Communications of the ACM
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October 2021
From insideHPC
Join insideHPC at Today’s HPE Exascale Day Broadcast
Exascale Day, today, is a special occasion for HPE, which isn’t surprising considering that the company is the prime contractor for two of the first three exascale systems (Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and El Capitan…
From Computational Complexity
Is MATH Ready for P=NP? Is Alexandra Fahrenthold Ready for P=NP?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adaptive Queueing Systems
Did quite a bit of work in queueing systsems. Even recently saw a presentation by McDonald's on how they address drive-through and the resulting queues/
Mathematicians Create a Model for Queue Organizing with Self-Sustained Servers…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Smart Glasses
Additional experiments with the idea. Will this become common, replacing phones and watches?
TCL unveils Thunderbird Smart Glasses with a full-color transparent micro-LED display
PETER, 15 OCTOBER 2021
There is a renewed push to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Detection of Earthquakes with Machine Learniing
New work in the space using Machine Learning, we had proposed related methods when studying neural models. Here a convolutional neural network.
Researchers Create Earthquake System Model with Better Detection Capabilities in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learning to Walk with an Obstacle Course
Establishing a means for training that matches the elements of the real word.
Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Wired, Will Knight, October 8, 2021
Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich and chipmaker Nvidia…From The Eponymous Pickle
A VR exploration of the Universe
With my background in astronomy I relish the thought. An ideal application given all the data we have gathered. General availability? Will be looking for this.
EPFL News (Switzerland)
Hillary Sanctuary…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 16th 2021)
The thymus is an important component of our immune system. As we age, the thymus degenerates and our immune system becomes less fit: emotional and physical distress, malnutrition, and opportunistic bacterial and viral infections…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT and QCRI Deep Learning Predicts Traffic Accidents
And forecasting generalizes to multiple cities.
Deep Learning Helps Predict Traffic Crashes Before They Happen
MIT News, Rachel Gordon, October 12, 2021
A deep learning model trained on historical traffic crash data, road maps,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Trustworthy AI Blog
IBM Writes on Trustworthy AI in a new Blog:
Financial services: Trustworthy AI’s promise and payoff
IBM, Forrester, UBS, Regions Bank, and State Bank of India show how to build AI responsibly
By Jennifer Clemente
Data: It’s becoming…From insideHPC
Damkroger Said to Be Out as Head of Intel HPC
Word is circulating that Trish Damkroger, vice president and general manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Group, will leave her position and be replaced by Raja Koduri, Intel’s head of Accelerated Computing Systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepfake Voices Fool Human, Smart Assistants
A Concern.
AI-Generated Deepfake Voices Can Fool Humans, Smart Assistants
By New Scientist, October 14, 2021
Freely available voice-mimicking software can deceive people and voice-activated tools like smart assistants, according…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nissan Intelligent Auto Plant
A more intelligent robotic automobile plant at Nissan.
Smart Robots Do All the Work at Nissan's 'Intelligent' Plant
Associated Press, Yuri Kageyama October 8, 2021
Nissan Motor Co. plans to have its "intelligent factory" in Tochigi…From The Eponymous Pickle
LED Display of incoming Data Through Clothing
All the Information You Need Could Be in Your Pocket
University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science (Canada)
October 12, 2021
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science in CanadaFull…From insideHPC
Appentra and Fujitsu in HPC Collaboration
A Coruña, Spain – Oct. 14, 2021 — Fujitsu and Appentra, maker of Parallelware Analyzer to boost the performance of C/C++ code, and Fujitsu have announced a framework collaboration agreement in which both companies will allow …
From The Eponymous Pickle
What makes Quantum Computing so Hard to Understand
Yes, when I first took an advanced physics course I ran into this. Physics is a very strictly well ruled thing, with 'constants' of all sorts. So if you remember them you in a sense have it all. Just plug them in and you…
From Computational Complexity
A Young Person's Game?
When László Babai first announced his graph isomorphism in quasipolynomial time result, I wrote
We think of theory as a young person's game, most of the big breakthroughs coming from researchers early in their careers. Babai is…From The Eponymous Pickle
Electromobility and the German Electric Grid
Having recently been reading about models of the US electrical grid, so made me think of how such mobility will be handled. How much more infrastructure? Learnings for US and elsewhere?
The impact of electromobility on the German…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
Welcome to a new year of ACM-W activity! This promises to be a year of much transition and change on many fronts.
From insideHPC
2 Univ. of Minnesota Professors Win SC21 Test of Time Award
Oct. 13, 2021 — The annual SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) goes to George Karypis and Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota for their paper “Multilevel Algorithms for Multi-Constraint Graph Partitioning”, published in the Proceedings…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Calling a dynamically compiled function from Go
Compiled programming languages are typically much faster than interpreted programming language. Indeed, the compilation step produces “machine code” that is ideally suited for the processor. However, most programming languages…
From insideHPC
Sandia Researcher Drew Kouri Wins Early-Career Research Grant
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Working to solve a problem, supercomputing researchers may encounter incomplete data or flawed programs. For both issues, Sandia researcher Drew Kouri has attracted interest from the broad computing community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GoDaddy Wants to Help Small Businesses Compete Using AI
Interesting idea here, will it be effective?
GoDaddy wants to help small businesses compete using AI by 7wData
GoDaddy may not spring to mind as a developer of cutting-edge AI technology, but the internet company is currently…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Psychology of Panic Buying
Good article here. In Fortune. There might be ways to integrate the notion of control in consumer decision making? Never heard it mentioned in this way.
The psychology of panic buying: why we stockpile pasta, toilet paper…From insideHPC
Kinetica Database Now on Azure
October 12, 2021 – Database company Kinetica is now accessible as a service on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, designed to give organizations real-time contextual analysis and location intelligence on massive data sets with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia Exluded from Ransomware Summit
Is it useful to do this? Hard to say, but I think so, with the carrot being later involvement.
Russia excluded from 30-country meeting to fight ransomware and cyber crime
By Nandita Bose, Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters)…From insideHPC
NXP Semiconductors Selects AWS for EDA
SEATTLE– Oct. 14, 2021 — Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that NXP Semiconductors N.V. has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and is migrating the vast majority of its electronic design automation (EDA) workloads…
From insideHPC
Comparing Price-performance of HPE GreenLake for HPC vs. the Public Cloud
[SPONSORED POST] In this article, Max Alt, Distinguished Technologist and Director, Hybrid HPC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. discusses some recent real-world tests which measured the performance and price-performance of HPC applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Electric Materials
Quantum Electric Materials. Seems novel way to apply superconduction. Technical, with link to paper.
New nanostructure could be the key to quantum electronics by Vienna University of Technology
A novel electronic component from…From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind Makes a Profit
Do we expect a leading edge research lab to make a profit?
AI News
DeepMind sees revenue jump and turns first ever profit By Fin Strathern | October 7, 2021
Categories: DeepMind, Google,
DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI researchThe…