Communications of the ACM
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November 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Challenges in Detecting Dangerous Hidden Asteroids
Been long watching some of the 'Planetary Defense' work being done by NASA, most recently the DART flight and impact. Its been discovered that there are some asteroids hidden behind the glare of our sun. Can we effectively…
From Schneier on Security
NSA on Supply Chain Security
The NSA (together with CISA) has published a long report on supply-chain security: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Suppliers.“:
Prevention is often seen as the responsibility of the software…From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Access Quantum Computer
A means to do early testing?
Quantum Computer QuEra Joins Amazon's Cloud for Public Access By Reuters, November 2, 2022
QuEra Computing's 256-qubit quantum computer and Florian Huber, one of the team of scientists that builtBoston…From insideHPC
Recent Results Show HBM Can Make CPUs the Desired Platform for AI and HPC
Third-party performance benchmarks show CPUs with HBM2e memory now have sufficient memory bandwidth and computational capabilities to match GPU performance on many HPC and AI workloads. By Rob Farber Recent Intel and third-party…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Truck Stop Operator Explores Accommodating Self-Driving Trucks
Move towards supporting new Technology
Truck Stop Operator Explores Accommodating Self-Driving Trucks
U.S. truck stops are starting to get ready for self-driving trucks. The Wall Street Journal reports that truck stop operator…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Watch
New to me:
Quantum watch is a 'completely new way of measuring time'
A quantum stopwatch made of lasers and helium atoms can measure the time that has passed with complete accuracy, without counting seconds like other
PHYSICS…From The Eponymous Pickle
Study; Neural Networks and the Brain
During the early days of neural nets in the 1980s, we brought in a neuroscientist to talk to our group. He emphasized the great difference between the neurons of the brain and the statistical neural nets we were experimenting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Breach
More insecurity emerges.
Samsung Breach Slams Consumers By David Geer, Commissioned by CACM Staff
November 3, 2022
Samsung waited a month to disclose the breach, which one industry observer said "shows that they also believe the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Closer to a Molecular Computer?
And thus very, very small?
The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real
By Wired, November 3, 2022
David Leigh dreams of building a small machine. Really small. Something minuscule. Or more like … molecule. "Chemists…From insideHPC
atNorth Partners with Snerpa Power to Improve Energy Efficiency
Reykjavik, Iceland – 3rd November 2022 – atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider, announced it will partner with Snerpa Power to maximise the energy efficiency of their data centers. Under a new cooperation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Bridge Maintenance Need
Fascinating Application Proposed
Smartphone data from drivers could help spot when bridges need urgent repairs
The system could provide live structural data more cheaply and quickly than existing methods—and help engineers prevent…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Webinar on Becoming a CISE IPA Program Director (Rotator) at NSF
The NSF will be hosting a webinar “Becoming a CISE IPA Program Director (Rotator) at NSF” on November 7th, 2022 from 4:00-5:00 PM EDT. The synopsis is below: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an IPA Program Director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualizing the Sense of Touch
City University of Hong Kong
October 20, 2022
A wearable tactile rendering system developed by researchers at the…From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Launches Amazon Neptune Serverless
Detecting and storing complex data relationships,
AWS Launches Amazon Neptune Serverless
By Jaime Hampton in Datanami
Amazon Web Services has launched a serverless option for its Neptune graph database service used for buildingNeptune…From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Human and Machine Intelligence
Broadly a Good Idea
AI News
Justin Swansburg, DataRobot: On combining human and machine intelligence
By Ryan Daws | October 4, 2022 | TechForge Media
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise, Ethics & Society,
Advancements…From The Eponymous Pickle
New X-Ray Technique Could Help Detect Explosives, Tumors
Update, previously mentioned.
New X-Ray Technique Could Help Detect Explosives, Tumors
By Adrianna Nine on September 15, 2022 at 1:02 pm
A new X-ray technique that combines conventional equipment with a deep-learning algorithmResearchers…From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces New Quantum Hybrid Solver Features
BURNABY, B.C. and PALO ALTO, Calif. – November 3, 2022 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced two updates to its constrained quadratic model (CQM) hybrid solver in the Leap quantum cloud service. The company said the “CQM hybrid…
From insideHPC
Back at Supercomputing with Altair Live in Dallas
As we approach the end of another big year for high-performance computing, our friends over at Altair are excited to return live to the world’s biggest supercomputing event, joining thousands of others at SC22 in the pursuit
…
From Computational Complexity
Should you quit Twitter and Texas?
Generally with some exceptions, I use Facebook for personal stuff, LinkedIn for Illinois Tech stuff and Twitter and this blog for CS stuff. Many of you got to this post through the Twitter link. Now that Elon Musk has boughtI'd…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New UA Local Initiative in Sri Lanka Aims to Accelerate Adoption of Internationalized ccTLDs
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Sri Lanka is a densely populated, ethnically diverse island of 21.7 million people, with two official languages: Sinhala and Tamil. Both inside and outside of Sri Lanka, Sinhala…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A round up of our posts for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022
A round up of our blog posts, published during #BlackHistoryMonth 2022.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
Buying this? No, not in general.
Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
By Vice, November 2, 2022
Though there is already a subset of AI known as Explainable AI (XAI), the general techniques it promotes are oftenRarely…From The Eponymous Pickle
NYPD Joins Ring Neighborhood
Great idea if well managed.
NYPD is joining Ring's neighborhood watch app amid privacy and racial profiling concerns In Engadget
It's one of the largest police departments yet to join Neighbors.
One of the most recognizable…From BLOG@CACM
The Process-Object Duality in Computer Science and Data Science Education
The process-object duality has several educational implications for the design of teaching and learning processes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Aids Ukraine with Cyber
Wars fought increasingly by computational means ...
UK spent £6.4m on secret cyber package for Ukraine
Westminster has revealed for the first time the existence of a previously top-secret security programme that has been helping…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mckinsey: The Path to Next Normal
Not sure I buy this, but an attempt, and then depends so much on WHAT is being done, expected:
Charting the path to the next normal
A daily chart that helps explain a changing world—as we strive for sustainable, inclusive growth…From insideHPC
Kao Data Joins UTC Heathrow’s ‘Digital Futures Programme’
London — 2nd November, 2022 – High performance data center vendor Kao Data has announced it has joined University Technical College (UTC) Heathrow’s Digital Futures Programme to help support and educate the next generation of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Trees Explained
Nicely done, only somewhat technical ... worth understanding, intro below, more at link. Its often very useful to construct a decision tree to understand a process being modelled before going deeper.
Towards Data Science…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
Have seen this in operation locally. Error rate?
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
By The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2022
U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens is deploying robots to fill prescriptions…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hypersonic Weapons
Was asked, definition in congress intro:
Background and Issues for Congress
The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at leastFunding…