Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2020
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat
Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face:
In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle shifts in color that result from pulses in blood circulation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Brought to my Attention: Gluu
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Build your mission-critical service for SSO, 2FA and access management with GluModern Authentication for Digital Enterprise. Since 2009, organizations around the world have trusted Gluu…From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Does 5000 Quantum Qubits
Recall we talked to D-Wave early on and followed them for a long time. see many previous posts.
D-Wave’s 5,000-qubit quantum computing platform handles 1 million variable By Emil Protalinski @EPro in Venturebeat
D-Wave today…From insideHPC
Los Alamos Announces Details of New HPE Crossroads Supercomputer
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Sept. 30, 2020—The Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES), a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, announced the details of a $105 million contract awarded…
From insideHPC
New Cloud Computing Infrastructure for European Research at CEA’s TGCC
September 2020 – The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) deployed new computing and storage resources and services in its TGCC computing centre, for the benefit of research communities in Europe. Aside…
From insideHPC
Rescale Launches Intelligent Control Plane for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Big Compute
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, announced the availability of the industry’s first hybrid and multi-cloud intelligent control plane to deliver new levels of performance, architectural…
From insideHPC
AI Chipmaker Hailo Launches M.2 and Mini PCIe AI Modules for Edge Devices
Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 30, 2020 – AI chipmaker Hailo announced today the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-performance AI acceleration modules for empowering edge devices. Integrating the Hailo-8 processor, the modules can…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: Enabling the quantum revolution- pioneering advances to achieve quantum computing & impact at scale
Krysta Svore, Microsoft, will present “Enabling the quantum revolution- pioneering advances to achieve quantum computing & impact at scale,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: Enabling the quantum revolution- pioneering advances to achieve quantum computing & impact at scale
Krysta Svore, Microsoft, will present “Enabling the quantum revolution- pioneering advances to achieve quantum computing & impact at scale,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From insideHPC
Registration for the ASC20-21 Student Supercomputer Challenge Now Open
Beijing, China, Sep. 28, 2020 – The ASC, concerned for the health and safety of all ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge participants during the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced the merger of 2020-2021 ASC Student Supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Intel Partners with Lightbits Labs for Disaggregated Storage
Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 29, 2020 – Intel Corp. and Lightbits Labs today announced an agreement to propel development of disaggregated storage solutions to solve the challenges of today’s data center operators who are craving…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyics and Data Scence Convergiing
I would say that good analytics also requires just the same care about data use and results curation. It has always been that way. Automating aspects of analytics requires more training for decision makers. Otherwise good…
From insideHPC
Omni-Path HPC Interconnect Reemerges as Intel Spin-out with $20M Investment Round from Intel Capital, Others
Left for dead last year, Intel’s Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) high performance fabric may come back to life with a Series A $20 million venture round involving Intel Capital, Downing Ventures and Chestnut Street Ventures that…
From Putting People First
Rethinking human-AI interaction
This essay by AI specialist Jessy Lin explores some of the possibilities to rethink how humans and “intelligent” machines interact today.
From Putting People First
[Essay] Helsinki Design Lab ten years later
A survey of Helsinki Design Lab’s activities 2008–2013, with reflections on the three “bets” that the Lab made and their relevance today.
From Putting People First
[Paper] Foresight and Design: New Support for Strategic Decision Making
Integrating design with foresight enables decision makers to contend with changes coming from the world (inbound change) and changes the organization creates to influence the world (outbound change; strategy).
From Putting People First
[Paper] Active consumer participation in smart energy systems
Designing energy services with a human-centered approach will allow us to rely on consumers not only as executors of changes in energy consumption, but also as providers of data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numenta Research Meeting: A Look at GPT-3
Also a talk on GPT-3 of interest ...
Numenta Research Meeting: “Steve Omohundro on GPT-3” by omohundro On July 1, 2020, Steve Omohundro gave a talk on GPT-3 and it's implications for artificial intelligence to Numenta's[…From The Eponymous Pickle
Omohundro on AI
Steve Omohundro was interviewed for the Universal Pictures documentary film “We Need to Talk About AI” which was released in the United States on May 18, 2020. It explores the impact of AI in an even-handed way and features James…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots Chatting
Now seen this a number of times, never very impressive.
AI News What happens when Google’s chatty bot chats with a chatbot?
Google Duplex impressed and scared the world in equal parts when it was unveiled, and now we’ve seen how…From insideHPC
VMware and Nvidia Partner on Hybrid Cloud Architecture
VMware and Nvidia announced today what the companies called “a broad partnership” in support of an enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data center, cloud and edge using Nvidia DPUs (data processing units). The…
From insideHPC
Craig Chadwell Joins SoftIron as VP of Product
London – September 29, 2020 – SoftIron Ltd., the leader in purpose-built and performance-optimized data center solutions, today announced the appointment of Craig Chadwell to the role of Vice President of Product to lead the …
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: Covid-19 Driving Decline in HPC Server Revenues, But May Be Moderating
According to a newly released Hyperion Research Worldwide High Performance Technical Server QView, total worldwide technical server revenues were almost $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2020, down 5.4 percent from almost…
From insideHPC
oneAPI Academic Center of Excellence Opened at Heidelberg University Computing Center for Hardware Heterogeneity
A oneAPI Academic Center of Excellence (CoE) is now established at the Heidelberg University Computing Center (URZ). The CoE will conduct research supporting the oneAPI industry initiative to create a uniform, open programming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Discovery When it Matters
Also an interesting story about how collaboration can work.
Can AI and Automation Deliver a COVID-19 Antiviral While It Still Matters? Researchers are betting that new tools can cut drug discovery from five years to six month…From The Eponymous Pickle
Palm Sized Robotics
More in the space of miniature robotics, that could ultimately be brought together to do tasks.
Video Friday: Bittle Is a Palm-Sized Robot Dog Now on Kickstarter
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos By Evan Ackerman, …From The Eponymous Pickle
Materials Innovation at Argonne
New looks at innovation with AI and HPC at Argonne.
Automatic Database Creation for Materials Discovery: Innovation From Frustration
Argonne National Laboratory by John Spizzirri
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Women Tech Entrepreneurs and Founders
Wednesday, October 14 at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, a panel discussion featuring Shanea Leven (Founder and CEO at CodeSee), Rebekah Bastian (CEO and Co-Founder of OwnTrail), Heli Helskyaho (CEO Miracle Finland Oy), and Nina Bhatti…
From insideHPC
HPC End User Survey: Intel Xeon Still Dominates but AMD EPYC Gaining
Industry analyst firm Intersect360 has released partial results from an end-user survey identifying the top-rated processors, servers and cloud vendors, according to the HPC users surveyed by the firm. The top user-rated vendors…
From Schneier on Security
Negotiating with Ransomware Gangs
Really interesting conversation with someone who negotiates with ransomware gangs:
For now, it seems that paying ransomware, while obviously risky and empowering/encouraging ransomware attackers, can perhaps be comported so as…