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
Finding the New from the Old
Makes the case that you can use older data to make useful conclusions. Though in our experience the required meta data was often not available. Physics/astronomy is at least often based on some strong science foundations.…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Weirdest People in the World
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Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Publishers vs Internet Archive
Came across this pre pandemic when I received a letter from my local library about them decreasing the number of digital 'copies' of books available. Had previously been connected to the Google Books program, that sought to…
From insideHPC
Report: Nvidia on Verge of Arm Acquisition
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Nvidia is close to purchasing British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group for more than $40 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, one that has been rumored for several weeks.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Interoperability Initiative: Combining Assistant Contexts?
Had seen this mentioned before, but had not completely understood its implications. Considerable piece in Venturebeat. Overall implications for ultimate intelligence of an assistant are unclear to me,but this takes an interesting…
From BLOG@CACM
Students Need to Know What Success in Computing Looks Like, Starting from Realistic Expectations
Intro CS students sometimes think professional programmers are super-human, which makes it hard to live up to those expectations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Restaurants
Instructive insights about an industry that is now under considerable pressure.
... AI Issues and Advances in the Restaurant and QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) Industry
Via Northwestern and Platt Institute
The Retail Analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Notebook Turns One: Does Chemistry
This remains taking a close look at. We explored WolframAlpha itself. What I liked here was its use in specific context, like here: Chemistry. Does this help or diminish teaching in the basics of analytical chemistry? Note…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Dogs Exercise with Troops
Not unexpected, seems most of the examples shown are remotely controlled via tele operation as opposed to autonomous, but the latter, especially in supporting roles, are sure to quickly follow.
Robot Dogs Join U.S. Air Force…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Are You Doing?
We’ve now finished the first week after Labor Day and at least in North America almost everyone is back to school. That may not mean physically back in a bricks and mortar school building though. My grandson is starting kindergarten…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Quantum Communications
Intriguing application of quantum communication. Reminds me me some papers read in the way back about use of split wavelength data streams. Worth a look.
Secure Quantum Communications Network the Largest of Its Kind
New Scientist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using a Graph Database
Reasonable argument,but needs more thought for particular context.
Developers should consider using graph databases | InfoWorld
Graph databases are proven architectures for storing data with complex relationships. Why aren't more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Expected to See Antitrust
Antitrust looms, what will the implications be? Google does lots of very good work, don't what to see it reduced.
Google Just Got Very Bad News and It Could Change the Way You Use the Internet The Department of Justice is expected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Physics To Protect Data Over Standard Telecom Networks
Brought to my attention:
Quantum Breakthrough to Protect Data over Standard Telecom Networks
In an exclusive interview with Fortune, Quantum Xchange’s CEO John Prisco discusses the technique of quantum key distribution (QKD) to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: Former CRA Board Member Moshe Y. Vardi on Lessons from COVID-19
Former CRA Board Member, Moshe Vardi from Rice University will present “Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience,” as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari vs. Squid
St. Louis Magazine answers the important question: “Is there a difference between calamari and squid?” Short answer: no.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lidar Becomng a Business
Advanced sensors growing up and competing, good direction. We examined this very early on for shelf inventory.
Lidar Is Finally Becoming a Real Business
The success of lidar companies was unclear until this summer, when three
FOR…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: ORNL Distinguished Scientist Travis Humble on Coupling Classical and Quantum Computing
Oak Ridge National Lab’s Travis Humble has worked at the headwaters of quantum computing research for years. In this interview, he talks about his particular areas of interest, including integration of quantum computing with
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Rolls + Ads and Marketing
How different will this be in communicating value to the consumer?
Walmart Launches Walmart+ Ad Campaign
By Bridget Goldschmidt - 09/10/2020
Still from an ad in Walmart's "A New Kind of Membership" campaign promoting the retailer's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Working with Interactive Articles
About Interactive Articles. We talked this, but never really did it. Articles were always static, and the users of the articles were responsible for working with them to determine how they applied. Like the mention of Engelbart…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hybrid Versus Remote Teaching
Which is best for students? Cropped from Wikipedia src Moshe Vardi holds multiple professorships at Rice University. He is also the Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM. His is therefore a voice to be reckoned with in the…
From insideHPC
Genomics England Expands Genomic Sequencing with Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage
SAN JOSE — Sept. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that Genomics England has expanded their Quantum ActiveScale object storage solution as part of an integrated environment designed to store, protect, and…
From insideHPC
Combustion Pioneer Jacqueline Chen Named Department of Energy Fellow
Jacqueline Chen, whose work on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion helped advance the design of automotive, gas turbine and jet engines, was selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science as
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart+ Revealed
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/7/21314767/walmart-plus-grocery-delivery-amazon-prime-membership-loyalty-program-walmart
Amazon may have a 15-year head start, but Walmart is close to finally unveiling its own membership program…
From insideHPC
ScienceLogic Named Top AIOps Provider by EMA
Reston, VA – Sept. 10, 2020 – ScienceLogic, provider of monitoring solutions for multi-cloud management and hybrid IT infrastructure, has been recognized for AIOps leadership in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) AIOps Radar…
From The Noisy Channel
Learning from Friction to Improve the Search Experience
When we design search applications, we aspire to make the user experience frictionless. A search engine should “just work”, enabling searchers to easily express their intent and responding with exactly the results searchers need…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Multiple Choice 2020: Assessment
Of interest, have two projects underway that will have key assessment aspects. Its measurement, the most important aspect of any data.
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing floats in C++: benchmarking strtod vs. from_chars
Programmers often need to convert a string into a floating-point numbers. For example, you might get the string “3.1416” and you would like to get the resulting value as floating-point type. In C/C++, the standard way is theContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving AI to the Edge
Nicely put, mostly non technical overview of what it means to have AI move to the Edge. Ssing it in places like the Smart Home. Favorite topic of mine. Needs more discussion of security .... more to follow on that.
From cloud…
From insideHPC
Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities
Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business analysts, data engineers and business managers – some of whom…