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
Huma-Like too Low a Bar
Good cautious point is made here. But I respond that in most cases we are assisting a human, or doing something rather narrow that a human does today. But quicker and without many kinds of human-like errors. So the bar
Why…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethical Questions about AI Surgery
Wondered at first where the ethical questions were coming from. Access to advanced methods? No, it seems privacy was once again involved.
Researchers examine the ethical implications of AI in surgical settings
Kyle Wiggers
A new…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Invites Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Hyperion Research is accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, to be announced at the SC20 (virtual) conference in November. Award entries are invited all countries and must be submitted…
From Computational Complexity
Do Senators have an Advantage for being Dem VP Nominee?
This is a non-partisan post. Even so: I plan to vote for Joe Biden.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Self Driving in Germany
The idea of autonomous vehicles moves on.
Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany By Kyle Wiggers in Venturebeat
Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today announced that German certification…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates Audio Settings
Had noticed that that Google assistant seemed to better understand. Via Google:
' .... We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in your Google Account and included more detail about how we use audio recordings…
From Schneier on Security
The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such mitigations, making such safeguards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit
The continued increase of GPS systems. Will the data from multiple systems be commonly be shared? Or more likely withdrawn in conflict?
China Celebrates Completion of Rival Satellite Navigation System
in Associated Press
China…
From insideHPC
Summit Takes Center Stage in GE Wind Power Study
Scientists at GE Research have been authorized by the U.S. Department of Energy to access Oak Ridge National Lab’s (ORNL) Summit supercomputer, the world second most powerful system, to study wind power, projected to provide
…
From insideHPC
Unify Your Analytics, and Keep Your Data Where It Suits You
In this sponsored post, Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing, believes that we need to stop our fixation with “data in one place.” The days of the single data repository are behind us. If you try doing…
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC: HPC Market Growth; Student Cluster Competition — Winter Classic Invitational
by RadioFreeHPC Podcast HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC market is projected to grow according to Hyperion’s studies. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Bricklayer
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish
What is the meaning behind declaring something a language? We have many computing and many human languages. How much does their form influence the nature of communication between people and people, people and devices? What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Suites to be Modified
Have now had to use G-Suites for a number of interactions, especially of university project communications. Always thought they were less logical, especially when compared to MS's office offerings. but then I started with
Google…
From insideHPC
Inspur NF5488A5 Breaks AI Server Performance Record in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks
San Jose, Aug. 5 – In the results released last week of MLPerf AI benchmark, Inspur NF5488A5 server set a new AI performance record in the Resnet50 training task, topping the list for single server performance. MLPerf (results…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline August 7th
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering challenges in adiabatic/ reversible classical computing. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google-Style Map of the Brain
As suggested brains vary considerably. So its not a map in a true geographic sense. a more probabilistic map. How easy is it to navigate, link to behavior, data, results? Looking into further.
These Scientists Just Completed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Post Quantum Security
Full considerable article at the link, a good overview of the direction of quantum Crypto, with predictive time line.
It’s Not Too Early to Start Thinking About Post-Quantum Security
By Eve Griliches
In networking and communication…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Downsizing of Retail
Retailwire does a good job of examining current trends and process in retail.
Has retail permanently downsized?
By George Anderson in Retailwire
The number of people filing for first-time unemployment claims reached 1.416 million…
From insideHPC
Panasas Offering Takes on Tiered HPC Storage Headaches, Automatically Adapts to Workload Changes
High performance storage vendor Panasas today released Dynamic Data Acceleration on its new PanFS parallel file system, a software feature designed to overcome inconsistent performance by automatically adapting to changing small…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Python Part 2: Distracted by a Turtle
I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was in university. So today I played around with the Python turtle a bit.
Mostly I played with a few of…From insideHPC
Oxford, Atos in Deal for Nvidia 63-Node DGX System, Said to be UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer
The University of Oxford has signed a £5 million with Atos, provider of hybrid cloud and big data solutions, to deliver what the two organizations say will be the UK’s largest AI-focused supercomputer, a deep learning system…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects for Learning or Grading
The purpose of school work is to get good grades. Well, at least that seems to be a common view on the part of students. Most teachers will tell you that the motivation for students to cheat is that they are lazy and still want…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 2020
MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2020. The list features over 20 innovators who are solving problems related to or using…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Steve Conway on the Imperative of AI Ethics and Why ‘Hardware Is Easy, Software Is Hard’
Steve Conway of industry analyst firm Hyperion Research is one of those technologists with the rare talent for talking complex technology in a straightforward, comprehensible way. In this interview, he uses that talent to survey…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Data Observability
Never called it that in particular, but yes it is important, and is worth the included tag. And I add, the changes and non-changes in data should also be 'observable'.
What is Data Observability?
Hint: it’s not just data for DevOps…
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corona App Gateway for the European Commission
Continued work to privately digitize the understanding of contact tracing.
SAP, Deutsche Telekom to Build Corona App Gateway for European Commission
Reuters
Busvine. Douglas via the ACM
The European Commission (EC) has signed a
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Partners with ADT
A perhaps unexpected move, to address increasing concern about issues of security in the smart home.
Google Invests $450M in ADT to Begin Smart Home Security Partnership in Voicebot.ai
Google is investing $450 million in popular…