Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2021
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can you safely parse a double when you need a float?
In C as well as many other programming languages, we have 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers. They are often referred to as float and double. Most of systems today follow the IEEE 754 standard which means that you can get…
From insideHPC
Linux Foundation Hosts Project for Container Collaboration Between Enterprise and HPC
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2021 — The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Apptainer project (formerly the Singularity project) — Apptainer being a widely used container system for high-performance computing (HPC) and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD 30th Anniversary Commemoration
Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 12pm EST for a special virtual event marking the 30th anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. For three decades, the NITRD program…
From insideHPC
HLRS Launches Project to Improve Urgent HPC Computing
Stuttgart, Germany – November 30, 2021 – In a new project called CIRCE (Computational Immediate Response Center for Emergencies), the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), under the auspices of the Gauss Centre …
From insideHPC
Daimler Selects Green Data Center for HPC
Stuttgart, Germany – November 30, 2021: Daimler has selected consulting firm Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY) to transfer the car maker’s high performance computing (HPC) workloads for designing vehicles and automated driving technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Zero Trust Security
Future of Zero Trust
Security
An Open Security Ecosystem with Shared Signals is the Future of Zero Trust
By Nancy Cam-Winget Cisco
Zero Trust: as the name implies, is the strategy by which organizations trust nothing implicitlyWith…From insideHPC
Can HPE GreenLake for HPC Deliver a Simpler User Experience than Public Cloud?
[Sponsored Post] When looking for a simple HPC user experience, many of us would naturally think of public cloud. But on-premises solutions like HPE GreenLake for HPC, powered by AMD EPYC processors, have picked up the advantages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Living Ink can Release Drugs
New possibilities for more directly efficient delivery methods. Continue to be impressed by the new capabilities introduced by 3D printing.
3D-Printed 'Living Ink' Full of Microbes Can Release Drugs
New Scientist, Carissa…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Brandeis Marshall presents on Marginalization in Data Education
Brandeis Marshall, Professor of Computer Science at Spelman College, will present as a part of Columbia University Data Science Institute’s Race + Data Science Lecture Series. Marshall’s presentation, “Waking up to Marginalization…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Does a RoboRunner
Will be interesting to see what such services will include.
At a keynote during its Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2021 conference today, Amazon launched AWS IoT RoboRunner, a new robotics service designed to make it easier…From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Sarcasm
Computers Detecting Sarcasm An important component of modern communication
How Computers Can Finally Detect Sarcasm Ramya Akula and the tech that lets sentiment analysis spot mocking words3119:2901 JUL 2021. Podcast and transcript…From insideHPC
Innovation Accelerated: Step Into Intel’s SC’21 Virtual Experience
[Sponsored Post] Get the latest Intel and community technology updates in the virtual HPC + AI Pavilion for Supercomputing 2021. Catch the demos, fireside chats, partner presentations, developer-led talks and Intel keynote at…
From Computational Complexity
Open: 4 colorability for graphs of bounded genus or bounded crossing number (has this been asked before?)
I have co-authored (with Nathan Hayes, Anthony Ostuni, Davin Park) an open problems column on the topic of this post. It is here.
Let g(G) be the genus of a graph and cr(G) be the crossing number of a graph.
As usual chi(G)KNOWN…From BLOG@CACM
Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exotic Material for Superconductors
New materials for quantum computing are a big deal.
Exotic New Material Could Be Two Superconductors in One – With Serious Quantum Computing Applications
TOPICS:Materials ScienceMITQuantum ComputingQuantum MaterialsSuperconductor…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (Novembre 28th 2021)
Government-funded research is getting more political and less diverse: The frequency of documents containing highly politicized terms has been increasing consistently over the last three decades. The most politicized field is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog: AI in LIbraries
Like to be involved.
New directions in AI: formation of an IFLA Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
There is an online meeting on New directions in AI: formation of an IFLA Special Interest…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Jet Engine Stability
Passing this along to my former colleagues at GE who may have comment, I am sure they already know of this simulation research.
Tool Can Detect Precursor of Engine-Destroying Combustion Instability
By Tokyo University of Science…From Putting People First
An ethnographic study of Eindhoven’s Smart City project
This article explore the promises of security that are embedded in the smart city technologies and algorithms and their potential implications for creating social inequality and discrimination, through an ethnographic study of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Clearview Face Recognition
Would expect such methods to ultimately be well calibrated and put to common use.
Clearview AI Does Well in Another Round of Facial Recognition Accuracy Tests
By The New York Times, November 24, 2021
After Clearview AI scraped billions…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Helping Data Management
Not unexpected, we often used analytic methods to provide predictive patterns to generate useful data streams. But makes much sense to explore this direction to manage assets.
AI will soon oversee its own data management inAI…From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Find Hidden Spy Cameras with a Smartphone
How to Find Hidden Spy Cameras with a Smartphone
By Help Net Security, November 24, 2021
How it works.
During the scan process, the Time-of-Flight sensor emits laser pulses and captures the reflected light off of an object andScientists…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are tenured professors more likely to speak freely?
University professors often have robust job security after a time: they receive tenure. It means that they usually do not have to worry about applying for a new job after a few years. Tenure is not available in all countries.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can a Free Internet Survive?
What steps, what cost, what limits?
Can a Free Internet Survive?, By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 23, 2021
In the beginning, Internet pioneers dreamed of creating an open framework for global communication…From The Eponymous Pickle
Principles for Innovative Engineers
Very useful principles below at the link, we worked with Rosalind Picard long ago ...
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
By Rosalind Picard in CACM
Communications of…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Customer Intelligence Blog
I have been reviewing reviewing SAS's blogs. They nicely have a 'customer intelligence blog:
Evolving relationships for business growth
Welcome to Customer Intelligence, a blog for anyone who is looking…From The Eponymous Pickle
New NVIDIA AI Brain
NVidia pushes on.
NVIDIA's new AI brain for robots is six times more powerful than its predecessor
And it can still fit in the palm of your hand
By M. Moon, @mariella_moon in Engadget
The chipmaker says Orin is capable of 200…From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpol Arrests Cybercrime Suspects
Don't know much about Interpol, and how useful it can be regarding security, but was once involved with data that they had gathered regarding supply chain practices. Now how might we leverage this data?
Interpol arrests over…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Best To Dean Mynatt
Plus updates on gender disparity, equity, and POPL 2022 IPaT page Beth Mynatt is heading north to become the new Dean of Computer Science at Northeastern University. Georgia Tech will miss her; she has been a key part of Tech…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike in the Metaverse
A look at the potential view of a maketing future.
Will fans visit Nike in the metaverse?
Source: Nike, by Tom Ryan
Nike has created a virtual world on the Roblox online gaming platform, NIKELAND, that enables fans of…