Communications of the ACM
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November 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Turns Six
Hard to imagine it, Voicebot.ai reports on the birthday and the future of voice assistance. A big step forward, but what are the other steps we need?
Amazon Echo and Alexa Turn Six, Try to Prepare for Everything
By ERIC HALSix…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyborg Cockroaches
Remain interested in small and very small robotic devices. And cooperating swarms. They don't need to be scarythough.
A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives in Your House
Japanese researchers say turning cockroaches into…From The Eponymous Pickle
Continued Rise of Home Assistant Devices
My array of devices and their use continues to rise, despite the less that 'Smartness' still in evidence.
Transactions With Voice Assistants on Smart Home Devices Will Hit $164B in 2025: Report
Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot…From insideHPC
Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures in the Zettabyte Era
SAN JOSE – Nov 9, 2020 Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a suite of new NVMe SSDs for enabling next-generation, data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. The …
From Schneier on Security
2020 Was a Secure Election
Over at Lawfare: “2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).”
What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals and analysts who monitor election administration were…From insideHPC
PSSC Labs Named Nvidia Preferred Solution Partner
Lake Forest, CA, Nov. 10, 2020 – PSSC Labs, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, today announced that Nvidia, inventor and leading provider of GPUs for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Help Save Forests
Our own work with managing forests in Canada also address problems like forest fires. While at the same time we wanted to maximize harvest and conservation. Note the strong data based approach.
The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast from Recorded Future on Trickbot
Been following the security implications. Here a podcast by former security connections at Recorded Future on the topic:
Trickbot is Down But Not Out By Caitlin Mattingly
On today’s podcast episode we welcome back Recorded…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and ReStocking
Despite the recent news that Wal-Mart was backing out of this for now, here is a link to get an eBook from Braincorp that discusses the robotics approach ...
How Robots Solve Retail’s Restocking Challenge
An Introduction to Autonomous…From insideHPC
Dell Launches Ready Solutions and HPC Cloud Collaborations for AI, Life Sciences, Manufacturing
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) announces new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and high-performance computing (HPC) cloud service provider collaborations to accelerate AI and advanced computing innovation in healthcare, life sciences and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Quasi Textiles
Had not heard of this before ... had examined how 'smart' fabrics would need to be maintained. Intriguing direction. Quasi textiles.
Leveraging a 3D Printer 'Defect' to Create a Quasi-Textile
MIT News By Becky Ham
A graduate…From insideHPC
AI Workflow Scalability through Expansion
In this special guest feature, Tim Miller, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems (OSS), suggests that for AI inferencing platforms, the data must be processed in real time to make the split-second decisions…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment – Part 2
In this white paper sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a look at AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment where an increasing demand for digital media content creates need for faster rendering options. The…
From insideHPC
Projects Picked for Gauss Centre’s Hawk and JUWELS HPC Systems in the 24th Large-Scale Call
Berlin – The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) Scientific Steering Committee just approved 16 new scientifically demanding simulation projects during its 24th call for large-scale projects. Representing scientific disciplines…
From insideHPC
SoftIron Joins iRODS Consortium; Certifies HyperDrive Compatibility with iRODS Architecture
London – (November 9, 2020) – SoftIron Ltd., a maker of task-specific data center solutions, today announced it has joined the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) Consortium, which supports the development of free open…
From insideHPC
Argonne to Share Scientific HPC Advances at SC20
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory will share their latest advances in high performance computing (HPC) at SC20, held virtually Nov. 9–19, 2020. More than 90 Argonne researchers will contribute to conference activities…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Benchmarking theorem provers for programming tasks: yices vs. z3
One neat family of tools that most programmers should know about are “theorem provers”. If you went to college in computer science, you may have been exposed to them… but you may not think of using them when programming. Though…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Doing Autonomous Acrobatics
Algorithm Enables Quadcopters to Perform Acrobatic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones use Darts to Create Networks
At first I thought the idea was to sense the state of forestry plantations. But no, it was for setting up apparently temporary networks to share sensor data. So the word 'attacks' is wrong in the sense that it is very misleading…
From Computational Complexity
Random Thoughts on the Election (2020)
1) Biden will be the oldest president (measuring by when they take the oath of office), at 78. The next two are Trump 70 and Reagan 69. Biden will be older entering office then Reagan was leaving office.
After Biden, Trump, Reagan…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Deep Learning can Learn from Software Engineering
I attended the following ACM webcast last week, now available, very useful thoughts:
,,, Thank you for attending It's Time Deep Learning Learned from Software Engineering. This webcast is now on-demand, should you like toUse…From BLOG@CACM
Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of AI Report
An investors eye view:
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report…From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Intrusion Detection
First I have seen such a capability offered. Worth a look to see about following:
World's Fastest Open-Source Intrusion Detection Is Here
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute by Daniel Tkacik
Researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Free CERN Quantum Lectures and Course
Looks to be of interest, in particular includes D-Wave (who we connected with early on) and IBM implementations. Been asked to drop in on this and comment on its executive relevance. Would anyone else like to comment?
What's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dubber in the IBM Voice Cloud for Conversation Value
Ultimately voice is data, and that data needs to be converted into intelligence to create useful conversations of value. With logic, learning and AI. To create application solutions like sales, assistance, reporting, control…
From insideHPC
Curating, Discovering and Disseminating HPC Research Elements Using iRODS
Data librarians currently manage far bigger data libraries and policy decisions regarding retention, quotas, file system performance, etc. require the consensus of those tasked with this challenge of curation. Decisions also
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From insideHPC
ColdQuanta Raises $32M in Series A Funding
Boulder, Colorado – November 5, 2020 – ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, today announced it has raised $32M in Series A funding, with additional funding expected to close soon. The round was co-led by Global Frontier Investments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Heavy Machinery
Again, a means of creating a 'digital twin', or simulation, to prototype, operate in context or design some 'thing'. Here the object is heavy machinery. But could also be a combination of machinery and process and usage context…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Papers: Broad Computer Science
As part of the rollout of the 2020 Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the second group of papers around “Broad Computer Science,” including…