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
Universal Face Masks Defeating Facial Recognition
More on this, practical for general use?
ACM TECHNEWS
Researchers Defeat Facial Recognition Systems with Universal Face Mask
By Help Net Security
Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Tel Aviv University…From The Eponymous Pickle
European Block Chain Uses, Cases
Six use cases mentions, useful.
Europe's Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem By Arnout Jaspers
Commissioned by CACM Staff,July 12, 2022
Part of the problem is that participation in EBSI is restricted to companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester Talks the Metaverse
Continuing to examine metaverse
Look Beyond The Hype To Uncover The Real Opportunities
The metaverse has been a source of much promise, confusion, and speculation. Media headlines tout any extended reality (XR) experience as…From insideHPC
Arizona State Univ. to Hold HPC Research Computing Expo Aug. 1-2
Arizona State University Research Computing will sponsor a two-day expo to prepare students, staff and faculty for usage of the ASU supercomputer on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 1 and 2, 8 am to 5 PM Moutain Time. The event will
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From insideHPC
Arm Neoverse Adopted by Google Cloud
July 13, 2022 — Arm Ltd. announced that beginning today, Google Cloud customers and developers have access to Tau T2A VMs using the Ampere Altra CPU based on the Arm Neoverse N1 core. In addition, Arm said Google Cloud has joined…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $78M for Research in High Energy Physics
July 13, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $78 million in funding for 58 research projects intended to spur discoveries in high energy physics. The projects—housed at 44 colleges and universities across…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Need for Quantum Error Correction
The basics.
QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION: TIME TO MAKE IT WORK
If technologists can’t perfect it, quantum computers will never be big in Spectrum IEEE
ATES CHISELED INTO an ancient tombstone have more in common with the data in your…From insideHPC
Signal AI: External Intelligence Graph for Unstructured Data
New York and London, 12th July 2022 — Signal AI has announced the launch of its External Intelligence Graph, designed to deliver “a comprehensive view of an organization’s external world built on real-time data and content,” …
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Enhanced Football Calls
Good application, Semi automated it states. Details of cameras and info gathering is interesting
AI-Enhanced System to Track Players for Offside Calls at 2022 World Cup By PC Magazine, July 11, 2022
The Federation Internationale…From The Eponymous Pickle
Up Tempo Music for Sales
Creating sales environments. Experimented with.
Can up-tempo music move shoppers to buy more green goods?
by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
New university research finds up-tempo, major mode music can offer a way for green companiesResearchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Textiles Sense User Motion
Mentioned previously, more details.
Smart Textiles Sense How Their Users Are Moving
MIT News
Adam Zewe, July 7, 2022
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Wellesley College, and Singapore's Nanyang Technological…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Pushing Cord Cutting
Leveraging infrastructure at play.
Will Walmart become the go-to shopping destination for cord cutters?
17 EXPERT COMMENTS
CONSUMER ADVERTISING CONSUMER MARKETING DIGITAL MARKETING ROKU SHOPPABLE ADS SHOPPER ANALYTICS WALMART
Jun…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation
Powerful computers, better innovation?
Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation
By MIT News., June 29, 2022
Futuristic image of a microprocessor in a circuit.
"By looking directly at capabilities, we are able to get more precise…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
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ACM-W is seeking applicants for the next Regional Activities Co-Chair. Come join us and be part of an energetic team of leaders for an organization supporting, celebrating, and advocating for women in computing around the world…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IWB Discusses AI Foundation Models
Nicely done intro from IWB's blog.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects.
Foundation Models: AI’s Exciting New…From insideHPC
NVIDIA Launches Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Computing Platform
NVIDIA has been moving into quantum computing for some time — last November, the company announced the cuQuantum software development kit designed to accelerate quantum computing workflows. And NVIDIA managers have talked more…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: DDN’s James Coomer Talks Storage and Data Management That Simplifies HPC/AI at Scale
At ISC 2022 in Hamburg, we sat down with DDN Senior Vice President Products James Coomer to discuss the company’s evolving mission as more customers move toward HPC/AI use cases. To its line of HPC, AI and analytics storage products…
From insideHPC
Cadence to Acquire Data Center Digital Twins Company Future Facilities
SAN JOSE — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today it has agreed to acquire Future Facilities, a provider of electronics cooling analysis and energy performance optimization solutions for data centers using physics-based…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copying the Elgin Marbles
Have seen the Elgin Marbles, this is impressive effort
The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles
The New York Times
Franz Lidz, July 8, 2022
Roger Michel at the U.K.'s Institute of Digital Archaeology thinksFrom…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Crisis Quotients
Worthwhile considerations. Useful examples.
What is your crisis quotient? in Strategy-Business
A new metric can help identify potential leaders who have what it takes to thrive in times of disruption.
by Adam Bryant
The 20thThis…From The Eponymous Pickle
Shuold Machines Replace Mathematicians
Don't see it yet more likely an augmentation for now.
Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?
By Scientific American, July 11, 2022
Mathematics in the future might resemble a factory in which a few human technicians roam the factory…From The Eponymous Pickle
Same Symptom—Different Cause?
Extracting subtypes of illness from Molecular data
Technical University of Munich (Germany), May 27, 2022
Scientists at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a machine learning…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dice, Simulations, and Math
My friend Andrew Parsons send me this link to an interesting video The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest. Now I love simulating dice on the computer. Creating a Die class is one of my favorite…
From Computational Complexity
Review of The Engines of Cognition: Essays From the LessWrong Forum/Meta question about posts
A while back I reviewed A Map that Reflects the Territory which is a collection of essays posted on the lesswrong forum. My review is here. I posted it to both this blog and to the lesswrong forum. In both cases I posted a link…
From insideHPC
GDIT Begins Running Twin HPE-Cray Supercompuers for NOAA Forecast Modeling
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), announced today that NOAA’s National Weather Service will begin running its operational weather, water, climate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Threatened by Too Little Data
Some good points made.
Is AI threatened by too little data? by Mary Shacklett in Artificial Intelligence in TechRepublic
Knowing when to limit your data dramatically affects the quality of your AI. How do you know that your…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Cradle of the Computer
Nicely done short piece on the history of the computer by Herbert Bruderer in the ACM.
Where is the Cradle of the Computer? By Herbert Bruderer, June 20, 2022 Most of the good details at the link.
The digital computer of today…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Edge Computing from NVIDIA
Looks to be useful.
An Introduction to Edge Computing: Common Questions and Resources for Success
By Troy Estes Nvidia
Vision / Video Analytics, edge computing, Fleet Command, News, Webinar
With the convergence of IoT and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Captions Everywhere
Useful to see capabilities listed.
Why Captions Are Suddenly Everywhere and How They Got There
By Associated Press, June 30, 2022
Captions are becoming more widely available to people with hearing loss using videoconferencing platforms…From insideHPC
Overcome Form Factor and Field Limitations with AI/HPC Workloads on the Edge
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Silicon Mechanics discuss how form factor, latency, and power can all be key limitations, but find out how key advancements in technology will allow higher performance at the edge.
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