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
More Small Robots, Exploring
They get smaller yet.
Army of a Million Microscopic Robots Created to Explore on Tiny Scale
New Scientist
Layal Liverpool
August 26, 2020
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) researchers have developed microscopic robots that move by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and TikTok
Just recently have been exposed to TikTok as a marketing channel, and wondered too what Wal-Mart was up to, here a look at the possibilities with Microsoft.
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Walmart explains TikTok interest, may have wanted majority bid
By Dan…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need to become an Adaptive Expert
Been known for a long time, soft skills are important. Expertise is by definition a means of changing to meet the context.
Becoming an 'Adaptive' Expert
By Quinn Burke, Cinamon Sunrise Bailey
Communications of the ACM, September…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: National Health Symposium- Operationalizing AI in Health
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is hosting the 2nd Annual National Health Symposium, Sept. 14 & 15, 2020 (1:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET daily), online via ZoomGov. The symposium will explore artificial intelligence…
From BLOG@CACM
Can Machine Learning Algorithms Replace Exams?
Radical thoughts on exams in times of COVID-19.
From insideHPC
IDC: Led by U.S., Global AI Spending Will More than Double by 2024
Those predicting another “AI winter” have a quarrel on their hands with industry analyst firm International Data Corp., which forecasts global spending on AI will more than than double over the next four years, from $50.1 billion…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: MLperf Wars and AMD’s Gawdy Earnings
Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most recent quarterly earnings.
The post Radio Free HPC: MLperf Wars…
From Computational Complexity
A well known theorem that has not been written down- so I wrote it down- CLIQ is #P-complete
(The two proofs that CLIQ is #P-complete that I wrote up and talk about in this post are here. I think both are well known but I have not been able to find a writeup,so I did one.)
From Schneier on Security
North Korea ATM Hack
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide: This joint advisory is the result of…
From Schneier on Security
North Korea ATM Hack
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide:
This joint advisory is the result of…From Schneier on Security
North Korea ATM Hack
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide:
This joint advisory is the result of…