Communications of the ACM
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November 2022
From Putting People First
[Book] The Human Side of Innovation
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PepsiCo’s award-winning chief design officer reveals the secret to creating life-changing innovations: putting human needs at the center of any design process.
From Putting People First
2022 HAI Fall Conference on AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge
At the "AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge" conference, which took place Nov. 15 at Stanford University, panelists proposed a new definition of human-centered AI – one that emphasizes the need for systems that improve human life…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the Chip Sandwich
Chip Sandwiches improve Data Transmission
Chip Sandwich Pushes Boundaries of Computing, Data Transmission Efficiency By California Institute of Technology, November 22, 2022
An electronics chip (the smaller chip on the top) integrated…From The Eponymous Pickle
Energy Harvesting from 5G
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morning Coffee Tech
An Area I worked in, some details here, will dig somewhat deeped
Morning Coffee Tech By Luana Ferreira in the BBC Business reporter, Brazil
For an estimated one billion people around the world drinking coffee is a daily regime…From Schneier on Security
The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
Nothing beats a dog’s nose for detecting explosives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough dogs:
Last month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a nearly 100-page report about working dogs and the need for federal…From Geeking with Greg
Quoted in the Washington Post
I'm quoted in the Washington Post today in an article titled "It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse." I'm talking about how Amazon used to help (but no longer) for finding and discovering what you want…
From insideHPC
Relief for the Solution Architect: Pushing Back on HPC Cluster Complexity with Warewulf and Apptainer
[SPONSORED CONTENT] How did you, at heart and by training a research scientist, financial analyst or product design engineer doing multi-physics CAE, how did you end up as a… systems administrator? You set out to be one thing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Metaverse, Useful thoughts?
From insideHPC
Argonne Researchers: Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools Could Be Game Changer for HPC Memory Technology
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are investigating the possibility that tiny magnetic whirlpools called “skyrmions,” which are magnetic vortices as tiny as billionths of a meter,…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is the size of a byte[] array in Java?
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Java allows you to create an array just big enough to contain 4 bytes, like so: byte[] array = new byte[4]; How much memory does this array take? If you have answered “4 bytes”, you are wrong. A more likely answer is 24 bytes…
From insideHPC
QCI Launches Free Software to Run 10,000-Variable Quantum Computing Problems
LEESBURG, Va., November 22, 2022 – Quantum solutions company Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT) today announced the release of free software that will enable D-Wave customers to rapidly translate quadratic unconstrained…
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL and Classiq Partner on Quantum Algorithm Development
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, November 21, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a quantum control infrastructure software company, and quantum algorithm development software company Classiq have announced a partnership intended to provide an end-to-end platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Hackers Mind: First Review
Plan to read this, the topic is very important for anyone in the field. I continue to follow.
First Review of A Hacker’s Mind
Kirkus reviews A Hacker’s Mind:
A cybersecurity expert examines how the powerful game whatever system…From The Eponymous Pickle
Edible Drones
Narrow and novel application here.
ACM NEWS
Stranded Without Food? Edible Drone Has Snackable Wings By CNET, November 17, 2022
The wings of this drone are nutritious and, depending on what you think about rice cakes, delicious…From Putting People First
Social science research for a French home improvement retailer
Leroy Merlin is a French-headquartered home improvement and gardening retailer. Its Leroy Merlin Source (LMS) platform aims to create and share original knowledge on new ways of living and inhabiting spaces by expert researchers…
From insideHPC
Earth Wind & Power to Offtake up to 400MW of Offshore Power in Northern Europe for Data Centers
Nov. 22, 2022 — Earth Wind & Power (EWP), a leading innovator in creating a sustainable bridge between excess energy and the exponentially growing demand for green computing power, has announced the planned offtake of excess
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From Schneier on Security
Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
Researchers claim that supposedly anonymous device analytics information can identify users:
On Twitter, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry have found that Apple’s device analytics data includes an iCloud account…From The Eponymous Pickle
And More Skin, Now for Health Monitoring
Argonne at work.
Skin-Like Electronics Could Monitor Health Continuously
Argonne National Laboratory
Joseph E. Harmon, November 16, 2022
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Classic Difficult Problem for Robotic AI
If only, we saw an early demo of this.
Robots that Can Feel Cloth Layers May One Day Help with Laundry
By Stacey Federoff, Carnegie Mellon,
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) can help robots…From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics?
A possibility.
Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics? in NewScientist
Algorithms can pore over astrophysical data to identify underlying equations. Now, physicists are trying to figure out how to imbue these “machine theorists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Based Dynamic Virtual Prototyping
Simulation aided by selective AI
Simulation-based and highly dynamic: virtual prototyping
Press release / November 09, 2022
The things that amaze us in everyday life, such as when our cars take control of the parking process,The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Re Ambient Computing
Anytime, anywhere, data and computation delivered.
Why the Future of the Computer Is Everywhere, All the Time
By The Wall Street Journal
October 31, 2022
In the ambient world, the technology is all around us, unseeable and untouchable…From The Noisy Channel
What is Not Search?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After all, doesn’t a problem imply a search for a solution?
But seriously…From Putting People First
To understand uses of personal data in the present, people draw on the past and imagine the future
The collection and analysis of data about us now occurs across many aspects of everyday life, but how do people come to understand these complex processes? Drawing on Living With Data research, Susan Oman, Hannah Ditchfield and…
From Putting People First
Interviews in the social sciences – A Nature Reviews Method Primer
In this Nature Reviews Method Primer, Eleanor Knott, Aliya Hamid Rao, Kate Summers & Chana Teeger off the London School of Economics focus on the stages and challenges of designing and conducting an interview project and analysing…
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in data centers
Data centers are destroying the natural world, writes anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in Wired. But is the cloud an inherently unsustainable paradigm? He foresees three possible pathways for remaking the cloud into…
From Putting People First
Nielsen Norman Group on the usability of AR
AR features in mobile apps are plagued by usability issues such as poor discoverability and findability of items with AR, low-visibility instructions, or vague icons and signifiers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Failing?
How true re Alexa? Had heard of the layoffs.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
By Ron Amadeo 11/21/2022 7:32 pm Categories:Tech in ArsTechnica
Amazon is going through the biggest…From insideHPC
Get Ready for Ronnascale Supercomputing – and Quettascale Data Volumes
Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 1018, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers already in the wind, the General Conference on Weights and
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