Communications of the ACM
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October 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Molecule Smell
This sounds a bit odd, but we were trying to exactly this some time ago, when were still in the coffee business. Smell, taste, and other sensory aspects of products, in both their blended and growing chaacteristics. And of
Google…
From insideHPC
Geoffrey C. Fox to receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC19
Today ACM/IEEE named Geoffrey C. Fox of Indiana University Bloomington as the recipient of the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. "Fox was cited for foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Developer Conference
I plan to attend the following free, online conference:
Upcoming AI conference
The Digital Developer Conference: AI & Cloud is designed for developers interested in Cloud and AI technologies by addressing the unique needs of coders…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is 5G Ready for IOT?
Makes sense to look at applications in the IOT space.
Is 5G Ready for IoT?
Prashant Gurav - views in Customerthink.
5G has finally arrived but the real question for those looking to hire IOT development services is, Is 5G viable…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: PASC20 in Geneva
The PASC20 conference has issued its Call for Submissions. The event takes place June 29 - July 1, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. "PASC20 is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of competences in scientific…
From insideHPC
Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer coming to HLRS in Germany
Today Cray announced that the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany has selected a new Cray CS-Storm GPU-accelerated supercomputer to advance its computing infrastructure in response…
From insideHPC
Liquid Cooling: Unlock Greater Potential in HPC
Werner Scholz from XENON Systems gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "A decade ago, 100 watts per CPU was devastating to thermal design. Today, Intel’s highest performing CPUs (e.g. Intel Cascade Lake-AP 9282 processor)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Business Productivity with Digital Workers
Like the idea of taking RPA methods are defined closer to the idea of augmenting AI. In our experience this is where applications of AI tech worked best. Links to an interview:
IBM aims to increase business productivity with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploiting Multi-Categorical Features
Had not heard of this in particular, have passed it on.
Exploiting Multi-Categorical Features Using Deep Interest
By Marina Gandlin | Data Science
Tags: algorithms, big data, data, data model, data science, deep learning, machine…
From insideHPC
Getting Smart About Slurm in the Cloud
This timely article from our friends over at Univa takes a look at how often the popular HPC workload manager Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is used in the cloud. In a recent InsideHPC survey sponsored by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Amazon Go
Another example of extending the idea. Mostly in small convenience formats due to costs.
Silicon Valley Takes on a New Amazon Cashierless Store
The Wall Street Journal
By Sebastian Herrera
Amazon recently opened its fourth cashierless…
From Schneier on Security
Mapping Security and Privacy Research across the Decades
This is really interesting: "A Data-Driven Reflection on 36 Years of Security and Privacy Research," by Aniqua Baset and Tamara Denning: Abstract: Meta-research---research about research---allows us, as a community, to examine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Supremacy
Further commentary on Quantum Computing, by the CEO of Microsoft. Not only about the supremacy claim, but also in general about quantum computing and what it will mean in the future.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Everywhere
Missed this part, a good overview of where IBM plans for Watson to be in the Future. They will be a part of an AI Future.
Watson Anywhere: The Future
October 21, 2019 | Written by: Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas, General Manager, IBM Data…
From insideHPC
Google and NASA Achieve Quantum Supremacy
Today Google officially announced that it has achieved a major computing milestone. In partnership with NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the company has demonstrated the ability to compute in seconds what would take even…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Sponsors CES Innovation Pitch Contest
Interesting opportunity to see how a major CPG company reacts to a technology pitch. Considerable detail for participation at the link below.
P&G seeks next big breakthrough via pitch contest
Procter & Gamble Co. intends to again…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Implications of Car Hacking
How much regulation is currently out there? Don't recall signing off on responsibility when buying a car. Implied? See the section on legal precedents. Was unaware of this group within RAND. We had early connections with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Quadropod Robotics
Big questions remain, how will we successfully interact with increasingly powerful and complex robot systems? How do we compare various levels of autonomy to remote controlled robotics? Inspection is good place to start, having…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Pushes Back on Quantum Supremacy
In a largely technical piece in the IBM Research blog. IBM pushes back on claims of 'quantum supremacy' by Google in some of their recent tests. This basically makes the case that context of how the problem and solution
On…
From insideHPC
TYAN GPU Servers with NVIDIA EGX Bring AI to the Edge
Today TYAN announced support for the new NVIDIA EGX platform on TYAN’s NGC-Ready Thunder SX TN76-B7102 server, providing AI computing for the edge networks. "AI has transformed every industry by enabling more accurate decisions…
From insideHPC
Check out the ClusterVisor HPC Management Tool at SC19
Advanced Clustering Technologies will unveil ClusterVisor, the company's new HPC cluster management tool, at SC19. ClusterVisor enables you to easily deploy your HPC cluster and manage everything from the hardware and operating…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Univa Speeds CFD with SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team
In a sport that hangs in the complex balance of speed, aerodynamics and the ever-present data, SportPesa Racing Point deserves the best from its computation, which is capped at 25 teraflops. For SportPesa Racing Point, the best…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tele Operating Trucks
Are we expecting this change too quickly?
A big rig just hit 55 mph on a Florida highway without anyone in the cab By Trevor Mogg
If you were driving along the Florida Turnpike recently and happened to see a big rig motoring…
From insideHPC
New SC Theater at SC19 to Showcase Data-Driven Scientific Applications
SC19 will feature a new SC Theater on the exhibit floor this year. The SC Theater will showcase live presentations that advance modern data-driven scientific applications. "The SC Theater, with seating for 20 and standing room…
From insideHPC
Video: InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap
Rich Graham from Mellanox gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "In-Network Computing transforms the data center interconnect to become a "distributed CPU", and "distributed memory", enables to overcome performance barriers…
From Schneier on Security
NordVPN Breached
There was a successful attack against NordVPN: Based on the command log, another of the leaked secret keys appeared to secure a private certificate authority that NordVPN used to issue digital certificates. Those certificates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sports Highlight Video Creation
Join our talk on the creation of the IBM sports highlights Videos:
Talk by:Stephen Hammer, Sports CTO, IBM Distinguished Engineer
#CTO & #IBMDistinguishedEngineer Oct 24 8:30am US Eastern - "Sports Summary Highlight Videos using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retagging
Retagging
This blog contains topic tags at the end of each post. I use these to connect topics and posts for my own research and consulting. These tags do evolve. Names change, new ideas emerge, some topics split up, old…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Collaborating with Humans
Good piece from BAIR: Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research. Note the use of games to establish, demonstrate and experiment with collaborative interactions. YES, there must be a level of appropriate contextual understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G: An Inkjet Printer for your Skin
My former employer came out roaring on the stock market today. See here in Reuters. P&G raises full-year forecast after beauty, healthcare brands drive profit beat ....
And also came out with what seems to be a really innovative…