Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Schnuck's Store Robotics
Retailwire looks at this, with further expert retail comment.
Are robots taking over Schnucks’ stores?
Aug 27, 2021 by George Anderson
Schnuck Markets is going to the robots. The family-owned grocery chain announced that it isThe…From Schneier on Security
Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches HPC G4 Instance on Bare Metal High-Speed Computing Environment
Tokyo, August 26, 2021 – Platform as a service provider XTREME-D today announced the launch of a new instance on its bare metal high-speed computing environment. Named G4 for the company’s fourth generation model, it was developed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waymo Autonomous Taxis
Not a personal self driving car, but an hailed auto taxi service. Being pushed by Waymo/Alphabet (Google) Implications for liability in use? Would this be an ideal use case, not owning your own car? The initial tests seems…
From insideHPC
5 PhD Students Nems New Frontiers Graduate Fellows
The New Frontiers Initiative, in collaboration with the Blue Waters Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2021 New Frontiers Graduate Fellows. The Graduate Fellowship…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Digital Transformation?
Just started to get these alerts and overviews from HPE that look interesting, and claim to speed digital transformation. For SMB (Small and Medium sized Businesses) Not quite following why. Worth understanding.
How HCI 2.0…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Electric Ships
Had heard of previous examples of this, will we ultimately have fleets of these establishing autonomous supply chains on oceans?
Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship will Make First Voyage This Year By Computing (U.K.). AugustA…From Schneier on Security
Details of the Recent T-Mobile Breach
Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security.
I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple's Next $20 Billion Business
They have the leverage and direction. Lots more at the link.
This could be Apple’s next $20 billion business
Published: Aug. 25, 2021 at 11:45 a.m. ET
By Emily Bary in Marketwatch
An analyst sees Apple rapidly growing its advertising…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IntelliCode Completion In Visual Studio (Preview) 2022
There is a preview out for Visual Studio 2022 available and since I a) love to try new things and b) am not limited to by what is on the student computers I have been trying it out. Normally, I don’t see a lot in new versions…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Great Go, Glitchy Grammar
If there are sentient beings on other planets, then they play Go.—Emanuel Lasker, chess world champion ACM Prize in Computing source David Silver, the 2019 ACM Computing Prize winner, is highlighted this month in the main journal…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: Towards Ambient Intelligence in Smart Healthcare
John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, will present “Towards Ambient Intelligence in Smart Healthcare,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communication
Interesting article on squid communication.
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 here.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorknob
It’s pretty.
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 here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schnuck's Deploys Intelligent Retail Robotics
An interesting case of chainwide application. Surprised somewhat that Schnuck's is involved. With the robotics being used for multiple purposes including direct consumer interaction. Good example to follow. We examined many…
From insideHPC
ORNL Researchers, Summit HPC Support IPCC Climate Change Report
As part of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic project, scientists are gathering and incorporating new data about the Alaskan tundra into global models that predict the future of our planet. Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Coding like Speaking?
How easy is this to do without error?
OpenAI Is Making Coding As Easy As Talking to a Smart Speaker By Wired in CACM
A few weeks ago, I went to an office in the Mission District of San Francisco to get an advance peek at aI…From insideHPC
Granulate Expands Open-source gProfiler with Kubernetes Filtering
Tel Aviv, Israel. August 26, 2021- Granulate, a provider of autonomous real-time computing workload optimization and cost reduction solutions, announced today the release of a new Kubernetes filters feature to the company’s gProfiler…
From insideHPC
Asperitas Claims its Immersion Cooling First to Comply with OCP Requirements
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August 25, 2021 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas has achieved their AIC24 quality and safety qualification for global technology community, Open Compute Project (OCP) recognising the solution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Northwestern Retail Analytics
Just received the latest Northwestern Retail Analytics Council mailing. Good review of what they are up to.
The quarterly Retail Tech Bulletin, published by the Retail Analytics Council, Northwestern University, includes articles…From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Raises $9.7M Funding to Advance Diamond Quantum Accelerator
CANBERRA, Australia–Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian-German full-stack quantum accelerator startup, today announced closing a USD$9.7 million seed investment co-led by the QxBranch founders’ and Main Sequence investment…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Adds to Executive Sales Leadership
San Diego, California — (August 24, 2021) — GigaIO, the creators of data center rack-scale architecture for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, announced today that it has expanded its…
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
If you plug a Razer peripheral (mouse or keyboard, I think) into a Windows 10 or 11 machine, you can use a vulnerability in the Razer Synapse software — which automatically downloads — to gain SYSTEM privileges.
It should be…From Computational Complexity
The Long Road
Guest blogger Varsha Dani tells us why it's never too late.
This week, I am starting as an Assistant Professor at RIT and I am super excited about it. What's the big deal, you are probably thinking. Don't lots of people get hired…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sand-Heap Paradox and all That
We were interviewed at P&G in the late 80s for one of Shoshana Zuboff's books, so this piece reminded me of some of what we were doing then. Don't remember the term 'Surveillance Capitalism', but it is relevant. Worth a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adapting to Gig Law
Gig Law, of how do we manage, or even define part time work, is increasingly important. Here a first example of how this might be managed.
Judge rules California Prop 22 gig workers law is unconstitutional
Voters approved the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Saw Some Examples of Tunable and more Efficient Models for IOT
Cutting 'Edge': A Tunable Neural Network Framework Towards Compact, Efficient Models
Tokyo Institute of Technology News (Japan) August 23, 2021
A sparse convolutional neural network (CNN) framework and training algorithms developed…From Schneier on Security
Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity.
At a high level, netflow…From The Eponymous Pickle
Non Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A further look at the use of blockchain tech to create unique digital expressions, aka 'Art', and provide proof of ownership. And trade the Art in the real world. Note also the inclusion of 'smart contracts', which can guarantee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Declining Entrepreneurship not a Concern
Says K@W Study
Why Declining Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Is Not a Concern in K@W
Innovation Content
Entrepreneurship in the U.S. has declined in recent decades because high-skilled college graduates have found that they can earn…