Communications of the ACM
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January 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting Risky Behavior
I was struck by this. What is high risk behavior? How is it defined, tested, updated? OK, depression, anxiety or suicide. But at any one time it might be one or another set of beliefs. Where (obviously) the other is wrong…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translating Lost Languages Using ML
Most interesting, lots more at the link. Via patterns of association in other languages. Might this be used in ways to link with associations between other language style 'patterns'? What are the assumptions regarding the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Propose Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption
Still with some technical barriers. See below for some details. Links to more.
Researchers propose Porcupine, a compiler for homomorphic encryption
Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers January 22, 2021
Homomorphic encryption (HE)Realizing…From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal and Social Selling Platform
A Social Selling Platform: Replika
L’Oreal Invests in Social Selling Platform as Part of E-Com Strategy By CGT Staff
As part of its acceleration strategy in e-commerce, L’Oreal announced a minority investment in US-American…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and SAP Extend Partnership
Had worked in the enterprise extensively with SAP and MS, so this is interesting. Note in particular this opens SAP to consumer facing products like Teams, a first.
Microsoft and SAP have announced an extension of their existing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Understanding Language
Skeptical here, but taking a look. In particular how this is measured. If generally true, this would be a very big thing. But why can I now quickly confuse alexa, google home, or Siri. Is it because understanding bare language…
From Computational Complexity
Alan Selman (1941-2021)
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Happy New Year!
This month it is my pleasure to introduce Sarah McRoberts, ACM-W Communications Committee Chair to bring her personal greeting. Sarah has been driving our social media efforts since joining the leadership team. She defended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CERN Making 3D Parts for the Collider
Do consider the differences in scale. Just this week started to wear a small part made for my face mask.
How 3D Printing Is Helping CERN Scientists Upgrade the World's Largest Machine By ZDNet in ACM
The accelerator is a 27-kilometer…From insideHPC
Supermicro Unveils Nvidia GPU Server Test Drive Program with Channel Partners
San Jose — Supermicro, an enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology company, released details on a new GPU test-drive program. Called STEP (Supermicro Test drive Engagement with Partners), the program…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams
Project, reexamining. An idea long put aside.
MIT Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams
By Oscar Rosello Project Contact: Adam Haar Horowitz Project Website http://www.adamjhh.com/
Inspiration:
Sleep is a forgotten country of…From Computational Complexity
Presidential Quiz: Three ways to take it
Every four years around the time of the inaugural I post a presidential Quiz! I do that today, and I will post the answers on Monday. I am tempted to joke that I am posting it AFTER Joltin Joe gets sworn in just in case something…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Science Advisor
Resources for a new term from our vantage point Crop from Broad Institute src Eric Lander has been appointed director of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, a post newly elevated to Cabinet status. He is thus the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increase of Vishing Corporations
Corporations and security.
FBI warns of vishing attacks stealing corporate accounts, By Sergiu Gatlan
FBI warns of vishing attacks stealing corporate accounts
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification…From insideHPC
Reading the Intel Tea Leaves: Pat Gelsinger’s HPC Paradox
As he takes charge of Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger faces a paradox: his new company is both troubled and a revenue geyser; if Intel is to continue its historical growth rates, he’ll need the skills of a corporate turnaround artist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intangible Assets
Intro below on a collection of thoughts and links on intangible assets. Recall we also struggled with the definition of 'intangible'. when we defined data assets. Much more a the link.
The Intangible Asset Revolution by Irving…From insideHPC
$1.5 M in State HPC Funding for Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Collaborators
Jan. 21, 2021 – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has funded the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and collaborators with $1.5 million in two separate awards. The state’s 2020-21 budget includes a line item for $500,000 to fund…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Tests Robotics
Space is a god place to try out assistive robotics
NASA Readies Astrobee Flying Robots for Serious Space Science
UPI, Paul Brinkmann, in CACM
New Astrobee flying robots are being prepared by U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration…From insideHPC
University of Glasgow Partners with Oxford Instruments NanoScience on Quantum Computing
Jan. 21, 2021 — Today, the University of Glasgow, active in quantum technology development and home of the Quantum Circuits Group, announced it’s using Oxford Instruments’ next generation Cryofree refrigerator, Proteox, as part…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teeth for Interfaces
A different kind of interaction.
Finally, Apps to Sink Your Teeth Into
By Paul Marks, Commissioned by CACM Staff, January 12, 2021
Engineers exploring human-computer interaction have found yet another part of the body for ourThere…From insideHPC
Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers – Part 4
This insideHPC Special Research Report, “Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers,” provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an infrastructure capable of meeting the new workload processing needs…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Munmun De Choudhury
ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Munmun De Choudhury as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award. The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing…
From Schneier on Security
SVR Attacks on Microsoft 365
FireEye is reporting the current known tactics that the SVR used to compromise Microsoft 365 cloud data as part of its SolarWinds operation:
Mandiant has observed UNC2452 and other threat actors moving laterally to the Microsoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Videogames as the Future of Work
Something we examined briefly. Can we convert work into game? Some people already do in their heads, is that workable? Key drivers?
Are Videogames the Future of Remote Work?
The Wall Street Journal
Christopher Mims
The startup…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Cataogs vs Discovery
Depends... Internally controlled vs externally, other ... Metadata also a key component. Governance too.
Data Catalogs Are Dead; Long Live Data Discovery in Towardsdatascience
Why we need to rethink our approach to metadataBy…From insideHPC
HPE Selects DigiPlex for Hosting HPC Infrastructure
Oslo, Norway — DigiPlex, the Nordic data centres provider, has signed an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) technology in its Stockholm data center. The DigiPlex Stockholm…
From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Flavio Villannustre Talks Open Source Analytics at LexisNexis
Open source champion Flavio Villanustre is vice president of technology and chief information security officer for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which is a global developer provider of big data and analytics solutions to help manage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GM and Microsoft Partner on Self-Driving Cars
Quite some competition in the space.
Microsoft partners with GM to make self-driving cars a reality By Tristan Greene, in TNW
Driverless car startup Cruise, a GM subsidiary, today announced the finalization of a two-billion dollar…From insideHPC
Nimbix Brings HPC-as-a-Service to Government-Approved Clouds
Dallas – Nimbix, the high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider, has announced support for government-approved cloud infrastructures supporting FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2, ITAR, CJJS, and other compliance regimes using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microscanner Mirrors Sensing Environment
Sensing your context is very broadly useful.
Microscanner Mirrors Replace Human Vision
By Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)
A microscanner mirror for LiDAR systems enables the three-dimensional scanning of a vehicle's surroundings…