Communications of the ACM
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February 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots not Coming?
Takeover no, but they will be here, collaborating.
Those predictions of a robot takeover may not come to fruition.
By Efraim Benmelech in Kellogg
In 1987, at the beginning of the IT-driven technological…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Canadian Common CV and the captured academy
Most Canadian academics have to write their resumes using a government online tool called the Common CV. When it was first introduced, it was described as a time-saving tool: instead of writing your resume multiple times forContinue…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from Africa
Submitted by Abigail Oppong, Ashesi University ACM-W Student Chapter, GhanaEdited by Jennifer Goodall, ACM-W Connections Newsletter Editor Over the years, the ACM-W Community has been very instrumental in having the activities…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: Wirth Research Talks (and Walks) HPC for Cutting Carbon Footprints
[Sponsored Content] In this interview, part of our series conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, UK-based engineering firm Wirth Research talks about using HPC to cut its clients carbon footprints – specifically, supermarket…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Laws of Computing
Not so much laws, but rather general indications of past trends that may usefully hold in the future. or not. Here some proposals for mew laws.Good for tracking against new data.
Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New laws of Computing…From insideHPC
Intel Unveils Dual-track (Performance/Efficiency) Xeon Roadmap through 2024
At Intel’s investor day event in San Francisco yesterday, the company unveiled a dual-track the roadmap for its Xeon data center chip through 2024 – one track emphasizing high performance (P-core Sapphire Rapids), the other energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistant use on Smart Phones
Less use? Is it a matter of context and environment, or capability?
BRET KINSELLA on February 9, 2022 at 4:51 pm in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepspeed Inference and Training for AI Scale, Mixture of Experts.
Considerable Technical Piece from Microsoft. Much like the idea of 'mixture of experts' to broaden contextual results, could have often used it in the day.
DeepSpeed: Advancing MoE inference and training to power next-generation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Nuclear Power still Phasing Out?
A long time follower of nuclear, and sometime analyzer of its value, and a believer that its danger was over-hyped. Is it really now over? Or will it survive? Here from IEEE Spectrum one look, overview below:
Is Europe’s…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: The 9 – Wait, the 10 – Key Drivers of the Tech-Driven World to Come
The world is increasingly tech-dominated, but what are the major tech drivers? In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan and Doug Black propose a framework for understanding where tech -- most of it HPC-AI related tech
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare
Interesting example of the use of reinforcement learning.
Using reinforcement learning to identify high-risk states and treatments in healthcare
Published February 2, 2022
By Mehdi Fatemi , Senior Researcher Taylor Killian , PhD…From The Eponymous Pickle
Encoding Time for Machine Learning
Time encoding from NVIDIA. Time is the most valuable component for any model, even if you only gather time that you gathered the data.
Three Approaches to Encoding Time Information as Features for ML Models
By Eryk Lewinson …From insideHPC
Rigetti Reports 99.5% Fidelities on Quantum-Classical Chip
Berkeley, CA, Feb. 17, 2022 — Quantum-classical systems developer Rigetti Holdings announced today it has achieved entangling gate fidelities as high as 99.5% on its next-generation chip architecture, “crossing what is believed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Brain Inspired Computing
Computers taking hints from brain designs? Neuromorphic. Note that Spiking neural networks new to me, will examine.
AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
Allison Whitten, Contributing Writer, Quanta Magazine…From insideHPC
Toshiba, JPMorgan Chase, Ciena Announce Quantum-secure Network for Blockchain
Feb. 17, 2022 — JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and networking systems company Ciena announced today they have demonstrated a viable quantum key distribution (QKD) network for metropolitan areas that is resistant to quantum computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Outside Perspective for Innovative Breakthroughs
Outside and economically relevant.
Why Outside Perspectives Are Critical for Innovation Breakthroughs
Lessons from the story of Dr. Patricia Bath, the inventor of modern cataract surgery and the first African American woman to…From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Automating Drive Throughs
Mentioned this previously, and our connection with the project. Long pre Covit. This should heavily influence such automated takeout capabilities. Watson involvement of interest.
McDonald's and IBM could bring AI-powered…From insideHPC
Edge NVMe Storage for Autonomous Vehicles
In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, indicates that as new developments and technologies in HPC are introduced, the need for more capture, compute, and storage in autonomous vehicles…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Troubles with Error Messages
Error messages, in theory, are there to help programmers. Of course there are problems with then in practice. With students, the biggest problem is that they don’t read the messages. I’ve long ago lost count of the times a student…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Underground Fashion Maps
Mapping fashion senses, uses in advertising? beyond?
'Underground maps' segment cities using fashion, AI
by Cornell University in Techxplore
Cornell computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence framework…From insideHPC
Cloud HPC: AMD Announces Amazon EC2 C6a Instance
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the expansion of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances.
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From BLOG@CACM
Data Anonymization Using the Random Sum Method
The purpose of this blog post is to present an anonymization method that can be applied to the digital attributes of personal data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Krafton Virtual Beings?
An advance in virtual beings in the Metaverse?
Korean Gaming Giant Krafton Introduces AI-Powered Virtual Beings for New Metaverse Platform by Eric Hal Schwartz
Korean video game developer Krafton has debuted hyperrealistic virtual…From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of AI as Business Imperative
Examples of AI in action:
Your AI strategy’s secret ingredient, by 7wData
AI is increasingly becoming a business imperative. Nine in 10 Fortune 1000 companies are not only investing in AI, but are increasing those investments,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Claimed
More fusion progress reprted.
Scientists make breakthrough with nuclear fusion record in DW
European researchers have leaped closer to making nuclear fusion a practical energy source for humanity. It's the same power-generating…From insideHPC
Altair Acquires Cassini for Development of Digital Thread Technology
TROY, Mich., Feb. 16, 2022 — Computational science and AI software company Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired Cassini, a next-generation cloud native technology for Industry 4.0. Altair said the acquisition deepens its expertise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata – The Magic Behind Data Fabric
Topquadrant talks active metadata.
Metadata – The Magic Behind Data Fabric
by Irene Polikoff | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog from Topquadrant
The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver theSo…From insideHPC
Atos Unveils Multi-architecture BullSequana XH3000 Supercomputer
Atos today unveiled BullSequana XH3000 supercomputer, a hybrid computing platform based on the OpenSequana architecture enabling the system to be powered by CPUs and GPUs architectures from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and, eventually,…
From insideHPC
Sandia: Algorithm Could Shorten Quality Testing, Research in Industries by Months
ALBUQUERQUE, February 15, 2022 — A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia National Laboratories could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way to test bulk materials…
From insideHPC
Argonne, University Researchers Team to Make Data FAIR for AI
In a new study, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have laid out new…