Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Apply ML Method to Help Diagnose Deadly Respiratory Illness
Machine Learning for Healthcare analysis ...'
Scientists Apply ML Method to Help Diagnose Deadly Respiratory Illness
UC San Diego Today, Emerson Dameron, December 13, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Allows 3D Printing of Microscale Metallic Parts
Aimed at very small parts.
Process Allows 3D Printing of Microscale Metallic Parts
California Institute of Technology
Robert Perkins, November 30, 2022
California Institute of Technology engineers have three-dimensionally (3D)-printed…From Schneier on Security
Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers $10 to cut the line.
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $33M Funding Opportunity for ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences
The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) has announced its interest in applications in the areas of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and data resources for fusion energy and plasma sciences. The goal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Revises Guidelines for Digital Identification in Federal Systems
Security of ID from NIST
NIST Revises Guidelines for Digital Identification in Federal Systems
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
December 16, 2022
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces Ampere ARM-based Servers
SAN JOSE, Dec. 21, 2022 — Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced ARM-based series of servers as part of the MegaDC family. Using Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors, the Mt. Hamilton platform leverages a single unified…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microscale 3D Printer for Multi-Level Anticounterfeiting Labels
Counterfeiting often a big deal in retail.
Microscale 3D Printer for Multi-Level Anticounterfeiting Labels
University of Hong Kong, December 13, 2022
University of Hong Kong (HKU) engineers designed a microscale three-dimensional…From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear
First I have seen of this approach, reasonable.
Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear
UGA Today, Olivia Randall, December 8, 2022
University of Georgia (UGA) scientists have created an ear recognition system that can authenticate…From BLOG@CACM
The Key to Successful Threat Intelligence
A modern Information Security perspective.
From Schneier on Security
Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
A critical code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows was patched in September. It seems that researchers just realized how serious it was (and is):
Like EternalBlue, CVE-2022-37958, as the latest vulnerability is tracked…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Sprint for Chemical
NIST Security for the Chemical Sector
Announcement of 100-Day Cyber Sprint for Chemical Sector By Cyberscoop, October 27, 2022
The sprint comes as the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and…From insideHPC
Intel Annouces Restructuring of Accelerated Computing Group, Koduri Named Chief Architect
Intel announced today a restructuring and leadership change of its AXG (Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group). The organization’s EVP, Raja Koduri, will take on the role of Intel Chief Architecture “to focus on our…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The size of things in bytes
storing 1 GiB/month on the cloud 0.02$US web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), HTML alone 296 KiB web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), all data 3.9 MiB Google result for ‘Canada’, HTML alone 848 KiB Google result for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miami gets Robotic Uber Eats
From BLOG@CACM
How to Teach
Make technology boon, not bane.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Tabula Rasa: Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning
Intriguing, Agents learning from 'tabula rasa', from scratch. Makes me think of agent models we used to gather data and feed it to a process ... towards reinforcing movement towards an intelligence goal? thinking this.
In …From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Snakes to Help Design Robots
Always interested in examples of biomimicry ... here an unusual direction.
Flying Snakes Help Scientists Design Robots
AIP Publishing, December 13, 2022
Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fusion Breakthrough or Increment?
And could a barrier be lurking? Her DoE page Jennifer Granholm is the U.S. Secretary of Energy in President Joe Biden’s cabinet. Last week, she said at a press conference: “Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Largest Satellite Launched
See the picture at the link. Yes, I am worried, will kids in the future be able to see the night sky? See the pic at the link. See the current night sky live with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii here: https://youtu.be/_8rp1p_tWlc…
From BLOG@CACM
Did Grace Hopper Create the First Compiler?
Heinz Rutishauser (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is regarded as the developer of automatic programming.
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review 2022
Complexity result of the year goes to
From insideHPC
atNorth Colocation Provider Joins iMasons Climate Accord
Reykjavik, Iceland – December 20, 2022 – atNorth, the pan-Nordic colocation, high performance computing and artificial intelligence service provider, has become a Partner of the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Association. atNorth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf on the Internet
Vint Cerf comments on the direction of the Internet
Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope. Now He's Calling for More Critical Thinking About How We Use It
The Wall Street Journal, Emily Bobrow, December…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: All Things Quantum from 3 Quantum Practitioners at Brookhaven National Lab (Guess Which Platforms They Use)
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Gabriella Carini, and Meifing Lin join Shahin and Doug to discuss all things quantum, covering quantum sensing, quantum networks and quantum computing. These women are
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving CX with AI: 3 Standout Areas
Useful examination of Customer Experience (CX) enhanced with AI
Improving CX with AI: 3 Standout Areas
Yishay Carmiel -December 19, 202202 views
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a transformative technology in CX. According…From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi Signal Identifying Breathing Issues
Novel use.
An algorithm can use WiFi signal changes to help identify breathing issues
NIST says it works with existing routers and devices., Kris Holt|@krisholt|December 20, 2022 2:10 PM
National Institute of Standards and Technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learn Human Trick
Quite interesting piece, surely they should learn from us.
By Evan Ackerman in IEEE, Image: A black and white humanoid robot…From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineers improve electrochemical sensing by Incorporating Machine Learning
Another sensing them, note integration with machine learning.
Engineers improve electrochemical sensing by incorporating machine learning by Mary Fetzer, Pennsylvania State University
Graphical abstract. Credit: Analytica Chimica…From insideHPC
Iceotope Releases Study with Meta on Efficiency of Immersion Liquid Cooling for High Density Storage
Sheffield, UK — Iceotope, the immersion cooling company, announces a new study with Meta that the companies say confirms the effectiveness of chassis-level liquid cooling technology to meet the cooling requirements of high-density…
From insideHPC
Altair Invests $10M in Columbia Univ. Photonics Startup
TROY, Mich., December 20, 2022 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has invested $10 million in Xscape Photonics, a start-up that developed patented technology for photonic chips for ultrahigh-bandwidth connections inside data centers and…