Communications of the ACM
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February 2022
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing and Xanadu Partner on Quantum Software for Finance
TORONTO and SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN – Multiverse Computing, a maker of quantum computing software for the financial industry, and Xanadu, a full-stack photonic quantum computing company, announced today a joint partnership to expand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Easy Data Animation
Very nice piece by Vincent Granville, worth a read.
Data Animation: Much Easier than you Think!
By Vincent Granville, February 2, 2022 at 1:36 am in DSC
In this article, I explain how to easily turn data into videos. Data animations…From BLOG@CACM
A Semester Virtual Institute
We organized a semester virtual institute in the academic metaverse with researchers from around the world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gig Economies in the Post Pandemic
Good piece in Knowledge@Wharton .... How will it change post Pandemic?
How Workers Create Meaning in the Gig Economy
Jan 31, 2022 Research North America
Wharton management professor Lindsey Cameron was so committed to her research…From The Eponymous Pickle
Shifts in Space Exploration Investments?
Space: Investment shifts from GEO to LEO and now beyond in Mckinsey
Investors have recently focused on space investment in low earth orbit (LEO), but interest is growing in lunar and beyond orbital regimes. Here’s what you need…From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the AI Outlook
Good piece, the rest at the continuation link.
An AI Outlook, By Karen Emslie, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 1, 2022
Five global AI experts weigh in on the challenges they anticipate the technology will face, and potentially…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Hyperion Calls 2021 an Exceptional Year for HPC – Here’s Why
http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/010@HPCpodcast_HPC-Market-Sizing-Hyperion_20220201.mp3 Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research recently issued an HPC market update that was generally – and perhaps surprising, given…
From insideHPC
DDN and Shakti Claim Record on STAC-M3 Benchmark for Financial Trading
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Feb. 1, 2022 — DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, and Shakti Software, the provider of the of high performance database analytics, today announced record…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Automatically Generating Code is Hard
Worthwhile short example, below the intro
Why is Automatically Generating Code Hard?
Challenges in automatically generating code with Program Synthesis
A couple of years back, I was fascinated with a tool called FlashExtract. This…From insideHPC
ORNL’s Philip Roth Named SC24 General Chair
Philip Roth, a group leader in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the general chair of SC24. Roth will be responsible for…
From insideHPC
NextSim Project Announces Plans to Develop CFD HPC Code
Barcelona, 1 February 2022 – The NextSim project (CODA: Next Generation of Industrial Aerodynamic Simulation Code), funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and supported by the research and innovation…
From insideHPC
Define Tech Ltd. and CloudCIX Ltd. to Support Genomics Research at 7 Universities in Ireland
Galway, Ireland – Feb 1st, 2022: Define Tech, in partnership with CloudCIX, will establish a new cloud infrastructure, powered by open standards, to enable researchers at the SFI Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Genomics…
From insideHPC
ColdQuanta Reports 140% Bookings Increase and Nearly Doubled Headcount
BOULDER, CO, January 31, 2022 –Quantum ecosystem company ColdQuanta announced the completion of what it called “a milestone year in 2021, with significant momentum across all facets of the business including revenue, headcount…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFT and the Real Art World
Selling and reselling real Art?
Picasso's Descendants to Sell More Than 1,000 NFTs Linked to Never-Before-Seen Ceramic Work
By The Washington Post, January 31, 2022
Pablo Picasso's descendants plan to auction off more than 1,000…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nitrogen Sensors on Planes
Powerful Sensors on Planes Detect Crop Nitrogen with High Accuracy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences
Lauren Quinn, January 13, 2022
A team of University of Illinois…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tuberculosis Vaccine
An example of pharma design
Computational Models Move Researchers Closer to Tuberculosis Vaccine
UC San Diego News Center, Kimberly Mann Bruch, January 13, 2022
The University of Michigan's Denise Kirschner and colleagues are…