Communications of the ACM
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February 2022
From insideHPC
American Mathematical Society Cancels Participation in 2022 ICM Conference in Russia
A statement from AMS President Ruth Charney: The AMS leadership is alarmed by the current situation in Ukraine and its implications for the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg…
From insideHPC
congatec Introduces x86-based COM-HPC Server
San Diego, February 24, 2022 congatec, a vendor of embedded and edge computing technology, announced the launch x86 based COM-HPC Server modules and the availability of three new Server-on-Module families parallel to the launch…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fun With Rounding Errors
I love xkcd cartoons. I came across this one thing morning that shows the benefits(?) or rounding up.
From Computational Complexity
I will be on instagram/If you have two reals in a box- Answer (Guest Post by David Marcus)
I will be on instragram:
We, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Prof. William Gasarch plan to have an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi this SAT FEB 26, 1:30PM EDT (in English).
We talk about our lives as well as blogging, research,#PvsNP…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Skills Kit
Amazon skill development reports a new set of area specific skills for use. How well does this support good assistance? Taking a closer look.
Build a Voice Skill That’s Just Right for You ....
With the Alexa Skills Kit, you…From insideHPC
HPE and Ayar Labs Partner to Bring Optical I/O to Slingshot Fabric for HPC and AI
HPC systems leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Ayar Labs, maker of chip-to-chip optical I/O connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to integrate silicon photonics within HPE's high performance Slingshot…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Configuring Robotic Cubes
Quite interesting application for space, and perhaps other complex environments for sensors?
by Rachel Gordon…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Enforcement by software
At my university, one of our internal software systems allows a professor to submit a revision to a course. The professor might change the content or the objectives of the course. In a university, professors have extensive freedom…
From insideHPC
Quantum: IonQ Claims 20 Algorithmic Qubits
Feb. 23, 2022 — Today, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced that IonQ Aria, the company’s latest quantum computer, has achieved a record 20 algorithmic qubits and has furthered its lead as the most powerful quantum computer in the industry…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: The Potboiler HPC Chip Business
It's a data center server chip industry that in five years has altered profoundly from Intel's unilateral dominance. The new, multilateral landscape delivers an endless source of innovation, rapid change and drama. Can Intel
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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Simons Awards for 2022
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful—James Welch Jin-Yi Cai is one of the 2022 winners of the Simons awards in mathematics. Congrats to him. Jin-Yi is a dear and long…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Details on Microsoft Singularity for AI Workflow
Worth a look, I will. Note indication of scheduling AI workloads.
Microsoft goes public with details on its 'Singularity' AI infrastructure service
Microsoft's Azure and Research teams are working together on the 'Singularity'…From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to NVIDIA EGX Platform: One Architecture for Every Workload – Part 3
[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide sponsored by PNY describes how the NVIDIA® EGX™ Platform provides a single architecture to meet every data center workload need. PNY aids in GPU selection and testing allowing partners to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning and Quantitative Finance
Of special interest, plan to attend:
March 16 Talk, "Deep Learning for Sequences in Quantitative Finance" with David Kriegman
Register now (and more info) for the next free ACM TechTalk, "Deep Learning for Sequences in Quantitative…From The Eponymous Pickle
Paying Attention to Attention: Meta-Awareness
Case of Segway struck me here. Reasonable?
University of Miami neuroscientist Amishi Jha explains why and how leaders should hone their meta-awareness. by Theodore Kinni in Strategy-Business
Once upon a time, the SegwayThere…From The Eponymous Pickle
VR 'Shopping Task' Could Help Test for Cognitive Decline in Adults
Does not sound surprising, is it the best measure?
VR 'Shopping Task' Could Help Test for Cognitive Decline in Adults
By King's College London (U.K.) News Center, February 4, 2022
A virtual reality (VR) test developed by researchers…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New Tests on Universal Acceptance (UA) Conformance of Programming Languages and Libraries Published
By the UASG Technology Working Group Since the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) was formed in 2015, it has focused on raising awareness of Universal Acceptance (UA) issues, providing support and measuring global progress…
From insideHPC
DOE: $150M for Chemical and Materials Science to Cut Climate Impacts of Energy Technologies and Manufacturing
Feb. 22, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $150 million in open funding for research projects focused on increasing efficiency and curbing carbon emissions from energy technologies and manufacturing.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
How will China Regulate AI
Regulation will be a good indication of the direction and seriousness of putting automated 'intelligence into IT functionality.
China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching By Wired, February 22, 2022
Wen Li, a Shanghai…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ruling the Metaverse
Or will it be one of the current big IT players?
Will BestBuy Rule the MetaVerse?
Matthew Stern in Retailwire
With more people than ever talking about an impending virtual reality revolution and speculating about an eventual consumer…From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Brings Hardware-Accelerated Optimizations to MPICH Library
The MPICH library is one of the most popular implementations of MPI.[i] Primarily developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) with contributions from external collaborators, MPICH has adhered to the idea of delivering a high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non Human Expression Ineligible for Copyright Protection
US at least finding in this case
The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art
By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy
The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art. Last week, a three…From insideHPC
NSF Extends TACC’S Stampede2 HPC System through mid-2023
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has extended operational funding for the Stampede2 supercomputer through June 2023. Prior to the extension, the life of the system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shape Shifting Robots
Saw early work in Japan leading in this direction. Notable for there human interaction.
Shape-shifting Robots Adapt With Cleverly Designed Bodies, Grippers Robots with shape-shifting grippers and bodies that snap into different…From Computational Complexity
I will be on Instagram/If you have two reals in a box.... (Guest Post by David Marcus)
I will be on instragram:
We, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Prof. William Gasarch plan to have an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi this SAT FEB 26, 1:30PM EDT (in English).
We talk about our lives as well as blogging, research,#PvsNP…From The Eponymous Pickle
Economists Look at Robotics Surge
More on the topic of robotics influencing employment.
Economists Are Revising Their Views on Robots and Jobs
By The Economist, February 16, 2022
When the pandemic first struck, unemployment soared. Not since the Depression had American…From The Eponymous Pickle
Firefox Browser Losing its Users?
Being influenced by browsers like MS Edge pushing theirs?
By Wired, February 17, 2022
At the end of 2008, Firefox was flying high. Twenty percent of the 1.5 billion people online were using Mozilla's browser to…From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT's Twist Quantum Programming Language
Meet Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language Keeping tabs on data entanglement keeps reins on buggy quantum code RINA DIANE CABALLAR
A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ordering Sat Imagery
SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR EVERYONE
Here’s how you can order up a high-resolution image of any place on Earth in IEEE Sectrum
EVERY DAY, SATELLITES circling overhead capture trillions of pixels of high-resolution imagery of the surface…From The Eponymous Pickle
Log4 Security Challenge
Good overview and prediction of its incfluence
A Source of Security Challenges for Years to Come
By David Geer, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 17, 2022
"Log4Shell is probably the most dangerous software vulnerability of its…