Communications of the ACM
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December 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data for Better Business Decision?
Ultimately this is the 'thing', how do we do it effectively? Some starting thoughts.
SmartData Collective > Big Data > How To Use Data For Smarter Business Decisions
BIG DATA
How To Use Data For Smarter Business Decisions
Big data…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Error Correction
Error correction in context is key.
Milestone in Quantum Computing With Error Correction
By SciTechDaily, December 20, 2021
Scientists at Dutch quantum computing research institute QuTech have integrated high-fidelity operations…From BLOG@CACM
Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?
How do we measure progress towards CS for All?
From insideHPC
Exascale: Rumors Circulate HPC Community Regarding Frontier’s Status
By now you may have expected a triumphant announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy that the Frontier supercomputer, slated to be installed by the end of 2021 as the first U.S. exascale-class system, has been stood up with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coverting Laws to Programs
How do-able and useful is such such smart coding. How ways is it to include elements like intent? What other considerations must it be compliant to? Consideration of interacting smart contracts?
Converting Laws to Programs…From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces Enhanced Coverage of China’s HPC Market
ST. PAUL, Minn., December 21, 2021 – Hyperion Research said that after years of research and relationship-building in China, the company will now report in much greater detail on China’s increasingly important high performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Matterport for Retailers
Have started to look at this and related capabilities. And note the mention of digital twins.
Matterport Powers New Experiences for Retailers and Consumers
Retailers turn to digital twins to reach consumers virtually while providing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Superdeterminism? Free will involved?
in Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI&list=WL&index=20 Brought to my Attention, see also other related references below: Technical:
By Sabine Hossennfelder
Check out the math & physics courses that I mentioned…From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces TPCx-HCI Benchmark Result
San Jose – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a maker of high-performance computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announced the first published TPCx-HCI benchmark result, with a measured performance…
From insideHPC
Calling All HPC Programmers! Remove Code Barriers Using One Complete Software Suite
[SPONSORED POST] HPC systems are growing larger, more complex, and feature different heterogenous hardware components to accommodate different workloads. Find out how HPE Cray Programming Environment helps ease application development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DHL Doubles Robotics
Continued Robotic Crunch
DHL Doubles Robots as Humans Alone Can't Handle Holiday Crunch
By Bloomberg, December 20, 2021
DHL's supply-chain unit has doubled the number of robots it uses in the U.S. to about 1,500 ahead of the holidays…From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing your Personal Data
Did considerable exploratory work in this space. And considering the included risk.
By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 17-19 10.1145/3495563
During…From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Practical AI Understanding?
Looking forward to reading this, Quanta mag is usually good and medium level technically for information delivery ... Yes ... understanding in context is the most important thing, and thus precise calibration according to need…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strange Robotics
ACM NEWS
This Robot Looks Like a Pancake, Jumps Like a Maggot
By The New York Times, December 14, 2021
The ability to jump can help a terrestrial robot traverse new spaces and navigate rough terrain.
Credit: R. Chen et al./Nature…From insideHPC
New Supercomputer Enables Rugged, Real-Time AI at the Edge
[SPONSORED POST] Program managers face hard tradeoffs bringing artificial intelligence to in-the-field use cases. This whitepaper, "New Supercomputer Enables Rugged, Real-Time AI at the Edge," describes a new AI server from One…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 19th 2021)
Becoming a physician increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. When trying to reproduce results in cancer researchers, independent researchers find that the benefits…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Malware Developers Turn to 'Exotic' Programming Languages to Thwart Researchers
Not sure I understand this. Could be either way. More experts likely to know advanced methods and patterns and thus more insight in finding malware? Or is better to have a larger number of trainees doing the work, likely …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering effective Drug Therapy
Chemical compound discovery and application for drug therapy.
Scientists Can Efficiently Screen Billions of Chemical Compounds to Find Effective Drug Therapies
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Darrin S. Joy,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Forest Health Analysis
Back to my forestry analysis Days, much better sensing now.
Real-Time, Interactive Monitoring of Forest Health
Technical University of Munich (Germany)
December 10, 2021
A data analysis and visualization tool developed by researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Robotics
Very tiny robotics, collaborative?
A new micro aerial robot based on dielectric elastomer actuators
by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore
A 0.16 g microscale robot that is powered by a muscle-like soft actuator. Credit: Ren et al.
Micro…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Favorite Theorems of the Next Ten Years
The best way to predict the future is to create it—Abraham Lincoln 2016 memorial by David Bailey Jonathan Borwein passed away a few years ago. He had been one of the top experts on and especially its computation. He also was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shrinking AI, Expanding Capability
Computation need for AI soars, as devices expand, and help with Moore's Law
Shrinking Artificial Intelligence By Chris Edwards
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3495562
The computational…From The Eponymous Pickle
P vs NP: Complexity, The Problem today
This was a big deal when I was in grad school, we did many tests to scope how easy it was to solve problems in evolving contexts. Had the impression this was still unsolved. Below a good scoping of the current day views…
From insideHPC
ALCF Announces Aurora Exascale Learning Paths Schedule
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced its Aurora Learning Paths training series, in partnership with Intel, designed to advance development of applications for ALCF’s upcoming exascale supercomputer. The sessions…
From Computational Complexity
Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
I have a new article Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible, to mark the 1971 publications of Steve Cook's seminal paper, a month too late in the January 2022 Communications of the ACM.
Initially MosheThe…From insideHPC
Quantum Startup Multiverse Computing Wins €12.5M Funding from European Innovation Council
SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN — (December 17, 2021) – Multiverse Computing today announced it will receive €12.5 million ($14.2 million USD) as part of the latest funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Farmers Markets
Have followed farmers markets for some time, reinvention needed? Good discussion.
Do farmers markets need to be reinvented for the digital age? in Retailwire, Good discussion.
Small and medium-sized independent farms have discovered…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny ML, less Memory in IOT
Always interested in the integration of AI and secure IOT. Smarter, better devices
ACM TECHNEWS
Tiny ML Design Alleviates Bottleneck in Memory Usage on IoT Devices
By MIT News, December 16, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Welcome to Web3, An intro.
Update and more.
What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care?
By Gizmodo, December 15, 2021
In recent months, you may have come across a phrase growing in popularity: Web3. You might be wondering what it is, what it will mean for the future…From insideHPC
NREL to Test Software-Defined Smart Grid AI Chip Developed by NVIDIA and Utilidata
PROVIDENCE, RI – December 16, 2021 – NVIDIA and grid-edge software company Utilidata said today they are developing a software-defined smart grid chip powered by NVIDIA’s AI platform and embedded in smart meters. The joint effort…