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 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…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Blames Russia For Satellite Hack
In the BBC, more examples of tech warfare and implications.
UK blames Russia for satellite internet hack at start of war By Chris Vallance, BBCTechnology Reporter
Russia was behind a cyber-attack targeting American commercial…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Plan for Quntum
Reasonable? See links in the article to former quantum roadmaps.
IBM wants its quantum supercomputers running at 4,000-plus qubits by 2025 By A. Tarantola in Engadget
That's nearly a full magnitude more powerful than today's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ricardian Contracts vs Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention, unsure as yet how broadly the definition is used at this time, can see the need for the understanding of such an agreement by human and machine means.
The Ricardian contract, as invented by Ian Grigg,…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter’s Face
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding—Bill Thurston. Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist who is famous for many things—including his face. His name “Peter” alone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Authority Falls Due to Algorithm
Regulation 0f algorithms causes Dutch Tax Authority to fail. An unusual event. Fairness and impacts.
The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next? European regulation hopes to rein in ill-behaving algorithms byUntil…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing COVID-19 Patient Breathing Effort
Respitatory Support for COVID Patients with computational modeling
University of Warwick (U.K.), April 21, 2022
A team…From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarms of Drones for Forestry
Recal my previous mentioning the use of drones in Forestry, with the potential of advanced sensors and cooperation with mapping and multitasking activity. We did that with photography and later with Satellite images and helicopters…
From insideHPC
Tesla: Cooling Tech Engineer Stole Dojo Exascale Supercomputer Secrets
Theft of secret information about Tesla’s in-house supercomputer, the exascale-class “Project Dojo” system due to be up and running this year, are at issue in a suit filed by the company against an HPC cooling technology engineer…