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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
The 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC’22)
by Alexia Giouroukou The 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC’22) took place in Thessaloniki on June 16th -17th, 2022. GEC’22 summit was opened with the welcome talks from Efstratios Stylianidis (Vice-Rector for Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GM Recalls RoboTaxi Code for Update after Crash
An example of how automotive complexity will increase in context.
GM's Cruise Recalls, Updates Software in Robotaxis
By TechCrunch, September 9, 2022
A crash in June prompted General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) unitIn…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Hot Chips Conference, UCIe, 3D Packaging, CXL and a Revival of Moore’s Law?
This week’s episode takes a look at emerging technologies driving new chip design and performance, which is to say many of the topics highlighted at the recent Hot Chips conference. Shahin and Doug talk about UCIe and why it
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From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data Does Facebook Have?
From Schneier, with considerable comment .... From a Court Deposition:
" .... Facebook’s stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on the same theme: It has amassed so much data on so many billions of…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Tesla Data Hoard
Consider the Depth and Breadth of Data Use
The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard Logs and records of its customers’ journeys fill out petabytes—and court case dockets By Mark HARRIS in Spectrum IEEE
You won’t see a single…From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Mass Surveillance
Cops Wanted to Keep Mass Surveillance App Secret; Privacy Advocates Refused
By Ars Technica, September 9, 2022 in CACM
Much is known about how the federal government leverages location data by serving warrants to major tech companies…From insideHPC
DNA-based Storage and Compute Startup CATALOG to Collaborate with Seagate
Sept. 8, 2022, Boston – Catalog Technologies, Inc. ( CATALOG ), a developer of automated DNA-based digital data storage and computation, is collaborating with storage solutions company Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Robot Turns Valves
Impressive reworking of some in plant tasks:
Aerial Dragon Robot Reconfigures Itself Into a Flying Manipulator Why not just build a drone that can be, and do, anything you want? By EVAN ACKERMAN
This article is part ofA…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Shipping and Technology issues
Emphasizing shipping issues.
The Download: AI privacy risks, and cleaning up shipping in TechnologyReview
Plus: Pakistan's devastating floods are displacing millions of people, By Rhiannon Williams
August 31, 2022 Click through…From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Spends $50 Million to Develop Next-Gen Processor for Space Exploration
Faster and more reliable.
NASA Spends $50 Million to Develop Next-Gen Processor for Space Exploration
By Ryan Whitwam on August 18, 2022 at 8:42 am
NASA has been using the same spaceflight computers for almost 30 years, but it…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepmind AI Learns to Play Soccer
Another useful game example, learned, trained and automated
DeepMind AI Learns to Play Soccer Using Decades of Match Simulations
By New Scientist, September 8, 2022
Researchers at artificial intelligence (AI) research companyThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Canada Wirking on Worlds largest Geothermal Lagoon
Geothermal efforts
Canada Is Working On the World’s Largest Geothermal Solar Lagoon
By Adrianna Nine on September 8, 2022 at 9:31 am in ExtremeTech
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François has never been considered much of a tourist destination…From insideHPC
TSMC August 2022 Revenue Report
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Sep. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for August 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for August 2022 was approximately NT$218.13 billion, an increase of 16.8
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From insideHPC
SC22: November 13-18, Dallas
SC22, the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, will be held Nov. 13-18 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. The full program begins Sunday, Nov.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research
My earliest work did this kind of research
Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research, By Allyn Jackson
Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 8, 2022
For decades, mathematicians have turned to computers for help with tasks…From insideHPC
MLCommoncs: Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results Show Machine Learning Inference Advances
SAN FRANCISCO – September 8, 2022 – Today, the open engineering consortium MLCommons announced results from MLPerf Inference v2.1, which analyzes the performance of inference — the application of a trained machine learning model…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pacemaker That Dissolves
Interesting solution
No More Invasive Surgery—This Pacemaker Dissolves Instead Temporary pacemakers are often vital but dangerous to remove when their jobs are done .. By JOANNA GOODRICH, Spectrum IEEE…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Ian Foster Named 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient
Ian Foster, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory, was just named the 2022 Ken Kennedy award recipient. Presented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rail Reopens Hump Yards
Followed rail supply chain methods for years for major shipper. Need more effort here.
Railroads Reverse Years of Streamlining to Improve Freight Service
Rail yards are starting to rumble with activity again as freight railroads…From insideHPC
Ian Foster to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
New York, Sept. 7, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society have named Ian Foster, a Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory, as the recipient…
From insideHPC
The Three Variations of Supercomputing Cloud Technologies
“Cloud computing” is one of the most overloaded terms in the history of information technology. Yes, there is the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing that many will point to, but the sheer number of adaptations of models for
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Regional Activities Co-Chair!
Dr Nutan Limaye will be the next Regional Activities Co-Chair of ACM-W, effective September 2022. Dr Limaye is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Before this, she…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Smartphones
Note this requires device proximity
Hacking Device Can Secretly Swipe, Tap Smartphone Screen
New Scientist
Jeremy Hsu, August 31, 2022
Separate teams of researchers have developed devices for remotely hacking smartphone touchscreens…From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: At the Univ. of Bristol’s Advanced Computing Research Centre ‘Typical Doesn’t Exist’
In this interview, part of our series done on behalf of Dell Technologies, we spoke with Simon Atack, HPC team leader of the Advanced Computing Research Centre at the UK’s University of Bristol, where he’s been for the past eight…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Game Company Appoints Humanoid Robot as CEO
Beyond a gimmick? Like to see decision based examples.
Chinese Game Company Appoints Humanoid Robot as Its CEO By Interesting Engineering
NetDragon Websoft, a China-based mobile game company, has appointed an artificial intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Huawei Watch Provides Sat Communications First
Huawei just beat the iPhone 14 to a key new feature Security via China BeiDou?
By James Rogerson, published about 6 hours ago
Just a week ago we were reporting on how the iPhone 14 might be the first smartphone to offer satellite…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Previous piece I just got to, worthwhile.
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
By Kelly Shortridge, Ryan Petrich
Communications of the ACM, June 2022, Vol. 65 No. 6, Pages 44-53 10.1145/3498578
Deception is a powerful…From The Eponymous Pickle
Two atomic clocks have been connected using quantum entanglement
For the first time: Implications?
Two atomic clocks have been connected using quantum entanglement – a property that intrinsically links them so that changes in one instantaneously affect the other. The connection makes it easier…From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Machine Learning Outcomes
Published in Towards Data Science By John Hawkins, Chief Scientist at Playground XYZ. Computer scientist, open source developer and the author of getting-data-science-done.com
Improving Machine Learning Outcomes
Focusing on Framing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Anti-Stealth Radar
Odd piece I have not yet interpreted, but intriguing. Below is incomplete, looking for detail links.
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