Communications of the ACM
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November 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trojan Source Code
Technical notes for a new security discovery:
In a long ago employment we needed to do encoding that required us to remove some text from stored data, and we discovered a way to do that using specialized unicode encoding. Mostly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytical Gaming for Coast Guard
Interesting example intro of using gaming
Analytical Gaming Could Help the U.S. Coast Guard Address Key Challenges
COMMENTARY
(RealClearDefense) by Scott Savitz and Abbie Tingstad from RAND
November 8, 2021
Wargames can provideA…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming BPC Plan Working Session Date Change
The BPCnet Resource Portal is an initiative by the Computing Research Association with support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). CISE is committed…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD 30th Anniversary Commemoration
Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 12pm EST for a special virtual event marking the 30th anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. For three decades, the NITRD program…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Cultural and Process Improvements with AI
Seeking Truth from Data, Interesting thoughts.
Managing Cultural and Process Improvements with AI
Published on November 9, 2021. Sam Ransbotham
Professor at Boston College; AI Editor at MIT Sloan Management Review; Host of "Me,For…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Bridges
Quite remarkable thought
3D-Printed Bridges Promise Smarter, Greener Transit Links
The Wall Street Journal. Daniel Michaels. November 3, 2021
Three-dimensionally (3D)-printed bridges have been erected in the Netherlands, China,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pamela McCorDuck Dies
We met with and used some of her books in training exercises in the early days of AI:
Pamela McCorduck, Historian of AI, Dies at 80
The New York Times, Richard Sandomir, November 4, 2021
Pamela McCorduck, who authored a history…From BLOG@CACM
Hybrid Models for Legacy Modernization in Digital Transformation Programs
There is now a greater need to move away from legacy technologies than ever before.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Streaming Data
What is a Streaming Data In Venturebeat By Peter Wayner ....
Well joined the team a long time ago, so had to pause here at the question, could imagine what it meant, despite having worked with many. But OK ...a stream"…From insideHPC
IBM Cloud Selects AMD EPYCs for Compute-Intensive Workloads
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nov. 10, 2021 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that IBM Cloud has chosen 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors to expand its bare metal service offerings designed to power customers’ demanding workloads and solutions…
From insideHPC
HPE to Build Weather Supercomputer for Denmark, Iceland, Ireland and The Netherlands
Building on its UK Met Office win, one of the largest supercomputer deals of the past year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced that it is building a supercomputer for the United Weather Centres – West (UWC-West), a collaboration…
From insideHPC
Argonne Selects Altair Workload Manager for Polaris, Aurora
Simulation software company Altair has announced that Argonne National Laboratory will utilize Altair PBS Professional workload manager across the organization’s HPC systems at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Network Representations
Interesting, technical. See link for useful supporting visuals.
How should we compare neural network representations?
Frances Ding and Jacob Steinhardt Nov 8, 2021 Berkeley
Cross-posted from Bounded Regret.
To understandFigure…From insideHPC
Azure: HBv3 VMs for HPC up to 80% Faster with AMD Milan-X CPUs
Microsoft Azure has announced that a preview is now live for Azure HBv3 virtual machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X.” The processors significantly improve the performance, scaling…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP RFI – Public and Private Sector Uses of Biometric Technologies
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) put out a Request for Information (RFI) on uses of biometric technologies in the public and private sector. Concerns are growing with the increasing number of applications and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Robots with Evolution
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A Novel Way to Optimize Robots
By The Economist November 3, 2021
It might sound obvious that if you want to improve a robot's software, you should improve its software…From The Noisy Channel
Content Classification
The most fundamental form of holistic content understanding is classification. Content classification maps a piece of content — that is, an entry in the search index — to one or more elements of a predefined set of categories…
From insideHPC
Inspur and Samsung Announce Joint Open Storage Solution for OCP
SAN JOSE, November 9, 2021 – At this week’s OCP Global Summit in San Jose Inspur and Samsung will jointly launch the Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system. This product adopted composable architecture to maximize the benefits of…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Adds to Portfolio of Edge-to-Cloud AI Systems
San Jose, November 9, 2021 – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces the enhancement of its portfolio of artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
Noogata Launches AI Location Analytics Library for Bricks & Mortar Insights
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV — November 9, 2021 — Noogata, a no-code artificial intelligence (AI) data analytics for enterprises company, today announced the launch of its location analytics library. Building on the success of its existing…
From insideHPC
BMW Group and AWS Pick QCI Qatalyst as Finalist in Quantum Computing Challenge
LEESBURG, Va., Nov. 9, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT), whose mission is to brige the power of classical and quantum computing, announced that its Qatalyst quantum software was selected as one of three finalists …
From insideHPC
Samsung Claims First 14nm, 16Gb DRAM
SEOUL, Korea – Nov. 9, 2021 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today said it has launched the industry’s first 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM, designed to drive further growth…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Artificial Intelligence Historian
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down—Whitney Brown CMU tribute Pamela McCorduck passed away last month. The New York Times obituary notes her interactions with many builders of the field of Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Now Doing Driverless Delivery
My connections say that qualified drivers are very hard to get. Which may push driverless adoption hard. Wal-Mart use will also likely push the industry's use.
Gatik’s self-driving trucks are now making driverless deliveries in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Attacked Infrastructure
Appears to be the first infrastructure targeting drone attack reported. Expect more.
Drone at Pennsylvania Electric Substation First to 'Specifically Target Energy Infrastructure'
CNN, Sean Lyngaas, November 4, 2021
A recent memo…From The Eponymous Pickle
Banking Malware Threats
Banking malware threats surging as mobile banking increases – Nokia Threat Intelligence Report
Press Release Banking malware threats surging as mobile banking increases – Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 8 November 2021 Espoo,…From insideHPC
AMD Announces 4.9x HPC and AI Jump from Instinct MI200 Multi-die GPU
Continuing its long and impressive march back to prominence in data center and HPC-AI chips, AMD this morning announced the new Instinct MI200 GPU series, labeled by the company as “the first exascale-class GPU accelerators.”…
From BLOG@CACM
Patent Protection in Europe
Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed.
From BLOG@CACM
Safe AI in Education Needs You
Artificial intelligence is coming to your learners and will raise challenging issues that need experts like you. Learn how you can get involved in AI and Educational Policy.
From My Biased Coin
Postdoc call for FODSI
As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for data science), I'm self-interestedly posting the call for postdocs for this year. Two…