Communications of the ACM
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December 2018
From insideHPC
Video: Summit Early Science Video Series: Imaging the Earth’s Interior
In this video, Jeroen Tromp from Princeton University describes how GPUs power 3D wave simulations that help researchers better understand the earth's interior. The Department of Geosciences at Princeton University is using Summit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Process Automation
Based On CIO Magazine on RPA- Robotic Process Automation ..
Astute colleague Walter Riker writes: ... Robotic Process Automation – not exciting but causes one to think about processes and how fast they can be automated. It…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard Caselaw Access Project
Taking a deeper dive into the details of this, and notably who is looking at related predictive analytics that might be applied.
Project: Caselaw Access Project
Where can I find Caselaw Access Project?
What does Caselaw Access
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing CVV Code for Credit Cards
The chip cards have been less successful than had been expected, the changing CVV codes may make it harder to fraudulently buy online. Good discussion of further direction of card security
Pilot project demos credit cards with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Productivity and Self
How might this kind of process flow be applied to assistants? At very least a means for tracking progress.
Are You Productive Enough? in the HBR by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Virtual and Augmented World Training
Training still a good application
Virtual Training for Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck Crews
Office of Naval Research
Bobby Cummings
A collaborative effort between the U.S. Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) TechSolutions
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From Schneier on Security
Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Relied on BGP Hijacking
This is a really interesting story of an ad fraud scheme that relied on hijacking the Border Gateway Protocol: Members of 3ve (pronounced "eve") used their large reservoir of trusted IP addresses to conceal a fraud that otherwise…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM Great Results
A Puck-ish take on promised technological advances Wikimedia Commons source Knecht Ruprecht accompanies Santa Claus in Germany. He brings gifts to good children but lumps of coal to naughty ones. He is regarded more generally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Still Innovative
Clear they still have a lot behind the scenes. Need to work on some new things outside what they are known for delivery in now.
Is Apple Losing Its Innovation Edge?
Consumers have greeted Apple’s latest slate of iPhones, computers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions are the Answer
Have always believed in the premise of this book. Leaders .... students .... citizens .... everyone should ask more questions.
Q&A: Why business leaders should — yes — ask questions
MIT Sloan’s Hal Gregersen talks about his
By…
From insideHPC
Why InfiniBand rules the roost in the TOP500
In this special guest feature, Bill Lee from the InfiniBand Trade Association writes that the new TOP500 list has a lot to say about how interconnects matter for the world's most powerful supercomputers. "Once again, the List…
From insideHPC
Video: Will Persistent Memory solve your Performance Problems?
In this video, Thomas Wilhelm shows software developers how they can optimize their application in order to identify if they can benefit from Persistent memory. "Persistent memory is adding a completely novel memory tier to the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain for Consumer Goods
Seems a weak connection, but the case is well made its all about having records with trust and transparency:
5 Reasons Why Blockchain Will Be a Boon for Consumer Goods By Vaijayanth M.K., of Accenture
Distributed-ledger technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Awkwardness of Voice
I now have been testing the voice in home, in various forms, from three providers, since its common inception for over three years. Most do not consider it creepy. Despite the advances, can still be awkward. But then so can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Holography for Video Projection
On to videos. The future of ads to be videos floating in our spaces? Saw demos of this at conferences, but none were practical in general. Augmented reality (AR) addresses a similar idea.
A Big Step Toward the Practical Application…
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Nativity Displays
The New York Times is reporting on the security measures people are using to protect nativity displays....
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Senior Science Advisor and Platforms Architect at NeSI in New Zealand
NeSI / NIWA are seeking an HPC Senior Science Advisor and Platforms Architect to work nationally with scientific communities gathering their High Performance Computing & Data Science (HPC&DS) needs, and to provide strategic advice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Sees Online Dominating
Retail continues to surge online ...
Nike sees online eclipsing offline sales by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with further expert comment.
The standard defense to the “Retail Apocalypse” is research showing that online sales still
On…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foresight Institute
Foresight Institute
An excellent research group we have connected with for over 30 years. We initially linked due to our interest in nanotechnology for manufacturing. Follow them.
https://foresight.org/
Today covering roughly,…
From insideHPC
Book Review: The Model Thinker – A new way to look at Data Analysis
In this special guest feature, Carol Wells reviews the new book by Scott E. Page entitled The Model Thinker. "A hands-on reference for the working data scientist, 'The Model Thinker' challenges us to consider that the historical…
From insideHPC
Video: A Glimpse into the Future of I/O
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC18, Sven Oehme from DDN presents: A Glimpse into the Future of I/O. "IME is DDN’s scale-out flash cache that is designed to accelerate applications beyond the capabilities of today’s…
From BLOG@CACM
Computer Science Relies on the Opposite of Godel's Results
The first-order theories of Gödel's results necessarily leave mathematical objects ill-defined.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Shopping Triples
Even contributing to some outages this weekend in Europe. Will voice be more important than we think? The integration of 'skills' to curate selection in new ways?
Amazon Says Alexa Voice Shopping Tripled During 2018 Holiday…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft AI pushes the Gartner Report
Order it up at the link. I have. I assume because its praising Microsoft's Azure AI. But likely quite interesting. Like the intro description. Comments, is this useful to use with clients who are just entering the space…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catching Up with AI Development
Interesting view, personally think the catch up will be provided eventually by more automated AI systems. I also like the mentioned of the 'knowledge systems' of times past, ultimately a complete AI systems will need them
Why…
From Computational Complexity
Ker-I Ko (1950-2018)
From Schneier on Security
Human Rights by Design
Good essay: "Advancing Human-Rights-By-Design In The Dual-Use Technology Industry," by Jonathon Penney, Sarah McKune, Lex Gill, and Ronald J. Deibert: But businesses can do far more than these basic measures. They could adopt…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Market Update
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents an HPCMarket Update. "Intersect360 Research's deep knowledge of HPC, coupled with strong marketing and consulting expertise, results in accurate…
From insideHPC
For SC19 Next Year, HPC is Now
In this special guest feature, SC19 Chair Michela Taufer writes that the conference theme of HPC Now is already resonating in a market sparked by Big Data & Ai. "HPC is exciting, and not just because of the problems it will solve…
From Schneier on Security
Glitter Bomb against Package Thieves
Stealing packages from unattended porches is a rapidly rising crime, as more of us order more things by mail. One person hid a glitter bomb and a video recorder in a package, posting the results when thieves opened the box. At…