Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2022
From insideHPC
Nokia Selected by Bharti Airtel for 5G Deployment
Aug. 3, 2022 — New Delhi – Nokia today announced that it has secured a deal with telecom operator Bharti Airtel, for 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment. This multi-year deal follows the recently concluded 5G spectrum auctions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schneier Writes on Ring Doorbell and Police
Needs more caution on use, but am all for automating home protection.
Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent in Bruce Schneier
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fixing Ad Bias
Example of AI being used to address bias.
An AI Fix to Advertising Bias? Industry Giants Commit to IBM's Tech
WPP, Delta Air Lines, the 4A's tap computing giant's anti-bias toolkit
CANNES, France — A coalition of industry giants…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Practical Quantum Computer
NEWS
Building a Practical Quantum Computer By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 15-17 10.1145/3535191
Researchers have speculated about quantum computation for decades, but recent years have…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Dawn of Crowdfarms
Considerable piece starts simple and becomes process-task technical, worth understanding.Note useby China, considerable detail at the link. Approach is new to me. Looking for more detailed examples.
The Dawn of Crowdfarms…From The Eponymous Pickle
NASAs Low G Mapping and Maintenance Robotics
Fan Robotics in Space
NASA's Space Robots Hit Another Milestone
ZDNet
Liam Tung, July 26, 2022
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Astrobee robots have concluded the first stage of a project to assess autonomous…From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Stocking with Image Recognition
Out of stock management is an important retail issue, here an example.
This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked Wisy’s platform makes it easier for consumers to buy their favorite products
JOANNA GOODRICHS hoppers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Model Automatically Extracts Content From Web Apps
Interesting app idea.
Model Automatically Extracts Content From Web Apps
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya News (Spain)
Juan F. Samaniego, June 17, 2022
Researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain have developed…From insideHPC
MemVerge Announces Memory Machine Cloud Edition and Memory Viewer for CXL
MILPITAS, Calif. – August 2, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge today announced general availability of two new software products, Memory Machine Cloud Edition and Memory Viewer. Memory Machine Cloud Edition software…
From insideHPC
OME and Glenco Software Launch OMERO and OMERO Plus for OME-NGFF Support
SEATTLE and DUNDEE, United Kingdom, Aug. 2, 2022 — Today the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) and Glencoe Software announced the latest versions of OMERO and OMERO Plus with support for OME-NGFF, a cloud-friendly data format…
From insideHPC
Avery Design Systems Announces 800G Ethernet VIP Virtual Network Co-simulation Platform
SANTA CLARA, CA — Aug. 2, 2022 — At the Flash Memory Summit today, Avery Design Systems announced its Verification IP (VIP) for 800Gbps Ethernet can now be used to perform virtual network co-simulation for the full layer Ethernet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Euro Glasses
Had not seen this as yet, note these are developed with Chinese manufacturer Nreal.
AR Glasses Allow Deaf People to 'See' Conversations by Turning Audio into Subtitles
EuroNews
Aisling Ní Chúláin, July 29, 2022
U.K. startup XRAI…From The Eponymous Pickle
From Game Playing to Protein Folding: Opening AI to Scientific Discovery
Excellent inspirational talk by Demis Hassabis on the breakthroughs deriving from Google company DeepMind. Which I have covered in this blog. And also the ethics involved. Largely non Technical and worth reading. NoteTalk…
From insideHPC
Cogniteam and AAEON Announce Robotics Partnership
Tel Aviv, Aug. 1, 2022 — Cogniteam, the developers of a drag n’ drop robotics operating system, called Nimbus, is partnering with a designer and manufacturer of industrial IoT and Edge AI solutions, AAEON, to develop what the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on On the Value of 'Power Posing'.
But Please Spare us all Posing.
The initial findings that posture equaled power have been debunked, but body language can still play a part in your success.
by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie in Strategy-Business…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Scours Brain Data to Spot Mental Illness Patterns
Predictive, accuracy?
AI Scours Brain Data to Spot Mental Illness Patterns
By Futurity, July 28, 2022 ....
The research may lead to early diagnosis of mental health conditions.
Georgia State University researchers constructed…From insideHPC
Exascale: ECP’s QMCPACK Project for Predicting and Controlling Materials
In this episode of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, produced by DOE’s Exascale Computing Project, the topic is an ECP subproject called QMCPACK, which aims to find, predict, and control materials from first principles with predictive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tips for Implementing Conversational AI
Some useful thoughts.
Expert Tips and Best Practices for Implementing Conversational AI
Michael Hartsog in CustomerThink
The chatbots of the past had limited capabilities. They could answer a predetermined set of questions, but…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Software
Always in search of better ways to track and verify logistic decisions that can be further improved.
Fraunhofer spin-off for transport and logistics
Tracking software for pallets, containers & much more
Research News / July 01…