Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Event Modeling
Its all about events and how we handle them.
Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling By Software Engineering Radio November 28, 2022
Credit: Adam Dymitruk/Software Engineering Radio
Adam Dymitruk is CEO and founder of Adaptech Group…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Intelligence Platform Seek AI Launches to Automate Repetitive Tasks
Automate and make intelligent.
Data Intelligence Platform Seek AI Launches to Automate Repetitive Tasks
In DataNami by Jaime Hampton
With all the hype around generative AI and its text-to-image capabilities throwing the art world…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanical Neural Networks
Quite technical, but worth a link for later study....
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors ...
BY RYAN H. LEE ERWIN A. B. MULDER ET AL.
One for all: Universal material model based on minimalAbstract…From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Data Can Offer ML Performance Improvements
Previously mentioned, considering use of idea in test.
MIT News, Adam Zewe, November 3, 2022
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory, and Boston University found…From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Best Machine Learning Algorithm
Simplified example
DataScienceDojo (@Data Science Dojo) Tweeted:
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Legend of the Indiana Oil-Pit Squid
At a GMC plant.
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 BLOG@CACM
Why Is It Hard to Define Data Science?
Data science can be described as a science, as a research paradigm, as a research method, as a discipline, as a workflow, and as a profession.
From Schneier on Security
Existential Risk and the Fermi Paradox
We know that complexity is the worst enemy of security, because it makes attack easier and defense harder. This becomes catastrophic as the effects of that attack become greater.
In A Hacker’s Mind (coming in February 2023), …From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adventures in Taking Code From the Internet
Facebook memories remined me that ten years ago I was thinking about writing a program that would ring bells (nautical time) on the hour and half hour. I didn't write it back then. Probably because I was busy with my day job.…
From insideHPC
ADIA Lab Announces Board Members, Collaborations and Research Award
Abu Dhabi, 2 December 2022 — ADIA Lab, focused on basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, commenced operations today, the 51st National Day of the UAE. As part of its launch, the lab announced the composition…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Neural Network Can Change an Actor's Age with Ease
Powerful idea, So do I get to own all my transformed RE-ages? Lighting conditions? I am seeing some legal implications.
Disney Neural Network Can Change an Actor's Age with Ease
Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, November 30, 2022
…From The Eponymous Pickle
We Will See a Completely New Type of Computer, Says AI Pioneer Hinton
Hinton predicts: A 'mortal' Neuromorphic Computer? Ready to sign up and test. When?
We Will See a Completely New Type of Computer, Says AI Pioneer Hinton
In ZDNet, Tiernan Ray, December 1, 2022
Artificial intelligence pioneer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to the Moon?
I continue to be interested in the supply chain processes involved.
China and NASA are racing to the moon. Side-by-side photos hint NASA has the edge, but China's secrecy makes the race hard to call. By Morgan McFall-Johnsen…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Power Still Years Away
Years Away most followers agree ...
Fusion power is 'approaching' reality thanks to a magnetic field breakthrough
A boost from magnetism is nearly enough to achieve fusion ignition.
By Jon Fingas|@jonfingas|November 30, 2022 2:52…From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Optical Computing
Reducing error in optical networks
Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Computing By MIT News, November 30, 2022
Using the new technique, the larger an optical neural network becomes, the lower the error in its computations…From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking
Of interest, December 7
Reminder: December 7 Talk, "An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking" with Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi
If you haven't done so yet, register now for the next free ACM TechTalk…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mexico Replacing China for Manufacturing?
Mentioned in passing in a meeting, this related Podcast of interest:
THE SCB PODCAST
Podcast | Can Mexico Replace China as a Manufacturing Powerhouse?
China is losing its luster as a low-cost source of manufacturing. Is Mexico an…From Schneier on Security
LastPass Security Breach
The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Would You Like a QR Code in That Cookie? Food and 3D Printing
Waste Reduction embedded, 3D printed.
Would You Like a QR Code in That Cookie? By AlphaGalileo, October 19, 2022
Given that food tags and packaging are a large source of waste worldwide, this new method of embedding edible information…From insideHPC
SC22: CXL3.0, the Future of HPC Interconnects and Frontier vs. Fugaku
HPC luminary Jack Dongarra’s fascinating comments at SC22 on the low efficiency of leadership-class supercomputers highlighted by the latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark results will, I believe, influence…
From insideHPC
SC22: Jeff McVeigh on Intel’s 3 New Server Chips; oneAPI and Heterogeneity; and an Aurora Update
We caught up with Jeff McVeigh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Super Compute Group, to learn more about the three new server chips Intel recently announced, the Max CPU and the Max GPU series, along with…
From insideHPC
At SC22: DDN’s Kurt Kuckein Talks Advanced AI Data Management at Scale
At SC22, we caught up with DDN Senior Vice President of Marketing to discuss major trends driving AI data management at scale – trends that include growing adoption of GPUs for AI workloads, the emergence of other accelerator…
From BLOG@CACM
The Legacy of Peer-to-Peer Systems
What happened to peer-to-peer as a technological concept?
From Computational Complexity
How do we keep the community connected?
A colleague said how they enjoyed watching the collapse of Twitter under Elon Musk. But I use Twitter to keep connected to the CS community. In Twitter I hear not only new results but ones that excite particular people. I watch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will the Space Economy Change the World?
Good overview of Space and Economy. Not enough regards the timing and risks involved. And how will key aspects, like supply chains, be effectively translated into Space? Note we need to do a key materials analysis to determine…
From insideHPC
Tokyo University of Science: Research Using Data Science, Materials Informatics May Lead to Better EV Motors
Dec. 1, 2022 — Tokyo University of Science today said researchers have combined several disciplines to investigate coercity, which is the physical property of magnetic materials that has the potential to advance electric car
…
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab and Veterans Affairs Use Summit Supercomputer Security Framework for Health Research
Dec. 1, 2022 — A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) used the CITADEL security framework to securely transfer and analyze veterans’ health records on ORNL’s Summit, an…
From Schneier on Security
Sirius XM Software Vulnerability
This is new:
Newly revealed research shows that a number of major car brands, including Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura, were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack…From insideHPC
Argonne Researchers Win Gordon Bell Special Prize for Using Language Models to Track Virus Variants
Nov. 29, 2022 — Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and a team of collaborators have won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2022 Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers and Liquid-Like Electrons
New idea to me.
Quantum Computing May be Bolstered by Liquid-Like Electrons, By Tom's Hardware
November 1, 2022
When electrons are made to act in what’s known as a “helical Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid,” there are fewer particleExperiments…