Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation
Considerable claim here,
A New Realm of Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation
Ben Paul | February 1, 2021
Researchers’ “skeleton key” can unlock a brain.
Machine-learning models developed by researchers at the University…From insideHPC
ATPESC – Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing – Sets March 1 Application Deadline
Argonne National Laboratory said today it has established a March 1 deadline to apply for an opportunity to learn the tools and techniques needed to carry out research on the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Applications…
From insideHPC
Women in Data Science to Host March 8 Virtual Regional Event at Livermore
Women in Data Science (WiDS) will host its fourth WiDS Livermore regional event “to encourage our community of women in computing.” Attendees will watch WiDS Stanford Livestream as well as feature Lab-focused technical talks,…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Getting Applications Aurora-Ready
This episode of Let’s Talk Episode from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project is the first in a series on best practices in preparing applications for the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Accepting Proposals – 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
The following is an announcement from Microsoft Research. We are currently accepting proposals for the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant through March 22, 2021. You can read more about the grant and find instructions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking
Worked on something similar, positioned for looking at product designs. Wlaking through thigs can give you ideas about design.
Software Allows Scientists to 'Walk Inside' Samples
Australian National University February 3, 2021…From insideHPC
Case Study: How Shearwater Technology Quadrupled its Capabilities with PSSC Labs
In this case study whitepaper, PSSC Labs, provider of custom, on-premise high performance computing HPC systems designed to meet clients’ unique enterprise computing challenges, shows how an on-premise HPC cluster can take your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms for Vaccine Distribution
Completely Non technical introduction to modeling distribution algorithms. A very supply chain problem.
Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, Who Gets Them? The Algorithms Decide
The New York Times, Natasha Singer, February 7, 2021
Trump…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Mapping Bacteria
Intrigued by the idea of mapping some complex, yet still varying topography. The morphology and how that can be used to understand its functional characteristics.
AI to Map Our Intestinal Bacteria University of Copenhagen…From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC – Big Changes at Intel: Gelsinger Takes the Helm
Our main topic today is Intel, with the bulk of the discussion surrounding the return of Pat Gelsinger as Intel’s new CEO. Pat was a 30-year veteran of Intel before he left to pursue other, well, pursuits – most notably as CEO…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spelling in the MS AI Research Blog
Had not thought the idea of capturing spellings in multiple languages was important, but this piece makes the point.
Microsoft details Speller100, an AI system that checks spelling in over 100 languages Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa in India
Apparently quite popular in India. I did a quick survey of contacts in Germany and could not get much response. Will look more deeply. Anyone with a pointer to other country stats?
Amazon Highlights Alexa’s Popularity to Celebrate…From BLOG@CACM
When Did the Digital Age Begin?
There is no clear answer.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inhalio: Cloud Based Digital Scent
Brought back to my attention. We had worked in the understanding and delivery of scent systems in retail through our future store innovation center. Met with a company called Inhalio. Just revisited their work in this area…
From Computational Complexity
The Victoria Delfino Problems: an example of math problems named after a non-mathematician
If you Google Victoria Delfino you will find that she is a real estate agent in LA (well, one of the Victoria Delfino's you find is such). After this blog is posted you may well get this post on the first Google page.
If you…From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Vision Papers via KDNuggets
Great often inspirational, leading edge AI stuff. Technical details. From KDNuggets. Most have good embedded video explanations.
The top 10 computer vision papers in 2020 with video demos, articles, code, and paper reference…From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs Created from AI
An argument like all leading emergent tech will create more jobs than it destroys.
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How
By Byron Reese -Jan 01, 2019 in the Singularity Web
In the past few years, artificial…From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring the Quantum World
Exploring the Quantum World: An index to Ars Technica's, a multi part view of the science behind Quantum. By physicist Miguel F. Morales Prof at U of Washington. While non-mathematical, it is long with lots of little experiments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Healthcare Changed
And have been in the middle of it. Innovation is growing. Good overview piece:
How Healthcare Changed in 2020
By Katherine Boyarsky | January 7, 2021 Owl Labs
In 2020, the way the world functioned changed. With stay-at-homeOne…From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Chip Research
Smaller, faster chips to learn and deliver.
Qualcomm research could lower the barriers to visual AI everywhere, By Jack Gold in Venturebeat
Demand is growing for AI solutions that process images from cameras and other photo sensors…From The Eponymous Pickle
Where did Those Images come From?
Worked on an image recognition problem that could have used this approach to determine where certain images where coming from, either to validate them, or to determine which needed to be removed after attribution. Only reflects…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biomimicking Learning by DragonFly
Like the idea of biomimicry for certain adaptive robotic abilities, here an example at a fairly low level. Technical.
Bio-Inspired Robotics: Learning From Dragonflies By Kiel University (Germany), January 28, 2021
Scientists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality to Assess Cognitive Abilities
Heard of this kind of approach somewhere. Either for determining brain and tactile health, or to use after specialized training, to assess abilities.
Researchers create virtual reality cognitive assessment
by Center for BrainHealth…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 6th 2021)
You can use artificial intelligence and satellite images to count the number of elphants found in the wild. It appears that a billion people on Earth now use an iPhone. The number would be higher if not for the pandemic. A supplement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Password Autofill for Security
Starting to see this more generally provided by browsers, here is one from MS. Which should lead to better passwords, if we assume the MS site remains secure. Being free and multi platform is important. Still requires acceptance…
From insideHPC
EPCC Selects Cerebras Systems AI Supercomputer
Los Altos, Calif. & Edinburgh, UK — Cerebras Systems, the high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute company, and EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, today announced the selection of what…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, will present “How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Asymtomatic Carrier
Would appear to be very big thing if it works significantly, as it suggests below.
AI Predicts Asymptomatic Carriers of Covid-19
IEEE Spectrum, Emily Waltz, February 2, 2021
Researchers at technology company Synergies Intelligent…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA to Develop a Mentoring Program for NSF’s CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship
In response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate’s recently announced CSGrad4US Fellowship program, the Computing Research Association’s Education (CRA-E)…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Live Giant Squid Found in Japan
A giant squid was found alive in the port of Izumo, Japan. Not a lot of news, just this Twitter thread (with a couple of videos).
As usual…If confirmed, I believe this will be the THIRD time EVER a giant squid was filmed alive!