Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Best Practices after Crises.
Good overview in APQC regarding management after and during crisis.
Keys to Maintaining Best Practices in Supply Chain After a Crisis
As one-third of 2020 is behind us, what’s next for supply chains? What are the keys to maintaining…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome Extension for Browsing Etherium
Unusual application for browser userstanding ot ethereum blockchain.
Unstoppable Domains Chrome Extension Lets Users Browse Ethereum-Based Sites
Unstoppable Domains, a censorship-resistant web developer, has released a Google Chrome…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Virus crisis Means for Business
Another short thoughtful piece on this topic, with some short 'answers' and links. Worthwhile to spur possible work ...
What the COVID-19 Crisis Means for Businesses
How can organizations and individuals adapt? What Kellogg…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Banking
Useful survey of AI uses in Banking..Notable use of BPM.
Barclays Innovating in use of AI in Banking
Barclays Bank is emerging as an innovator in the use of AI in financial services. The UK bank, ranked 20th on the S&P Global’s…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Getting Computing from Datacenter Walls into Live Cell Walls
The following is a guest post from Karin Strauss from Microsoft Research and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington. The ability to automate computation has fueled the IT industry for a long time. Since the Babbage machine…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For case-insensitive string comparisons, avoid char-by-char functions
Sometimes wew need to compare strings in a case-insensitive manner. For example, you might want ‘abc’ and ‘ABC’ to be considered. It is a well-defined problem for ASCII strings. In C/C++, there are basically two common approaches…
From Schneier on Security
Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing previous security concerns. It still has a bit to go on end…
From insideHPC
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power Oracle Cloud E3 Platform
Today, AMD announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are powering the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform, bringing a new level of high-performance computing to Oracle Cloud. "The Oracle Cloud E3 Platform enables…
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech Collaborates with Intel on HPC for Healthcare
Nor-Tech is collaborating with Intel to offer HPC technology for healthcare organizations. This technology delivers powerful performance and fast results. Nor-Tech’s HPC clusters and workstations integrated with Intel Xeon Scalable…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Jennifer Rexford Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced yesterday the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They will be inducted at the…
From insideHPC
Video: Preparing to program Aurora at Exascale – Early experiences and future directions
Hal Finkel from Argonne gave this talk at IWOCL / SYCLcon 2020. "Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility will be home to Aurora, our first exascale supercomputer. This presentation will summarize the experiences…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Smart Assistant: Josh.ai
A new offering in the space, has been a while since seeing that. Is it a time when people will want to invest in bew infrastructure?
Smart Home Voice Assistant Startup Josh.AI Closes $11M Funding Round By Eric Hal Schwartz…
From insideHPC
French supercomputers help European scientists fight COVID19
Two of the most powerful supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie at CEA and Occigen at CINES are providing urgent computing access to large computer resources to European research teams involved in the fight against COVID-19.
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From insideHPC
Rambus Launches 800G MACsec Multi-Channel Engine
Today Rambus announced its 800G MACsec (Media Access Control security) solution for next-generation networking infrastructure. The 800G MACsec solution delivers hardware-based, point-to-point security for 800 Gigabit Ethernet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Piloting Robots with Muscle Signals
More in free handed control and piloting, here with muscle signals.
Lead author Joseph DelPreto controls a Muscle Signals Can Pilot a Robot
MIT News
By Rachel Gordon
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fairness and Machine Learning
Contributions to this post were provided by Alexandra Chouldechova (Carnegie Mellon University), Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania), and Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania). The Computing Community Consortium held…
From Schneier on Security
How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
This is interesting: Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how. The entire proceeding was confidential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Patent Office Says AI Cannot be an Inventor
Relates to some work underway.
US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
Only ‘natural persons’ need apply By Jon Porter@JonPorty in TheVerge
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Spack Helps Automate Deployment of Supercomputer Software
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Todd Gamblin from LLNL describes how the Spack flexible package manager helps automate the deployment of software on supercomputer systems. "After many hours building software on Lawrence
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Blender Chatbot Does Open Source
Anything that can make a chatbot more conversational, and have the ability to use and update context
continually is good.
Facebook releases its 'Blender' chatbot as an open-source project
It could help tomorrow's AI converse more…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Powers Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
Today Supermicro introduced multiple systems tailored to work with a leading open, hyperconverged software offering, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Supermicro collaborated with Red Hat to develop advanced configurations…
From insideHPC
Video: Major Market Shifts in IT
Shahin Khan from OrionX gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "We will discuss the digital infrastructure of the future enterprise and the state of these trends. OrionX works with clients on the impact of Digital Transformation…
From insideHPC
Atos engages in the fight against Covid-19
Atos reports that the company is bringing its technology leadership, skills and innovation resources to the global fight against Covid-19. Through several direct and partner-led initiatives across the globe, Atos is engaged on…
From insideHPC
Transforming Private 5G Networks
The high bandwidth and low latency of 5G is truly transformational for the enterprise. Private 5G networks will enable business to offer new services through connected devices on the Edge and entirely new revenue streams. "Advantech…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Article asks:
How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources? in the HBR
by Max H. Bazerman , Regan Bernhard , Joshua Greene , Karen Huang and Netta Barak-Corren ....
We made similar analyses, but included more formal risk analyses…
From Computational Complexity
A Guest Blog on the Pandemic's affect on disability students
I asked my Grad Ramsey Theory class to email me about whatever thoughts they have on the pandemic that they want to share with the world, with the intend of making some of them into a blog post. I thought there would be several…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking PCs and smartphones in a Pandemic World
Mobility and more, powerful tools and some loss of privacy. Other implications for their use.
Rethinking PCs and smartphones in a post-COVID-19 world in Computerworld
We are still early into the COVID-19 disruption, but I have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Analytics Conference is Virtual
I remind people that the Informs conference in May is now free and virtual. Have been a long time member, always good value to offer, attend and join! . More detailed information at the link:
The INFORMS Business Analytics
Join…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Microsoft Chase Zoom
Like to see the competition. I see that many people today are using several options.
Google and Microsoft Chase After Zoon with new features and Free Services
The race to respond to Zoom’s popularity is well and truly on
By Tom…
From Putting People First
Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 5
Fifth edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead.