Communications of the ACM
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January 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Print a Home from Your Phone
Interesting financial analysis, quality?
Financial Times, Louis Wustemann, December 30, 2021
As three-dimensionally (3D)-printed homes start to catch on, Logan Architecture founder Andrew Logan predicts…From insideHPC
Harnessing Data In Motion
[SPONSORED POST] This whitepaper from Cloudera and sponsored by Carahsoft describes how Cloudera DataFlow supports government data movement and processing. A simple, flexible, open-ended solution is required to streamline access…
From Computational Complexity
Math problems involving Food
A few people emailed me an Math article on arxiv about cutting a pizza, and since I wrote the book (literally) on cutting muffins, they thought it might interest me. It did, though perhaps not in the way they intended. I got…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Future of Covid
Interesting predictive approach, but don't understand its basis.
Predicting the Future of COVID
Boston College, January 6, 2022
A new analytical tool developed by a research team led by biologists at Boston College (BC) uses quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Monitoring
Digital Selves deriving from monitoring
Body-Monitoring Tech Trend Comes with Concerns
France24, January 6, 2022
Body-monitoring technology promoted at this year's Consumer Electronics Show raises concerns about such wearables eroding…From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigational Apps for the Blind
New Sensory Applications
Navigational Apps for the Blind Could Have Broader Appeal
The New York Times, Amanda Morris, January 4, 2022
New apps designed specifically for blind and low-vision people could also have mainstream appeal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughtful Piece, Dangers of AI
Useful caurions we need to think about and will soon become important contexts of these methods.
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes? By NATASHA BAJEMA in IEEE…From The Eponymous Pickle
Toyota Robotics
Expect more from automotive.
ACM TECHNEWS
Toyota Gives Robots a Soft Touch, Better Vision By CNET
TRI's robots can understand clear or reflective surfaces, a sensing task that foiled earlier robots.
Researchers at the ToyotaBigger…From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Remote Workers Back to the Office
Brought to my attention.
How to Get Remote Workers to Want to Return to the Office
People want to work from home because offices have become miserable places to work.
BY GEOFFREY JAMES, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, INC.COM
@SALES_SOURCE
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time Crystal Quantum Computer
Time Crystal Quantum
Stanford physicists help create time crystals with quantum computers
A team of researchers including ones from Stanford and Google have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a timeBY…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Wordle Solving For Fun and Coding
After my post the other day (Is Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?) I got thinking about solver help for Wordle. I happen to have a huge word list I got some somewhere some time ago. For various reasons I had written…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-Imagining AI in Context
Really just understanding the multiple contexts we are immersed in. No different than how we use general human intelligence. We adapt appropriately.
By USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, January…From The Eponymous Pickle
Phygital Shopping Realities?
Extended shopping Realities: Phygital. Broad term new to me. Extentison
Is Retail Ready for a Phygital Future by Carol Spieckerman in Retailwire
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa to Take AI to the Moon
Like to see this, will follow. Will conversational AI be good enough by then? I don't think it is yet.
Amazon’s Alexa and Cisco’s Webex are heading to deep space on NASA’s upcoming Moon mission
Meet Callisto, the companionBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Closer to Conversation
Better Conversation in Context
Model Moves Computers Closer to Understanding Human Conversation
Piotr Zelasko at the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can differentiate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Qubit Supercharged: Researchers Introduce the Qutrit
New Quantum State proposed: The Qutrit. Will this prevail?
The Qubit Supercharged: Researchers Introduce the Qutrit
By Tom's Hardware, January 6, 2022
Rigetti Computing has announced a new development in quantum computing, unlocking…From insideHPC
Chip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan ‘Unwantable’ by Destroying TSMC, Suggest Military Paper
US military planners are taking notice of a suggestion by two military scholars calling for the destruction of semiconductor foundry company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose fabs produce advanced microprocessors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
Comments on AI vs Knowledge
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/science-has-entered-a-new-era-of-alchemy-good-20211020/
Today’s powerful but little-understood artificial intelligence breakthroughs…From insideHPC
Altair Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
TROY, Mich., Jan. 6, 2022 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) signed a multi-year agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer Altair’s HPC solution suite for job scheduling and management with HPE’s HPC systems. The solution…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Winterstock22: Festival of solutions
[SPONSORED POST] Lenovo is gearing up for Winterstock22, our premier virtual event for all things HPC & AI. On the heels of retaining our position as the #1 Supercomputer provider on the TOP500, we’re kicking off a new year of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individual AI?
New to me, but like the idea. Change our world? In what different ways?
Individual AI, a New Technology that Will Change Our World?
By TechTalks, January 5, 2022
Existing artificial intelligence systems, with all their features…From insideHPC
inside HPC-Hyperion Research Interviews: Catalog’s Dave Turek on the Promise of DNA-based Data Storage and Compute
Dave Turek is one of the venerable names in HPC. Having long served at IBM in senior strategic roles, he has spent decades at supercomputing’s leading edge. In 2020, Turek joined a Cambridge, MA company called Catalog, a venture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Devices and Automation in Supply Chain
Smart Devices and the Supply Chain
Ivanti links smart devices to bring automation to supply chain operations
BY MIKE WHEATLEY in SilicaonAngle
Ivanti Software Inc.’s supply chain business unit, Ivanti Wavelink, said today it’sWith…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Warehouses
Effective management and delivery.
By Jake Widman, Commissioned by CACM Staff, January 4, 2022
Recent trends have presented major challenges to warehouses and distribution centers. According to dataAt…From The Eponymous Pickle
The World Ahead in 2022
A long time connect of mine does a good pointer to useful end of year tech needs, worth allok, great stuff.
From: Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Log4j
More on this from Schneier, note in particular the comments to his site.
Log4j is being exploited by all sorts of attackers, all over the Internet:
At that point it was reported that there were over 100 attempts…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Graph Theory
More ways quantum can invigorate “classical” research Composite crop of src1, src2, src3 Axel Dahlberg, Jonas Helsen, and Stephanie Wehner are researchers from QuTech associated to Delft Technological University. They have produced…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?
Seems like a lot of people are playing Wordle on social media these days. Have you tried it? It’s a word/letter version of old Mastermind game The idea is that you enter a five letter work and the game tells you if you have a…
From insideHPC
WEKA Announces New Venture Funding
CAMPBELL, Calif., — January 4, 2022 — WEKA, maker of a data platform for AI, today announced that Hitachi Ventures led its recent round raising $73 million in funding, which brings the total amount raised to $140 million. Other…
From insideHPC
McGann Named COO/CTO for Quantum Computing Inc.
LEESBURG, Va., Jan. 04, 2022 — Quantum Computing Inc. (the “Company” or “QCI”) (Nasdaq: QUBT) has appointed renowned business and technology leader William J. McGann, Ph.D. as Chief Operating and Technology Officer (COO/CTO) …