Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2022
From BLOG@CACM
The Calculating Machine from the Concentration Camp
The story of Viennese engineer Curt Herzstark and the world's smallest mechanical calculating machine, the Curta.
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: ‘Exceptional’ Global HPC Growth in 2021
Although many vendor-reported figures for the fourth quarter aren’t available yet, high performance computing (HPC) market analyst firm Hyperion Research said “it’s clear 2021 will be an exceptionally strong growth year for the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blood Clot Screw
Like the implied visualization
New Scientist, Alex Wilkins, January 10, 2021
Researchers at the Chinese…From BLOG@CACM
Superhero Secret Identities Aren't Possible with Today's Computing Technologies
In comic books, most superheroes have a secret identity, usually to protect their friends and family from retribution. However, today’s computer technology would make it impossible for a superhero to maintain their secret identity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eliminating some Quantum Computations
Fascinating piece, with it seems big implications, see the full thing in QuantaMag pointed to below. Look forward to see the implications in such futuristic machines.
Computer Scientists Eliminate Pesky Quantum Computations
By…From Computational Complexity
Personal Reflections on Dick Lipton in honor of his 1000th blog/75th bday.
Is it an irony that Lipton's 1000th post and 75th bday are close together? No. Its a coincidence. People use irony/paradox/coincidence interchangeably. Hearing people make that mistake makes me literally want to strangle them…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitizing Personal Data
Repeated after reading, well done. Did a big project on related questions and how they drove decisions.
Monetizing Your Personal Data, By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 17-19,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can or Will AI Destroy Education?
Not till it can become very adaptive to many contexts. Replacing if it does better than teachers perhaps.
Many contexts are at play. Selective humans are still the most adaptive teachers. Great Question.
Will AI Destroy Education…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lower Cost, complexity Recording Brain Activity
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Russia), January 19, 2022 in SkolTech
A customizable brain activity recording…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Palm Scans Clothing Checkouts
ACM TECHNEWS
Amazon looks further in the complexity of checkout, aims to be seamless.
Amazon Opening 30,000-Sq.-Ft. Store with QR Codes, Palm-Scanning Checkout
By The Washington Post, January 21, 2022 in CACM
Amazon will open a…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on the Economy this Year
Where are we going?
What’s Ahead for the U.S. Economy in 2022
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel speaks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about what’s ahead for the U.S. economy and the stock market in 2022.
Podcast…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Great Resignation: How to Combat the Knowledge Drain Effect
Not too different from other kinds of knowledge loss, though accelerated. Tried many efforts to address this, rarely effective ..... '
The Great Resignation: How to Combat the Knowledge Drain Effect
One of the greatest threats…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
SWAR explained: parsing eight digits
It is common to want to parse long strings of digits into integer values. Because it is a common task, we want to optimize it as much as possible. In the blog post, Quickly parsing eight digits, I presented a very quick way to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reliability of Contract Tracing
Related to above, considerable piece brief intro below.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
By Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty, Samarjit Chakraborty
Communications of the ACM, January 2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
Clip Detects COVID
Intriguing concept, Complete capabilities and how it is meant to integrate with consumer's behavior and status is unclear.
Yale researcher teams develops wearable clip to detect COVID
The clip is intended to complement at-home…From BLOG@CACM
Common Mistakes When Building BI Dashboards
Business Intelligence is not only about reporting; you should be telling a story through data.
From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing Raises $60M Series B Funding
January 20, 2022 — Berkeley, CA — Atom Computing, maker of a quantum computer made of nuclear-spin qubits from optically-trapped neutral atoms, today announced closure of a $60M Series B round. Third Point Ventures led the round…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Zettascale Is Coming – But What About Exascale?
After SC21, Patrick Kennedy at Serve the Home got a scoop when he met with Raja Koduri, SVP/GM of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group, to discuss Intel’s zettascale projections and plans, anticipating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Jumps into NFTs
NFTs getting a further indication of reality. A deepening of generalized asset fungification?
Meta reportedly plans to bring NFTs into Facebook and Instagram, BY KYT DOTSON in SliconAngle
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook…From The Eponymous Pickle
Opening Genomics Data to All
Boon to future research by opening data.
Cloud-Based Platform Opens Genomics Data to All
By Johns Hopkins University, January 19, 2022
A team co-led by a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist has created a cloud-based platform…From insideHPC
ORNL: Updated Exascale Earth Simulation Model Delivers 2X Speed
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that a new version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM, is two times faster than an earlier version released in 2018. Earth system models have weather-scale resolution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fully Autonomous Tractors
More examples of autonomy in use.
John Deere debuts fully autonomous tractor at CES
BY DUNCAN RILEY in SiliconAngle
Agricultural hardware maker John Deere today debuted a fully autonomous tractor at the 2022 Consumer Electronics…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dinner! Drinks! Denominators!
Mathematics is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature—Shakuntala Devi. source—note MoMath cap Peter Winkler is featured in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine. Peter is a famous Dartmouth mathematics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the EU Digital Services Act
What will it cover and what are the implications?
EXPLAINER: How sweeping EU rules would curb tech companies in TechExplore by Kelvin Chan
Online companies would have to ramp up efforts to keep harmful content off their platforms…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?
Fundamental question. Always thinking back to the complexity question being posed.
How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?
By The Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2021
Physicists at Germany's University of Bonn and the…From insideHPC
Quantum in the News: IBM Touts ‘Entanglement Forging’ Simulation; Multiverse Launches Quantum-based Stock Valuations
Quantum is in the news this week, with IBM today announcing new research on its “entanglement forging” simulation method and Multiverse Computing launching a quantum-based method for financial institutions to calculate the fair…
From BLOG@CACM
How to Teach Mathematical Disciplines for IT Specialties
Revision of the foundations of teaching mathematics for IT specialties is needed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Good Random Numbers for Encryption
Ultimately having good unpredictable randomness is essential for encoding and thus security.
Overloaded Memory Chips Generate Truly Random Numbers for Encryption By New Scientist, January 13, 2022
Generating truly random numbers…From BLOG@CACM
Mental Self-Check
Who is crazy: the rest of the world, or I?
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Turns Rembrandt into Data
Interesting look into the information in a complex image.
AI Turned a Rembrandt Masterpiece into 5.6 Terabytes of Data
Popular Science, Purbita Saha, January 11, 2022
The Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands has posted an ultra-high-resolution…