Communications of the ACM
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November 2022
From insideHPC
Pre-proposals for Allocations of National Lab HPC Resources Due Nov. 28
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is now seeking proposals for the 2023-2024 allocation year. Pre-proposals are due by 8 pm (ET) on Monday, November 28, 2022. Open to researchers from
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Asking Questions, Getting Better Answers
Good thought: Note the Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE). Worth thinking about.
AI Is Better at Answering Questions if You Get Another AI to Ask Them
By New Scientist, November 21, 2022
How AIs arrive at their decisions can beAn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect Data
Smart Sensors that store and processes data.
Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect Data
University of Virginia Engineering
Karen Walker, October 11, 2022
The University of Virginia's…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022
The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. The conference was held in Seattle…
From Putting People First
No amount of hype and starry-eyed Metaverse proselytising can escape reality
The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems
From The Eponymous Pickle
3 Ways AI is scaling Helpful Technologies Worldwide
Google Posts AI progress Benefits
Decades of research have led to today’s rapid progress in AI. Today, we’re announcing three new ways people are poised to benefit.
By Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and SVP…From Computational Complexity
A Celebration of Juris
On November 4th I travelled to my undergraduate alma mater Cornell for a Celebration of the Life and Career of Juris Hartmanis who passed away in July. The workshop attracted many Cornell faculty and students, many of Hartmanis'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Supply Chains in Space
Approaching new needs, Supply Chains for Space
SpaceX to launch last new cargo Dragon Spacecraft
by Jeff Foust — November 19, 2022 in SpaceNews
Dragon for CRS-25 mission
A SpaceX cargo Dragon mission being prepared for launch on…From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost, Omni Purpose Robotics
Robust Robotics Solutions
Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any Obstacle
Carnegie Mellon University News
Aaron Aupperle, November 16, 2022
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Berkeley, have enabled…From The Eponymous Pickle
Written by a Robot?
Automating text.
Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?
By The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2022
Theres a good chance that some of what youve read on the Internet was written by robots.
Like other types of…From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken:
The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin used three different types of encryption keys to encrypt files…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Look out the window at the human-made world. It’s full of hard, geometric shapes – our buildings, the roads, our cars. They are made of solid things like tarmac, brick and metal…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Latina Computing Professionals Panel at Tapia 2022!
by Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Brianna Posadas, Wendy Roldan Latina women, historically underrepresented in computing [1], face additional challenges starting their careers. To bring awareness to this issue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Quantum State of the Union
Good status info:
An update on the IBM Quantum mission to bring useful quantum computing to the world, and to make the world quantum safe. Covering remarkable performance breakthroughs driven by software and hardware innovations…From The Eponymous Pickle
UF Planning Invention Awards
From the University of Florida, one of my schools:
Srinivasan and Nawari Awarded 2022 Invention of the Year Award by UF Innovate
More than 200 innovators and entrepreneurs gathered for UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s fifth annual…From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Sourcing Farm of the Future
First I had seen open sourcing in this domain
Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit
Jake Siegel, Oct 6, 2022
FARMINGTON, Wash. – The gently rolling hills here in eastern Washington have long grown rich harvests…From The Eponymous Pickle
Asteroid Hits Earth Shortly After Discovery
With pictures at link. This happens often, but here apparently with a specific prediction.
Asteroid hit Canada hours after discovery
Posted by, Kelly Kizer Whitt, November 19, 2022
Asteroid hit Canada hours after discovery
Astronomers…From The Eponymous Pickle
An Interplanetary File System
Idea is new to me.
Why the Internet Needs the Interplanetary File System
Peer-to-peer file sharing would make the Internet far more efficient
Yiannis Psaris, Jorge Soars, Dav\vd Dia
WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020…From The Eponymous Pickle
New Brain Models
Alternative, competitive models are always good.
A New Brain Model Could Pave the Way for Conscious AI
A new model of the human brain.
A new study presents a new neurocomputational model of the human brain, which might shed light…From Geeking with Greg
Experimentation and metrics
Since the early days of the Web, I've been a fan of A/B testing for promoting innovation and ideas. But A/B testing is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used well or used poorly. A/B testing observes human behavior, which is messy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Law and Moderation Transparency
Happened on the Stanford Cyberlaw Center, and notably Transparency laws. Here an excerpt, which leads to more ... Had not taken a look there for some time. Note the mention and criticism of Facebook's rules. Worth covering…
From Putting People First
Climate change and human behaviour
This Focus of Nature Magazine, a collaboration between Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Climate Change, features a broad range of Review and Opinion content on the role of human behaviour in adaption to climate change and mitigation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost Legged Robotics
Low cost, especially useful for testing out proposed uses, sounds good.
Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any Obstacle
By Carnegie Mellon University News, November 18, 2022
A robotic system designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…From The Eponymous Pickle
Experts Making Complex Decisions
Note also my mention of 'process mining' which can lead to and simplify useful decision making.
How Experts Make Complex Decisions
By studying 200 million chess moves, researchers shed light on what gives players an advantage…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Mines Process
We worked with Microsoft to explore process mining: Was a good idea, Now they are further investing in the idea. See my links on the examination in this blog
Microsoft bought process-mining vendor Minit earlier this year.…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brains
Researchers have new evidence of how squid brains develop:
Researchers from the FAS Center for Systems Biology describe how they used a new live-imaging technique to watch neurons being created in the embryo in almost real-time…From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Users Work Alongside Classical Supercomputers: An Interview with Travis Humble at Oak Ridge Lab
By Katie Elyce Jones, Editor, PillarQ As the high-performance computing (HPC) community looks beyond the brink of Moore’s Law for solutions to accelerate future systems, one technology at the forefront is quantum computing, which…
From Schneier on Security
First Review of A Hacker’s Mind
Kirkus reviews A Hacker’s Mind:
A cybersecurity expert examines how the powerful game whatever system is put before them, leaving it to others to cover the cost.
Schneier, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and author ofData…From The Eponymous Pickle
NSA Urges Shift to Memory Safe Programming Languages
Useful thoughts also mentioned in detail in current 'Security Now'
In MalwareBytes: NSA urges shift to Memory Safe Programming Languages
See here: statement from Defense.gov, Technical
Below Posted: November 12, 2022 by Pieter…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams Gets Improved Sign Language
New accessibility
Microsoft Teams is getting a sign language view in theVerge
The new accessibility feature creates a larger, high-quality view for interpreters and signers separate from other call participants or presentations…