Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2021
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eleven New NSF National AI Research Institutes Announced Last Week
Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, building on the first round of seven institutes funded in 2020. The combined investment…
From insideHPC
Apply Now for the SC21 Early Career Program
Early-career researchers and technical professionals within the first five years of a permanent position are encouraged to apply for the SC21 Early Career Program. This virtual workshop, scheduled for Monday, November 15, 2021…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Ventures
More from my former employer.
P&G Ventures Among Top 20 Best Workplaces for Innovators According to Fast Company
CINCINNATI, Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company released its third annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list…From insideHPC
DOE Funds $15M for Integrated Computational and Data Infrastructure for Science Research at 5 Universities
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $15.1 million for three collaborative research projects, at five universities, to advance development of what DOE said is a flexible multi-tiered data and computational infrastructure…
From Computational Complexity
Pole Vault Live Blogging
As I write this I'm watching the women's pole vault final in the Olympics. Of the 15 women who made the finals, only four remain after two heights.
To expand on my tweet, I find the pole vault the purest of the Olympic Sports.…From insideHPC
Dataiku Raises $400M at a $4.6B Valuation for ‘Everyday AI’ in the Enterprise
August 05, 2021 – NEW YORK – Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, today announced $400M in Series E investment led by Tiger Global, with participation from several existing investors, including ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radar Trends for August
As usual, well done look at look and links for trends to watch.
Radar trends to watch: August 2021
Trends in Programming, Robotics, Security, and More By Mike Loukides
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Security continues to be in the news: most notably…From insideHPC
Intelligent Light Announces Kombyne an ‘HPC Efficiency Multiplier’ for CFD
RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Aug. 4, 2021 –Intelligent Light announced today the creation of Kombyne, an SaaS high performance computing (HPC) workflow tool initially developed for the defense, automotive, aerospace industries and academic…
From insideHPC
ALCF GPU Hackathon and Computational Performance Workshop: Prepping Researchers for Current & Future HPC
As the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) continues its transition to deploying and operating supercomputers powered by graphics processing units (GPUs), training researchers to use the powerful new resources for science…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Turning the Tables on Cheating?
Colonel Stok: Do you play chess? Harry Palmer: Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating. Sleuth source Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the movie Funeral in Berlin. This was released in 1966—long before computers…
From Schneier on Security
Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption
The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.
The proposed settlement…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
Its not brought up enough as a key part of the transformation effort. It is essential as threats enlarge. What do you have if the attackers get control?
Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation By David Geer, Commissioned byAugust…From insideHPC
Univ. of Cambridge Wilkes-3 Is No. 3 on Latest Green500 for Energy-efficient HPC
Twice a year, the TOP500 project releases a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. This Green500 list parallels the better-known TOP500 list, which ranks and details the 500 fastest computer systems…
From insideHPC
Ken Kennedy AI & Data Science Conference, Oct. 25-27: Call for Participation, Program Announced
The 2021 Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference is scheduled for October 25-27. Visit ai-datascience.rice.edu for more details. The conference will kick off with Carlos Westhelle, CTO of NASA; Rama Akkiraju, a Fellow at IBM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of Chat in Meetings
Always thought better use of chat in meetings would be useful, perhaps a means of asking questions of participants by an advisor? Invocation of humor? Microsoft research examines chat:
The rise of parallel chat in online…From insideHPC
TACC Joins NSF-Funded Icicle Institute for AI Research
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it is a partner in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational…
From insideHPC
Add UK to Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Snags
On the heels of potential regulatory problems in China and Europe for Nvidia’s planned Arm acquisition, another press report, from Bloomberg, states that UK regulators are considering blocking the $40 billion takeover on the
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From BLOG@CACM
The Triad of Graduate Studies
The Research Community, Research Subject, and Research Process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Fines for Amazon Under GDPR
Good to know the implications of the EU GDPR. Note how Amazon sees the gathering of customer data. On to the EU court.
EU Fines Amazon Record $888 Million Over Data Violations By Bloomberg, August 2, 2021
Luxembourg's CNPD data…From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackmatter Interview
I see that the Podcast 'Security Now' has now published the 'Blackmatter' interview with the Recorded Future company. We did some work with Recorded Future at the enterprise. The interview, I think is revealing regarding ransomware…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Shift to Employees?
Have seen some examples of this lately.
Tech Pay Survey Shows Power Shift to Employees By The Information, July 23, 2021
The technology-business boom is giving white-collar workers more leverage with employers.
At tech companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Test of a European Space Brain
Are we extending to the stars?
First Test of Europe's Space Brain
European Space Agency, in CACM, July 28, 2021
The European Space Agency (ESA) operated a spacecraft successfully using a next-generation mission control system.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reprogrammable Satellite Launched, is it Hackable?
Had know about this for a while. 'Reprogrammable' Satellite the European Space Agency said. I also saw a number of the big time security wags were quick to call it 'Hackable'. Is it? Have they proven that or is thisReprogrammable…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Webinar
NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program solicitation NSF 19-582 via a webinar on August 6th, 2021 starting…
From insideHPC
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
ARMONK, N.Y. and OVERLAND PARK, Kan., August 3, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Black & Veatch today announced a collaboration to jointly market Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions, including remote monitoring technologies…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you pipe a large file to a C++ program?
Under many operating systems, you can send data from from one process to another using ‘pipes’. The term ‘pipe’ is probably used by analogy with plumbing and we often use the the symbol ‘|‘ to represent a pipe (it looks likeContinue…
From insideHPC
Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe
Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. A report by IT publication The Information states that regulators in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Smart Speaker Use
There is always a question about whether a popular consumer electronic device will be just a fad or become a lasting fixture of daily life. Smart speaker use frequency over time suggests it is already…
From insideHPC
Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek
McLEAN, Va., Aug. 3, 2021 — AppTek, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), text-to-speech (TTS) and natural language processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate
Notable collaboration on AI asset monitoring maintenance and digital twins.
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
Publish date: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 | Location Armonk, New York and Overland…