Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware Attacks more Sophisticated
Continued concern of these, facilitated by the openness of our systems to external manipulation. what is the solution? The ability to detect particular kinds of patterns of activity that will lead to massive changes in value…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feynman's Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram
Particularly interesting if you are intrigued by the origin and transmission of ideas. As I am. This blog for example was established to continue communications to our innovation center visitors over the years. It has morphed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Calls for Cloud Forensics
Another example of forensics from patterns.
NIST Calls for Standards to Improve Forensic Capabilities in the Cloud
NextGov.com
Mariam Baksh
August 27, 2020
A report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
From Schneier on Security
Schneier.com is Moving
I'm switching my website software from Movable Type to Wordpress, and moving to a new host. The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday until 4 PM EST Tuesday. The site will still be visible during that…
From Schneier on Security
Schneier.com is Moving
I’m switching my website software from Movable Type to WordPress, and moving to a new host.
The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday until 4 PM EST Tuesday. The site will still be visible during that…From Schneier on Security
Schneier.com is Moving
I’m switching my website software from Movable Type to WordPress, and moving to a new host.
The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday until 4 PM EST Tuesday. The site will still be visible during that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Sensing
More examples of integrating sensors for learning. Adapting.
Intelligent Sensing Abilities for Robots to Carry Out Complex Tasks
National University of Singapore
July 15, 2020
Researchers at the National University of Singapore…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Closing An Open Problem
Crawl, then walk, then run. Bogdan Grechuk is a lecturer in the math department at the University of Leicester. His office is in the Michael Atiyah Building. Pretty cool. He works in risk analysis, but is more broadly interested…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 5th 2020)
Single cells are able to navigate complex mazes. E.g., it works with mouse pancreatic cancer cells. Body builders and athletes sometimes take a supplement called AKG. It was found to prolong life in worms. Researchers have now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR As the Future for Meetups: Burning Man Example
I am skeptical too, but the observer says it worked very well. Will our future be one of VR experiences to let us observe and interact?
I was skeptical about attending Burning Man in VR, but it’s greatThis surprisingly effective…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Humans on the Screen
Advances here have always made me wonder, will CGI's replace people on the screen as well.
Digital Humans on the Big Screen
By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, August 2020, Vol. 63 No. 8, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3403972
Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ML Models for Everyday Actions
Of course this is what we would like to get to to create General AI. Solving and delivering real decisions. But we are not there yet. I like the challenge outlined.
Toward an ML Model That Can Reason About Everyday Actions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Machine Learning Tutorial
Had the honor to meet Kirk D Bourne some time ago. Here he passes along a link to the Google Tutorial on Machine Learning certainly worth a look:
Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne
★★★★This Google Tutorial (100+ slides total) on #MachineLearning…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid
Asa ika means "morning squid" in Japanese. 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 insideHPC
Panasas Names Tom Shea President/CEO, Succeeds Faye Pairman
High performance vendor Panasas today announced that COO Tom Shea has succeeded Faye Pairman as president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, effective immediately. Shea has more than 20 years of…
From insideHPC
Former IBMer Dave Turek Explains DNA-based Storage and its Place in the Compute Landscape to Come
There are groundswells for new architectures with the potential to propel compute power forward, even as Moore’s Law winds down. Hence the explosive growth of accelerated CPU/GPU-based computing within the von Neumann domain
…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid
Asa ika means “morning squid” in Japanese.
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: Morning Squid
Asa ika means “morning squid” in Japanese.
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
Apple, Google Expand Coronavirus Warning Software
Have not seem any indications of this being very successful. Can someone point me to a technical review? Note the mention of a real time warning popup being implied. Privacy implications?
Apple, Google Expand Coronavirus…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Operating Systems Trial
Considering the implications of this for development, testing and delivery.
Quantum Operating System Trial Successful
Financial Times Siddarth Venkataramakrishnan
August 31, 2020
A spin-off of the U.K.'s University of Cambridge…From Putting People First
Anthropology and technology conference
The Anthropology + Technology conference brings together pioneering technologists and social scientists from across the globe. Its aim is to facilitate dialogue on emerging technology projects in order to help businesses benefit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Generated Art
Automated art has been around for a long time, but it has never clicked in a substantial way. Will some of these advances change that? Is the case where such attempts should really be more direct collaboration with humans? …
From Putting People First
[Book] Possibilities and challenges of AI for work and society
Artificial Intelligence is permeating a wide range of areas and it is bound to transform work and society. This dossier asks what needs to be done politically in order to shape this transformation for the sake of the common good…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indiegogo Translation, with Accents
With 93 accents, which sounds exciting. How much wil this improve translation? Are we much closer to the fabled and fictional 'Babel fish'?! Here presented with the usual caveats regarding investment in innovation systems
Timekettle…
From insideHPC
Altair Extends Strategic HPC OEM Agreement with HPE
Troy, Mich., Sept. 3, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, extended its multi-year OEM agreement with Hewlett…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI-Graded Tests
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis....
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI-Graded Tests
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI-Graded Tests
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Will Voice Pay for Gas
Been looking for how services like Amazon Alexa can add to automotive experiences. Well here is the newest, just announced:
Safe. Simple. Swift.
Now, you can use your Echo Auto or other automotive device with Alexa Built-in to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Kinds of AI based Learning
Nicely done piece that compares different forms of artificial intelligence based learning methods. And what they are typically meant to do. Not overly technical.
Clear The Confusion-Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning…