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 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…From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Release 1.1 of AI Enterprise Suite
NVIDIA has announced release 1.1 of its AI Enterprise software suite. It includes production support for containerized AI with the NVIDIA software on VMware vSphere with Tanzu, previously available only on a trial basis. NVIDIA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Ready of Web 3.0 and Why
Good piece by Tim O'Reilly, intro below, more at the link.
Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 By Tim O’Reilly
There’s been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I’m often…From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance in $22.5M Quantum Chips Project
STUTTGART, Germany, January 19, 2022 — Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian manufacturer of innovative quantum computing hardware, today announced a joint research project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian Hypermarket Tour
As someone who has toured European and Asian grocery/hypermarkets in past years for a major US retailer, found this fascinating. Prices in Russia, especially for staples seemed to be distinctly lower, and breadth of availability…
From BLOG@CACM
Log4j and the Thankless High-Risk Task of Managing Software Component Upgrades
Managing included versions of third-party software components too often puts developers in no-win situations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New NVIDIA Robot Brain
Pushing forward robotic power.
NVIDIA's new AI brain for robots is six times more powerful than its predecessor
And it can still fit in the palm of your hand.
By M. Moon in Engadget
NVIDIA has launched a follow-up to the Jetson…From insideHPC
Agnostiq Partners With Mila to Bridge Quantum-Machine Learning
TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2022 — Agnostiq, Inc., a quantum computing SaaS startup, announced a partnership with Montreal-based Mila, a machine learning research institute, in an effort to bridge the gap between the quantum computing …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levis using AI
Note interesting links to marketing.
Levi's AI Chief Says Algorithms Have Helped Boost Revenue
By The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2021
Artificial intelligence and a data repository built on Google Cloud have helped Levi Strauss…From BLOG@CACM
Essentials of BI Dashboards
A well-designed dashboard is everyone's dream come true.
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: How Cambridge University Pushed the Wilkes3 Supercomputer to No. 4 on the Green500
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In this interview conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, insideHPC spoke with Dr. Paul Calleja, director of Research Computing Services at the University of Cambridge, about the Wilkes3 supercomputer,
…
From BLOG@CACM
Anti-Racist Computing Education: No More Excuses
On this #MLKDay, a list of resources to help center racial equity and justice in CS classrooms and a reminder that the CS Education community must make good on individual and collective resolve to attend to racial justice in…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is the ‘range’ of a number type?
In programming, we often represent numbers using types that have specific ranges. For example, 64-bit signed integer types can represent all integers between -9223372036854775808 and 9223372036854775807, inclusively. All integers…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Zoom Workshop E-Minder: 4pm ET Today
And a place to look for fallback info in case things go wrong This is a deviation from the “blog invariants” that were maintained for 1,000 posts. We’ll be happy to have suggestions for style changes and general ideas going forward…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science for the sake of ?
My grandson in kindergarten has a class in reading. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read. Over time, school spends less time teaching how to read and a lot more time using using reading to support learning. For many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Bounties for Security
Schneier writes on the bug/security marketplace, incudes a place for the usual considerable expert comment. Intriguing to see how and if this will continue to offer significate incentive for finding security holes in existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots, Machine Learning for Distribution
Clever application here.
Robotic Arms Use Machine Leanring to Reach Deeper into Distribution
By The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2022
Robots increasingly are being used in warehouses to sort, pack, and prepare orders for delivery…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cars Becoming Smartphones
As cars become smartphones, Big Auto turns to handset chipmaker to survive
Legacy automakers underestimated the importance of employing the latest technology in their dashboards, now they're playing catch up.
How will phones link…