Communications of the ACM
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February 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots are Marching in
Beyond automotive, Robots are being considered for many things.
Robots Marched On in 2021, with Record Orders by North American firms in Reuters
February 2, 2022 in Reuters
More robots joined the U.S. workforce last year than…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The end of the monopolistic web era?
Except maybe in totalitarian states, you cannot ever have a single publisher. Most large cities had multiple independent newspapers. In recent years, we saw a surge of concentration regarding newspaper and television ownership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Log4J
Jeremy Colvin in Darkreading
Technical Product Marketer, Uptycs
"Well done"…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Claude Shannon Helped Kick-start Machine Learning
Shannon was an early hero, Brooks welk nown for his work in modern robotics
How Claude Shannon Helped Kick-start Machine Learning The “father of information theory” also paved the way for AI by Rodney Brooks Jan 2022
Among…From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to NVIDIA EGX Platform: One Architecture for Every Workload
[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 Computational Complexity
PSPACE is contained in Zero Knowledge!! How come nobody seems to care?
(This post was inspired by Lance's post on Zero Knowledge, here, which was inspired by a video he has in the post which was inspired by... (I think this ordering is well founded.))
ZK= Zero Knowledge.
When it was shown that NP…From The Eponymous Pickle
$1.4 trillion ? Big Tech’s pandemic year produces mind-boggling financial results
Pandemic effect on Tech Profit ....
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft collectively increased their profit more than 55% in 2021 from a base that was already a record, while sales grew 27% to a total that would make…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Fighter Aircraft
With some interesting autopilot history, and here with some DARPA experience:
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots By The New Yorker, January 21, 2022
In a cloudless morning last May, a pilot took off from the Niagara Falls International…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo Noodles at Olympics
Been a long time follower of automated food preperation and delivery and its link to effective supply chains. Here another recent example, looking for more detail. Could it also ultimately effect, as is implied here, less…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro-Sized Camera will Turn Nanorobots into Photographers
Quite an interesting thing here. A new way to use sensors;
This Micro-Sized Camera will Turn Nanorobots into Photographers - News WWC By Steven
Nanorobotics, like graphene, have been trending topics in research for years but…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey: State of AI
McKinsey: The state of AI in 2021
A majority of companies now adopt AI, and leaders are using more sophisticated tools and practices.
December 8, 2021 | Survey
The results of our latest McKinsey Global Survey…From BLOG@CACM
Blockchain For What, Exactly?
Considering the real-world consequences of blockchain hype.
From insideHPC
Quantum: Argonne Reports Preservation of Qubit Memory for 5+ Seconds
A major challenge in quantum computing has been short lifespan of memory, or coherence, held in qubits, quantum’s version of a bit. To date, information is stored in qubits for microseconds or milliseconds. But a team of researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphone COVID Forecasting
Another example from Cellphone data, had seen previous examples that were unsuccessful
COVID Forecasting Method Using Hospital, Cellphone Data Can Reliably Guide U.S. Cities Through Pandemic Threats
University of Texas at Austin…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Revolution in Haptics
An area we worked in within innovation labs with consumers, how do products feel in context?
A Revolution in Haptics By Paul Marks Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 3, 2022
Force-feedback devices like haptic gloves and gaming…From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Open Innovation Lab
Calgary, Alberta. February 4, 2022 – CoolIT Systems, the global leader in scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC) for desktops and data centers, has officially opened their Liquid Lab innovation center, further solidifying…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: Dell’s Jay Boisseau on Data Growth Outpacing Moore’s Law, the HPC-AI Divide-Convergence and Beating Zoom Fatigue
[SPONSORED CONTENT] Jay Boisseau, HPC & AI Technology Strategist at Dell Technologies and organizer of the Dell Technologies HPC Community meetings, is one of the big personalities of HPC, someone who brings energy and insight…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Poker and Game Theory
Re Game-theory Optimal Poker
The Wall Street Journal, Oliver Roeder, January 13, 2022
Researchers at the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group in Canada pioneered game theory mathematics…From insideHPC
IBM to Install Quantum System in Quebec as Part of HPC-AI Partnership
Quebec, Canada – The Government of Quebec and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a partnership involving quantum computing, AI, semiconductors and high-performance computing (HPC) through the launch of the Quebec-IBM Discovery
…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Next Big Thing?
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy—Bill Maris UW History page Margaret O’Mara is a historian at the University of Washington. She specializes in the history of Silicon Valley. Of course we are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Youtube Site
Was just informed that the Informs Group had a Youtube presence.
Worth a look, have now established a connection will be sharing insight. https://www.youtube.com/user/INFORMSonline/about
INFORMS — Institute for Operations Research…From The Eponymous Pickle
Frig Controller for Quantum Computing
Fancy Refrigeration to Control Quantum Chips
In-Fridge Controller Could Scale Up Quantum Computers
University of Chicago Department of Computer Science, January 10, 2022
Scientists at the University of Chicago were able to control…From BLOG@CACM
R&D or r&d: What's the Difference?
Research produces generalized knowledge; Development produces generalized functionality. Not all efforts that use research skills or that use development skills are R&D.
From Putting People First
Designing for new forms of governance
ToNite project presented at Milan conference on design-led approaches to renewing public management and governance
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protein Behavior
Multiscale Model of Protein Behavior Linked to Cancer-Causing Mutations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, January 10, 2022
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) worked…From insideHPC
An Approach to Democratizing HPC-Style Computing
In this sponsored post, Ehsan Totoni, CTO of Bodo.ai, discusses opportunities to integrate a parallelization approach – capable of scaling to 10k cores or more - into popular cloud-based Data Warehouses to help speed large-scale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Uses of AI in Retail
Very useful, further pointing to a podcast Series
The Hidden Uses of AI in Retail
Altogether AI, Tech News from the Me.Myself and I Podcast Team
By Sam Ransbotham, Professor at Boston College; AI Editor at MIT Sloan Management Review…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New UA Testing of Social Media Platforms and Browsers Published
By the UASG Measurement Working Group Social Media Testing Highlights UA Gaps Social media has become a ubiquitous part of life for people around the globe with more than half of the world’s population using a form of social …
From Computational Complexity
The Beginnings of Zero-Knowledge
Wired runs this video series where topic expert explain concepts to five levels of difficulty, typically a child, teen, undergrad, grad student and expert. UCLA professor Amit Sahai took this on for zero-knowledge.
I'd recommend…From insideHPC
Upgrade for Supercomputer at Swinburne University of Technology
Feb. 1, 2022 — One of Australia’s most powerful supercomputers is getting a major upgrade, with Swinburne University of Technology designing and installing a new space-focused machine with the support of $5.2 million in funding…