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
Google Maps Getting Lots more Detail
Makes Google Maps more powerful yet as a 'geography' experiment. Sort of like tracing with your fingers on a globe. A truly interactive means of exploring at so many levels of detail.
Google Maps is getting a lot more detail…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ivanti Panel discussion on Supporting Remote Service Work
Supporting Remote workforces for service desk applications.
Hi Franz,
2020 has been...interesting. IT teams had to do the impossible, supporting a completely remote workforce with very little notice. But they survived the craziness…
From insideHPC
Rescale Announces Two Executive Appointments
Rescale Inc., the enterprise big compute in the cloud specialist, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives: Gerhard Esterhuizen, who joins the company as VP of engineering, where he will be responsible for…
From insideHPC
Cerebras 1.2 Trillion Chip Integrated with LLNL’s Lassen System for AI Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and AI company Cerebras Systems today announced the integration of the 1.2-trillion Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip into the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA)…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Logical Complexity of Proofs
If you cannot find proofs, talk about them. Robert Reckhow with his advsior Stephen Cook famously started the formal study of the complexity of proofs with their 1979 paper. They were interested in the length of the shortest…
From insideHPC
Brightskies Deploys Open Source RTM Application for Easy Optimization across Multiple Architectures
In this sponsored post on behalf of Intel, we see that in today’s high-performance computing applications, many different pieces of hardware can perform data-centric functions. With diverse accelerators entering the market, programming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Corp Works on Quantum Practicality
Some examples of how companies are plotting a road into Quantum Computing. Here the Intel Corp
Intel Advances On The Road To Quantum Practicality
By Gil Press in Forbes
Enterprise & Cloud
I write about technology, entrepreneurs…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Autonomous Cars in Germany
More live testing of autonomous vehicles
Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany
Kyle Wiggers
@Kyle_L_Wiggers in Venturebeat
Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today announced that German certification…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Partnership that Revolutionized Battery Research at Argonne
Big believed in partnerships. Some recent conversations have further strengthened that. My company used to be a big maker of batteries, but it seems never took them much further.
The historical partnership that revolutionized…
From insideHPC
WekaIO Expands Cloud Offering with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface
CAMPBELL, Calif. – August 18, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), provider of high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today introduced the Kubernetes (K8s) CSI (Container Storage Interface) plugin, allowing…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Suzy Tichenor on the Need for Industrial Users of HPC to Get on the GPU Bandwagon
Suzy Tichenor is a long-time champion of helping companies gain access to the country’s most powerful computers. At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory – site of Summit, no. 2 in the world, according to the…
From Schneier on Security
Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout
Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale. This is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/VMware Partnership on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program
The following is an announcement of a joint solicitation between NSF/VMware on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and VMware employee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On a Return to Normal: How Long?
Wharton Public Policy takes a look:
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A Return to ‘Normal’: How Long Will the Pandemic Last?
Jul 14, 2020 North America
American consumers are crowding back into stores, restaurants and other places of business as states ease pandemic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Sterling Inventory Control Tower
Had this pointed out to me, aspects covering predictions of disruptions are most interesting.
IBM Sterling Inventory Control Tower to Help Organizations Manage Inventory
July 2, 2020 SupplyChainBrain
IBM announced the launch of
Supply…
From Schneier on Security
Vaccine for Emotet Malware
Interesting story of a vaccine for the Emotet malware: Through trial and error and thanks to subsequent Emotet updates that refined how the new persistence mechanism worked, Quinn was able to put together a tiny PowerShell script…
From insideHPC
NNSA to Hold Nuclear Security Enterprise Virtual Job Fair August 26
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will host a Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) virtual job fair Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EDT) to help fill more than 600 open…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply to Attend the 2nd Annual Embedded Security Workshop
Interested in embedded security? Apply to join the second annual Embedded Security Workshop. The workshop will be hosted by Kevin Fu, former CCC Council Member and principal investigator of the SPQR Lab at the University of Michigan…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating an Error Correcting Cat
I am well aware of the Schrödinger’s cat idea, were taught the concept in physics, but don't fully understand how this directly effects quantum physics's use in computing.
Yale quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat…
From Putting People First
Deutsche Bank Research on life after Covid-19
It will take years to recover from covid-19. This edition of Konzept, the online magazine of Deutsche Bank Research, analyses the many different ways in which the world will be different and outlines options to deal with the…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches 7nm POWER10 CPU
IBM today announced a new IBM POWER10 CPU family, its first 7nm form factor platform, built with Samsung, designed for enterprise hybrid cloud computing with up to 3x greater processor energy efficiency, workload capacity, and…
From Putting People First
[Book] Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis
Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative…
From insideHPC
An Adaptive Platform for Converged HPC/AI Workloads
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that from many years of experience working with numerous customers, the company found that converged HPC and AI environments can bring benefits…
From Computational Complexity
Mathematics is not commutative
In my poll of P vs NP and other issues, one of the questions was
Is factoring in P?
One of the most interesting answers was
I don't really see why it shouldn't be…
From Schneier on Security
Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot
A group of researchers set up a telephony honeypot and tracked robocall behavior: NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019 and January 2020, during which time they said to have received 1,481,201…
From Putting People First
Visions of the post-pandemic home
Vitra, the German manufacturing company, published this week a “set of hypotheses” on the future of the home, as living spaces are pushed to the limits.
From Putting People First
The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box
Angèle Christin argues that we can
explicitly enroll algorithms in ethnographic research, which can shed light on unexpected aspects of algorithmic systems—including their opacity. She delineates three mesolevel strategies for…
From Putting People First
[Book] Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple as a Subscription Bundler.
Interesting statement, not quite sure the information supports it. How much of this will they do? Worked with IBM and Apple as a supplier for many years in the analytics space.
It's Official: Apple Is Turning Into IBM
Apple's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Blogger Experience?
Blogger has been here since 1999, this blog started using it shortly after that date. It was created from an initially internal corporate blog designed to introduce people to emergent tech. Google is about to change its design…