Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2022
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach CS in K-12? Please Help Gather Data
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the United States. The CS education landscape continues to evolve, and we want to hear directly…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Returns in Support of Greater Equity at ISC 2022 in Hamburg
Edinburgh, United Kingdom – May 12, 2022 – WHPC, an entirely volunteer-run organisation that strives to encourage more women into the field of high performance computing (HPC) through fellowship, education and support is proud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee Wants Meta VR
Interesting view here. But in particular if you see VR as a means of interacting with lots of complex visual contextual data, its like interacting with data in a structured Web.
ACM TECHNEWS
World Wide Web's Creator Wants…From The Eponymous Pickle
Recent Conversation with Andrew Ng
Good piece, have followed Ng for some time.
Meet Andrew Ng, a 2022 Datanami Person to Watch
Alex Woodie in Datanami
Andrew Ng is one of the most influential individuals in big data and AI. He’s also one of the busiest, with stints…From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Wants to do More
And want to see more, especially that saves time, records things, organizes things intelligently. Give us us an after Covid present. Here for customer service ....
Zoom is driving further into the customer service market
ByVideo…From insideHPC
Argonne’s Globus Software Wins Award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge
Globus, a platform for research data management created by researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, was named the Best Integrated Software Experience Award…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code
There are various ways in software to handle error conditions. In C or Go, one returns error code. Other programming languages like C++ or Java prefer to throw exceptions. One benefit of using exceptions is that it keeps your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cryptocurrencies Melt Down
Not so stable in this context.
ACM NEWS
Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic
By The New York Times, May 13, 2022
The price of Bitcoin plunged to its lowest point since 2020. Coinbase, the large cryptocurrency…From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Data Management with AI?
Value of intelligently positioned disruption. From Deloitte
To achieve the benefits and scale of AI and MLOps, data must be tuned for native machine consumption, not humans, causing organizations to rethink data management,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncovering Competitive Strategies
Leveraging competitive intelligence.
How to Use Competitive Intelligence to Uncover your Competitors…From insideHPC
Google Cloud Says TPU-Powered Machine Learning Hub Delivers 9 Exaflops Aggregate Power
As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this month at the ISC conference in Hamburg, will include systems that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance By Driverless Car
Reported in Schneier ... which points to an article mentioning use by SF Police. Makes sense for a number of reasons. Can be any kind of autonomous vehicles. Its mentioned that it includes the generation of large amounts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ancient Art Meets AI
Reported on this before, unexpected connection.
Ancient Art Meets AI for Better Materials Design
Argonne National Laboratory, John Spizzirri, April 7, 2022
University of Southern California (USC) researchers combined kirigami…From insideHPC
IBM to Deliver Software as-a-Service on AWS
ARMONK, N.Y., May 11, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalog as Software-as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upacking Black Box Models
Quite interesting development. I had to talk the nature and implications of What a 'black box' (BB) . was for management many times. A BB is simply a method that is not precisely know in its operation. Usually such an algorithm's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Space Opportunities
STARFLEET ACADEMY —
Entrepreneurs create a space “academy” as commercial space flourishes
This is a bet that the long-promised space economy continues taking off.
ERIC BERGER 5/10/2022
A group of astronauts, engineers, and business…From insideHPC
Arm Reports Record Revenues and Profits in FY21
May 12, 2022 — Cambridge, UK-based semiconductor design company Arm Ltd. today reported 2021 total revenues were up 35 percent to $2.7 billion with growth in both royalty and non-royalty revenue. The company reported 2021 licensing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Drone uses in War
Cheaper and increasingly autonomous, they will be in our future. For war and for humanitarian aiding in its aftermath.
By Esther Shein, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 10, 2022
North American professional drone…From The Eponymous Pickle
Success of AI is in Infrastructure
In VentureBeat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing many changes to the enterprise, none of which is more vital to its success than infrastructure. Changing the nature of workloads – not just how they are generated and processed…From insideHPC
Atos Talks European HPC Openness and a Hybrid Future of AI, Machine Learning and Quantum Supercomputing
This exclusive Q&A interview was conducted by Nages Sieslack of the ISC 2022 conference organization, with Eric Eppe, head of portfolio and solutions, HPC & Quantum at France-based HPC systems vendor Atos. Nages Sieslack: How…
From insideHPC
IBM Quantum Promises 4,000-Qubit Processor in 2025, Envisions ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum computing processors. The updated quantum plan comes a year after…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Differential Privacy
I’m low-key. I like my privacy—Kemba Walker. Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, received the ACM 2021 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. They worked on and studied the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Together Caregiving
Newly announced, recalls work we saw in Japan, which also connected multiple people, as needed, to the eldercare dynamic.
Alexa Together will let caregivers remotely set up routines for aging loved ones
A person receiving support…From insideHPC
Classiq Announces $25K Quantum Circuits Challenge
TEL AVIV – May 11, 2022 – Quantum computing software company Classiq today announced the Classiq Coding Competition, rewarding those that create highly-efficient quantum circuits to solve important real-world problems. Quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquake Detection Algorithms
Relates to our previous examination of work done on earthquake detection. Makes sense such work is out of Japan.
Gravity signals could detect earthquakes at the speed of light
Algorithm set for deployment in Japan could identify…From The Eponymous Pickle
Context In Machine Intelligence
I often make this point ... context is everything ... in fact I like to make the expansion of this as well: 'Context is everything', and its always changing" Its like how we use all 'intelligence' that is presented inAdvancing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Big Data Journalism
Finding information and useful interaction with it. Though unclear what a 'big data journalism' means here.
Interactive Tools May Help People Become Big Data Journalists
By Penn State News, May 6, 2022
Pennsylvania State University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Achaeological Artifact Visualization
Thinking of some other uses of creation and identification.
DIY Digital Archaeology: Methods for Visualizing Small Objects, Artifacts
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, April 13, 2022
Researchers at Germany's…From Computational Complexity
Queen Elizabeth is the 3rd longest reigning monarch; The problem with definitions
A few days ago Queen Elizabeth passed Johann II of Liechtenstein to be the third longest reigning monarch (see here).
A summary of the top 4:
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
I refer to “bitset decoding” as the action of finding the positions of the 1s in a stream of bits. For example, given the integer value 0b11011 (or 27 in decimal), I want to find 0,1,3,4. In my previous post, Fast bitset decoding…