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 insideHPC
Nutanix Partners with Microsoft Azure for a Seamless Hybrid Experience
SAN JOSE –– Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft that will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless application, data, and license…
From Schneier on Security
More on NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography
Back in July, NIST selected third-round algorithms for its post-quantum cryptography standard.
Recently, Daniel Apon of NIST gave a talk detailing the selection criteria. Interesting stuff.
NOTE: We’re in the process of moving…From Schneier on Security
More on NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography
Back in July, NIST selected third-round algorithms for its post-quantum cryptography standard.
Recently, Daniel Apon of NIST gave a talk detailing the selection criteria. Interesting stuff.
NOTE: We’re in the process of moving…From insideHPC
Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines Partner to Accelerate Quantum Computing Development
LOS ANGELES/Tel Aviv, Sept. 9, 2020 – Q-CTRL, a startup that applies the principles of control engineering to accelerate the development of quantum technology, and Quantum Machines, creator of the first complete hardware and …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanalyze on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Had forgotten about Nanalyze, worth a look:
After I posted about it, they sent me this on Brain Computer interfaces:
Who we are We?
We are a boutique media and research firm. Our research method involves sifting through large…
From insideHPC
NCSA’S Donna J. Cox Wins IPS Technology Innovation Award
Donna J. Cox, director of NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), was recently awarded the International Planetarium Society’s 2020 Technology Innovation Award. This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaging System Creates 3D Pictures by Measuring Time
Very interesting, uses for creating 3D awareness of sensors. Once again neural networks being used to gather information about changes in input.
Imaging System Creates Pictures by Measuring Time
University of Glasgow (UK)
July…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Program Webinar
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be holding a program webinar about the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes on September 21, 2020, at 3:30-5:00PM ET. This webinar will cover the National Artificial Intelligence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA's Plans for Near Earth Objects
Recently, probably mostly because we are now looking for them more closely, we have seen a number of large Near Earth Objects (NEOs) buzz by us in space. Ultimately this is dangerous, existential stuff. Most recently the NASA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Creating Dinner from Your Pantry
An area we looked at with AI solutions when we were still in the food business, talked to IBM when they were having Watson 'cook' and invent recipes. The idea of assembling something from a recipe and script can also be generalized…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm?
We start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content. Jumping into our first topic, Risc-V IP and silicon purveyor SiFive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Semantic ML: For More Real Assistants?
So should an assistant answering a question in context be as believable as possible? Is this the same problem as seen in gaming? ... Characters like Alexa do provide a hint of this,
Stadia’s ‘Semantic ML’ tool can help create…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Reveals More of Plus, but Delays
The competition is high, and has many more channels of communications already to the consumer.
Walmart has again delayed the launch of its Amazon Prime competitor Walmart+
Walmart+ will cost $98 a year and include same-day delivery…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Accountability Continues to Rise
Good piece with link to detailed Forrester study:
AI Accountability: Proceed at Your Own Risk
A new report suggests that to improve AI accountability, enterprises should tackle third-party risk head-on.
A report issued by technology…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report Optimize Your WRF Applications
A popular application that simulates climate change is the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model. This white paper discusses how QCT can work with leading research and commercial organizations to lower the Total Cost of…
From Schneier on Security
More on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography
Back in July, NIST selected third-round algorithms for its post-quantum cryptography standard. Recently, Daniel Apon of NIST gave a talk detailing the selection criteria. Interesting stuff. NOTE: We're in the process of moving…
From Putting People First
Nicolas Nova: we have to learn how to domesticate our smartphones
Sur la base d‘une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How six Companies are Using Tech and Data to Transform Themselves
Quite a considerable piece and video, had not seen most of the examples.
How six companies are using technology and data to transform themselves
In the first of a five-part multimedia series airing on CNBC, we look at how the
Sent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entering the Era of Private Money?
Short podcast that just starts to position the question, and many implications.
Sorry, Governments, We’re Entering the Era of Private Money
Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and
Podcast…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Could a Tree Signal if A Corpse is Decaying?
We worked with satellite and other kinds of imaging to determine the growth and health of forests, as we planned their harvest and replanting for CPG products. So in theory as mentioned below, this is possible, but alsoCould…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Sound to Classify
Have always promoted the idea of using sound sensors, and sound delivery to activate contextual spaces. Here Carnegie Mellon explores this, calibrating it for sounds. We were more interested in how human behavior could change…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Good students find questions, not answers
It is often believed that learning is a simple matter of collecting answers and replies. I suspect that “learn mechanistically how to answer the questions” is a great way for weak students to pass courses, and for smart students…
From Putting People First
[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change
Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences. Whether you’ve studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate behavior change principles into your designs to help people achieve…
From insideHPC
The Future of HPC for Manufacturing
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and Intel explain how High-Performance Computing (HPC) has gone mainstream and forever changed the world of engineering and design. The adoption of HPC systems with Computer-Aided…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Expanded EY Partnership
Good overview of the current work. Reported in ConsumerGoodsTechnology (CGT)
P&G Boosting Supply Chain Potential with Expanded EY Partnership | Consumer Goods Technology
"... Procter & Gamble is growing its partnership with EY…From The Eponymous Pickle
360 Degree Virtual Tours
Been recently looking at various capabilities of producing 'Virtual tours' of various complexity. And in particular how it can enhance experiences. Most of my explorations have been simple ways to interact with physical tours…
From Computational Complexity
Two Math Problems of interest (at least to me)
I will give two math problems that are of interest to me.
These are not new problems, however you will have more fun if you work on them yourself and leave comments on what you find. So if you want to work on it without hints…From BLOG@CACM
Things To Do To An Algorithm
What happens when people's fate hangs on machine learning?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Its World is Getting Bigger
Almost every talk I see starts with some statistics about the growth of data. Here Datanami updates some of this, with related quantifying of related aspects. Below I show just the first two, more at the link. Impressive and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Drone Delivery
Wired makes the point that drone deliveries for now will only be for specialized and emergency situations. Agree about the consumer interest point, delivery has already been ramped up to very fast. Rarely needed on your next…