Communications of the ACM
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December 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Ahold's Cashierless Solution
More on Ahold's use of 'Cashierless' stores. The provider of the tech was mentioned here before. More detail at the link.
Ahold Delhaize's 'NanoStore' heads to the airport in GroceryDive
Dive Brief:
Ahold Delhaize’s Albert…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) just posted a number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Clara Federated Learning to Deliver AI to Hospitals
NVIDIA Clara FL uses distributed training across multiple hospitals to develop robust AI models without sharing patient data. It runs on the recently announced NVIDIA EGX intelligent edge computing platform, which securely provisions…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Begins Shipping Fugaku Supercomputer
Today Fujitsu announced that the company has commenced shipping the supercomputer Fugaku. Jointly developed with RIKEN, Fugaku is slated to start general operation between 2021 and 2022. "Fugaku will be comprised of over 150,000…
From insideHPC
Panasas HPC Storage Goes from Fast to Ludicrous Mode at SC19
In this video from SC19, Curtis Anderson from Panasas announces company's new the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra appliance. Anderson goes on to offers a sneak peek at the company's vision for the high-performance data center of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kaolin: A Library for 3D Intelligence
Has to be useful for building and testing 3D intelligence.
Kaolin: The first comprehensive library for 3-D deep learning research by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore
As most real-world environments are three-dimensional, deep learning…
From insideHPC
Intel Wins IO500 10-node Challenge with DAOS
In this video from SC19, Kelsey Prantis from Intel describes how the DAOS parallel file system won the IO500 10-node Challenge with Intel Optane DC persistent memory. As an all-new parallel file system, DAOS will be a key component…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook to Allow Users to Upload Photos to Google
Sharing Photos among services. I think the main problem will be consumers will not understand the implications, given that different services treat security differently. Also variance in global regulation. Here first in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Requiring Facial Scans
More use of facial data gathering. While it could be used for convenience and general identification, say for voting or providing services, it can then also be used for policing as well. Then its less than perfect accuracy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taming Uncertainty
Via MaxPlanck, Berlin.
TAMING UNCERTAINTY
© MIT Press
Center: Adaptive Rationality
Abstract:
How do people navigate uncertainty, making decisions under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and time pressure? Ralph
Hertwig…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Behavioral Change
See paper and related research, examining this now.
Is AI Disrupting the Field of Behavioral Change Marketing?
Artificial Intelligence is intended to mimic the behavior of humans. However, AI technology can be applied in reverse…
From Schneier on Security
Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use
New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone....
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Universal Acceptance Continues Momentum During ICANN66
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus I am invigorated after returning from ICANN66, which took place in Montréal 2-7 November. Always full of information and engagement, this event was particularly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Perceiving Common Sense Physics
Having machines understand common sense 'physics' may well be way to train them to do general AI. How humans learn is a potential model. Infant cognition. The interpretation of surprise as a measure of learning? A signal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Screen by Realities?
Will every screen be replaced by a virtual reality experience?
In Smithsonian:
Alex Kipman on how it's "inevitable" that devices like the HoloLens will replace every screen. Reading a Clive Thompson interview with the HoloLens
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Prototype for Microsurgery
Seems a considerable advance. Full and more technical article at the link
Robot Prototype Shows Promise for Microsurgery on Eyes, Aneurysms
By Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Professor Nabil Simaan and Professor Karen Joos
Mechanical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK
Another example that will likely be criticized as being easy to mis-use.
Police to Use Facial Recognition Drones to Help Find the Missing
BBC News (U.K.)
By Ken Macdonald
Police Scotland has launched a new aerial drone system to
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images
Good-non technical view of the current state of creating and evolving images. Somewhat like the 'photo shopping' enigma still going on, but more subtle and automated. At first this seems like its not malevolent at all, just…
From insideHPC
Video: Characterizing Network Paths in and out of the Clouds
Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at CHEP 2019. "Cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with funding agencies moving beyond prototyping and starting to fund production campaigns, too. An important aspect of any production…
From insideHPC
STFC Machine Learning Group Deploys Elastic NVMe Storage to Power GPU Servers
At SC19, Excelero announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a new HPC architecture to support computationally intensive analysis including machine learning and AI-based workloads using the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Takes a Driverless Ride
Vint Cerf takes a hands-free, unaccompanied drive in a Waymo and muses the technology.
A Hands-Free Ride By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, December 2019, Vol. 62 No. 12, Page 10.1145/3369587
Google Vice President
I…