Communications of the ACM
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November 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Model Transferability in Healthcare
Key issues of how AI models make predictions in healthcare domains.
ACM OPINION
AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
By Nature Machine Intelligence, October 24, 2022
Doctor using a tablet to examine…From The Eponymous Pickle
Anyone can Build Omniverse Applications?
Though still a skeptic of the current Omniverse, I admit that NVIDIA being involved can make it move.
Anyone Can Build Metaverse Applications With New Beta Release of NVIDIA Omniverse
By Frank DeLise
Digital Twin & Metaverse…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unpiloted Military Helicopter
More autonomous devices.
Unpiloted Military Helicopter Flies 134 km in Simulated Mission
By New Scientist, November 7, 2022
A Black Hawk helicopter flying autonomously.
The helicopter flew as low as 60 meters above the ground at…From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Future Ready
Thoughts from Forrester, thoughts on future readiness,
Being Future Ready: From Security Awareness & Training To Adaptive Human Protection
Jinan Budge, VP, Principal Analyst in Forrester, NOV 8 2022
In October 2022, Forrester…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Control of a Six-Qubit Quantum Processor in Silicon
Advances in silicon spin .....
Advanced Control of a Six-Qubit Quantum Processor in Silicon
By QuTech, October 7, 2022
The research shows that it's possible to increase the silicon spin qubit count while keeping the same precision…From Schneier on Security
Using Wi-FI to See through Walls
This technique measures device response time to determine distance:
The scientists tested the exploit by modifying an off-the-shelf drone to create a flying scanning device, the Wi-Peep. The robotic aircraft sends several messages…From The Eponymous Pickle
Precise Finger Tracking
Fascinating and considerable piece. Had experimented with a much simpler proposed method of interacting with packaging materials.
AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking By Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire,Communications…From Computational Complexity
Euclidean TSP is NP-hard but not known to be in NP. Why not known?
BILL: Lance, I was looking into TSP, metric TSP, Euclidean TSP since I am going to teach about P, NP, NPC, and approximating NPC problems and I came across the following from Lipton's book The P=NP Question and Godel's Letter…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm for 2D-to-3D Engineering Integrates Art, Nature, Science
Interesting, How does this integrate these?
Algorithm for 2D-to-3D Engineering Integrates Art, Nature, Science
Penn Engineering Today
Devorah Fischler, October 31, 2022
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering…From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us to 'Ignore' Web3
Too vague? Also a hit on Blockchain as "too slow, too expensive, and too public.".
Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us to 'Ignore' Web3
CNBC News, Ryan Browne, November 4, 2022
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Face Masks?
Nice idea if usefully effective and accurate.
Smart Mask Tracks Respiratory Sounds for Disease Identification
City University of Hong Kong
November 2, 2022
A smart face mask developed by researchers at the City University of Hong…From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulating Bossware
Had not seen this term for some time, but it is real. Can be more powerful now. Gvt regulation?
ACM NEWS
U.S. Government to Crack Down on "Bossware" That Spies On Employees' Computers
By Futurism, November 7, 2022
The use and abuse…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Dog and AI Research
Robotics of this types create excitement about the possibilities.
Robot Dog Contributes to AI Research
By Government Technology, November 3, 2022
The University of Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently acquired…From Schneier on Security
The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. He was convicted of crimes related to covering up a cyberattack against Uber. It’s a complicated case, and I’m not convinced that he deserved…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem ^JB
Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reproducibility
For further discussion of the issue see here.
Researchers Have a Fix for Reproducibility Crisis in Science
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, By Julian Cohen, Nov 3, 2022
University of Southern California (USC) researchers have…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Killing Cockroaches
Robotic Insecticide
Robotic Laser Can Target, Kill Cockroaches
By New Scientist, October 27, 2022
The device is equipped with a laser, two cameras, and a small computer running an AI model that can be trained to target certain types…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Explainers
McKinsey & Company
A tablet and phone displaying the Mckinsey explainers
You have questions. We have the answers.
What is the future of work? How does inflation affect pricing? What is the metaverse?
With McKinsey Explainers,For…From The Eponymous Pickle
Freight Rail as a Key Supply Chain Component
Brought to my attention. Am currently working a related project. By the Association of American Railroads (AAR) An industry group, not representing Rail Unions.
Freight Railroads: A 24/7 Link in the U.S. Supply Chain By…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Securement
Short Excerpt of exec summary. Key issues
Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Developers ii
Executive Summary From CISA.GOV
Cyberattacks are conducted via cyberspace and target an enterprise’s use of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lack of Oubreak Data
Key here is how do we predatively know what data to gather.
ACM NEWS
'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks
By The New York Times
September 21, 2022
After a middle-aged woman tested positive for Covid-19 in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Right to Repair?
Expected perhaps, but quite complex in planning.
An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
By Pamela Samuelson
Communications of the ACM, November 2022, Vol. 65 No. 11, Pages 22-25 10.1145/3563966
In the not too distant…From The Eponymous Pickle
Billions Spent in a Metaverse Land Grab
Too soon and easily as strange as Second Life, where we examined participating in retail. Still very speculative, but the 'prices' for participation are cheap. Yet that participation will cost you much in experimentation.
Billions…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson AI Patent Assistant
Mentioned earlier, examining.
IBM Watson Demos AI Patent Assistant
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on October 31, 2022 at 4:00 pm in Voicebot.ai
IBM and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are testing a new AI tool for exploring and…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Releases DALL-E 2 API for Developers
More from OpenAI
OpenAI Releases DALL-E 2 API for Developers
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on November 3, 2022 at 2:00 pm in Voicebot.ai
OpenAI has released an API of its text-to-image engine DALL-E 2 as a public beta. Developers can nowDALL…From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Leverages Data for Success Prediction
The Linkedin data begs for such studies to be done, should they be?
LinkedIn ran undisclosed social experiments on 20 million users for years to study job success
By USA Today, September 28, 2022
A new study analyzing the dataResearchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse and Brands
Something we examined in 'Second Life'
Shaping your brand identity in the metaverse in VentureBeat
How does a brand have identity in a “metaverse” that doesn’t yet exist?
As we forge ahead with shaping a collective concept of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous Cars
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ACM TECHNEWS
Researchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous Cars
By Interesting Engineering
November 2, 2022
Researchers at the University of Florida, the UniversityThe…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture
In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland. It’s the largest giant squid ever recorded—although scientists now think that the size was an exaggeration or the result of postmortem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Pruning Can Skew Deep Learning Models
Making Better Models
Network Pruning Can Skew Deep Learning Models
North Carolina State University News
Matt Shipman, November 2, 2022
Computer science researchers at North Carolina State (NC State), Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon…