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 The Eponymous Pickle
P&G among Others Lead Patents in 3D Printing
Was unaware that my former employer, P&G, was so involved in the patenting, innovation and use of 3D printing capabilities:
Future of 3D Printing Is in U.S., Europe Patenting
Bloomberg
By Susan Decker; Ryan Beene
July 14, 2020
A study…
From Putting People First
Four priorities from the social changes for shaping the post-pandemic world
The social sciences don’t produce much in the way of patentable widgets or, indeed, life-saving vaccines. However, the analysis and insights they generate can and do underpin better-evidenced decisions and help guide and target…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Processing, Communication in One
Tuning accurate communications for lower errors. This is a tough one,more at the link.
Processing, Communication in One
MIT News
Michaela Jarvis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have unveiled a quantum computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Based Traffic Management
Or other kinds of of process management? Could be integrated with RPA?
AI-Based Traffic Management Gets Green Light By ZDNet
The new system switches traffic-light coordination from a timer-based model to one based on demand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on IOTA
Had taken a closer look at the IOTA system, primarily because it operated as a mining-less blockchain capability. And had potential for smart contract style operation. See it characterized as a ' fast probabilistic consensus…
From insideHPC
Long-time IBM HPC Strategist Turek Named CTO of DNA-based Storage Start-up
Long-time IBM HPC strategist David Turek has left the company after 25 years and has joined Catalog, which calls itself the world’s first DNA-based platform for massive digital storage and computation. He will serve as CTO of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Medium Article- “Deconstructing the NSF CAREER Proposal”
The following blog from Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Ph.D. from CMU HCII, was originally posted on Medium on August 23rd. I recently submitted a NSF CAREER proposal — my first attempt…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Machine Learning Imperative of a Strategy
I see only rarely see complete strategies in the space. Its mostly solving problems in narrow contexts. Would be good to at least lay out a outline strategy for implementation.
THE AI & MACHINE LEARNING IMPERATIVE
The Building…
From insideHPC
Panasas Picked for SUNY Supercomputing Center
The University at Buffalo has chosen Panasas ActiveStor Ultra HPC data storage for the university’s Center for Computational Research (CCR), a supercomputing center serving the 64 campuses of the State Universities of New York…
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals' privacy based on the feasibility of reidentifying…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go to be Integrated to Whole Foods?
This would be interesting, broadening the AI item ID capability to determine purchase. Still it seems a rumor. Would seem other grocery would be driven that way because of lower labor costs.
Amazon Go’s cashierless tech may come…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Announcements on CAREER, CRII, No-Deadlines, and GRFP
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Test AI Beats Human Fighter Pilot
Quite an event, will this be the future of many kinds military interactions? Some of the details in the interaction, comparing AI, human training and ingrained human behaviors, are quite interesting.
Artificial Intelligence…
From insideHPC
DOD Inks $32M HPC Deal with Liqid; Forms AI Partnership with DOE, Microsoft
The Department of Defense has made HPC news twice in the last few days – in one, the Army will spend $32 million on supercomputing technology from composable infrastructure vendor Liqid; in the other, DOD will partner with the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Where it is Needed
A reasonable explanation ..... though not enough about security concerns, that need to be better addressed when we move most AI to the Edge.
AI on Edge By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, September 2020, Vol. 6310…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cases: NASA and Others Using Knowledge Graphs
This is particularly interesting because NASA has a very broad use context for analytics, and thus the underlying knowledge that drives them. Upcoming talk should be of interest, I plan to attend. Note all of their sessions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Plans to Disrupt the College Degree
Most recently have been in conversations about how teaching and accreditation now can effectively proceed. Google has an idea. Expect some push back from Universities. Will companies like Google become the arbiter of technical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Despite my previous experience in crypto, new to me: Homomorphic Encryption.
IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
FHE allows computation of still-encrypted data, without sharing the secrets.
Jim…
From insideHPC
HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference Features Inspired Experts & Works
Hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) in collaboration with the HPC-AI Advisory Council, the HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference brings together leaders from academia, government and…
From Schneier on Security
DiceKeys
DiceKeys is a physical mechanism for creating and storing a 192-bit key. The idea is that you roll a special set of twenty-five dice, put them into a plastic jig, and then use an app to convert those dice into a key. You can…
From Computational Complexity
Sharp P and the issue of `natural problems'
#P was defined by Valiant as a way to pin down that the PERMANENT of a matrix is hard to compute.
The definition I give is equivalent to the one Valiant gave.
g is in #P if there exists p a poly and B in P such that
g(x) = | {A…From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Cars Run on Open Source
Why and how this is being put together as a broader solution.
Why the connected car rides on open source in VentureBeat
Tom Canning
August 23, 2020 12:12 PM
Transportation
The automobile is one of the most exciting frontiers in our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence
Again matching, finding patterns that are malicious.
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence
by James Riordon, Los Alamos National Laboratory in TechXplore
Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics of the Small
A favorite topic, here another:
This tiny robotic beetle travels for two hours without a battery
Liquid methanol powers RoBeetle’s artificial muscles.
Christine Fisher, @cfisherwrites
August 21, 2020
A team of researchers from the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What are Our Models Learning?
In some of my earliest work in statistics, we were informed of the "Clever Hans Effect" Which basically means your model is learning a pattern in the data which is unrelated to an the answer you seek. It may work on the training…
From Putting People First
Three reports to helps us address online manipulation
Research has gradually revealed the extent to which online manipulation has been weaponised to affect societies in almost every important way that society works.
Yet while almost everyone is touched in one way or another by…From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Suite Expedites Reproducible Computer Simulations
Broadly an excellent idea, here for molecular simulation and design. But in general its useful to have locally useful and validated libraries of simulations that can be selected for application. Especially if 'reproducible'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins in Wargaming and Beyond
An example of 'Digital Twins' in wargaming. In the DOD we used many forms where the twin was an enhanced image with underlying technical details to emulate its operation, on a large scale terminal. Specifically agents usually…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI versus Human Perception Performance
Interesting challenge because we always emphasize that we need to be able to measure something to use/improve it. Which leads to our design of the measurement system. My response is that you can build measurement systems for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots
Back to the control of swarms. Intelligence is good, but collective intelligence is better? The process described here is very interesting.
Coordinating Complex Behaviors Among Hundreds of Robots
Duke University Pratt School
Ken…