Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2023
From Computational Complexity
Whither Twitter
No longer do tweets show up on this blog page. Twitter can't tell the difference between some AI engineI…
From Schneier on Security
French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones
The French police are getting new surveillance powers:
French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Nurses in the mist
What do you do when your boss tells you "go and invent a new product"? Lock yourself away and stare out the window? Go for a walk, waiting for inspiration? Medical device system engineers Pat Baird and Katie Hansbro did some…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to FDA Request for Feedback on Using AI and ML in the Development of Drug and Biological Products
On July 10, CCC responded to a Request for Feedback released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Using AI and ML in the Development of Drug and Biological Products. The response was written by two CCC Council Members…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on CSTA Conferences Past and Present
I am at
tending the 2023 CSTA Conference online. I’m not writing blog posts about it the way I normally do. Lots of reasons for that but I will post some learnings from it later. I am downloading lots of presentation slides as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
KPMG deploys Microsoft OpenAI capabilities across its internal platforms
Another example of AI integration
KPMG LLP and Microsoft Establish Industry-Leading Initiative to Scale Generative AI Across Audit, Tax and Advisory
Companies co-invest to deliver generative AI solutions for Audit, Tax and Advisory…From Schneier on Security
Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years:
Research and development: Google uses information to improve our services and to develop…From insideHPC
atNorth Announces 44% Revenue Growth
Reykjavik, Iceland – July 12th 2023 — atNorth, a nordic colocation, high-performance computing and AI service provider, has today announced a group income of SEK 560 million (EUR 53 billion) as it publishes its 2022 annual accounts…
From insideHPC
Former Atos CEO Elie Girard Joins Quantum Company Alice & Bob as Executive Chairman
PARIS — July 11, 2023 — Fault toerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announced the appointment of Elie Girard as its new executive chairman. Girard will advise the company in its efforts to develop logical qubits…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future beyond Chatbots: Huawei focuses on AI's Impact and Weather
HUAWEI CLOUD Releases Pangu 3.0
Published: Jul. 10, 2023 at 2:32 AM EDT
Note specifics on weather forecasting
Shaping the Future beyond Chatbots: Huawei focuses on AI's Impact on Industry Transformation
DONGGUAN, China, July 10,Pangu…From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Announces AI Enhancements of Bixby
Followed Koreas appliance and AI related work. Now joining AI inspired efforts.
Korea on February 22, 2023 in Samsung.com
Samsung’s intelligent interface improves performance and provides users with greater options for control…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Office opens in London
An indication of further AI delivery and utilization worldwide. Have asked contacts about how this is positioned there. Seems to be no comments on this ywt from BBC, will follow up. But see here from OpenAI itself : https…
From The Eponymous Pickle
YouTube Test Generation
Fascinating generation self teaching and testing with AI quizzes ....
YouTube tests AI-generated quizzes on educational videos
In TechCrunch Lauren Forristal@laurenforristal / 1:08 PM EDT•July 7, 2023
YouTube is experimenting with…From Schneier on Security
Privacy of Printing Services
The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing:
Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Crypto Pledged to Dethrone Wall Street. It's Getting Swallowed Instead
Crypto Pledged to Dethrone Wall Street. It's Getting Swallowed Instead
By The Washington Post, July 10, 2023
Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Fidelity declined to comment, but EDX crypto trading platform chief executive Jamil Nazarali…From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Photon Cameras to Peer into your Brain?
From insideHPC
Object Management Group Approves SysML V2 Beta Specs
BOSTON – JULY 10, 2023 – Today, international technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced it approved the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) version 2 beta specifications. These include: the Kernel…
From insideHPC
Frontier Supercomputer Virtual Training Workshop to Be Held Aug. 23-25
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will host a virtual Frontier Training Workshop August 23-25, 2023. This event is meant to help new Frontier users (or those intending to use Frontier) learn how to run on the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
U.S. Military Takes Generative AI Out for a Spin
Based on previous experience, can see this as useful. With cautions.
ACM TECHNEWS
U.S. Military Takes Generative AI Out for a Spin
By Bloomberg, July 10, 2023
A service member with the 175th Cyber Operations monitors cyberattacks…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Bias: Challenges and Solutions
AI Bias: Challenges and Solutions
By Karen Emslie, July 6, 2023
Even if training data is not biased, problems can arise due to model trainers own biases.
When training data containing bias is fed to AI models, the outcomes willBias…From insideHPC
Eviden Announces 2 HPC and Quantum Pacts
Eviden, the advanced computing unit of Atos, announced two quantum computing partnerships this morning, with HPCNow!, a Barcelona-based HPC consulting firm, and with Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company in Paris. With Alice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tour de France Adds ChatGPT, Digital Twin Tech
More data integration with Chat
Tour de France Adds ChatGPT, Digital Twin Tech
By ZDNet, July 5, 2023
The Tour de France bicycle race.
The technologies also will be applied to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the women's counterpart…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Negligent nurses? Or dodgy digital? – device design can unintentionally mask errors
Magicians often fool their audience into ‘looking over there’ (literally or metaphorically), getting them to pay attention to the wrong thing so that they’re not focusing on what the magician is doing and can enjoy the trickContinue…
From BLOG@CACM
An Organizational Perspective on the Process of Adopting Executable Exams
We analyze the organizational change that took place at the Technion when the assessment method in the CS1 course changed from paper-based exams to executable exams.
From The Noisy Channel
Implicit Query Reformulation
Let me start with the disclaimer that this post describes an embryonic idea, not an approach that I have validated through analysis or experimentation. With that out of the way, let us get into it!
Query Similarity
As long-time…From Schneier on Security
Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
In my latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers—supposedly unique in their specificity—to change a one-year funding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Skills Intro by Ignacio de Gregorio
Some good thoughts on uses and direction.
The AI skills you MUST learn in 2023
Putting you ahead of the curve with real examples
By Ignacio de Gregorio
You won’t be substituted by AI, but you will be substituted by a human that knows…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Architect Workplace Design
Very likely application of this tech.
How A.I. Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design
By The New York Times, June 20, 2023
At the headquarters of Zaha Hadid Architects in London, Uli Blum, left, and a colleague analyzeCredit…From Computational Complexity
A futher comment on Chernoff--- and the future of ....
Ravi Boppana recently did a guest blog on Chernoff turning 100 for us here.
As we delve into the depths of Professor Chernoff's…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Screaming Headline Kills!!!
Medical mistakes can make a big news story with screaming headlines vilifying those 'responsible'. It may sell papers. Research by Chrystie Myketiak suggested it could also make things worse as