Communications of the ACM
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December 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finland's Elements of AI Course
Finland/University of Helsinki Makes their online AI course open and free to all.
Elements of AI
Good News! The Elements of AI course will soon be available in all EU languages. Read more here →
Welcome to the Elements of AI free…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA ISAT Study Outbrief: I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution
The following is a guest blog from Sarita V. Adve from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ratislav Bodik and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington, co-organizers of the DARPA ISAT I-USHER study. We are pleased…
From Schneier on Security
Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure Over the Internet
This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances with a new tool for battling threatening trolls and cyberbullies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Articles about Bayesian Methods and Networks
Just had a chance to reference this resource in DSC, good intro with a mix of technical and general introduction.
15 Great Articles about Bayesian Methods and Networks
Posted by Vincent Granville on March 15, 2019
This resource…
From insideHPC
Nortek Builds First StatePoint Liquid Cooling System
Today Nortek Air Solutions celebrated the completion of its first manufactured StatePoint Liquid Cooling (SPLC) system, billed as “The World’s First Sustainable Data Center Cooling Technology.” SPLC technology was co-developed…
From insideHPC
Internet2 to Maximize Research Network Performance with CenturyLink’s Advanced Optical Fiber
Today the Internet2 advanced technology community announced it has selected CenturyLink’s new low-loss fiber network to transform its research and education network. The improved network performance that results will benefit
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From insideHPC
IBM Research AI Predictions for 2020
In this special guest feature, IBM's VP of AI Research Sriram Raghavan shares the company's predictions for AI in 2020. "In 2020, three themes will shape the advancement of AI: automation, natural language processing (NLP), and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics, meet the Cardboard Box
Here is an forgotten piece of the supply chain. I removed a dozen or of these ancient ideas off the front porch already this holiday season. So how do we address the problem? Optimize the use? Some of our very earliest…
From insideHPC
Cisco to Acquire Exablaze
Cisco is announcing its intent to acquire Exablaze, a privately held, Australia-based designer and manufacturer of advanced network devices. Exablaze’s design and manufacturing innovation offer customers the latest Field Programmable…
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre Community Release Update
In this video from LAD'19 in Paris, Peter Jones from Whamcloud presents: Lustre Community Release Update. "Lustre is a vibrant Open Source project with many organizations working on new features and improvements in parallel.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuro Robotics Wants to Deliver Autonomously
More on the company Nuro, working with Dominos, Wal-Mart, Kroger and others to test the idea of autonomous delivery of product. Are we ready?
We're Nuro
We believe that great technology should benefit everyone. The team at Nuro…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Thinking Robot Delivery
Saw this earlier by other retailers like Kroger. Are we ready for autonomous delivery? How will this coexist with traffic in the suburbs and city? The liabilities?
Walmart Teams With Nuro's Robot Cars to Deliver Groceries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Places, Ideas for Assistive Robotics
First I had heard of this work at Johns Hopkins, notably for links to healthcare process. What does it mean to be assistive with people, in processes that require very human care and emotions. Here an interesting look at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Internet from Space
Satellites and Network design that would cover the earth with an Internet.
A Network Design for the 'Internet from Space'
ETH Zurich
Florian Meyer
December 10, 2019
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland are proposing a network
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From Schneier on Security
Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon to Open first Non Whole Foods Retail
What will such a location look like, the technology, the merchandising mix? Affluent clearly.
Amazon said to be opening its first supermarket in February
in Yahoo Finance
Amazon’s first non-Whole Foods grocery store is under construction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Donald Knuth Spreads the Code
Knuth was an inspiration in my earliest days of coding. Always pull out his books and skim them when he name comes up.
Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming‘ By Denton Daily
Donald Knuth, who…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A look back to my 2010 predictions for 2020
Back in 2010, I wrote a post Who is going to need a database engine in 2020? Let me revisit some of my 2010 statements. Apple will sell desktops with 1 TB of RAM in 2020. I am sure that the prediction sounded insane back in 2010…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Knowledge Skills Advance to Existing Templates
Note the capabilities for security in the enterprise, as well as editing and reuse of existing knowledge. Ultimately if this is done well, it can greatly advance business oriented systems. Managing the underlying data will
Amazon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blending AR Realities for 3D Interaction
How do you create realistic augmented reality experiences on non specialized devices, like an advanced smartphone? Say you wanted to overlay data on top of an operating machine so it appeared as part of a 3D AR experience? …
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Announces Lustre 2.13.0 Release
On December 5, OpenSFS announced Lustre 2.13.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for download. The Lustre file system is a open source, parallel file system that supports the requirements of leadership class HPC and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay Up or We Leak Your Data
Not very unexpected. But a means to make smaller groups take notice, to create more incentive to respond with blackmail payments more quickly. And can create an ongoing rather than one-off threat. Probably also increase demand…
From insideHPC
Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs
Today Intel announced it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2 billion. "This acquisition advances our AI strategy, which is to…
From insideHPC
Podcast: UnifyFS Software Project steps up to Exascale
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Kathryn Mohror LLNL and Sarp Oral of ORNL provide an update ECP’s ExaIO project and UnifyFS. "UnifyFS can provide ECP applications performance-portable I/O across changing storage system architectures…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing a Neutron Star Merger
Scientists are getting better at modeling the complex tangle of physics properties at play in one of the most powerful events in the known universe: the merger of two neutron stars. "We’re starting from a set of physical principles…
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Transforming Tomorrow with AI & HPC
In this keynote from HPE Discover More in Paris, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE offers up some inspiring real-world use cases that demonstrate the transformative power of AI and supercomputing. "Solving the biggest challenges of tomorrow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Banning the Prediction of Emotion?
We examined and experimented with aspects of the idea for 20 years. A number for these efforts are touched on in this blog, see the tags below. But now its seen as dangerous. Another thing I see as inevitable, for now regulation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introducing AI Index Report
Access at the link, worthwhile to look at. Like strong human-centric looks, we need more of that.
Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report By Stanford University
An independent initiative within Stanford University's Human-Centered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lucid AI and Cyc: Seeking Common Sense Reasoning
In support of reading Rebooting AI, been exploring where the implementation of CYC has taken place. We saw it demonstrated in the 80s. Followed it here since. There are some mentions of applications like Glaxo and Cleveland…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many ways no better than SS7, the decades-old phone system carriers still…