Communications of the ACM
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March 2019
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links for Computer Science Educators 19 March 2019
I haven’t done one of these for a while. I still Tweet or retweet a lot at @AlfredTwo but I needed a break. I’m not sure I will do this every week but I think I will shoot to do it from time to time.
Microsoft Education posted…From Schneier on Security
Triton
Good article on the Triton malware which targets industrial control systems....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mercedes Wants to Build a Mall
Building the rolling Channel.
Mercedes wants to turn your car into a comfortable shopping mall on wheels By Ronan Glon in DigitalTrends
Imagine the time you’d save if you could make dinner reservations for two, buy a new button…
From Putting People First
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger, Pinterist Unite for Data
What this looks like should be interesting. What will the 'Engaging Moments' look like? Better visual curation?
Kroger, Pinterest unite for data sharing
Kroger has joined with Pinterest to allow CPG brands to use first-party
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t read your data from a straw
It is common for binary data to be serialized to bytes. Data structures like indexes can be saved to disk or transmitted over the network in such a form. Many serialized data structures can be viewed as sets of ‘integer’ values…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford HAI Symposium
This symposium is going on now (Resumes at 12:40 EDT), and the recording will be at the same location:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSlatKnfqQ&feature=youtu.be
Artificial intelligence will be the most consequential technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Launches Institute for Human Centered AI
Before the last AI winter,we used Stanford and startups including their students and faculty, for consulting in AI based methods. Much more at the link:
Stanford News Service
Stanford University launches the Institute for Human…
From insideHPC
Intel and Cray to Build First USA Exascale Supercomputer for DOE in 2021
Today Intel announced plans to deliver the first exaflop supercomputer in the United States. The Aurora supercomputer will be used to dramatically advance scientific research and discovery. The contract is valued at more than…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast – Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Members Dan Lopresti (Lehigh University), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State), and James Cockayne (Centre for Policy Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speeding up Biological Imaging
An example of the sharing of methodology to create algorithms. Note also the replacement and augmentation of human process.
Researchers Use Algorithm From Netflix Challenge to Speed Up Biological Imaging
Optical Society of America…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Breakthrough for Quantum Computing
More hints at links between Quantum and AI methods.
Intel Offers AI Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
ZDNet By Tiernan Ray
Researchers at Intel and Hebrew University in Israel have defined an important proof for deep learning,…
From insideHPC
PNNL Leads Quantum Nexus Summit in Seattle
Today a coalition led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Microsoft Quantum, and the University of Washington will convene in Seattle to launch the Northwest Quantum Nexus. The invite-only Summit will establish a center…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ambient Computing on Alexa
Have not heard the term 'Ambient Computing' used too often, but is more general than voice. Indicates a more conversational, but also notifying and two other way interaction. I continue to like to add the inclusion of the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Funding Opportunities for the Computer Science Research Community
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering…
From insideHPC
Video: Solving I/O Slowdown and the “Noisy Neighbor” Problem
John Fragalla from Cray gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "In Oil and Gas, when using shared storage, mixed workloads can have a big impact on I/O performance causing considerable slowdown when running small I/O…
From insideHPC
Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand Speeds Machine Learning with NVIDIA
Today Mellanox announced that its HDR 200G InfiniBand with the “Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol” (SHARP) technology has set new performance records, doubling deep learning operations performance. The
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From BLOG@CACM
Calculating With Roman Numerals is Not So Difficult
How to deal with Roman numerals and without a sign for zero in an additive number system, if no hand abacus is available?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dilemma of Scraping Facial Data
Solving deep learning problems requires considerable and varied data. I was recently involved in such a problem which aimed to do facial demographics, learning and then do real-time classification. It was quickly determined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain as a Service with Blockchain
An interesting example of tracking, based on compliance using shared data, which seems to be the most common approach for Blockchain to date.
Blockchain Platform Leverages RFID Solution for Inventory Management in RFID Journal…
From insideHPC
2019: The Year of PCI Express 4.0
Computer systems are about to get a whole lot faster. This year starting at the high end of the market a transition will begin toward systems based on PCI Express 4.0. The interconnect speed will double to 64GB/sec in a 16 lane…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Curve for Quantum Computing
Intriguing look at how and why to use quantum computing. Somewhat technical view. See the editors note that this did not solve the problem posed. Also I observe that D-Wave is a specialized approach. By my reading the reconceptualizing…
From Schneier on Security
CAs Reissue Over One Million Weak Certificates
Turns out that the software a bunch of CAs used to generate public-key certificates was flawed: they created random serial numbers with only 63 bits instead of the required 64. That may not seem like a big deal to the layman,…
From Computational Complexity
Third Poll on P vs NP and related Questions is out now! And the winner is Harambe!
I took a poll of the theory community (and others) about P vs NP and related issues in 2002, 2012, and 2019 (sorry its not an arithmetic sequence --- read the third poll article to see why). The 2002 and 2012 polls are onhere…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Archive Seeks to Save Google+
In early projects we used the Internet Archive to document marketing efforts. We used the archive as a source of data and metadata of historical marketing. Now the archive has volunteered to save other parts of the Internet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Omnichannel Sales through Geospatial Analytics
Have seen and developed geospatial analytics for single and groups of locations. Typically for the case of adding stores. But this is different and quite intriguing. An examination of Omnichannel that includes the aspect
Supercharging…
From insideHPC
GPU Technology Conference to put HPC and Ai front and center
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) kicks off today in Silicon Valley. In this video, Ned Finkle from NVIDIA previews some of the public sector sessions this week at GTC. "GTC is the premier AI and deep learning conference…
From insideHPC
Panel session: Meeting compute demand for the energy industry in the next decade
In this video from the Rice Oil & Gas Conference, Andrew Jones from NAG moderates a panel session on the challenges for meeting computing-capacity demand in the energy industry for the next decade. "This panel gives an opportunity…
From BLOG@CACM
Computer Science Was Invented to Teach Everyone About Everything
Our goal should not be Computational Thinking, but Science, Mathematics, History, Engineering, and *Everything* Thinking.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice and Sound Identity
As we introduce voice interaction, we are also introducing sound as brand equity. This used to be common on TV and radio, will this work now? Or is the jingle or intro chime passe? And now as part of a conversation, is the…