Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2020
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survive Freezing, Oxygen-Deprived Waters
Lots of interesting genetic details.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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From The Noisy Channel
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief.
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief. What I mean is that spelling correction should not restrict itself to correcting each token separately. Many spelling mistakes violate token boundaries because the user either…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Smartphone Cases
Clever idea,but for what purpose? To test some interactive interaction with people or things?
CaseCrawler Adds Tiny Robotic Legs to Your Phone
A phone case with legs is the accessory your life has been missing
By Evan Ackerman …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Will Change Uncertainty
We have never looked at uncertainty enough, but has the pandemic made us more sensitive. Also how much risk is associated with the uncertainty. Good piece:
An Agent of Change
A look into the Covid-19 pandemic's influence on how…
From insideHPC
DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee
Technologists from the national labs, universities, federal agencies and industry have been named by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to the National Quantum Initiative…
From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable…
From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method:
Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable…From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method:
Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable…From The Noisy Channel
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes…
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes is for the “color” attribute. If the string matches multiple attributes, then you need a more sophisticated approach to mine…
From The Noisy Channel
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then…
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then either filter the Solr query to the preferred categories / attributes or boosts the results that match on that subquery. If you…
From BLOG@CACM
Integrating Computing in School Subjects: A Conceptual Framework for Design and Analysis
This post presents a conceptual framework for integrating computing and computational thinking into other domains. The framework is intended to support curriculum and assessment design, as well as providing analysis of examples…
From insideHPC
NERSC Supercomputers Targeted by Hacker: Guilty Plea in Attempted Sale of Access
A guilty plea was entered today by a hacker, allegedly a member of the hacking group Underground Intelligence Agency, for tying to sell access to supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing Spatio-Temporal Information
The valuation of data is a long time interest, have consulted with large companies on the topic. Lately about automotive connections. Technical detail on the topic at the link.
Computing Value of Spatio-temporal Information
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Math Reasoning
In our earliest AI courses,we learned about theorem proving using AI. And yes, it was not automated math reasoning. But it gave you the hope that it could be done, if only you could state the problem at hand as purely mathematical…
From insideHPC
Virtana Integrates with Pure Storage for Real-Time IT Intelligence
San Jose – August 27, 2020 – Enterprises are struggling with their IT performance, as almost half (47%) admitted they lack visibility and insight into their systems in a recent survey. In response, Virtana, a leader in enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Fusion Power
Following this for years. Another decade needed? In IEEE Spectrum, an update on progress.
ITER Celebrates Milestone, Still at Least a Decade Away From Fusing Atoms
Machine assembly has commenced, but this gigantic nuclear fusion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo Teammates in their Context
A kind of digital twin and context interaction with sensors and updates.
U.S. Army Robo-Teammate Can Detect, Share 3D Changes in Real Time
U.S. Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs
Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities…
From Schneier on Security
Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
And Smaller Robots Yet
Only 5 microns in size, paramecium sized. Likely applications in healthcare. And?
Microscopic robots 'walk' thanks to laser tech in TechXPlore
by Cornell University
A Cornell University-led collaboration has created the first…
From insideHPC
RIKEN’s Fugaku to Connect via Oracle Cloud
The RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan, owner of the world’s no. 1-ranked supercomputer, Fugaku, has chosen Oracle Cloud as the public cloud provider for its elastic HPC storage and to enable universities and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Collaboration in the Pandemic
Nice look at how the pandemic has changed collaboration among computer science students and faculty. Very similar to the experiences we have had. In the past week, for example have used three different multiple collaboration…
From insideHPC
DOE Launches $115M/5-Year Effort to Create 5 Quantum Research Centers
Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers, led by DOE’s National Laboratories, including…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The End of School Computer Labs?
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about doing away with computer labs in schools. BYOD and one to one computers have been talked about and have been growing movements for a while. I wonder if the current situationMy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creation of AI, Quantum Research Institutes
Yet more in place to address emerging application and infrastructure. Like to see the USDA connections where I think there are still many possibilities.
White House Announces New AI, Quantum Research Institutes
VentureBeat via…
From insideHPC
Pure Storage FlashArray//C Extends QLC with First Enterprise-grade All-QLC Array
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 25, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced enhancements to FlashArray//C, delivering the industry’s only all-QLC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exson Removed from DOW
More indication that technical continues the climb:
" .... CHANGE: Exxon Mobil dropped from the Dow after nearly a century. “Exxon Mobil, which joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1928, is being removed from the blue-chip…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Advances Artificial Intelligence Research with New Nationwide Institutes
The following is a press release from the National Science Foundation about the newly announced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes. In 2018-2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) brought together over 100 members…
From insideHPC
Composable Computing at SDSC
In this Q&A, SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas explains the rationale for composable systems and the approach taken with the new Expanse supercomputer. With its new Expanse supercomputer, San Diego Supercomputer
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking Vital Signs with a Dog-Like Robot
The well known Spot Boston Dynamics dog becomes 'Dr Spot' and can take some contactless vitals during Corona Pandemic.
MIT, Boston Dynamics Team Up on Robot for Remote Covid-19 Vital Sign Measurement
TechCrunch
Darrell Etherington…
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Supplier Fraud
Interesting story of an Amazon supplier fraud: According to the indictment, the brothers swapped ASINs for items Amazon ordered to send large quantities of different goods instead. In one instance, Amazon ordered 12 canisters…