Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2021
From insideHPC
Human Brain Project’s EBRAINS Shares Laptop-to-Supercomputer Brain Simulator
EBRAINS, a new digital research infrastructure set up by the EU-funded Human Brain Project, has made available a brain simulation software, called NEST 3, for use in fields such as neuroscience and robotics. NEST 3 is designed…
From insideHPC
Indian Institute of Tech, Max-Born Institut Team Say Graphene Valleytrionics Could Enable Room Temperature Quantum
A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology and Max-Born Institute of Germany have published a study on a novel approach for encoding quantum information: valleytronics. Aside from their charge, electrons have another…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Fusion Power with AI
More moves towards fusion.
Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor? Nuclear physics may be one of machine learning's newest frontiers Rebecca Sohn
Since the 1940s, physicists have tried, but no one has yet created an efficient nuclear…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey On Autonomous Plants
The autonomous plant: Entering a new digital era
September 10, 2021 | Article McKinsey
By Gopal Chakrabarti, Dominik Don, Micah Smith, and Premal Vora
The autonomous plant: Entering a new digital era
The requirements of the energy…From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches High-Density HPC and HCI Servers with Gigabyte
Calgary, Alberta. September 16, 2021 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a maker of modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a joint product launch with GIGABYTE Technology, maker of high-performance servers …
From insideHPC
ALCF, IIT Team Develops Benchmark for Scientific Deep Learning Efficiency
The emergence of deep learning techniques has provided a new tool for accelerating scientific exploration and discoveries. A group of researchers from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the Illinois Institute…
From insideHPC
HPC/AI in the Spotlight: Jensen Huang Named to Time Magazine’s Most Influential People List
Estranged royalty, movie stars and Olympic athletes have influence, sure, but if you want to build a list of people with lasting impact then Time magazine got it right when it named Jensen Huang to its list of the 100 most influential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Italian Data Protection Authority Queries Smart Glasses
I thought there might be some regulatory push back on Facebook smart glasses that gather and store data and images, here perhaps the first case.
Italy Data Authority Asks Facebook for Clarifications on Smart Glasses
Reuters…From insideHPC
DOE Funds $13M Project for Adapting Scientific Software for HPC
A project involving researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and national lab and academic collaborators has received U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding as part of an effort to adapt scientific software…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming Oct 19 deadline for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Applicants and Reviewers encouraged
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Foundational AI?
We worked with Stanford in the early days of AI. Can't we all get along? I like the idea of using foundational definitions to decide what to emphasize on next.
A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate By…From insideHPC
Arqit and Juniper Networks in Alliance to Address Quantum Security Threats to Networks
London – September 15, 2021 – Arqit Quantum Inc. (“Arqit”), developer of quantum encryption technology and Juniper Networks, maker of AI-driven networks, have signed a ‘Technology Alliance Partner Connect’ agreement to explore…
From insideHPC
SDSC Houses Novel Metabolomics Data Repository
September 14, 2021 — How is the “normal” resting heart rate determined? How does the American Diabetes Association establish the “normal” fasting glucose value? Understanding these “normal” ranges for metabolism is complex, especially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Computer Generated Faces
Schneier points us to this effort, detecting artificial human faces. Technical details interesting.
A way to spot computer-generated faces by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore
Anatomy structures of a human eye. Bottom: Examples of pupils…From The Eponymous Pickle
Study on Aging Workforce and Robotics
Makes sense. How do we make such uses most efficient? Teach both to collaborate well. Have my own ideas on that, lets collaborate.
Robots Readily Adopted In the Aging Workplace, Study Finds By MIT News in CACM
Robots are"Demographic…From Schneier on Security
Identifying Computer-Generated Faces
It’s the eyes:
The researchers note that in many cases, users can simply zoom in on the eyes of a person they suspect may not be real to spot the pupil irregularities. They also note that it would not be difficult to write software…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Nominations Open!
ACM-W Rising Star Award Nominations Open! Nominations are due by October 30, 2021. The ACM-W Rising Star Award is an award that recognize as woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Robotic Excavator
Impressive.
Autonomous Walking Excavator Can Build Walls, Dig Trenches By New Scientist
A construction vehicle can operate autonomously on rough terrain, thanks to a team of Swiss-German engineers that adapted a walking excavator…From insideHPC
Sandia: New 3D-imaging Workflow Could Certify HPC Materials Simulations
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have announced they have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could have beneficial implications for several industries, including…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Passwordless Accounts
With the introduction of Microsoft 11 in October. How secure is this, looking further? MS has not had a good record of security lately. Will be challenged. If so quite a coup. Following up.
Microsoft accounts no longer need…From insideHPC
Amphenol: 112Gb/s Interconnect with eTopus Products for IP Solutions
San Jose, Sept. 14, 2021 – Amphenol ICC, the global leader in connector technology, design and manufacturing, and eTopus Technology, a pioneer of ultra-high-speed ADC/DSP-based SerDes for wireline applications including data …
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: How Flux Software Manages Supercomputing Workflows
This episode of the Exascale Computing Project‘s Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series delves into a software framework developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), called Flux, which is widely used for scheduling…
From insideHPC
Penguin Wins 2 DOD HPC Modernization Deals Worth $68M
Fremont, Calif. – September 14, 2021 – HPC and AI company Penguin Computing, Inc., a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGH), today announced that it has been awarded two contracts totaling $68M from the Department…
From insideHPC
How the Sea Slug Could Help Make AI Smarter
If you’ve seen “My Octopus Teacher” you know how intelligent creatures of the deep can be. Now comes research from Purdue University indicating that the sea slug, a most basic and simple of sea animals, may help AI hardware get…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Marketplace Sellers
Was unaware of the growth of these.
Amazon marketplace sellers are becoming retail giants
Plus additional expert comments ...
Amazon marketplace sellers are becoming retail giants
Sep 13, 2021, by Tom Ryan
Thrasio, the largest aggregator…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing the way we do
New ways of perceptive seeing, now with Texture and Shape
GLOM: Teaching Computers to See the Way(s) We Do By John Delaney, Commissioned by CACM Staff September 14, 2021
At the virtual Collision technology earlier this year…From insideHPC
Kinetica Fuses Streaming and Contextual Analysis
ARLINGTON, VA (September 14, 2021) – Kinetica, the database for time and space, today announced native integration with Kafka and an API Key integration with Confluent, the platform for data in motion. Kinetica is now the second…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prepare for your Quantum Future
To understand it, certainly.
Now Is the Time to Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution
By TechRepublic, August 27, 2020 in CACM
Christopher Savoie is CEO and co-founder of Zapata Computing, a quantum application company.
In…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Palm Scanning Moves outside Retail
Palm scanning is apparently a successful means of quick secure ID outside retail:
Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues in TheVerge
Launching at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre By James…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Dimensions
Better handling of dimensions has let us to test out machine learning and dabble with AI. Here is a not too deep look at the math. Can we better define away complexity? See the images at the link.
The Journey to Define Dimension…