Communications of the ACM
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November 2021
From Putting People First
Systemic design toolkit
Free to download systemic design toolkit
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Trick or Treat
Are crazy quantum walks fact or fiction? NOAA src Lesley Smith is a climate researcher at the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. She is also associated to the National Oceanic…
From insideHPC
DOE’s HPC for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Fall Solicitation
Nov. 1, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative will issue a fall 2021 solicitation in November 2021. Here’s more about the HPC4EI initiative. Additional NOI details…
From insideHPC
TACC Deploys Dell HPC System ‘Lonestar6’
Lonestar6, a Dell Technologies HPC system designed and deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, is intended to perform about 3 quadrillion mathematical operations per second…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mixed Reality in China
Considerable piece in the CACM, below the intro.
The Present and Future of Mixed Reality in China in CACM
By Guofeng Zhang, Xiaowei Zhou, Feng Tian, Hongbin Zha, Yongtian Wang, Hujun Bao
Communications of the ACM, November 2021…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Need for Common Sense
Good piece in Wired on the need for 'common sense' reasoning to bring human Intelligence to AI. Even a mention of CYC, and the years of work it has used to include human ideas. But I have not heard any cases where it, or…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Third National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force Meeting and CCC Response to the NAIRR Implementation Plan
The National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force convened its third virtual public meeting to further develop a vision and implementation plan for the NAIRR. Computing Community Consortium (CCC)…
From insideHPC
ML Startup MindsDB Raises $7.6M Seed Funding; Partners with Snowflake, SingleStore and Datastax
San Francisco – November 1, 2021 – MindsDB, the open-source machine learning (ML) startup that brings ML to the database, today announced an investment from Walden Catalyst Ventures, closing out MindsDB’s total seed round to …
From The Noisy Channel
What is Content Understanding?
There’s a lot of writing about search — especially about ranking and relevance. And recently there’s been an increased focus on the particular challenges of query understanding. But, surprisingly, there hasn’t been much discussion…
From BLOG@CACM
Reinforcing Computer Science Education
What do computer science students need to know to be successful in industry?
From insideHPC
2021 HPC Bounceback Hurt by Supply Chain, Pandemic: Intersect360 Research to Hold Nov. 5 Market Forecast Webinar
SUNNYVALE, CA—October 29, 2021— HPC and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research will share the latest updates and information about the worldwide HPC market at its annual pre-Supercomputing webinar Friday, November 5 at…
From insideHPC
Intel, Winning Health and AMAX Jointly Optimize AI-aided Medical System to Empower Smart Healthcare
[Sponsored Post] As one of main application fields, the medical and healthcare industry has a soaring demand for AI technology and is increasing investment in it. To promote “healthcare + AI” and help to build a smart healthcare…
From Putting People First
UK Design Council report on systemic design
"System-Shifting Design: An Evolving Practice Explored" explores what ‘next practice’ around systemic design looks like, and how the design system itself might need to change to allow more designers to do things differently.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Overtakes Apple
Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable U.S. company after stock’s best month since 2015
Apple shares sold off Friday after sales miss, while Microsoft’s stock continued to gain after strong holiday forecast earlier in theRead…