Communications of the ACM
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February 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces Experimental Means to Detect Altered Images
A useful kind of AI, checking out the details. Still experimental. How often we be sure of the results? Looks for specific means of alteration, So will have to be maintained for new ones.
How can technology strengthen fact-checking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Smart Speaker Share to China in 201
While smart speakers are not 'AI assistants' in any complete sense, they open the way to such deices in the home and at work. So stats like this should be watched because they provide an initial framework for assistant
Strategy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Military Long Distant Face Recognition
I would imagine will be more precise and at longer distances yet, I have some very impressive sat images, and precise coordinates could simply be shared. All this will change the face of war. Likely very cheaply and fast…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Energy from the Air
Quite a revalelation, use for LED's, IOT applications?
Electric bacteria create currents out of thin—and thick—air
By Elizabeth Pennisi, in Science Mag
Generating electricity from thin air may sound like science fiction, but…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Asia 2020 Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19 Virus
The Supercomputing Asia 2020 conference has been cancelled in light of COVID-19 developments. "We regret to inform you that we will be cancelling the coming SupercomputingAsia Conference 2020 (SCA20), which was being scheduled…
From insideHPC
UK to invest £1.2 billion for Supercomputing Weather and Climate Science
Today the UK announced plans to invest £1.2 billion for the world’s most powerful weather and climate supercomputer. The government investment will replace Met Office supercomputing capabilities over a 10-year period from 2022…
From insideHPC
Isambard 2 at UK Met Office to be largest Arm supercomputer in Europe
The UK Met Office been awarded £4.1m by EPSRC to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe. The powerful new £6.5m facility, to be hosted by the Met Office in Exeter and utilized by the universities of…
From insideHPC
Predictions for HPC in 2020
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow from OCF predicts that containerization, cloud, and GPU-based workloads are all going to dominate the HPC environment in 2020. "Over the
…
From insideHPC
The GigaIO FabreX Network – New Frontiers in Networking For Big Data
GigaIO has developed a new whitepaper to describe GigaIO FabreX, a fundamentally new network architecture that integrates computing, storage, and other communication I/O into a single-system cluster network, using industry standard…
From Schneier on Security
Voatz Internet Voting App Is Insecure
This paper describes the flaws in the Voatz Internet voting app: "The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in U.S. Federal Elections." Abstract: In the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soul Machines: Avatars for AI Presence
Brought to my attention and related to work recent and past.
Soul Machines is Humanizing Computing to Better Humanity Some examples.
Democratizing and Disrupting the Economics of Human Interaction
Where Deep Science & Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Human Expertise
Useful examination of delivering expertise, human and otherwise.
Crate and Barrel marries human expertise with tech advances in a new concept store by Matthew Stern
Crate and Barrel is piloting a standalone store concept that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Expressions Don't Tell Whole Story
Blatantly Obvious, which we explored in a number of cases. It can be one input into may vectors, it may tell only a very minor part of the story, or none at all. It can lead to categorizing useful behavior for kinds of goals…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Beetle Math Puzzle
Lessons from a puzzle about prime numbers [ Wikipedia ] Doron Zeilberger is a famous combinatorial mathematician based at Rutgers. He is noted for actively using computers in research. His computers even get co-authorship credit…
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC Workshop On In Situ Visualization 2020
The ISC Workshop On In Situ Visualization 2020 has issued its Call for Participation. The event takes place June 25 in Frankfurt, Germany. "We encourage contributed talks on methods and workflows that have been used for large…
From Computational Complexity
Pre-(Publish and Perish)
Guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis
Quite a few posts have recently focused on papers,publications and venues;
"optimal" venues for papers under different objective functions,e.g.
minimizing carbon footprint while maximizing…
From insideHPC
Video: Toward a General AI-Agent Architecture
Richard S. Sutton from DeepMind Alberta gave this talk NeurIPS 2019. "In practice, I work primarily in reinforcement learning as an approach to artificial intelligence. I am exploring ways to represent a broad range of human
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bioprinting the Very Small
Impressive capability, with many possible healthcare applications.
Printing Tiny, High-Precision Objects in Seconds
EPFL (Switzerland)
Sarah Perrin
February 13, 2020
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Smart Diaper : Now with RFID
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Cubesat Satellites
In FastCompany, I had mentioned the worry about them polluting space. Here a further issue when you put so many targets up there. I assume the threat is being carefully considered,but consider too that new hacks are constantly…
From insideHPC
Video: Overview of HPC Interconnects
Ken Raffenetti from Argonne gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement,…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University
CIRC at Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Ideal candidates should have in-depth experience with the provisioning and administration of HPC clusters. Applicants who have…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–February 2020
The Scholarships Committee announces the first awardees of 2020.
Reflections on womENcourage 2019 are a part of the ACM-W Europe report.
ACM-W North America welcomes its newest student chapter- California State University at…
From Putting People First
Participo, a new digest on OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation
The first post, by Participo editor Claudia Chwalisz, reflects on how the OECD can help renew democracy in an age of complexity and disillusionment.
From Putting People First
Scrutinizing the effects of digital technology on mental health
Does time spent using digital technology and social media have an adverse effect on mental health, especially that of adolescents?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Understanding Language
Have seen a number claims recently of how good machine understanding of human language had advanced. Here is a contrary view. Its all hack to the basics of common sense.
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
AI still doesn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and MRO Inventory Data
Another problem we often tangled with in the enterprise:
Maintenance Repair Operations
Artificial Intelligence wades through murky MRO Inventory Data to drive down costs with better business decisions
Webinar from Verusen and Accenture…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Are as Intelligent as Dogs
More news based on the squid brain MRI scan: the complexity of their brains are comparable to dogs. 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…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Stretchy Electronics
More on skin friendly electronics solutions.
Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
Next-generation devices made with new “peel and stack” method may include electronic chips worn on the skin.
Watch Video…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'll be at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. On Wednesday, February 26, at 2:50 PM, I'll be part of a panel on "How to Reduce Supply Chain Risk: Lessons from…