Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2022
From insideHPC
Red Hat Announces OpenStack Platform 17 for At-Scale Networks
Sept. 28, 2022 — Red Hat announced OpenStack Platform 17, designed for large-scale networks “with an open hybrid cloud vision,” the company said. “With this latest version, service providers can benefit from the delivery of new…
From Writing
Terraform: Up & Running, 3rd edition is now published!
Today, I’m excited to announce that the 3rd edition of Terraform: Up & Running is now published! It includes over 100 pages of new content, including two totally new chapters, one on managing secrets with Terraform and one on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Erasure Key to Practical Quantum Computing
Tips towards Quantum improvement.
Erasure Key to Practical Quantum Computing
Researchers at Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method for error correction in a quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Security by Labeling
By Andreas Kuehn
Communications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 23-25 10.1145/3548762
Empowering consumers to make risk-informed purchasing decisions when buying Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices…From insideHPC
‘Shaheen III’: KAUST Selects HPE Cray EX HPC-AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA and AMD Chips
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) selected HPE to build its next-generation supercomputer, “Shaheen III,” using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer platform. The…
From insideHPC
How the HPC-AI Rocky Linux Server Operating System Rose from the CentOS Ashes
[SPONSORED CONTENT] CentOS disappeared in the dead of winter. On December 8, 2020, the day with the earliest sunset of the year in northern latitudes, Red Hat announced it would no longer support the Linux server operating system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Economic Development Administration Awards Georgia Tech
Impressed what I saw in long past visits ...
Economic Development Administration Awards Georgia Tech $65 Million for AI Manufacturing Project
Largest grant ever awarded to a Georgia Tech-led coalition of partners to drive Build…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Introduces Encrypted Communication Service AWS Wickr
Had not heard of this offering.
Amazon Introduces Encrypted Communication Service AWS Wickr by Renato Losio
A year after the acquisition of the company Wickr, Amazon recently announced the preview of the collaboration suite…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a Whitepaper on Key Findings from their Future of Computing Symposium
In 2021, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) celebrated their 70th anniversary with two big events: the Future of Computing Symposium (October 2021) and the AI and Social Responsibility Symposium (March 2022). The CSL is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre Bunking against Misinformation
Mostly, always consider the source
Fighting Against Misinformation
By Associated Press, August 30, 2022
The researchers said short online videos that teach basic critical thinking skills can make people better able to resist misinformation…From Computational Complexity
Is the complexity of approximating Vertex Cover of degree 3 open?
RECALL:
A max-problem f has a A P Time App Scheme (PTAS) if there is an algorithm ALG such that
ALG(\epsilon) \ge (1-\epsilon)f(x).
A min-problem f has a A P Time App Scheme (PTAS) if there is an algorithm ALG such that
ALG(\epsilon)…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Directed Security Issues
Also discussed in Schneier, with further comment, makes me think of 'dueling AI' scenarios.
You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI From Simonwillison.net
One of the most common proposed solutions to prompt injection…From The Eponymous Pickle
On NeuroSymbolic AI
New to me, worth understanding in useful contexts ...
Neurosymbolic AI, By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 11-13 10.1145/3554918
The ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence (AI)—in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Seeking to Improve Customer Pickup
Semi automation of customer pickup interaction and satisfaction.
Will electronic carts help Kroger fulfill curbside pickup orders more quickly? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
Kroger is introducing a temperature-controlled electronic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Make the Mask a Way to Detect Disease
Had seen something similar presented, sanitizing more complex masks was mentioned as an issue. ,
Smart Mask Could Be Early Warning System By South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), September 22, 2022
A team of Chinese scientists…From The Eponymous Pickle
X-rays, AI and 3D printing Bring lost Van Gogh Artwork to life
Worked previously with UCL
X-rays, AI and 3D printing bring lost Van Gogh Artwork to life
by University College London
Using X-rays, artificial intelligence and 3D printing, two UCL researchers reproduced a "lost" work of art by…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Teaching Cursive Handwriting
Unusual application for these times, but I agree it can have useful side effects.
Applied AI Teaches Handwriting By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 19-20 10.1145/3554919
Researchers…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
Computer Science isn't just about using language, sometimes it's about losing it. Sometimes people want to send messages so no one even knows they exist and a great place to lose language is inside a conversation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask Dumb Questions
Ask enough questions and you will notuce they are getting smarter.
When AI Asks Dumb Questions, It Gets Smart Fast In Science, September 22, 2022
New research suggests patiently correcting artificial intelligence (AI) when it…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognixion One, a Brain Interface with AR
Brought to my attention. Updates to Cognixion. More at the link. Let me know of your experience and I will report it here ....
The World's First Brain Computer Interface with Augmented Reality
Wearable Speech™ Generating…From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Fluid Mixing with Machine Learning
Interaction between RL and Markov decision method is interesting
Optimizing Fluid Mixing with Machine Learning
Tokyo University of Science (Japan)
August 29, 2022
Researchers in Japan have proposed a machine learning-based approach…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Rolling in China
Stats on Global and Chinese Robot use:
China's Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks
The Wall Street Journal
Jason Douglas, September 18, 2022
A report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) revealed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Brain Atlas
New effort moves forward:
NIH’s BRAIN Initiative puts $500 million into creating most detailed ever human brain atlas
Neuroscientists will build on census of mouse brain as massive program moves into new phase
22 SEP 202210:00The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Denoising Images
A New Method for Denoising Images
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
September 13, 2022
Researchers from South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Vietnam's VinAI Research, and Canada's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Electric Planes
Good overview of efforts underway.
Electric planes take off in Strategy-Business
The potential for short-haul electric flight is energizing aviation’s newest startups.
by Raymond Colitt
Two airports in Spain illustrate both the…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Optimizing compilers deduplicate strings and arrays
When programming, it can be wasteful to store the same constant data again and again. You use more memory, you access more data. Thankfully, your optimizing compiler may help. Consider the following two lines of C code: printf…
From insideHPC
DOE to Fund $42M for HPC Cooling Systems
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced up to $42 million in funding for “high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers.” More about the COOLERCHIPS funding opportunity, and details…
From insideHPC
Analytics8 Acquires Analytics Consultancy Mashey
CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2022 — Analytics8, a data and analytics consulting firm, has announced the acquisition of Denver-based Mashey, a data analytics consultancy focused on modern data technology. The move to acquire Mashey—which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will DART Save us?
Closely following this, will be shown live on Monday. Earth will inevitably be hit by a serious space rock again, so its good to be ready now. Lets learn as much as we can.
NASA’s DART Mission Aims to Save the World. Robotic…