Communications of the ACM
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November 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by Supercomputers
No mention of AI here, just computational speed. Likely in the detail.
Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by Supercomputers
By University of Portsmouth (U.K.)
November 5, 2021
An international team of scientists has used supercomputing…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Money is Hard in Programming
Last week I wrote about the making change for a dollar project. It got me thinking about how hard dealing with money in programming really is. The problem with money is that 1/10 is an infinitely repeating fraction in Binary.If…
From Computational Complexity
Reflections on Trusting ``Trustlessness'' in the era of ``Crypto'' Blockchains (Guest Post)
I trust Evangelos Georgiadis to do a guest post on Trust and Blockchain.
Today we have a guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis on Trust. It was written before Lance's post on trust here but it can be viewed as a followup to it.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Computers learning Morals
Yes, but Whose Morals?
Machines Learn Good From Commonsense Norm Bank New moral reference guide for AI draws from advice columns and ethics message boards CHARLES Q. CHOI03 NOV 2021 in IEEE Spectrum
Artificial intelligence scientists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Goes Tactile
Been surprised by directions Facebook is taking, Giving AI a bad name? In Spectrum IEEE
Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots Durable and affordable fingers and skin could help virtual agents understand…From The Eponymous Pickle
Phases of Analytic Evoloution
Been a while since I looked at KelloggInsight
4 Phases of Analytics Evolution: From Spreadsheets to AI Workbenches
What lies ahead for business leaders looking to incorporate data analytics?
BY Joel K. Shapiro
Many years ago,That…From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Using Gaudi Acceleration
This was brought to my attention some time ago. Here an overview of what Amazon is doing there. Technical. Looking up some notes on gaudi generators, Know of someone doing this now?
Amazon Releases DL1 Instances Powered by…From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Take Bitcoin? .... NO!
Having worked with Kroger was stunned by this earlier today, consider the implications. But no was a hoax. To influence share prices? Walmart had earlier been struck by such a hoax. I have often suggested that when theKroger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Holograms?
Ever since seeing early versions of holographic images ay Disney World have thought of their uses, both in interaction with consumers, and as a means to graphically interact with complex analytic data. In the 90s participated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Some optimistic views but challenges still exist, good overview.
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality, By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, November 2021, Vol. 64 No. 11, Pages 11-13 10.1145/3484988
The march towardYet…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tales of Grace Hopper
Told of my own minor interactions with Grace Hopper at the Pentagon, towards the end of her career, here is more:
Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's a Fun Career By Ann Moffatt
Communications of the ACM, November…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Ways to Make a Dollar
I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I know do use it. Simply pot, how many possible combinations of coins are there that add…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Register for This Year’s Final Departmental BPC Plan Working Session
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 Eponymous Pickle
Example of Key Health IOT
Have become educated in advanced BP measurement lately which led me to note this IOT example. And the need for it. Note this is something in progress, as yet not available.
eBP: An Ear-Worn Device for Frequent and Comfortable…From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of Covid on Automation
Wladowsky-Berger does a good job in covering the topic:
Impact of Covid-19 on Job Automation
“Why are there still so many jobs?,” asked MIT economist David Autor in a 2015 article on the history of workplace automation. Given that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech Careers From TV, Not School
ZDNet, Liam Tung, August 6, 2021
(Note this is about careers, not the tech itself, Assume its better defined the Accenture)
A survey of 1,000 16- to 21-year-olds…From My Biased Coin
HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here. I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access (arxiv version here), but really I…
From insideHPC
SciDAC: DOE Funding $30M Opportunity Using HPC for High Energy Physics Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million for research in computation and simulation techniques and tools “to understand the universe via collaborations that enable effective use of DOE high performance…
From insideHPC
MIT: Forcing ML Models to Avoid Shortcuts (and Use More Data) for Better Predictions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs…
From insideHPC
Nov. 4 Chicago Quantum Summit to Focus on Quantum Ecosystems
CHICAGO — Experts in quantum science and technology from around the globe will gather tomorrow, November 4, both virtually and in person, for the fourth annual Chicago Quantum Summit. The event, hosted by the Chicago Quantum …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual roundtables to initiate discussion on the various areas of interest of CRA-I’s computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Edge Computing and Healthcare
Many applications and emerging possibilities.
How Edge Computing is Transforming Healthcare
By Vanessa Braunstein
When analyzing healthcare and life science data from a distance, bandwidth congestion, network reliability, and latency…From Computational Complexity
A Complexity View of Machine Learning?
Complexity is at its best when it models new technologies so we can study it in a principled way. Quantum computing comes to mind as a good relatively recent example. With machine learning playing an every growing role in computing…
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research
Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, for profit organizations, and other federal…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corporations!
As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts pick the content you need and they deliver it to you. You have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Words vs Images?
Considering Worth
Not Worth a Thousand Words By Bertrand Meyer October 12, 2021
Three minutes into my talk at my first meeting of the IFIP working group on programming methodology (WG2.3), Edsger Dijkstra raised his hand --…From The Eponymous Pickle
Businesses Offerred OpenAI By Microsoft.
Microsoft built an API for its use. Seems it needs some cautions due to liability.
Microsoft is giving businesses access to OpenAI’s powerful AI language model GPT-3
A promising and problematic AI tool
By James Vincent Nov 2,…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Proposal Deadlines: Small Businesses
Proposals for Phase I and Phase II of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s (CISE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)…
From insideHPC
Registration Open for Hyperion Research HPC Market Update Nov. 15 During SC21
Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update (virtual) session, held in conjunction with the SC21 conference. The event will take place Monday, Nov. 15 from 9-10:15 am Central Time (US) and is free…
From insideHPC
IBM and NeuReality in AI Inference Platforms Partnership
Nov. 2, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, said they will develop a high-performance AI inference platforms designed to deliver cost and power consumption improvements for
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