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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Fallows of Medium Data
Who will curate less-prominent datasets? Presidential Biography src Samuel Fallows was a bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was born in 1835 and headed the denomination for four stints between 1877 and his death in 1922…
From Geeking with Greg
Making it more difficult to shill recommender systems
Lately I've been thinking about recommender algorithms and how they go wrong. I keep hitting examples of people arguing that we should ban the fewest accounts possible when thinking about what accounts are used by recommender…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Cigdem Sengul selected as the next ACM-W Communications co-Chair
Cigdem Sengul, current communications chair and secretary of ACM-W Europe, will be the next Communications Co-Chair of ACM-W, effective July 2022. Cigdem is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University, UK. Since 2002, she has worked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta and Self Supervised AI
More Meta AI?
Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward In the quest for human-level intelligent AI, Meta is betting on self-supervised learning BY ELIZA STRICKLAND in Spectrum IEEE
Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun…From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Fall for Quantum Hype: Hossenfelder
Another excellent short Youtube talk here: By Sabine Hossenfelder
Don't Fall for quantum Hype https://youtu.be/b-aGIvUomTA
Check out the physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Detail
Faster detail in photo microscopy. Note also use of sound.
Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Unprecedented Detail By Duke Biomedical Engineering, May 26, 2022
Duke University researchers have developed an…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quadcopter Drone does Air, Water, Over and Under, Even Hitches a ride.
Expecting many more updates in drone autonomy, flexibility
A quadcopter that works in the air and underwater and also has a suction cup for hitching a ride on a host by Bob Yirka , in TechXplore
A team of researchers at Beihang…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Bias in Software Development
Intro to research paper in ACM, considerable, technical, worth understanding
Cognitive Biases in Software Development
By Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey Au, Natalia Morales, Christopher Sanchez, Rahul Pandita, Anita…From The Eponymous Pickle
We are Training Much Faster Now
Faster, better training is here outlined and described.
We’re Training AI Twice as Fast This Year as Last New MLPerf rankings show training times plunging By SAMUEL K. MOORE in IEEE Spectrum
According to the best measures…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft AI Spots Ransomware?
Have not heard much of this elsewhere.
How Microsoft's AI spots ransomware attacks before they even get started in ZDNet
Microsoft is targeting human-operated ransomware operations.
Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributor
Microsoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Adds Cloud Capabilities
Wal-Mart Adds Cloud Capabilities and takes control
ACM TECHNEWS
Walmart Amps Up Cloud Capabilities, Reducing Reliance on Tech Giants
By The Wall Street Journal
Retailer Walmart said it has deployed a system for transitioning between…From The Eponymous Pickle
First CRISPR Gene Editing Drug
Pharma advances
The first CRISPR gene-editing drug, designed to treat blood disorders, could be on the market by 2023. Here’s what it means for the future of drug development.
By Sy MUKHERJEE
Until recently, CRISPR—the gene-editing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Makeup to Defeat Suveillance
Considerable and technical piece in the current CACM. Consider the implications. Short intro:
Using Makeup to Block Surveillance By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 21-23 10.1145…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Announces Silicon Photonics
Quite interesting from Intel
Intel announces silicon photonics advancement towards optical I/O
Arne Verheyde @witeken in Venturebeat
Intel has demonstrated an eight-wavelength laser array on a silicon wafer. The research pavesFrom…