Communications of the ACM
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October 2022
From insideHPC
ZettaScale Technology to Show Zenoh and Cyclone DDS Protocols at ROSCon 2022
PARIS, Oct. 13, 2022 — Paris-based ZettaScale Technology will demonstrate its two protocols at ROSCon 2022. The company will showcase Zenoh, which the company said unifies data in motion, data at rest and computations from embedded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA’s Aircraft will Elevate the Hunt for Critical Minerals in the US
Note 'supply chains' to plan for their access and retrieval as needed.
NASA’s aircraft will elevate the hunt for critical minerals in the US
The US is scrambling to build up domestic supply chains for clean energy technologies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Safety Week Event
The concept may make much sense, safety first!
Event by Metaverse Safety Week
Dec 10, 2022, 12:00 PM - Dec 15, 2022, 9:30 PM
Kent Bye and 1,372 other attendees
About
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Works with Meta
Now this does make sense
Microsoft partners with Meta to bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR
The biggest Microsoft and Meta partnership since the Windows Phone days
By TOM WARREN / @tomwarren in The Verge
Oct 11, 2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
UFL Thermal Plume Simulation
Simulations of thermal plumes addressed.
HiPerGator Simulations 'Solve Mother Nature' to Address Real-World Problems
University of Florida News, Eric Hamilton
September 20, 2022
University of Florida (UF) researchers reproduced the…From Computational Complexity
How Not to Pass a Polygraph Test
Many years ago I was asked to serve on an advisory board for an organization that did confidential research. To be on the board I had to have US top secret clearance. The first step was filling out a lengthy form which asked
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Picks 6 QuroQCS Sites for Qauntum Computers
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected six sites across the European Union (EU) to host the first EuroHPC quantum computers: IT4I (Czechia), LRZ (Germany), BSC-CNS (Spain), GENCI-CEA…
From insideHPC
Molex Launches PCIe Cable Connection for Open Compute Project Servers
LISLE, IL – October 12, 2022 – Molex, a global electronics company, has announced its NearStack PCIe Connector System and Cable Assemblies for next-gen servers. Developed in collaboration with members of the Open Compute Project…
From insideHPC
Exascale: ALCF Aurora Early Adopter Series to Hold Oct. 26 Intro to Intel Extensions of Scikit-learn for ML Frameworks
On Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 11 am to noon CT, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Aurora Early Adopter series will hold an online event entitled Intro to Intel Extensions of Scikit-learn to Accelerate Machine Learning
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung and Google Work together with Matter
Interesting direction here for collaborative 'intelligent efforts' efforts
Samsung and Google make it easier to share your smart home with Matter
The two companies are bringing expanded Matter multi-admin capabilities to their…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lab Grown Brain Cells Play Pong
Has this gone too far?
Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong By Pallab Ghosh in the BBC, Science correspondent
Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong,
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Designated as Extremest
In BBC, already seen widely in the news.
Russia confirms Meta's designation as extremist
The Russian authorities have added Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - to a list of terrorist and extremist organisations, the country's…From BLOG@CACM
Reflections on the AI Bill of Rights Blueprint
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights." I reflect on this milestone document in the context of educational systems.
From BLOG@CACM
Fair AI Practices
A new technology, broadly deployed, raises profound questions about its impact on American society.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Computing Architecture
At a school I attended, worth a look. Technical
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Propose a New Computing Architecture Ideal for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By Khushboo Gupta- October 5, 2022
Conventional computing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustainable, Efficient Use Plastics
Use of plastics is a big deal in petroleum use.
Sustainable and efficient innovations for the plastics industry
Press release / October 06, 2022
At the world’s largest trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, 14 Fraunhofer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse in Healthcare
Interesting directions outlined.
3 ways the metaverse will change healthcare in VentureBeat by Taryn Plumb
Dr. Justin Barad recalls times when he or colleagues would do quick Google searches in the middle of a procedure as…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonth
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort versus std::sort
Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare); where compare is a function which returns an integer less than, equal to,Continue…
From insideHPC
AWS Announces GA of EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Model Training
SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are built for high-performance…
From insideHPC
AMD Collaborates with Energy Sciences Network
SANTA CLARA, Calif. 10/11/2022 – Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced its collaboration with the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) on the launch of ESnet6, the newest generation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) high-performance…
From insideHPC
UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI to Acquire NVIDIA-AMD-driven HPC System from HPE
October 11, 2022 — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it is building a supercomputer for Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), which is dedicated to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crypto Declared a Risk
Crypto is Possible Systemic Risk
ACM NEWS
FSOC Warns Crypto is Possible Systemic Risk
By Politico, October 4, 2022
Said U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, “We've seen very significant shocks and volatility within the crypto asset…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Talks Digital Twins
A reasonable simplified introduction
Digital twins: What could they do for your business?
October 3, 2022 | Podcast
By Kimberly Borden and Anna Herlt
Less waste, shorter times to market, constant customer insights: the advantages…From The Eponymous Pickle
Veego: Amazon Shipping
Multi channel shipping.
Amazon wants to make your company's shipping a whole lot cheaper
By Will McCurdy published 1 day ago in TechRadar
Ecommerce businesses can get a free software tool from Amazon
Amazon is set to launch a new…From The Eponymous Pickle
LeCun on True Intelligence from AI
New approaches needed.
Meta's LeCun: Most of Today's AI Approaches Will Never Lead to True Intelligence By ZDNet
"We see a lot of claims as to what should we do to push forward towards human-level AI," LeCun says. "And thereYann…From insideHPC
The Metaverse and the AI-Driven Compute Resources That Will Make It Happen
By Liu Jun, Vice President, Inspur Information and General Manager of AI and HPC Truly understanding the metaverse requires some imagination. The digital world makes so many things possible – from exact digital copies and simulations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Seeks the Last Mile
Does it want it?
Walmart makes a deal to automate and own the last mile by George Anderson
Walmart’s strategy for owning the last mile has come into clearer focus with news that the retailer has acquired the robotics automation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Could Bring 3D Concert Experience Home
New Realism in concerts
DEEP LEARNING COULD BRING THE CONCERT EXPERIENCE HOME in IEEE
The century-old quest for truly realistic sound production is finally paying off
QI “PETER” LIYIN DING JOREL OLAN
OW THAT RECORDED sound has…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
SRI Seminar Series Oct 12: Barbara Grosz, “Fostering responsible computing research”
This Wednesday, Oct 12, from 3:10pmET-4:30pmET, Barbara Grosz is giving a Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) Seminar Series talk. Her talk is titled “Fostering responsible computing research,” and will…