Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2022
From Computational Complexity
Counting the Number of 3-colorings of a graph is Sharp-P complete. This should be better known.
BILL: Lance, is #3COL #P complete? (#3COL is: Given a graph G, return the number of different 3-colorings it has.)
LANCE: Surely you know that for all natural A, #A is #P complete.
BILL: There is no rigorous way to define natural…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Dangers of Crytocurrencies and Uselessness of Blockchain
Bruce Schneier writes a cautional opinion piece, I don't agree entirely regarding blockchain. But the caution is good ... . below the intro, click for the whole thing and further expert comments.
On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Physics of Thought
Closer to understanding of the thinking process.
ACM TECHNEWS
How the Brain Prepares to Think
By Texas Advanced Computing Center, June 23, 2022
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Jose Rizo-Rey and colleaguesThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Petabit Data Speed
New Speed of data transmission.
Researchers in Japan Set a Record for Petabit Data Transmission per Second
From Interesting Engineering
Ameya Paleja, June 2, 2022
Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm
Not understanding it, considerable detail linked to.
ACM CAREERS
Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm
By Marktechpost, June 21, 2022
A group of Cornell physicists and computer scientists developed an unsupervised…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms with Prediction
Useful thoughts, technical. Considering the worst case.
Algorithms with Predictions By Michael Mitzenmacher, Sergei Vassilvitskii
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 33-35 10.1145/3528087
The theoretical…From The Eponymous Pickle
Singapore's Robot Workforce Plugs Labor Gaps
Singapore's Robot Workforce Plugs Labor Gaps
Reuters, Travis Teo, May 31, 2022
Businesses in Singapore increasingly are resorting to robots to help address labor shortages and perform a range of jobs. Singaporean construction firm…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Worlds: AI Learning in New Ways
Interesting article in Quanta Mag, Learning is the key, How and how accurately.
By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
By Quanta Magazine, June 24, 2022
In 2009, a computer scientist then at Princeton University…From insideHPC
Women in HPC to Host ISC 2022 Re-cap Webinar July 12
June 24, 2022 — The Women in HPC organization issued the following announcement today regarding their Tuesday, July 12 (10 am Central Time) webinar (registration here): Following on from our successful return to in-person events…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous IBM Mayflower Lands
AI News, Part stunt, part test of idea of autonomous ship.
IBM’s AI-powered Mayflower ship crosses the Atlantic By Ryan Daws | June 6, 2022 | TechForge Media
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Companies, Robotics,A groundbreaking…From The Eponymous Pickle
Examination of Eye Biometrics
More complex and less secure than I thought.
By David Geer
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 23, 2022
Biometric markers such as fingerprints, the irises of one's eyes, and individual's entire faces are…From insideHPC
TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center Completes Clean Room Construction in AIST Tsukuba Center
IBARAKI, Japan, June 24, 2022 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that its subsidiary, the TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center, has completed construction of its clean room in the Tsukuba Center of the National Institute of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Future for AR
Like the proposed connection to optimization ... visualizing the value always useful.
Intensity Control of Projectors in Parallel—Doorway to an Augmented Reality Future
Tokyo Tech News, March 16, 2022
Scientists at Japan's Tokyo…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing for Risk Aggregation
Looking at this further, in particular the aspect of supply chain risk use.
Quantum Computing for Risk Aggregation in BusinessWire
Early results lay the foundation for developing new solutions to manage risk exposure. Takeaways…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Has a New Voice
I note this got lots of press. Why? as devices take over some normal, recognizable features, are they starting to pose as us? Good or bad?
Alexa Has a New Voice — Your Dead Relative's
By The Washington Post
Propped atop a…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Blockchain Technology: What’s the big deal?
When? July 20th, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Register Now Blockchain technology is a mysterious topic for many. Is it a network? A database? A cryptography algorithm? Is it the same as cryptocurrency? In this…
From insideHPC
Argonne to Host DeepHyper Training Session July 15
June 23, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a virtual hands-on training session on DeepHyper (https://github.com/deephyper/deephyper), on Friday, July 15 from 9 am to 4 pm Central Time. Registration is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power and Pitfalls of AI for US Intelligence.
Generalized but reasonable piece on the challenges involved. More links in the original.
The Power and Pitfalls of AI for U.S. Intelligence By Wired
June 23, 2022
While artificial intelligence that can mimic humanlike sentience…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Filtering numbers quickly with SVE on Amazon Graviton 3 processors
I have had access to Amazon’s latest ARM processors (graviton 3) for a few weeks. To my knowledge, these are the first widely available processors supporting Scalable Vector Extension (SVE). SVE is part of the Single Instruction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Advances in Autonomous Robotic Systems
Thought they had already advanced here, autonomy apparently a strong element, which brings labor needs into play.
Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot
It can pick things up, put them down, and move…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Verified AI
Considerable, complex piece. ....
Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence By Sanjit A. Seshia, Dorsa Sadigh, S. Shankar Sastry
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 46-55 10.1145/3503914
ArtificialCONTRIBUTED…From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Robots Need to See
Sensors are important.
Why Robots Need to See By Robotics Business Review, June 10, 2022
Most autonomous-vehicle manufacturers use high-end 3D LiDARs and additional sensors to help their vehicles glean enough data to fully…From insideHPC
Scalable Inferencing for Autonomous Trucking
In this sponsored post, Tim Miller, Vice President, Product Marketing, One Stop Systems, discusses autonomous trucking and to achieve AI Level 4 (no driver) in the vehicles, powerful AI inference hardware supporting many different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Engineering Kill-Chain
Threat intelligence community by Feedly
Social Engineering Kill–Chain: Predicting, Minimizing & Disrupting Attack Verticals in Ahead
Christina Lekati on Jun 02, 2022
It was a Friday afternoon when Bill was on his way back home"They…From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Semiconductor Research with Machine Learning
Concept new to me, as is RHEED
Automating Semiconductor Research with Machine Learning
Tokyo University of Science (Japan), June 16, 2022
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo University of Science and National Institute for Materials Science…From insideHPC
AMD Appoints Mathew Hein Chief Strategy Officer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June, 22, 2022 — AMD today announced that Mathew Hein is joining the company as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate development, effective June 27, 2022. Hein will be responsible…
From insideHPC
Rockport Networks Taps Phil Harris as CEO
OTTAWA — June 22, 2022 — High performance networking company Rockport Networks today announced the appointment of data center industry executive Phil Harris as CEO of the switchless network innovator. With more than two decades…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stacking the Deck for Computer Security
New idea: Safe Stack, to analyze and classify security. Useful at least to flag possible problems.
Stacking the Deck for Computer Security
Penn State News
WennersHerron Ashley J., June 17, 2022
An international team of researchers…From insideHPC
Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Google’s Lifelike LaMDA AI Chatbot and Questions of Being or Nothingness
When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA,…