Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2019
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squidfall Safety
Watchmen supporting material. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
India Developing Blockchain Strategy
Expect to see more of this, both method, application emphasis and regulation, and likely smart contact approaches.
India is developing a national blockchain strategy
November 27, 2019
by Yogita Khatri in TheBlock
India’s Ministry…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
AMD Zen 2 and branch mispredictions
Intel makes some of the very best processors many can buy. For a long time, its main rival (AMD) failed to compete. However, its latest generation of processors (Zen 2) appear to roughly match Intel, at a lower price point. In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indentifying Invasive Species
An area, forestry, where we did much predictive analysis as to yield and harvest. Invasive species have increased in their danger. Both in forestry and horticulturally. See a number of previous posts regard Forestry analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Blood Vessel Instrument Guidance
Seen this movie. Pgressin this area continues to evolve
Instrument Guidance Through Deep, Convoluted Blood Vessel Networks
Polytechnique Montreal
December 3, 2019
Researchers at the Polytechnique Montreal Nanorobotics Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Interesting piece, ultimately gets quite technical, but worth putting away for future consideration. Especially for real time learning and adapting of autonomous systems.
Berkeley Bair Newsletter (Introduction)
Data-Driven Deep…
From insideHPC
IDC: DDN is Fastest Growing Supplier of All-Flash Arrays
Today DDN announced that it has leaped into the rankings of major all-flash array vendors as tracked by IDC over the first half of 2019. Through organic growth, investment in recent acquisitions and the closing of the transaction…
From insideHPC
Full Roundup: SC19 Booth Tour Videos from insideHPC
Now that SC19 is behind us, it's time to gather our booth tour videos in one place. Throughout the course of the show, insideHPC talked to dozens of HPC innovators showcasing the very latest in hardware, software, and cooling…
From insideHPC
Video: GigaIO Optimizes FabreX Fabric with GPU Sharing and Composition Technology
In this video from SC19, Alan Benjamin from GigaIO describes how the company's FabreX Architecture integrates computing, storage ans I/O into a single-system cluster PCIe-based fabric for flawless server-to-server communication…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reconstructing Hidden Movement from Video
Depending on the quality of this, consider the implications in many areas. We did lots in the area of video understanding, could have used this. Below description and videos.
MIT CSAIL’s AI can reconstruct hidden movement from…
From insideHPC
WekaIO Rocks the IO500 at SC19
In this video from SC19, Charla Bunton-Johnson & Mat Gruen from WekaIO describe the company's high performance shared file system and how they closely with industry-leading technology resellers, distributors, service providers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Uses IOTs with Advanced Features
Impressive direction by Microsoft,with useful details.
Microsoft doubles down on Internet of Things with new features to simplify building connected devices By Nat Levy
Microsoft today announced a series of new Internet…
From insideHPC
IBM Powers AiMos Supercomputer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The most powerful supercomputer to debut on the November 2019 Top500 ranking of supercomputers will be unveiled today at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Computational Innovations (CCI). Part of a collaboration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notable Extensions to Google Assistant: Photos and Notes
Notable the ability to link to note taking capabilities, like Google Keep. Searching specifics in podcasts also very useful for business application support. Assistant has also become very good a working with display of photos…
From insideHPC
Video: TMGcore Showcases Immersive Cooling for HPC at SC19
In this video from SC19, Taylor Monnig from TMGcore describes OTTO, a completely automated, self-contained, two-phase liquid immersion-cooled data center platform that features a closed loop system, uses zero water and is a tenth…
From Schneier on Security
Andy Ellis on Risk Assessment
Andy Ellis, the CSO of Akamai, gave a great talk about the psychology of risk at the Business of Software conference this year. I've written about this before. One quote: "The problem is our brains are intuitively suited to the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Will Read Text from Office Apps
Like to see this direction for mobile interaction, starting to use voice as part of a mobile and voice experience for much used 365 office apps.
Microsoft's redesigned Office mobile apps read text out loud
In Outlook, Play My Emails…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Dark Kitchens
Been following Kroger for some time on their establishment of restaurants in stores, and partially prepared foods and 'food kits' and preparation methods.
Will Kroger’s dark kitchens cook up something good? in Retailwire by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Commands for Privacy/Transparency
Further look at privacy, by asking what has been heard.
Amazon makes Alexa more transparent with ‘Tell me what you heard’ feature By Allison Matyus in Digitaltrends
Amazon announced privacy and transparency improvements for its…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm
The following great innovative idea is from Konstantin Todorov from the University of Montpellier and a researcher at the LIRMM laboratory within the FADO group. Todorov was one of the Blue Sky Awards at ISWC 2019 for his paper…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Sampling Plan Ends
An idea I though was a good one. If it gathered the right data and understood how to use that data. Sounds like Amazon could have made this work.
Amazon decides it has sampled enough by Tom Ryan in Retailwire.
Amazon.com is
Under…
From insideHPC
Microway Showcases HPC & AI Solutions at SC19
In this video from SC19, Eliot Eshelman from Microway describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC & AI. As Deep Learning enters the mainstream, NVIDIA DGX solutions from Microway are uniquely positioned to provide the…
From insideHPC
2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Demonstrate Amazing HPC Performance
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how benchmarks show key workloads average 31% better on Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 than AMD EYPC “Rome” 7742. Intel analysis provides strong evidence that the 2nd Generation Intel…
From insideHPC
Sawtooth Supercomputer from HPE Comes to Idaho National Lab
A powerful new supercomputer arrived this week at Idaho National Laboratory’s Collaborative Computing Center. The machine has the power to run complex modeling and simulation applications, which are essential to developing next…
From insideHPC
Verne Global Offers Sustainable HPC in the Cloud
In this video from SC19, Tate Cantrell from Verne Global describes how the company delivers sustainable HPC in the Cloud. "Verne Global delivers true high performance computing solutions in an optimized environment, built upon…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu A64FX Arm Processors come to Cray CS Supercomputers
In this video from SC19, Takeshi Horie from Fujitsu and Steve Scott from Cray describe how the powerful Arm-based A64fx Arm Processor will power the next generation of Cray CS Supercomputers. “We are delivering the development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch SoundSee Sensor Predicts Future
Another example of the linking of sensors to predictive decision making.
Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen in IEEE Spectrum By Evan Ackerman
We…
From Schneier on Security
Election Machine Insecurity Story
Interesting story of a flawed computer voting machine and a paper ballot available for recount. All ended well, but only because of that paper backup. Vote totals in a Northampton County judge's race showed one candidate, Abe…
From Writing
[NEW TALK] Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More
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I’m happy to share with you the video and slides from my QCon talk on how to test infrastructure code! This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to write automated tests for infrastructure code, including the code…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
The performance of a processor is determined by several factors. For example, processors with a higher frequency tend to do more work per unit of time. Physics makes it difficult to produce processors that have higher frequency…