Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2021
From insideHPC
Rube Leung, Chief Scientist for Energy Exascale Earth System Model Project, Named a DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow.
Ruby Leung likes to ask questions. That started at her high school in Hong Kong, where she also became interested in science. “I was one of those kids in science who always was curious. And then you can find the answers,” said…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Does a Home Robot: Astro
A number of such 'friendly' ranging home robots have been around, none successful. I recall the Pepper robot. This is expensive. Notably it will not climb stairs, or I would assume even a single step, or rugs?
Amazon Does Astro…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sciam Says Self Driving Cars Emergent
Scientific American takes a look at a self driving future
'Self-Driving' Cars Begin to Emerge from a Cloud of Hype By Scientific American, September 27, 2021
Although some observers may perceive that the bloom is off the rose…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taulbee, Talent, and Trends: CRA Session at Upcoming DOE ASCAC Meeting
The Computing Research Association (CRA) will be represented by CRA staff (Betsy Bizot, Erik Russell, and Burçin Tamer) and CRA-WP Co-Chairs (Sandhya Dwarkadas and Amanda Stent) during the upcoming U.S. Department of Energy Advanced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Is a Game-Changing Computing and Communication Platform
Very good piece on the topic from CACM. With some useful examples of VR uses beyond games. Have been skeptical about its general use, see key insights below for good overview. Note mention of 'virtual worlds' below which…
From insideHPC
HPE Launches GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform for Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that the company said signify HPE’s entry into two software markets – unified analytics and data protection…
From Schneier on Security
Check What Information Your Browser Leaks
These two sites tell you what sorts of information you’re leaking from your browser.
From insideHPC
European Exascale Chip Designer SiPearl Opens 5th Center in Grenoble
Maisons-Laffitte (France), Sept. 28, 2021 – SiPearl, whose mission is to design a high performance, low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers, has opened a design center in Grenoble, France, with the goal
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From BLOG@CACM
Supervising a Doctoral Thesis: Lessons and Guidelines
Presenting 10 guidelines for supervising graduate students, focusing on the supervision process of doctoral students.
From BLOG@CACM
Safe Space for Alt-Views
Not everyone who questions computational hegemony is appealing to magic, mysticism, or divinity.
From CERIAS Blog
Another Giant Falls
We lost a pioneer in cybersecurity last week: Donn B. Parker died at the age of 91.
Donn's name may not be immediately familiar to current practitioners in the field. That's because Donn was working in the area before some…From Yoshua Bengio
The complexity of the climate change challenge
I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021 with a bunch of Mila folk and it got me thinking again and…
L’article The complexity of the climate change challenge est apparu en premier sur Yoshua Bengio.
From insideHPC
DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee to Meet Sept. 29-30
The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the US Department of Energy Office of Science’s program on Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) will…
From BLOG@CACM
A Tale of a Non-Traditional Software Engineer
I entered college to study biomedical engineering, but realized more than halfway through I was more interested in computer science.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Examines Googles Misinformation
Short intro and link forward below.
Via ACM NEWS
How Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Illuminated Google's Misinformation Mess
By Fast Company,September 27, 2021
In June 2020, the Parliament of the U.K. published a policy report withGoogle…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Marconi Society Event Series- The Decade of Digital Inclusion
The Marconi Society, a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to bridging the digital divide, is convening some of the world’s most creative and innovative minds in technology in an upcoming event series called The Decade…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccination Without a Shot
My own informal conversations with people would indicate that there is a fear factor involved, and anything that would decrease that would increase participation.
3D-Printed Vaccine Patch Offers Vaccination Without a Shot
University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Growth of Amazon Connect
Brought to my attention, from BusinessWire ...
AWS Shares New Business Momentum Milestones and Announces Three New Capabilities for Amazon Connect
Tens of thousands of AWS customers now using Amazon Connect to support more than…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Moves with Chip Factories
More and faster chips needed ...
Intel Starts Construction of Two Arizona Computer Chip Factories
Intel broke ground on two new computer chip factories in Arizona as part of a $20 billion project to help meet the high demandIntel…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hide My Email
In an email security application, Apple has included in their IPhone verision IOS 15, a method called 'Hide my Email', which constructs unique, random email addresses. These private emails can be used to send messages, and…
From insideHPC
Astera Labs Secures $50M in Series-C Funding
SANTA CLARA, CA – September 27, 2021 – Astera Labs, maker of connectivity solutions for intelligent systems, today announced raising $50M as part of an oversubscribed Series-C funding round led by Fidelity Management and Research…
From insideHPC
Accelerating Discovery and Innovation at the University of Alabama with the Dell ‘Cheaha’ Supercomputer
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education. More than 1,200 UAB faculty are engaged…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intuit to Buy Mailchimp
EMail Marketing Acquisition.
Intuit's $12B Mailchimp Purchase Breathes New Life Into Email Marketing By Jack M. Germain
Intuit on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Mailchimp, a global customer engagement and marketing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Danel Kahneman vs Deep Learning
From Linkedin, by Ajit Joakar
(You need Linkedin membership to see this introduction)
Artificial Intelligence #18: Of Daniel Kahneman and Deep Learning
Published on August 24, 2021
Course Director: Artificial Intelligence: Cloud…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Swarms Chatting Less Means Better Decisions
General statement is interesting as as give decisions over to groups of robots
Less Chat Can Help Robots Make Better Decisions
By University of Sheffield (U.K.), July 30, 2021
Robot swarms could cooperate more effectively if communication…From Computational Complexity
My academic lineage and more interesting facts that come out of it
I got my PhD from Harvard in 1985 with advisor Harry Lewis
Harry Lewis got his PhD from Harvard in 1974 with advisor Burton Dreben (Dreben was in the Philosophy department and did logic). Burton Dreben never got a PhD (more on…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 26th 2021)
Radiation-therapy can rejuvenate heart cells. (source: Nature) Within members of the same species, cancer risk increases with body size. Large human beings are more at risk than smaller ones. Across species, the reverse is often…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Possible Ramsey Insight into P Versus NP?
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it—Georg Cantor Cropped from his page David Zuckerman has a beautiful result on the approximate hardness of the clique problem. His paper…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Phun With Phone Numbers
Among the programming projects I ran into recently was one to calculate all of the combinations of letters one could make from a phone number. Companies do this sort of thing all the time. They generate the combinations and then…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Yann LeCun Talks Research Beginnings and Recent Developments
Well worth listening to to understand the state of deep learning AI.
Yann LeCun Talks Research Beginnings and Recent Developments
Turing Award-winner Yann LeCun is the vice president…