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 Schneier on Security
Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption
The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.
The proposed settlement…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
Its not brought up enough as a key part of the transformation effort. It is essential as threats enlarge. What do you have if the attackers get control?
Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation By David Geer, Commissioned byAugust…From insideHPC
Univ. of Cambridge Wilkes-3 Is No. 3 on Latest Green500 for Energy-efficient HPC
Twice a year, the TOP500 project releases a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. This Green500 list parallels the better-known TOP500 list, which ranks and details the 500 fastest computer systems…
From insideHPC
Ken Kennedy AI & Data Science Conference, Oct. 25-27: Call for Participation, Program Announced
The 2021 Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference is scheduled for October 25-27. Visit ai-datascience.rice.edu for more details. The conference will kick off with Carlos Westhelle, CTO of NASA; Rama Akkiraju, a Fellow at IBM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of Chat in Meetings
Always thought better use of chat in meetings would be useful, perhaps a means of asking questions of participants by an advisor? Invocation of humor? Microsoft research examines chat:
The rise of parallel chat in online…From insideHPC
TACC Joins NSF-Funded Icicle Institute for AI Research
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it is a partner in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational…
From insideHPC
Add UK to Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Snags
On the heels of potential regulatory problems in China and Europe for Nvidia’s planned Arm acquisition, another press report, from Bloomberg, states that UK regulators are considering blocking the $40 billion takeover on the
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From BLOG@CACM
The Triad of Graduate Studies
The Research Community, Research Subject, and Research Process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Fines for Amazon Under GDPR
Good to know the implications of the EU GDPR. Note how Amazon sees the gathering of customer data. On to the EU court.
EU Fines Amazon Record $888 Million Over Data Violations By Bloomberg, August 2, 2021
Luxembourg's CNPD data…From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackmatter Interview
I see that the Podcast 'Security Now' has now published the 'Blackmatter' interview with the Recorded Future company. We did some work with Recorded Future at the enterprise. The interview, I think is revealing regarding ransomware…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Shift to Employees?
Have seen some examples of this lately.
Tech Pay Survey Shows Power Shift to Employees By The Information, July 23, 2021
The technology-business boom is giving white-collar workers more leverage with employers.
At tech companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Test of a European Space Brain
Are we extending to the stars?
First Test of Europe's Space Brain
European Space Agency, in CACM, July 28, 2021
The European Space Agency (ESA) operated a spacecraft successfully using a next-generation mission control system.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reprogrammable Satellite Launched, is it Hackable?
Had know about this for a while. 'Reprogrammable' Satellite the European Space Agency said. I also saw a number of the big time security wags were quick to call it 'Hackable'. Is it? Have they proven that or is thisReprogrammable…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Webinar
NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program solicitation NSF 19-582 via a webinar on August 6th, 2021 starting…
From insideHPC
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
ARMONK, N.Y. and OVERLAND PARK, Kan., August 3, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Black & Veatch today announced a collaboration to jointly market Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions, including remote monitoring technologies…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you pipe a large file to a C++ program?
Under many operating systems, you can send data from from one process to another using ‘pipes’. The term ‘pipe’ is probably used by analogy with plumbing and we often use the the symbol ‘|‘ to represent a pipe (it looks likeContinue…
From insideHPC
Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe
Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. A report by IT publication The Information states that regulators in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Smart Speaker Use
There is always a question about whether a popular consumer electronic device will be just a fad or become a lasting fixture of daily life. Smart speaker use frequency over time suggests it is already…
From insideHPC
Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek
McLEAN, Va., Aug. 3, 2021 — AppTek, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), text-to-speech (TTS) and natural language processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate
Notable collaboration on AI asset monitoring maintenance and digital twins.
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
Publish date: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 | Location Armonk, New York and Overland…From insideHPC
Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Initiatives with DDN and NVIDIA at Any Scale
[Sponsored Post] In this whitepaper, DDN and NVIDIA invited ESG to interview several of their joint customers that have been running production AI environments to better understand their needs and to confirm the value that DDN…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Molecular Recycling with Eastman at P&G
Most interesting as I worked in this in the future analysis of this space at P&G. Good to see the continued advances made.
Eastman molecular recycling technologies to advance Procter & Gamble packaging goals
Innovative Eastman…From Schneier on Security
Paragon: Yet Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Forbes has the story:
Paragon’s product will also likely get spyware critics and surveillance experts alike rubbernecking: It claims to give police the power to remotely break into encrypted instant messaging communications,…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Recognized as an Inventor in Australia
Interesting, should this be the case? Most AI does not invent. Does an optimization of a supply chain invent? Patents and their origins and application will have to be rethought.
AI Can Now Be Recognized as an Inventor By…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request for Information (RFI) on an Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation released a Request For Information (RFI) to gather public input on the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) implementation plan. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Coming Growth?
Good intro to a quite optimistic view of productivity, below is just his intro, pointing on to a more complete look. I certainly hope so.
The Coming Era of Productivity Growth via Irving Wladawsky-Berger in his Blog
“The…From insideHPC
DOE to Fund $100M for High Energy Physics Research
Aug. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science announced a plan to provide $100 million over the next four years for university-based research on a range of high energy physics topics through …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Responsible and Explainable AI
I would call this more broadly, 'responsible decision making' to embrace what is called 'AI' and analytical decision making. Useful and considered look at what this means.
Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice By…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IoT, Python, and Raspberry Pi–Oh My
Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been trying to learn Python and that I have been experimenting with the Internet…
From insideHPC
NGD Joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 2, 2021– As the HPC community enters an era in which computation can be offloaded to storage devices, it is important to explore the mechanisms for using and programming these processing offloads. To this…