Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
The State of Grocery Retail Around the World
The state of grocery retail around the world
October 6, 2022 | Podcast By Bill Aull, Dymfke Kuijpers, and Daniel Läubli in McKinsey
The state of grocery retail around the world ...
A survey of more than 30,000 consumers and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanical Neural Networks
Technical intro abstract
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors
RYAN H. LEE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-2509-1677, ERWIN A. B. MULDER, AND JONATHAN B. HOPKINS HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-4752-746X…From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Supercomputers
High performance computing. (HPC)
Frontier Keeps Top Supercomputer Spot
By HPCwire, November 16, 2022
The Frontier supercomputer.
Top500 coauthor Jack Dongarra acknowledged that not all the systems on the Top500 are being usedThe…From insideHPC
Catalyzing the Advancements in Genomics to Lower Barriers to Sustainable Innovation
In the 21st Century, if Big Data is used effectively in the health sector only, it can save 300 billion dollars per annum, as per the McKinsey Global Institute survey. Though the Genomic science is experiencing big data overload…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: Increased Commercial Commitment to Quantum on the Way
December 6, 2022 — A new study of commercial early adopters of quantum computing by HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research shows that 80 percent of respondents plan to increase their QC commitment in the next two to three…
From Schneier on Security
CryWiper Data Wiper Targeting Russian Sites
Kaspersky is reporting on a data wiper masquerading as ransomware that is targeting local Russian government networks.
The Trojan corrupts any data that’s not vital for the functioning of the operating system. It doesn’t affect…From insideHPC
Israeli AI Startup NeuReality Raises $35M Series A
Dec. 6, 2022 — NeuReality, an AI hardware startup specializing in AI inferencing platforms, announced a $35M Series A funding round led by Samsung Ventures, Cardumen Capital, Varana Capital, OurCrowd and XT Hitech. SK Hynix, …
From BLOG@CACM
Logical Beats Sequential
Often, "we do this and then we do that" is just a lazy way of stating "to do that, we must have achieved this."
From insideHPC
Report: TSMC’s 3nm Arizona Fab Hitting Snags
Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new semiconductor plant north of Phoenix, according to a story in today’s The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sutherland on the Future of Augmented Reality Displays
In fact, at the big enterprise, we tested some of Sutherland's findings in real life retail. But found it to mostly be too 'busy' for practical use. Still worth further examination in a new era of adaptive interaction. What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Ads Causing Shoppers to Lose Faith in Amazon search results?
Significantly?
Are ads causing shoppers to lose faith in Amazon search results? by Matthew Stern in RetailWire.
Amazon.com has long been the main go-to place for online product search, but a recent Washington Post article finds…From The Eponymous Pickle
From Handrwriting to Computer Code
Like to see a useful example of this, though who uses much handwriting anymore? Do we need another introduction of uncertainty?
Programming Tool Turns Handwriting into Computer Code By Cornell Chronicle, November 30, 2022
Writing…From Apophenia
What if failure is the plan?
I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* something as failing (or about to fail) and the contestations over failure that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Existential Physics Reading
Understanding physics and its practical application is becoming important. Here a good intro I am reading, notably about how quantum effects are being applied in computing and cryptography.
Existential Physics: A Scientist's…From insideHPC
Cogniteam: In-Browser Simulation Drops Robot Simulation Costs
Dec. 5, 2022 — Cogniteam, creator of the Nimbus Robotic operating system designed to unify development, cloud connectivity and deployment capabilities, announced it had added in-browser simulation capabilities that allows remote…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recent Game playing example
Games can be useful to test learning and alternative process options.
Why Researchers Are Teaching AI to Play Minecraft By Popular Science, December 2, 2022
Nuclear power plant model made in Minecraft An artist's approximation…From BLOG@CACM
Turing, Churchill, and the Colossus
Did Turing collaborate on the Colossus?
From Computational Complexity
The Future of Education is Personal
With all the excitement about ChatGPT, how will machine learning disrupt education, say five to ten years down the road?
My guess: individualized tutors. Imagine a tutor working with you teaching you important concepts, walking…From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats a Software BOM?
Billing it up for a Product
ACM NEWS
SBOM: An Up-Close Look at a Software Bill of Materials, November 30, 2022
Multiple Software Bill of Materials are produced at different levels of the software stack.
A software bill of materials…From The Eponymous Pickle
Coinbase and Apple
Fees for crypto transfers
Coinbase removes NFT transfers from iOS app following dispute with Apple
By Duncan Riley in SiliconAngle
Coinbase Inc. is the latest company to have issues with Apple and its App Store policies, claiming…From The Eponymous Pickle
Laundry Folding Record
Addressing common tasks.
Robot Laundry Folding Speed Record Broken
Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, October 19, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have achieved…From Schneier on Security
CAPTCHA
This is an actual CAPTCHA I was shown when trying to log into PayPal.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battery Supply Chain Comes to the US
Supply Chain elements.
The EV Battery Supply Chain Is Coming to America
Close-up of a mechanic's hands disassembling an electric car battery on top of a trailer inside a mechanic shop
November 16, 2022 Bloomberg
It’s official: the…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Computers Write Code
For most of my career I hive been hearing that some day computers will write all the code and human programmers will no longer be needed. Or at least, not as needed as today. Are we getting close to that time – finally? And if…
From The Eponymous Pickle
European Automotive Does Quantum
Unexpected this early, but very interesting.
The European automobile industry is going quantum in TheNextWeb By Tristran Greene
Spooky action at a distance goes vroom ...
It’s a bold new world for automobile makers. After aBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Swarm Robotics
Especially interested in how we can link to tasks that need multiples of specialized solvers ...
Swarm Robotics Moves Forward By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, December 2022, Vol. 65 No. 12, Pages 12-14 10.1145…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Can Manufacture Customized Sensors
Printing Sensors
3D Printing Can Manufacture Customized Sensors
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
David Callahan, September 28, 2022
A new three-dimensional (3D) printing method could cost-effectively fabricate insect-sized…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Ray and Path Tracing
Representing 3D Objects.
March 23, 2022 by Brian Caulfield
Turn on your TV. Fire up your favorite streaming service. Grab a Coke. A demo of the most important visual technology of our time is as close as your…From The Eponymous Pickle
Opinion on the CHIPS Act
Short Opinion piece from ACM site. Have not reviewed further, but plan to
The False Promise of America's CHIPS Act
By Project Syndicate, November 28, 2022
The CHIPS Act is flawed in many ways. (Opinion)
The U.S. CHIPS and Science…From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Wants Cloud in Space
New domains, one answer to supply chains there.
AWS sets its sights on space for the future of cloud capabilities By Mike Moore published about 3 hours ago
AWS wants to make the world a better place, from space
Cloud computing…