Communications of the ACM
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December 2019
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone
Yet another squid acronym. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as Creative Partner
Another good thought, but still hard to do well. And how? Should such a system generate and test possible new ideas? Then we need to carefully test what a solution in context looks like. You can start such a context with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical vs Mathematical Modeling
Interesting comments, having been involved in 'mathematical modeling' for a long time ... it, like statistics has to be evaluated with terms like significance. Had to be done then, and also needs to be done now. Math modeling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data with Brexit
Useful thoughts, How will the flow of data change in new regulatory environments.
How to Manage Your Data When Expecting Brexit
By Ralph O'Brien in Datanami
The implications of a possible Brexit on privacy and compliance-related…
From insideHPC
ANSYS Accelerates Electronic Product Design at GUC
Global Unichip Corp. has adopted ANSYS to support its unmatched combination of advanced technology, low-power and embedded CPU design capabilities. "GUC is committed to providing world-class custom ASICs to help elevate prospective…
From insideHPC
NEC Selects Synopsys ZeBu Server 4 Emulation Environment for Supercomputer Verification
Today Synopsys announced that NEC has selected Synopsys' ZeBu Server 4 as its emulation solution for the verification of its SX-Aurora TSUBASA high-performance compute solution products. "Developing super computers requires running…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Developing Multiprecision Algorithms with the Ginkgo Library Project
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Hartwig Anzt from the University of Tennessee describes how the ECP Ginkgo Library Project is developing a vision for multiprecision algorithms. "Anything reducing the data transfer volume…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
In software, you frequently need to check whether some objects is in a set. For example, you might have a list of forbidden Web addresses. As someone enters a new Web address, you may want to check whether it is part of yourContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causal Theory Of Views
Good piece. It is all ultimately about context, in the sense of location, events, agents, results ... connects to the rest of the world. It drives things like goals, value, transparency and risk. We diagrammed these in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Previews its Smart Home Experience
Good overview here. Unclear if they will be able to establish the needed infrastructure that consumers need to make this happen. TheVerge make a good point that current installation methods are buggy and messy, and hard to…
From insideHPC
Intel Optane comes to new Inspur Storage Products
Inspur recently launched all-flash storage systems with dual-port Intel Optane SSDs. "With the Optane SSD as the high-speed cache layer, AS5000G5-F combines innovative technologies such as intelligent data layering, on-board
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From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Launches Intel Xeon W-3200 & Xeon Scalable Workstation & Server Motherboards
Today GIGABYTE announced two new single socket ATX motherboards ready for Intel’s new Xeon W-3200 processor. This new platform is purpose built and optimized for advanced workstation professionals, enabling fast visualization…
From insideHPC
Vivien Kendon from Durham University to Keynote PASC20 in Geneva
Today the PASC20 conference announced that Vivien Kendon from Durham University will deliver a keynote talk on quantum computing. With a theme of New Challenges, New Computing Paradigms, the event takes place June 29 - July 1…
From insideHPC
Video: SC19 BoF session on TOP500 supercomputers
"This years BoF will follow this traditional format and present detailed analyses of the TOP500 and discuss the changes in the HPC marketplace during the past years. Results from the Green500 and the HPCG benchmark will also
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergent AI by Minimizing Chaos
Article is ultimately quite technical, but the basic proposal is interesting. A way to predict, measure, drive particular goals that lead to behaviors? Intriguing direction.
Emergent Behavior by Minimizing Chaos
BY Glen Berseth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Transparency Risk Paradox
Risk is not thought of formally enough. And the point made in the article points out that to do current AI med\methods you need more data, but more data creates higher risk. In our own work in the area we looked at valuation…
From Schneier on Security
Lousy IoT Security
DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five vulnerabilities of four different kinds: Data exposure: PDF files…
From insideHPC
Orion Supercomputer comes to Mississippi State University
Today Mississippi State University and the NOAA celebrated one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Orion supercomputer, the fourth-fastest computer system in U.S. academia. Funded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Digital Brand Strategy Sputter
Not sure it did, but some rethinking seems to be at hand. Even now I think of it as a company seeking a more affluent and tech savvy base. Seems like a good move to try.
‘Seemed like kind of a mishmash’: Why Walmart’s digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Butter, Autonomously
Had no 'disengagements' that required the self-driving system needed to be interrupted.
A Self-Driving Truck Delivered Butter from California to Pennsylvania in Three Days
The Mercury News
Levi Sumagaysay in MercuryNews
Startup
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Apple, Google work with Zigbee Alliance
Had not heard of this particular alliance, would seem there is still considerable competition regarding ecosystems.
Amazon, Apple and Google join in smart home alliance in Retailwire
Apple, Google and Amazon have been some of
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From insideHPC
NVIDIA Provides Transportation Industry Access to its DNNs for Autonomous Vehicles
Today NVIDIA announced that it will provide the transportation industry with access to its NVIDIA DRIVE deep neural networks (DNNs) for autonomous vehicle development. "NVIDIA DRIVE has become a de facto standard for AV development…
From insideHPC
2020 Asia Student Cluster Competition Kick-Off
The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2020 (ASC20) officially kicked off its event at SC19 in Denver, announcing the location and timeline for the upcoming event. "The ASC cluster competition is the biggest in the world with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difference Between Human Perception and Neural Nets
A long time question, these are 'artificial' neural nets. They are only very, very crudely modeled after the networks in our brain. We had this explained to us, at least to the extent it is understood by an expert neuroscientist…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Unveils Advanced, Software-Defined Platform for Autonomous Machines
Today NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin, a highly advanced software-defined platform for autonomous vehicles and robots. "The platform is powered by a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) called Orin, which consists of 17 billion…
From insideHPC
Argonne-led team wins SCinet Technology Challenge at SC19
An extensive collaboration led by Argonne won the Inaugural SCinet Technology Challenge at the SC19 conference by demonstrating real-time analysis of light source data from Argonne’s APS to the ALCF. "Accelerator-based light
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From insideHPC
Intel HPC Devcon Keynote: Exascale for Everyone
The convergence of HPC and AI is driving a paradigm shift in computing. Learn about Intel’s software-first strategy to further accelerate this convergence and extend the boundaries of HPC as we know it today. oneAPI will ease…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Never Pay, Says Microsoft
Of course it does depend on the context, especially now that we are seeing new kinds of threats, like the release rather than freezing of data.
Microsoft: We never encourage a ransomware victim to pay in ZDnet
Microsoft advocates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Quantum-Proof Encryption
Its been suggested that current encryption techniques will be cracked by quantum methods. And perhaps cybercurrency/blockchain tech, also based on current encryption methods. So as suggested, new methods are explore to ensure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mitre's Framework for Discovering Cyberattack
Was passed this. We worked with Mitre for Defense applications. Seeing more examples of forward facing means of addressing threats.
MITRE ATT&CK FRAMEWORK FOR DISCOVERING CYBERATTACKERS December 17th 2019
Cybersecurity | MITRE…