Communications of the ACM
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December 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Has Successful AI Kickstarting Effort
Worked on several IBM initiated projects, was unaware of this particular effort. A little unlcear how success is measured. Though they say data science at first later AI is included. Good general approach, which is not much…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Quantum Tell us About Reality?
Good piece on Sciam I am reading. With a background in physics I understand the general concept, but not its direct and potential future application to computer science. Computer science is logic and reality, no?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Ancient Conjecture on Primes
After 50 years we still are baffled by the primes. Cornell faculty album source Juris Hartmanis needs no introduction. But we can note this long interview last February by the Heidelberg Laureate Foundation. His sister, Astrid…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fairness Indicators for AI Machine Learning
Brought to my attention, dealing with a potential solution for a project at hand. Good technical and non technical coverage. The approach is now available in Beta. Examining.
Fairness Indicators: Scalable Infrastructure for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UiPath for RPA in Gartner Quadrant
Via UiPath. of interest:
2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation Software
UiPath achieves the highest and furthest overall position for its ability to execute and completeness of vision in the 2019 Gartner Magic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer
Had not mentioned this blog in a long time, deserves to be followed:
Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer
Covering the environment, engineering, technology and economics .... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Nuclear Plants
Good reason for very strict identification policies. And in the meantime, just keeping some things off the Net.
How a nuclear plant got hacked
Plugging nuclear plants into the internet makes them vulnerable targets for nation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Doubles Down on Food Delivery
A visit to my local Kroger indicates that more people are actively ordering and getting it delivered. In my own case have never even seriously thought of doing it, because I like to browse for cooking ideas for meals. Was surprised…
From insideHPC
The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Science: Challenges and Opportunities
This presentation examines selected modern scientific discoveries, such as the detection of gravitational waves from the CI perspective. It aims to answer the following key questions: first, what were the key CI solutions that…
From insideHPC
Aldec’s new FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage Targets HPC Applications
Today Aldec, Inc. launched a powerful, versatile and time-saving FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage solution to aid in the development of High Performance Computing applications such as High Frequency Trading and Machine Learning.
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–December 2019
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair As we come to the end of this calendar year, I invite you to take a look back at the work of ACM-W over the 2018-2019 academic year. For the first time, ACM-W has published an Annual Report that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Energy Grid Outages Addressed
Duke Energy is our local Energy system.
Universities team up on effort to improve grid for Duke Energy
UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center is working through three years of power-outage data from Duke Energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Using Google Assistance for Translation
What we always wanted, a seamless translation mode. That made us completely indifferent to the language in use. Hearing and speaking. Its not quite here yet, I have tried it and its less than seamless or complete. But its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Video Trolling on Ring
Just got word of this. Ring Cameras hacked for sheer harassment. Perhaps for a belief that personal protection by surveillance systems are by their nature illegitimate? Or they are just a means of protection? Secure your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Computers be Conscious?
Don't absolutely know they cannot compute consciousness unless I know the definition of consciousness being used. With a very bare definition a computer 'knows it knows something', say the setting of a single bit. And
Why…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at SecIT by Heise in Hannover, Germany on March 26, 2020. The list is maintained on this page....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Corporate Digital Procurement
A key topic to manage in the enterprise. And managing the components of products you need to procure.
Amazon Business brings procurement into the digital era By Betsy Amy-Vogt in Silicon Angle
Everyone knows (and loves) Amazon…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 14th 2019)
The computation capacity needed by artificial intelligence doubles every 3.4 months. In parallel, we are making fast progress in hardware and software: what took three hours a year and half ago can now take less than two minutes…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: NRL Research Scientist at SAIC
SAIC in Monterey, California is seeking an NRL Research Scientist in our Job of the Week. "SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Bull
So is Quantum her already, or are we in the midst of a hype storm? Check out the links below and explore. A number of technical big players are participating ... so can it be purely nonsense? Not likely. But exactly what…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Recaps SC19
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back the “State Fair for Nerds” that was SC19. "At this year’s conference, we not only learned the latest discoveries in our evolving field – but also celebrated the countless ways…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid
Interesting stuff. 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
On Event Meshes
Interesting look at the concept, a way to add some structure around events of importance, an element addressing the context of events.
Why Event Meshes Should Be On Your IoT Radar
By Alex Woodie in Datanami
We are instrumenting
Shawn…
From insideHPC
University of Siegen Doubles Down on Bright Computing for HPC Management
Bright Computing recently announced that the University of Siegen has expanded its use of the company's HPC system management software to address the increasingly varied and challenging demands from its research staff. "We have…
From BLOG@CACM
AI is to Medicine Today What the X-ray was to Medicine a Century Ago, and Much More…
Guest blogger Jiajie Zhang says the continuing evolution of medical artificial intelligence will produce increasingly advanced applications to improve patient care, disease prevention, and biomedical discovery.
From insideHPC
SC19 Cluster Competition: Students Pack LINs and HPCG’s
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net continues his series of stories on the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Held as part of the Students@SC program, the competition is designed to introduce the next generation…
From insideHPC
Why HPC is no longer just for government labs and academic institutions
In this special guest feature, Trish Damkroger from Intel writes that only HPC can handle the pending wave of Big Data coming to datacenters from Smart Cities. "While each individual city’s data footprint depends on the unique…
From insideHPC
Julia Computing and NVIDIA Bring Julia GPU Acceleration to Arm
Julia Computing and NVIDIA have brought Julia to NVIDIA’s new line of GPU-accelerated Arm servers. The Julia programming language is now available as a pre-packaged container on the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) container registry,
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From Schneier on Security
EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance
EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading and sharing. Boing Boing post....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger, Walgreens in Purchasing Alliance
Combining against Amazon's dip into pharma?
Kroger and Walgreens are in a purchasing alliance and seeking more partners by George Anderson in Retailwire
The Kroger Co. and Walgreens have formed a new purchasing organization to…