Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2022
From BLOG@CACM
Which Were the Most Influential Early Computers?
Considering early machines that had the greatest influence on the development of program-controlled computers.
From Computational Complexity
The NIST Process for Post-Quantum Cryptography
From insideHPC
SiMa.ai Ships ML SoC Platform for Embedded Edge Applications
SAN JOSE — August 30, 2022 — Edge machine learning company SiMa.ai today announced it has begun shipping what the company said is the industry’s first purpose-built software-centric machine learning system-on-chip platform for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Dogs Learning Tough Terrain
Been following this for some time, and potential uses.
Robot Dog Learns to Walk Tough Terrain in 20 Minutes
New Scientist, Alex Wilkins, August 26, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) developed…From insideHPC
UC San Diego Students Team for SC22 HPC Student Cluster Competition
The 2022 Supercomputing Conference (SC) organizers recently announced that a team of students from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at UC San Diego will be among the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printable Bioelectronic Inks
Researchers Design Inks for 3D-Printable Wearable Bioelectronics, By Texas A&M University Engineering, August 25, 2022
A new class of biomaterial inks developed by researchers at Texas A&M University exhibit the same characteristics…From The Eponymous Pickle
COPPA and more Online
More on COPPA and updates, protecting children online.
ACM NEWS
Protecting Children's Privacy Online By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff, August 30, 2022
Digital games and educational apps for children can be a boon. They…From The Eponymous Pickle
LastPass Hacked
Reasons still unclear.
LastPass, Password Manager with Millions of Users, Is Hacked
The Wall Street Journal
By Alyssa Lukpat, August 26, 2022
On Aug. 25, online password manager LastPass reported the theft of some of its source code…From insideHPC
Lenovo HPC Powers SPEChpc™ 2021 with AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ Processors
By: Kevin Dean, Senior HPC & AI Performance Engineer Lenovo; Jimmy Cheng, Advisory Engineer, HW – Server Performance Engineer – Benchmarking, Lenovo; Ramesh Joginpalli, Business Development and Marketing Manager, HPC – CAE/CFD…
From insideHPC
OLCF’s Doug Kothe on Pushing Frontier Across the Exascale Line and the Future of Leadership Supercomputers
Everyone involved in the Frontier supercomputer project got a taste of what a moonshot is like. Granted, lives were not on the line with Frontier as they were when Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon in 1969. But in other ways…
From insideHPC
Los Alamos, PNNL, Univ. of New Mexico Researchers to Lead $70M DOE HPC Climate Model Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding for seven projects intended to improve climate prediction and aid in the fight against climate change. The research will be used to accelerate development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
In Google Blog, what and how can we get things done with commands? How will the language models help.
Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 ...Posted by Brian IchterOver…From The Eponymous Pickle
Should the Cryptocurrency Crash Scare Retailers?
Was brought to my attention. Implications regarding use cases and trust.
Should the cryptocurrency crash scare retailers? by Tom Ryan
Nearly 75 percent of retailers plan to accept either cryptocurrency or stablecoin payments…From insideHPC
NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Launch Data Center Solution for Zero-Trust Security and AI
Aug. 30, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced a data center solution with Dell Technologies designed for the era of AI, bringing state-of-the-art AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science and zero-trust security capabilities…
From insideHPC
AMD: Pensando DPUs Enable Accelerated Data Centers with VMware vSphere 8
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card will be one of the first data processing unit solutions to support VMware vSphere 8 available from server vendors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post-Quantum Cryptography Scheme Is Cracked?
Generally true? Is this easily fixable, say by adding more digits? This kind of work, which challenges new methods is key.
‘Post-Quantum’ Cryptography Scheme Is Cracked on a Laptop
Two researchers have broken an encryption protocol…From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Reinvent Shopping Experience with NVIDIA Omniverse
Want to see this ...
Kroger Reinvents the Shopping Experience with NVIDIA AI in Retailwire
Kroger and NVIDIA embarked on a strategic collaboration to reimagine the shopping experience using AI applications and services. Discover…From insideHPC
NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Announce Data Center Offering for Zero-Trust Security and AI
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced a data center offering with Dell Technologies designed for the era of AI, bringing AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science and zero-trust security capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
Considerable and interesting, below an intro, very relevant, much more at the link.
Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
By Carmela Troncoso, Dan Bogdanov, Edouard Bugnion, Sylvain Chatel, Cas Cremers,…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI-Created Lenses Let Camera Ignore Some Objects
A kind of sensory focus, but is this another privacy issue?
AI-Created Lenses Let Camera Ignore Some Objects
New Scientist, By Matthew Sparkes, August 23, 2022
University of California, Los Angeles researchers developed a deep-learning…From insideHPC
ALCF to Offer 8-Week Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers — Student Training Series
Aug. 29, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a free, eight-week virtual training series to teach undergraduates and graduates the fundamentals of using world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu, Riken Partner to Deliver Quantum Computing in Japan Next Year
Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken research institution will team to deliver Japan-made quantum computing starting next April, according to an article on the Nikkei Asia news site. The story states that Fujitsu's quantum system is expected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Callisto Heading to the Moon
Following the specifics of this.
NASA Mission Carrying Voice Assistant Tech to the Moon
Space.com, Brett Tingley, August 26, 2022
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Artemis 1 mission scheduled to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Kenya Building a Tech Hub
Key is seriously learning math and Science.
Kenya's tech hub: Meeting the DIY coders and gurus of the future in the BBC
On a balmy morning in Nairobi a group of children are building robots using motors and wires, while in anThis…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Trap for Efficient Light Use
And thus using it more efficiently. How well?
Creating a perfect trap for light
by Hebrew University of Jerusalem and TU Wein in TechExplore
Whether in photosynthesis or in a photovoltaic system: If you want to use light efficiently…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Virtual Assistants
Indeed, robots and more.
By Piergiorgio Vittori in Datanami
In this hyper-competitive, consumer-focused marketplace, new technologies…From insideHPC
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From BLOG@CACM
DevSecOps: Resolving Disagreements Between Developers and Security Teams
Conflicts and disputes can arise between these adjacent teams; it is impossible to avoid them in the process of launching new products. And they certainly require a solution.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpretable Machine Learning and Diagnosis
Well covered in ACM pieces of late, useful takes.
ACM PRACTICE
Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from Mythos to Diagnostics
By Valerie Chen, Jeffrey Li, Joon Sik Kim, Gregory Plumb, Ameet Talwalkar
Communications of the ACM…From BLOG@CACM
A Challenge of Membership
How can we solve ACM membership fee payment problems for Russians and Belarussians?