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Abstract below. Amazing how much ew are now tied to cryptography, and the question is not resolved. With the emergence of quantum it may become more complex yet. Abstract:
Technical Perspective: Was Edgar Allan Poe Wrong After…
Seems like good ideas. Felt that Google was falling behind, even though it AI capabilities seem deep. I want to be impressed by integrated AI. To be shown things that are really useful when finding, using and manipulating…
More indications that the winter is not that chill, AI being embedded in chips for general use/. This did not happen during the last winter.
Qualcomm Announces Chips ....
Qualcomm, which also makes modems and other technologies…
We have done lots of new things like better language skills and pattern recognition. But we have fallen back on delivering real process intelligence. Circa 1990, the last 'winter' created a stall that lasted some 20 years…
Today WekaIO announced that Genomics England (GEL) has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate genomics research for the 5 Million Genomes Project. "We needed a modern storage solution that could scale to 100s petabytes…
Shielding car electronics attacks. Note the application to data coming from car systems.
Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Car Electronics
By The Wall Street Journal
January 13, 2020
German engineering company Robert Bosch GmbH…
How does this intersect David Deutsch’s thoughts in 1985? Composite crop from homepages Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen (JNVWY) have just posted a paper titled . The title means that…
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani (Acting Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Acting Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science…
Early career researchers and university students are encouraged to take advantage of the ISC Travel Grant and the ISC Student Volunteer programs. The programs are intended to enable these participants to attend the ISC 2020 conference…
People with mechanical heart valves need blood thinners on a daily basis, because they have a higher risk of blood clots and stroke. With the help of the Piz Daint supercomputer, researchers at the University of Bern have identified…
Dr. Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee has been named to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2020 Computer Pioneer Award. "The award is given for significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the…
Lex Fridman gave this talk as part of the MIT Deep Learning series. "This lecture is on the most recent research and developments in deep learning, and hopes for 2020. This is not intended to be a list of SOTA benchmark results…
Vortex Bladeless presented the company’s design for a new wind energy technology. One of the key characteristics of this system is the reduction of mechanical elements that can be worn by friction. The company developed the technology…
Not sure I quite agree with the premise. These are simulations, and we often in practice we fed them with data from real operations. Such simulations were always approximations of the real world, usually in a useful context…
Points again to the 'Brain as a computing model' conundrum. We have lots of brains we can study, observe, dissect. But we still don't know their operational specs. Algorithms 'work', because their input and output are simple…
In Amazon/Science an interesting study.
Why do customers buy seemingly irrelevant products?
Analysis points to better algorithms for product discovery.
By Liane Lewin-Eytan
Product search algorithms, like the ones that help customers…
Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography…
A space we spend much time exploring. But as in all related spaces, how much attention will people play to this new fine print?
Now Stores Must Tell You How They're Tracking Your Every Move in Wired
California's new privacy…
Nice approach. What not have this done in al the common forms of phones. Isn't any phone a unique 'key'?
Google turns iPhones into 2FA security keys — good news in an election year Paul Sawers @PSAWERS in Venturebeat.…
Part of the power of the internet was the fact that there were multiple ways to get from A to B, but this article makes it seem more vulnerable. The stats are interesting. My old wrong impression was that it was mostly transmitted…
The Internets are buzzing about the new paper MIP* = RE by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright and Henry Yuan. See posts by Scott, Boaz, not to mention a wonderful backstory by Vidick himself and a tweet…
I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS, or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on Scheduling with Prediction and the Price of Misprediction (LIPIcs page) (which is one of several recent…
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Indiana University Bloomington on January 30, 2020. I'll be at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. On Wednesday, February 26, at 2:50 PM, I'll…
If you wondered what a toothbrush would say to you.
P&G unveils $230 toothbrush with Alexa speaker
Procter & Gamble Co. plans to begin selling a $230 electric toothbrush that includes a voice-controlled Alexa smart speaker built…
The following is a recent press release from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. They proposed 10 principles to guide federal regulation of AI technologies and applications. These draft principles will soon…
Just taking a look at this:
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Today more than ever, it's all about the customer…
An amazing number for the Apple store.
Apple’s App Store generates a billion dollars a week
We’re more willing than ever to buy digital products, and that’s good for Apple
On average, Apple generated over a billion dollars a week…
Digital 'Seatbelt' combines safety data. A clever play for this problem. Also data for future development of safety methods and devices. "a central nervous system for connected cars'"
Panasonic Cloud Analytics Will Give Cars…
Incooling has adopted GIGABYTE’s overclockable R161 Series server platform as the test-bed and prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooled overclockable servers designed for the high frequency trading market. "Incooling's…
In C++, the most basic memory allocation code is just a call to the new operator: char *buf = new char[s]; According to a textbook interpretation, we just allocated s bytes. If you benchmark this line of code, you might findContinue…