Communications of the ACM
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January 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human-Robot Teams
Giving systems levels of automation, like IT today.
Human-Robot Teams: The Next IT Management Challenge
Productivity can skyrocket when people and robots work together, yet so can human frustration and fury.
John Edwards in InformationWeek…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Security Products at CES
Worth a look at what is being offered.
AI News
MicroAI showcasing host of AI security products at CES Las Vegas
By Fin Strathern | January 6, 2022
MicroAI, a Texas-based edge AI product developer, is demonstrating its LaunchpadThe…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Taiwan under Threat from China – TSMC and the ‘Techno-politics’ of Advanced Chips
In this week's episode of the @HPCpodcast, Doug Black and Shahin Khan discuss how global competition around advanced technologies has turned geopolitics into "techno-politics" and techno-nationalism. In HPC, this means chips
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Debates its Own ethical Existence
Too early to do this, but setting the stage is useful.
AI News
Oxford Union invites an AI to debate the ethics of its own existence
By Fin Strathern | December 16, 2021
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics & Society, Google…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins, Simulation,Design
Like drawing the relationship to general simulation, which has been around for a long time.
Digital twins improve real-life manufacturing
Using simulations can ease the complex development process and provide insights into how…From insideHPC
AIOps Hybrid Cloud Management Company Virtana Raises $73M
SAN JOSE — January 13, 2022 — Virtana, a provider of AI-driven monitoring for hybrid cloud management, has raised $73 million from Atalaya Capital Management, Elm Park Capital Management, HighBar Partners, and Benhamou Global…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Planning Before Coding
After all these years one would think I would know better. But it turns out that when coding for fun I don’t always do the planning that I should. It always comes back to hurt me. If you have been reading this blog lately you…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Container Technologies for Exascale Computing
In this episode of the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP) Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series, Andrew Younge of Sandia National Laboratories discusses container technology and how it fits into the wider scheme of exascale and
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From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Appoints Aravind Ratnam to Chief Strategy Officer
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a quantum control engineering solutions company, today announced the addition of Aravind Ratnam as Chief Strategy Officer. Most recently, Ratnam served as Head of Products for Sense Photonics…
From insideHPC
GRC in Data Center Sustainability Collaboration with Intel
AUSTIN, TX – January 12, 2022 — GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), today announced a multi-year collaboration with Intel focused on helping the global data center industry reduce the environmental impact of digital infrastructure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Makes Some AI Meta Humans
Indeed.
Baidu Unveils Its Metaverse of Custom Virtual Humans
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ in Voicebot.ai
Chinese tech giant Baidu introduced a metaverse of virtual humans this week at Baidu Create 2021, in deliberate contrast to the presentation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement of the Digital Economy
Good piece by correspondent Dr Wladawsky-Burger:
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects. By Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A New MeasurementSeveral…From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q
SEATTLE – Jan. 12, 2022 – Qumulo, maker of file data storage and management for hybrid cloud environments, today announced the availability of AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q. This new offering, running on Amazon Web Services…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Process Analysis: When to Use
Yes, absolutely, of anything significant, also for anything new or advanced like AI, or things that interact with people or have risky aspects.
Why a Business Process Analysis is critical before applying Automation
Simon Carter…From Computational Complexity
On the California Math Framework
Guest post by Boaz Barak and Jelani Nelson
In a recent post, Lance Fortnow critiqued our open letter on the proposed revisions for the California Mathematics Framework (CMF). We disagree with Lance’s critique, and he has kindly…From insideHPC
AMD Announces GA of New AWS EC2 Hpc6a Instances
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today GA of Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Hpc6a instances based on the AMD EPYC CPU, built for high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud. AWS pre-announced Hpc6a last November. The instances deliver…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Guns available in US
Safer firearms
Smart Guns Reportedly Coming to U.S. Stores This Year
By Gizmodo, January 11, 2022
"Smart guns," the personalized firearms once heralded as tech's solution to rampant U.S. gun deaths before quietly pittering out of…From The Eponymous Pickle
LIDAR on its Way Out?
Have been looking at smartphone loaded uses of LiDAR, So the question is useful.
Is LiDAR on its way out? The business case for saying goodbye
As automation proliferates, sensing is increasingly moving away from LiDAR.
Written by…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind and Machine
Considering controls in context.
When Mind Melds With Machine, Who's in Control?
By Wired, January 11, 2022
The last time I saw my friend James was at the townie bar near our old high school. He had been working in roofing for…From insideHPC
Cogniteam’s Nimbus Supports Cloud-Enabled Robot Deployment Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI Platform
Jan. 11, 2022 — Robotics company Cogniteam today announced it is supporting the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform into its cloud-based robotics development and deployment platform, allowing cloud-enabled deployments to use NVIDIA…
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Releases PCIe 6.0 Specification
BEAVERTON, OR. – January 11, 2022 – PCI-SIG, developer of the PCI Express (PCIe) standard, today announced the official release of the PCIe 6.0 specification, reaching 64 GT/s. PCIe 6.0 specification features: 64 GT/s raw data…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do You Define a Computer Scientist
The last few days have seem some social media discussion about requirements for a computer scientist. Is Calculus a requirement? Is Assembly/machine language a requirement? Among the “yes” and “no” answers there are requestsIn…
From insideHPC
HPC Cluster Management Software Company Bright Computing Acquired by NVIDIA
HPC cluster management software company Bright Computing has been acquired by GPU powerhouse NVIDIA. Used by more than 700 companies, Bright Cluster Manager is now part of NVIDIA’s software stack for accelerated computing. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On New Open Language Models
Bigscience and open Language Models
Inside BigScience, the quest to build a powerful open language model
Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers in VentureBeat.
January 10, 2022 9:30 AM
Roughly a year ago, Hugging Face, a Brooklyn, NewTaking…From The Eponymous Pickle
The End of Car Keys, Payments and More
Have recently been involved in some significant and phishing attempts on me, so am taking a deeper look at how funds are used with in consumer payment systems. Continuing talks on how this occurs in online banking. With additional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Improves Hand Gesture Complexity
Hoe much have generalized gestures use? Considerations?
Algorithm Improves Hand Gestures By SPIE, December 30, 2021
A team led by Zhiyi Yu of Sun Yat-sen University recently developed a new hand gesture recognition algorithm…From insideHPC
LLNL Scientists Use Sierra Supercomputer to Develop Cancer Model
Jan. 10, 2022 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers and a multi-institutional team of scientists have developed a highly detailed, machine learning-backed multiscale model revealing the importance of lipids to
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From insideHPC
LG Electronics Joins IBM Quantum Network
SEOUL, January 10, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that LG Electronics has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the industry applications of quantum computing. By joining the IBM Quantum Network, IBM will provide …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Problems with 2D Materials
Note the mention of 'simulated annealing' methods.
Solving the 'Big Problems' via Algorithms Enhanced by 2D Materials
Penn State News. Jamie Oberdick, January 5, 2022
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) researchers have…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Trucking Test by TuSimple
ACM TECHNEWS
Autonomous Trucker TuSimple Logs First No-Human Road Test
By Associated Press, January 5, 2022
Autonomous technology developer TuSimple said its self-driving unmanned semitruck completed an 80-mile trip in Arizona on…