Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2021
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology (October 31st 2021)
Though exoskeletons are exciting and they allow some of us to carry one with physical activities despite handicaps, they appear to require quite a bit of brain power. In effect, though they may help you move, they require a lot…
From Computational Complexity
When did Math Get So Hard?
I have been on many Math PhD thesis defense's as the Dean's Representative. This means I don't have to understand the work, just make sure the rules are followed. I've done this for a while and I used to understand some of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Talks Inflation
Be ready for it.
Winning the race with inflation: The pricing opportunity for industrial companies
As inflation rises, industrial companies must take a new look at the pricing opportunity.
Many industrial companies face a complex…From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Decision Makers Use and Understand the Value of Models
Many times had to consider how to get key decision makers to use the results of analytical models. This article touches on that in some ways. Like to consider further how this could be done consistently.
Making machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
What are Time Crystals?
In the NextWeb: Technical view. physics
Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes
Eureka! A research team featuring dozens of scientists working in partnership with Google‘s quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Proofs as Games
Quite interesting, but technical, a unique view of proofs. Below the intro.
Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games
By Dorit Aharonov, Michael Chapman
Communications of the ACM, November 2021, Vol. 64 No. 11,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Firefighting Robots
Recall a project about firefighting process I consulted on a number of yrs ago. It was to early to suggest general automation then, but we had indications this was being looked at.
Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous, By Scientific…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Barely Open Books
When I first saw this I thought it was a cautionary piece about security, but no, is aimed at reading fragile books without opening them fully. I recall our visit to a company that was scanning books for Googles' Read program…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entangled Photon Breakthrough
An intriguing link between such extent of entanglement and their use for specific kinds of problems.
Researchers set 'ultrabroadband' record with entangled photons by University of Rochester
Quantum entanglement—or what Albert…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Wearable Bandages
Seen this idea a number of times over a number of years. Clearly some thought about doing this innovation methodically.
Smart Bandage Can Monitor Chronic Wounds
News-Medical Life Sciences, Emily Henderson, October 21, 2021
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gitai Autonomous Robot Demoed in ISS
The ISS can be a good testing space because of limited and prescribed spaces.
Gitai Successfully Demos Autonomous Robot Inside the International Space Station
TechCrunch, Aria Alamalhodaei
October 27, 2021
Startup Gitai Japan successfully…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Robot Water Taxies in Amsterdam
More autonomous Vehicles
Robot Taxi Boats Take to the Water in Amsterdam
ZDNet, Charlie Osborne, October 27, 2021
An autonomous boat taxi created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Amsterdam Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Retail Physical Digital Divide
Collaborating between people and digital AI tech will continue to evolve. And specific kinds of tech, like robotics and voice control. What will this look like in retail?
Are store associates the key to bridging retail’s…From insideHPC
LLNL Researchers Garner 3 Awards Among Top 100 Industrial Inventions
October 29, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have collected three awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide. The trade journal R&D World Magazine announced the winners…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Help Train Cybersecurity Personnel.
Good to see many more people being involved in the strengthening of our technical security. Just having more people understand the challenge has value. Congrats to Microsoft.
Microsoft to Work with Community Colleges to Fill…From insideHPC
HPE’s HPC Leader Justin Hotard on the Broader Impacts and Implications of Exascale
In this interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s SVP/GM of High Performance Computing & Mission Critical Solutions Justin Hotard, he discusses the new world to be enabled by exascale supercomputing. Among the topics he delves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McD Drive-Through Efficiency with Voice Recognition
Have been following the use of drive-through and related efficient consumer interactions in the Pandemic.
IBM, McDonald's to serve up automated drive-thru lanes with strategic partnership
Under the agreement, IBM will acquire McD…From insideHPC
Pasqal Launches ML Protocol for Comparing Graph-based Data on Quantum Systems
PARIS, Oct. 28, 2021 – Pasqal, developers of neutral atom-based quantum technology, today announced the publication of a scientific paper in the peer-reviewed APS Physics journal Physical Review A presenting a new machine learning…
From insideHPC
AT&T and H2O.ai Launch AI Feature Store
Dallas and Mountain View, Calif. — Oct. 28, 2021 — AT&T and H2O.ai have announced they have jointly built and have made available an artificial intelligence (AI) feature store to manage and reuse data and machine learning engineering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Restaurants Ready for Robotics
Seen lots of evidence for this. Are robotics ready to take up the slack? Have yet to see a robot in action at a restaurant. Inevitable to take up significant work, but how much and when?
Desperate for Workers, Restaurants…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ai Modeling Brain Processing Language
Notable is the statement that AI is not attempting to directly mimic the brain. But the question is always how closely should we use the brain as a working model? At the link includes much more detail and an explanatory video…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Committed Innovation
Good thought about innovation, intro below.
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Loonshots author Safi Bahcall
Why do some ideas fly and others fail, By Erik Roth inMcKinsey
The Committed Innovator
The entrepreneur and…From BLOG@CACM
Is It Difficult to Bypass the Protection That Uses Big Data?
Big data analytics systems identify signs of unauthorized activity in vast arrays of structured and unstructured data.
From insideHPC
Will We See You at Microsoft Ignite?
[Sponsored Content] Every year, IT professionals and technology enthusiasts from around the world come together at Microsoft Ignite to learn new skills, network, and get the latest announcements for the Microsoft ecosystem.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IOS Shortcuts For Analytics Management?
Examining the possible use of IOS Shortcuts for the management of data, analytical and ML solutions to be tested on an Iphone. My specialty. See: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios My first involvement…
From Computational Complexity
Fall 2021 Jobs Post
We're in the midst of a great transformation in computing, one where data takes center stage and I predict this will start to have a larger effect on hiring in computer science departments. We'll see a bigger need to grow inHarder…
From The Eponymous Pickle
There is no AI without Data
Right, we agree, there is even much data in our brain generated by contextual experience, no? Read it or learn it. But always consider the context. Reading.
A look at an upcoming ACM article. with video description. Below…From insideHPC
SiPearl to Incorporate Intel Ponte Vecchio GPUs for European Exascale
SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, today announced it will incorporate Intel’s forthcoming “Ponte Vecchio” GPU, along with Intel’s oneAPI cross-architecture programming model, in a partnership
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Nobelium Cyberattacks Clouds
Note below, attacks on cloud services. Microsoft comments.
Latest Russian Cyberattack Targeting Hundreds of U.S. Networks
Reuters, By Susan Heavey. October 25, 2021
Microsoft warns the Russia-based agency Nobelium has targeted…From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Invests in Quantum Machines
More on this move, has to be serious.
Qualcomm Ventures Invests in Quantum Machines to Power the Future of Quantum Computing
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Machines, creator of the first universal quantum…