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
Sylabs a Finalist in America’s DataHub Innovation Challenge
Reno, NV – Sept. 14, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced it has been selected by America’s DataHub Consortium (ADC), in partnership with Tech Connect…
From insideHPC
groundcover Raises $24.5M for K8s Application Performance Monitoring
Tel Aviv, Sept. 14, 2022 – groundcover, a start up focused on cloud-native application monitoring, announces today it raised $24.5M in funding: $4.5M in seed funding and $20M in a Series A round. The A series was led by Zeev
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From BLOG@CACM
Heinz Rutishauser, a Forgotten Swiss Pioneer
A look at the little-known Rutishauser, who created "automatic programming" and was one of the "authoritative fathers" of the Algol programming language.
From Putting People First
Why paying individual people for their health data is a bad idea
Paying individual people for their health data will widen inequalities and reduce altruism, luring people to sell their privacy. Health data should instead be treated as collective property, and commercial profits should be shared…
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $178M for Bioenergy Technology
Sept. 13, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awards totaling $178 million for bioenergy research projects intended to advance sustainable technology breakthroughs that can improve public health, help address climate…
From insideHPC
Cadence Announces AI-Driven EDA Verification Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the Cadence Verisium AI-driven verification platform, a suite of applications leveraging big data and AI designed to optimize verification workloads…
From insideHPC
Argonne to Host IXPUG Annual Conference, Sept. 28-30
Sept. 13, 2022 — The Intel Extreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) will hold its annual conference from Wednesday, Sept. 28 to Friday, Sept. 30 at Argonne National Laboratory. The agenda is published and registration is open …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mystery of Why Some People Don't Catch COVID
Would seem such a question could be sorted out with a machine learning approach.
The mystery of why some people don’t catch COVID in ArsTechnica
Scientists think they might hold the key to helping protect us all.
GRACE BROWNE,…From insideHPC
OLCF Researchers Win R&D 100 Award for Flash-X Simulation Software
Oak Ridge, TN — A team that includes researchers from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility recently received a U.S. Department of Energy R&D 100 Award for their work on Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces 8U ‘Universal GPU’ Server for NVIDIA H100’s
HPC-AI server maker Supermicro today announced what the company said is its most advanced GPU server incorporating eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Supermicro now offers three Universal GPU servers: the 4U, 5U and the new
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Launches Bridge2AI Program to Accelerate the Widespread Introduction of AI into the Biomedical and Behavioral Science Fields
Pending funding, the National Institute of Health (NIH) plans to launch the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program. Collaboratively managed by the NIH Common Fund, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative…
From insideHPC
Amazon and Harvard in Quantum Networking Research Alliance
Harvard University and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced an alliance to advance research in quantum networking. AWS, which launched the AWS Center for Quantum Networking earlier this year, will provide funding for faculty-led…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Boat Maps Pacific Underwater Volcano
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Supply Chain Broke. Robots Are Supposed to Help Fix It
Examples of solutions being examined.
The Supply Chain Broke. Robots Are Supposed to Help Fix It
The New York Times
Peter S. Goodman, September 7, 2022
Companies facing supply-chain disruptions are investing in robots and automation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning Aids Fusion Control
Linking AI Methods to Nuclear fusion energy.
Exploring Reinforcement Learning to Control Nuclear Fusion Reactions
Carnegie Mellon University News
Aaron Aupperlee, September 8, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) doctoral candidate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Nanoscale Structures in Real Time
Visualizing Nanoscale Structures in Real Time
University of Michigan News
James Lynch, August 18, 2022
A beta version of open-source three-dimensional (3D) data visualization software developed by University of Michigan (U-M)-led…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Newsletter Editor!
Taneea S Agrawaal will be the next ACM-W Newsletter Editor, effective September 2022. Taneea is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at University of Toronto, Canada. She completed her Bachelors in Technology from…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 12 2022)
A standard dataset in artificial-intelligence research has ten percent of its images mislabeled. Yet state-of-the-art algorithms achieve better-than-90% classification on the same dataset. (Credit: Leo Boytsov) Despite the reeducation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Lips Thorough Masks
And even less security.
Next Generation of Hearing Aids Reads Lips Through Masks
By University of Glasgow (U.K.), September 9, 2022
An international team led by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Glasgow developed a system…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Learns to Correct 3D Printing Errors
Seems a very useful capability.
Algorithm Learns to Correct 3D Printing Errors
University of Cambridge (U.K.)
August 16, 2022
An algorithm developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge can be added to new or existing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybercurrency/Blockchain Vulnerabilities
Disclosure for Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Security Vulnerabilities. Consider how this mixes through to blockchain applications.
Via Schneier (with comments) :
Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure…From Computational Complexity
Thirty Years of Dagstuhl
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| Dagstuhl old-timers at the original castle |
I'm back at Dagstuhl for the seminar on Algebraic and Analytic Methods in Computational Complexity. My first seminar at Dagstuhl was back in 1992. I've been coming for thirty years…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Demos Soda-Fetching Robots
Interest, relatvely simple application. More good hospitality applications?
From Reuters
Paresh Dave
August 16, 2022
Alphabet subsidiary Google has developed mechanical waiters that can fetch soda and snacks…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheating at Arts Competition?
Expect to see more things of this type. Redefining art?
AI Used win Arts Competition By The New York Times
September 12, 2022
When Jason Allen submitted his "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" into the Colorado State Fair's fine arts…From insideHPC
How Aerospace/Defense Can Harness Data with a Well-Designed AI Infrastructure
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Silicon Mechanics discuss how solving mission-critical problems using AI in the aerospace and defense industry is becoming more of a reality. Every day, new technologies emerge that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TikTok Browser Can Track Users' Keystrokes
TikTok Browser Can Track Users' Keystrokes
The New York Times
Paul Mozur; Ryan Mac; Chang Che, August 19, 2022
Privacy researcher Felix Krause found the TikTok video application's Web browser can track users' keystrokes, demonstrating…From The Eponymous Pickle
U.S. Recovers Over $30 Million in Cryptocurrency Stolen by North Korean Hackers
U.S. Recovers Over $30 Million in Cryptocurrency Stolen by North Korean Hackers
FROM ACM NEWS
Sum is only a fraction of hundreds of millions siphoned in breach of 'Axie Infinity' online videogame this year.
The Wall Street Journal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Smartphone Could Recognize You by How You Hold It
Somewhat new recgnition approach
Your Smartphone Could Recognize You by How You Hold It
By New Scientist, August 22, 2022
An algorithm trained to identify people from the vibrations of their hands did so with more than 90% accuracy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cities Using Digital Twins Examine SimCity for Policymakers: Metaverse
Note considerable detail in the simulation here.
Cities Using Digital Twins Like SimCity for Policymakers
By Bloomberg CityLab, April 6, 2022
A collage of 3-D reality mesh images of Singapore
Said Cityzenith CEO Michael Jansen,Cities…From The Eponymous Pickle
A More Resilient Supply Chain From Optimized Operations Planning
Optimization still useful here.
A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planning
September 1, 2022 | Article Form McKinsey
A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planning
To combat greater complexity…