Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Google will not Allow Use of Location Tracking in Tracing System.
Does seem to be a minimal embedded restriction to Location Privacy.Apple, Google Ban Use of Location Tracking in Contact Tracing AppsBy ReutersMay 12, 2020Can contact...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is awarded yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time. This year the Donald...
From insideHPC
OFA and Gen-Z Consortium to advance industry standardization of open-source fabric management
The OFA and Gen-Z Consortium recently entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to advance the industry standardization of open-source fabric management...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Streamlined Data Science through Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Enterprise Gateway
"Jupyter is a free, open-source, interactive web tool known as a computational notebook, which researchers can use to combine software code, computational output...
From insideHPC
Novel Liquid Cooling Technologies for HPC
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that increasingly power-hungry and high-density processors are driving the growth...
From insideHPC
New Gordon Bell Special Prize announced for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research
Today ACM announced the inception of the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. The new award will be presented in 2020 and 2021 and will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Spatial Biology
A term I had not hear before, though the work on protein folding might be included? Also sounds somewhat like process mapping, applied to genes and protein activity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Using Federated Learning to Preserve Privacy of Brain Tumor Training Data
The importance of such a method, is noted, and also the ability to use 'Federated learning' to preserve the privacy of the large amount of data being used to train...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Blockchain to Offer Smart Contract Options
This was the kind of direction we were looking at recently, and had indications that IBM was playing in the space.IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract...
From Schneier on Security
Attack Against PC Thunderbolt Port
The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating: On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique...
From insideHPC
Time-lapse Video: Installing an Immersion Cooling System at Zelendata Centar in Serbia
In this time-lapse video, technicians install a 336U high-density ICEraQ immersion cooling system from GRC at Zelendata Centar in Serbia. "Only three days wereTime...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 21 – Ice Cores and Chaos Theory with Liz Bradley (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Liz Bradley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper on the Future of the Intelligent, Graphic Application
In the past have liked Neo4j papers on this and related topics of graph analytics and intelligence. Reading and may review here further. 9 pages, generally non...
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing frees up Cloud HPC for researchers fighting COVID-19
Adaptive Computing is now making HPC access available for anyone working on COVID-19 related projects. Adaptive’s NODUS Cloud OS solution makes it simple to scale...
From Schneier on Security
Another California Data Privacy Law
The California Consumer Privacy Act is a lesson in missed opportunities. It was passed in haste, to stop a ballot initiative that would have been even more restrictive...
From insideHPC
Inspur InCloud OpenStack Sets Records on New SPEC Cloud Tests
The Inspur InCloud OpenStack has set new records for four key indicators in the latest SPEC Cloud IaaS test to lead the world in technology performance, scalability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions and Approaches for Impacted Industries
Very nicely done survey of problems and potential solutions, details at the link. Now that we have bought into the problem, we need to find good and quick solutions...
From insideHPC
Azure HPC Cache: File caching for high performance computing
In this video, Scott Jeschonek from Microsoft describes the performance advantages of Azure HPC Cache. "Whether you are rendering a movie scene, searching for variants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Using AI for Delivery
Interesting example, more at the link. That the methods are 'AI' rather than just optimization is specified, but not the actual methods being used (at the link)...
From The Eponymous Pickle