Communications of the ACM
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December 2018
From insideHPC
World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Running Production Workloads at ORNL
The world's fastest supercomputer is now up and running production workloads at ORNL. "A year-long acceptance process for the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab is now complete. Acceptance testing ensures…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast Bounded Random Numbers on GPUs
We often use random numbers in software in applications such as simulations or machine learning. Fast random number generators tend to produce integers in [0,232) or [0,264). Yet many applications require integers in a givenContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognixion Enabling Assistant Support with AI
Long time correspondent Andreas Forsland provides information about Cognixion:
Cognixion™: Giving AI-Superpowers to Humans with Disabilities
Although smart and intellectual, world-renowned…
From insideHPC
PASC19 Conference Keynote to Feature Gordon-Bell-Prize-Winner on Ai-Powered Genomics
Today the PASC19 conference team announced that Gordon Bell Prize-winner Deborah Weighill will keynote the show with a talk entitled: Investigating Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures in Bioenergy and Human. The event…
From insideHPC
Latest Intel® Tools Make Code Modernization Possible
Code modernization means ensuring that an application makes full use of the performance potential of the underlying processors. And that means implementing vectorization, threading, memory caching, and fast algorithms wherever…
From Schneier on Security
Drone Denial-of-Service Attack against Gatwick Airport
Someone is flying a drone over Gatwick Airport in order to disrupt service: Chris Woodroofe, Gatwick's chief operating officer, said on Thursday afternoon there had been another drone sighting which meant it was impossible to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Google Lens
God piece on where it is and where it is going. Impressive so far, it gives you some remarkable results, but not always exactly what you need. The notion of precision search using images, say from a camera, is quite different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lens Can Detect a Billion Objects
I noted that the IOS version of Google Lens has been updated to a more stable condition.. Impressive capabilities. Been experimenting with it to construct reference images for machine learning experiments. Images will be
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powerapps for Custom Business App Delivery
Brought to my attention again, not connection mentioned to Teams, which I have been testing now for some time. Like the no-code, direct connection to process idea. Also leads to much more that's closer to the Edge.
Microsoft…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC 2019 in Frankfurt
The complete ISC 2019 contributed program is now open for submissions. The event takes place June 16–20, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany. "We encourage engineers, scientists, young researchers, students and active members of the
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Assistance and Small Business
Will assistants provider cheaper access to expertise to the small business first, because its a cheaper source of knowledge?
How AI Can Help Small Business Solve Big Problems
Podcast:
Intuit's Ashok Srivastava explains how AI-powered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars Reading Passenger Emotions
Driver emotions might be interesting, but if there aren't any drivers? Have always been interested in how the behavior of passengers in self-driving cars, which will now include the former driver, will change. We followedaffective…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Future of Cycling
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Keely Portway describes how road bike manufacturers are using simulation software to deliver higher performance products in less time and at a lower cost than previously…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humor That Works
Former Colleague Andrew Tarvin, of Humor that Works, is giving a webinar in January for the P&G Alumni network. Thought I would give him a shout out .... check out his space. We need more humor.
https://www.humorthatworks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companion Robotics in Japan
A space we followed as it was integrated into the smart home.
Japan’s latest companion robot is the fuzzy, expressive Lovot
It can beg for attention and follow you around.
Mallory Locklear, @mallorylocklear in Engadget... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology for the Deaf
And how people integrate technology into accessibility.
Technology for the Deaf By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, December 2018, Vol. 61 No. 12, Pages 16-18
10.1145/3283224
A nurse asks a patient to describe her
For…
From Schneier on Security
Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace
Fascinating article about the many ways Amazon Marketplace sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers. The opening example: framing a seller for false advertising by buying fake five-star reviews for their products. Defacement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VW Uses D-Wave for Quantum Chemistry
VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine
IEEE Spectrum By Mark Anderson
VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine
Scientists say their work offers a proof of principle for using D-Wave’s quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk of Facial Recognition
Its important to remember that the latest emergence of AI methods are not perfect, though much better than in the past, can produce erroneous results. This can be for reasons of context in training, use or environment.
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From insideHPC
Video: Advania Simplifies Moving HPC to the Cloud
In this video, Gísli Kr. from Advania describes how the company enables customer to migrate HPC workloads to the company's sustainable datacenters in Iceland. "When leveraging Advania´s HPCaaS you have the flexibility to address…
From insideHPC
Video: Optimizing Wind Power with the ExaWind Project at NREL
In this video, Scott Gibson discusses the ExaWind project for windmill simulation with Michael Sprague from NREL. ExaWind is part of the ECP, which is building applications that will scale to tomorrow's Exascale machines. "Sprague…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Announces first Personal AI Supercomputer
More at the link with registration:
This DGX Station technical white paper provides an overview of the system technologies, DGX software stack and Deep Learning frameworks.
Read this paper to understand how NVIDIA DGX Station
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Goes Live with Self-Driving Delivery
Seeing these live, commonly, will be the view of a new world.
Kroger goes live with self-driving delivery vehicles
Supermarket giant sells You Technology digital coupon unit
By Russell Redman
In a pair of technology announcements…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Goal of Automating AI
Good, lengthy and somewhat technical piece from O'Reilly. Worth reading. Quite a challenge out there. This will happen, and relatively soon. This is also why I think teaching everyone coding will not be a useful thing
Deep…
From Schneier on Security
Congressional Report on the 2017 Equifax Data Breach
The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released a comprehensive report on the 2017 Equifax hack. It's a great piece of writing, with a detailed timeline, root cause analysis, and…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN Further Commits to Universal Acceptance of Domain Names and Email Addresses
Since 2015, when I worked with ICANN to found the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), a consortium of companies including Afilias, Apple, GoDaddy, Google, ICANN, Microsoft, Verisign and many others, we have worked to …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harman and AT&T Advance Car Connectivity
I see that interesting third party car connectivity continues to expand. Was just offered a discount that includes a number of car connected services of interest, but not connected to my own smart home services.
AT&T and HARMAN…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CSI Talk: Teaching Data Science
From last week's CSIG Talk,
Speaker: Dr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University:
Suppose our goal is to educate the new generation of data scientists working on machine learning and artificial intelligence problems, and especially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Design Trend Inspiration
Several of my students looked at startups in the fashion industry, that had design, marketing and customer engagement angles, so this is interesting. Have not seen to much for AI in design/creativity over the years, so that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
5G is Here from AT&T
Been reading much about 5G. To what degree will it replace Wifi? Its in some cities this week in test.
AT&T flips the switch on mobile 5G in 12 cities this week
But you can only use it with a mobile hotspot for now. ....
In …