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
Attorneys Embracing Analytics
A fairly short descriptive piece. Were involved with several examples of analytics/statistics before judges. Depends much upon the kind of legal proceeding you are involved in. Will it mean convincing a jury? The step…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Army and Swarming Drones
Expect the use of multiple drones that work together to achieve results to comtine to increase. And Military is an obvious application. Note the use of (HRL) Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning) as being tested,will take a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlackHat Conference Presentations
Recent research work for me has led more deeply into security systems. The recently complete BlackHat conference, like most, has gone virtual. It is a place where many security threats and methodologies are first examined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Sniff the Roses, Predict the Smell?
Spent some time in examining artificial olfaction for the coffee business. Here we are looking at predicting what something smells or tastes like. The general approach of predictive machine learning is well described below.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimization Assisting the User of Large Databases
Using tools like machine learning to adapt how we do complex operations, like analyzing increasingly large databases for complex uses. Here work at MIT in this space. I can see this being used further, to analyze and leverage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Hospitals Tracking Covid-19 by Adding Sensors to Employees' Badges
Makes sense to add sensors to track internal status of employees. Could likely be linked to networks of contacts outside the hospital.
Some Hospitals Tracking Covid-19 by Adding Sensors to Employees' Badges
CNBC
Christina Farr
About…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picking Locks from Audio
That is picking locks of the physical, notched metal kind. Seems a machine learning kind of approach would be possible. Learn from the sounds emitted when opening or manipulating a lock. The author seems skeptical. Further
Picking…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Humble Pi
Recently, I asked my Facebook friends for recommendations for non-fiction books that would not get me depressed. Several people recommended Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World so I bought a copy. I’m glad I did.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOM re File Storage to Scale
A project led me to this, saving it for later use. Scaling should always be in your mind for problems. Not that some projects are not one-off for tests, but it is also useful to think about scaling as well A corporate project…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Satellite Based Broadband Tests
Further competition in Sat based broadband, here from SpaceX Starlink. Early data speeds from Beta tests.
SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps By Jon Brodkin in ArsTechnica
Beta users…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Editing the Squid Genome
Scientists have edited the genome of the Doryteuthis pealeii squid with CRISPR. A first. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classifying Images with Quantum
Sounds remarkable and instructive about how quantum can be used for some kinds of machine learning approaches.
Google researchers use quantum computing to help improve image classification in VentureBeat by Kyle Wiggers
In a new…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm giving a keynote address at the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Law virtual conference on September 9, 2020. The list is maintained on this page....
From The Noisy Channel
If the results for two queries expressing the same intent are similar, then they should map to…
If the results for two queries expressing the same intent are similar, then they should map to similar vectors. If not, then it’s more complicated. You might still be saved by engagement, but you might have to look at sessions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests and Provides Clinics
Widening services that traditional grocery provides,
Kroger unveils COVIDCare Plus coronavirus test program for employers
Kroger Health solution includes home testing kit plus clinical services
Russell Redman in Supermarketnews…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars and Railroad Crossings
Much of my extended family has worked for the railroads in the US and Europe. So the form of transport has always interested me. How do autonomous vehicles interact with railroads? Lance Eliot discusses. bottom line, its…
From Schneier on Security
Drovorub Malware
The NSA and FBI have jointly disclosed Drovorub, a Russian malware suite that targets Linux. Detailed advisory. Fact sheet. News articles. Reddit thread....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Remote Work
Microsoft continues advances for remote, multiple person conferencing
Microsoft's plan to make video calls less miserable
Ina Fried, author of Login
screenshot from a Mircrosoft ad that has people sitting in seats in a lecture hall…
From insideHPC
Exascale Exasperation: Why DOE Gave Intel a 2nd Chance; Can Nvidia GPUs Ride to Aurora’s Rescue?
The most talked-about topic in HPC these days – another Intel chip delay and therefore delay of the U.S.’s flagship Aurora exascale system – is something no one directly involved wants to talk about. Not Argonne National Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Back in the Phone Biz
Surprising perhaps, microsoft dives back into phones, with a not completely novel foldable 2 screen phone. Real practicality or just the novelty? Expensive, big, ready for pre order.
The new Surface Duo
Do one better. There’s…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Ready to Help with CSTA 2021
The call for participation in CSTA 2021 is now out. You can learn about the submission process and look at some possible topic areas on the conference information page here. There are several ways to help out with the conference…
From insideHPC
AWS Announces GA of Quantum Development Environment
Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a development environment for exploring and designing quantum algorithms. AWS said Braket tests and troubleshoots quantum algorithms on simulated
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W North America News
Like everyone, we are asking ourselves questions about the coming year. In particular, we have had lengthy discussions about how best to support and enable ACM Celebrations and ACM-W Student Chapters in North America during the…
From The Noisy Channel
Indeed, the devil is in the details, But I can tell you that I’ve successfully used this idea to…
Indeed, the devil is in the details, But I can tell you that I’ve successfully used this idea to drive lift for my clients, and I recommend exploring it.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thanks to An Explainer
Conrad explains all Keith Conrad is a professor in the mathematics department at UCONN—the University of Connecticut. My dear wife Kathryn Farley and I are about to move to join him—not as faculty but as another resident of the…
From The Noisy Channel
As I suggested in the post, you can use the embeddings of result titles for the results searchers…
As I suggested in the post, you can use the embeddings of result titles for the results searchers engage with when they perform the query. I realize that the devil is in the details -- what kinds of engagement you use, how you…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Committee on Industry/Academia Interactions Releases Report
The following is a blog from the Computing Research Association’s Bulletin, about the release of a new CRA committee report that was informed by a number of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) activities, such as the 2015 The…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM W India Grad Cohort Workshop 2020 Report- A Virtual Event
ACM-W India emphasizes on women empowerment in computer-related fields and domains. It focuses on providing a platform for sharing resources, information, ideas, and experiences with its diverse range of activities so that women…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
You’re Invited to the UA FY21 Action Plan Webinar
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) will be holding a webinar to discuss the UA Fiscal Year 2021 Action Plan on Thursday, 20 August at 14:00 UTC (time zone converter). To register for the webinar, click here. The webinar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Releases Deepfakes
The more data the better. Negative examples are also useful to proof the model, examine its edges, detect movement from the model later. I don't believe in restricting how we can use models, only in honestly testing their…