entry System
Honda vehicles…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs
Fun examples of thinking about thinking computer science.
Mordechai Rorvig, Staff Writer
The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs in QuantaMag
Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard —Nestled…From The Eponymous Pickle
IOS Lockdown Mode for Security
Interesting approach by Apple to make IOS more secure, at a cost. Useful for some users that are particularly susceptible to external threats. Here an intro from Apple.
An iPhone screen shows the new Lockdown Mode capability…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sticky Mini Robots at Work?
Intriguing approach
Robot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organs
Tiny robots made of metallic powder stuck to plastic tape and controlled by magnetic fields could one day crawl inside internal organs and…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Day Two at #CSTA2022
Day two started off great as I connected with several people from my home CSTA Chapter –CSTA New Hampshire. The CS community in New Hampshire is growing and the CSTA Chapter has been a part of that. I’m planning on getting more…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft at #CSTA2022
I blog about what interests me or stirs my curiosity. One thing that fits that is what are the really big tech companies doing to support CS education. So I am going to write briefly about the presence of Amazon, Google, Meta…
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave 500 Qubit Quantum Machine on the Cloud
Recall out interaction with D-Wave now dome time ago. often mentioned here. Qubit count is now impressive. They continue to advance with their specialty machines. Would like to see more examples of their applicationsD…
From insideHPC
With 4X Boost, Cumulus-2 HPC Cluster Goes into Climate Research Action at Oak Ridge Atmospheric Facility
Oak Ridge, TN — Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new, more powerful computer system to support climate data research conducted by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Procured and managed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Opens Doors to its Archives
As a long time member, user, blogger, reader and promoter ... love the idea. Will try to find new ways to make this more useful. Thoughts? Join me?
ACM NEWS
“The Way Things Were”: How ACM Is Opening the Doors to Its Archives…From insideHPC
D-Wave Systems Inc. and DPCM Capital, Inc. Announce Effectiveness of Registration Statement
July 14, 2022 — BURNABY, British Columbia, PALO ALTO, Calif. & MIAMI — D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company, and DPCM Capital, Inc., today announced that the registration statement …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Games Explored
In Youtube: Sabine Hossenfelder Quantum Games ...
Physicist Sabine Talks about how a number of games have been developed to teach and demonstrate quantum concepts. She describes and criticizes. .... Interesting, trying…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Intent Data
Exploring Intent marketing data.
Making Sense of Intent Data for Sales and Marketing Pros
Fiona O'Connor, Content Marketing Manager in TechTarget
Intent data promises different benefits depending on how it’s made, how it’sWe…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
Some good examples. This will be a difficult thing, comparing privacy considerations versus the protection and security.
The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw, By Wired, July 7, 2022
In 2019, guards on the…From The Eponymous Pickle
LeCun on Vision for the next Generation of AI
Bold view? Common Sense is near? More detail and link to talk.
Yann LeCun's Bold New Vision for the Future of AI By MIT Technology Review, June 28, 2022
Yann LeCun, chief scientist at Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) lab"Getting…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day One #CSTA2022
Well it was day one for me. I know that some people got in yesterday or earlier either because they were taking a workshop today or were part of the Chapter Leadership program. For me, today was about getting settled, meeting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Chooses Future Tools
First step, good start. Openly presented on Github.
NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
Federal agency reveals the first group of winners from its six-year competition.
July 05, 2022
The firstGAITHERSBURG…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Could Catch Its Own Errors
Don't understand fully, worth a look, complex.
Quantum Computer Could Catch Its Own Errors
New Scientist, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, May 25, 2022
A team of Austrian and German scientists has constructed a 16-quantum bit (qubit)…From insideHPC
ORNL Director Zacharia to Retire
Oak Ridge, TN — Dr. Thomas Zacharia announced his retiremnt as director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the end of 2022, the culmination of a 35-year career at the science and energy laboratory. The news follows another significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trapped ION Quantum Computers
Interesting, quite new to me, detail at link, technical.
Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers By Prakash Murali, Dripto M. Debroy, Kenneth R. Brown, Margaret Martonosi
Communications…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Filtering numbers faster with SVE on Graviton 3 processors
Processors come, roughly, in two large families x64 processors from Intel and AMD, and ARM processors from Apple, Samsung, and many other vendors. For a long time, ARM processors occupied mostly the market of embedded processors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Synthetic Biology
A space we examined for Pharma applications..
ACM TECHNEWS
A 'Wise Counsel' for Synthetic Biology
By Max Planck Gesellschaft (Germany) July 13, 2022
Researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (MPI)…