Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ascon for Small Device Protection
Key need, given how many of these is currently remotely connected.
US NIST adopts Ascon algorithms for small device protection By David Manners 16th February 2023, For Light Weight Crypto, ElectronicsWeekly
The US National Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Domestic Chores
Examined these stats in the 80s, similar results. Feasibility by task
Robots to do 39% of domestic chores by 2033, say experts
Within a decade, around 39% of the time spent on housework and caring for loved ones could be automated…From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Announces OCP-Compliant Enterprise Products
March 2, 2023 ─ High performance server company Giga Computing has announced new GIGABYTE enterprise products that follow the Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) standards. Supporting the latest CPU advancements…
From BLOG@CACM
Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise
Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Create, Release, and Share Generative AI Responsibly
What are the responsibilities of generating?
ACM NEWS
How to Create, Release, and Share Generative AI Responsibly
By MIT Technology Review,February 27, 2023
One of the most important elements of the guidelines is a pact by the companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Headset Enables Users to See Hidden Objects
Who decides what we get to See?
Augmented Reality Headset Enables Users to See Hidden Objects
By MIT News, March 1, 2023
The X-AR augmented reality headset combines computer vision and wireless perception to automatically locate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Having Issues with its AI
Not unexpected, but it looks bad,
Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI
By Futurism, February 23, 2023
Microsoft said in a statement, "The goal is to give you more control on the type of chat behavior to best meet your…From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Dilbert
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had a racist rant in a video he posted last week. As a result most newspapers that carried the comic strip are dropping Dilbert, including our local Chicago Tribune. I fully support these moves…
From insideHPC
Enabling Innovation for CFD Simulations, Thanks to Ansys and AWS
Using the integrated suite of Ansys solvers, including fluids, structural and composites simulation, Emirates Team New Zealand designed a craft that provided accurate and fast control while remaining within weight targets. The…
From Schneier on Security
Dumb Password Rules
Troy Hunt is collecting examples of dumb password rules.
There are some pretty bad disasters out there.
My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation…From The Eponymous Pickle
API for ChatGPT for Enterprise Customers
More advances, direct
OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
Kyle Wiggers@kyle_l_wiggers / inTechCrunch
To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco…From insideHPC
Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//E for Unstructured Data
Mountain View, CA – March 1, 2023 — High performance data storage company Pure Storage today announced FlashBlade//E, a scale-out unstructured data repository built to handle data growth at scale. Pure said with the price of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Worked with Roger Schank in Early AI
Was always interested linguistic connections. He was a client of ours. I would not call him a theorist, much more of an adept salesman of the leading edge.
Home/News/Roger C. Schank, Theorist of Artificial Intelligence.../Full…From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for Uncertainty in Commercial Aerospace
Aerospace and Uncertainty
Planning for uncertainty in commercial aerospace in McKinsey
February 15, 2023 Article
By Frank Coleman, Chris Daehnick, Morgan Holecek, Vik Krishnan
Commercial aviation faces its most uncertain future…From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Releases Software Platform for Quantum Computing Developers
Intel Releases Software Platform for Quantum Computing Developers
Reuters Jane Lanhee Lee, February 28, 2023
Intel Corp. has rolled out the Intel Quantum SDK, a software platform developers can use to build quantum algorithms.…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $12M Quantum Testbed Funding Opportunity
March 1, 2023 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) has announced a $12 million quantum testbed funding opportunity. Agency contacts and more details, including eligibility…
From insideHPC
Quantum: Oxford Instruments and MagLab Partner on Superconducting Materials
March 1, 2023 — Aiming to leverage the knowledge and skills available at the National MagLab’s Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) in combination with its own superconducting magnet design knowledge, Oxford Instruments, a
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From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Claims First Demonstration of 4-Tbps Bi-directional Optical I/0
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 1, 2023 – Silicon photonics company Ayar Labs today announced what it said is the first demonstration of 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bi-directional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical technology…
From BLOG@CACM
Serendipity: When Research in One Area Leads to a Positive Result in Another
A problem of the extremely optimal family of circulant graphs: when research in one scientific field gives an unexpected result in another.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Vending
Has been happening, more being done.
Adding Smarts to Vending Machines Drives Convenience, Efficiency
Advanced feature sets and functionality are projected to drive the market for connected vending to nearly nine million units…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chocolate Printing
3D Printing in new domains, but had seem foodexamples
Want Healthy Chocolate? You Can 3D-Print It
By The Jerusalem Post (Israel), February 22, 2023
For the study, the researchers experimented with different ratios of the ingredients…From The Eponymous Pickle
Revealing Metaverse Identity by Moving
Metaverse identification
ACM TECHNEWS
In the Metaverse, Your Identity Can Be Revealed Just by Moving
By TechRadar, February 22, 2023
As the University of Calilfornia, Berkeley, research shows, all that's needed to identify a Metaverse…From Schneier on Security
Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice
A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
SODA 2023
Traces of strings, plus ways of tracing accepted papers Anindya De was at Northwestern University and is now at the University of Pennsylvania—see here. He was advised by two of the top advisors ever there were: Luca Trevisan…