Communications of the ACM
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March 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recent Posts relating to Pandemic Conditions and Related Emergent Tech
Recent posts that relate to Contravirus and COVID-19 in this blog. Primarily dealing with data, prediction, data visualization, Modeling, communication, AI and emergent technologies role in addressing pandemic issues. Please…
From insideHPC
NPR Podcast: Scientists Use Supercomputers To Search For Drugs To Combat COVID-19
In this segment from the NPR Here and Now program, Joe Palca talks to researchers using ORNL supercomputers to fight COVID-19. "Supercomputers have joined the race to find a drug that might help with COVID-19. Scientists are
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM, Oracle Team for WHO Virus Data Hub: MiPasa
Now have looked at lots of sites claiming to provide accurate data in this space, and it is clear you can drive wrong results from much that is out there. So this effort addresses a need.
World Health Organization Teams With…
From insideHPC
Video: Quantum Computing and Supercomputing, AI, Blockchain
Shahin Khan from OrionX.net gave this talk at the Washington Quantum Computing Meetup. "A whole new approach to computing (as in, not binary any more), quantum computing is as promising as it is unproven. Quantum computing goes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Multisensory Adventures
Vint Cerf on a favorite topic. The senses. He points to two inspirational books on the topic. We are starting to 'understand' senses, at least if we use as a measure how we are able to mimic them.
Multisensory Adventures
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Objects
More advances in fast vision systems.
Optical System Could Lead to Devices That Can Recognize Objects Instantly
UCLA Newsroom
Matthew Chin
March 4, 2020
An optical neural network developed at the University of California, Los Angeles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of the AI Risk Manager
In our day this was integrated with other kinds of analysis and management. It may well make sense to focus this more generally.
The emergence of the professional AI risk manager
By Kenn So in Venturebeat
When the 1970s and
We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rand on Force Planning
Rand piece on the topic developed for Military scenarios, but could it be used for systems that include coopetition as well? Costs, resources, strategies.
Force Planning in the New Era of Strategic Competition
The RAND Blog
March…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10B–Plan? What Plan?
When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started I had a plan for every singe school day for every one of my classes. They were greatSo…
From Computational Complexity
Robin Thomas
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 28th 2020)
In a laboratory, we know how to turn any of our cells into youthful stem cells using something called the Yamanaka. If you expose cells to such factors for a short time, they appear to remain functional specialized cells butContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low-Code Taking Over
Ultimately this will take over for most coding.
Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development By Nitin Nimbalkar -
Today’s businesses are implementing enriching their operations with capabilities little by
At…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Scientist at the University of Wyoming
The Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous media (COIFPM) at the University of Wyoming has multiple openings for highly motivated research scientists to join its computational research branch. The focus of the modeling
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10A –I'm One of the Lucky Ones
There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular online synchronous teaching like my school is doing to no school at all. A range in between…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The COVID-19 Virus and What the Recommendations Mean
Very nicely done, just eight minutes plus animated video about the topic. For the whole family to understand. By the German Kurzgesagt animation studio.
Kurzgesagt Animation Studio (with other language translations)
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their Own Genome
Amazing: Revealing yet another super-power in the skillful squid, scientists have discovered that squid massively edit their own genetic instructions not only within the nucleus of their neurons, but also within the axon -- the…
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research Lowers 2020 HPC Market Forecast for COVID-19
Intersect360 Research has released a new report guiding its clients that the market for HPC products and services will fall significantly short of its previous 2020 forecast, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The newly-revised…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watermarking Control Data for Safety from Hackers
Thoughtful and apparently simple idea.
Approach Could Protect Control Systems From Hackers
IEEE Spectrum
Michelle Hampson
March 26, 2020
Researchers at Siemens and Croatia’s University of Zagreb have developed a technique to more
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Linden Labs Gives up on VR Spin off
Note our examination of virtual world retail, mentioned here earlier. This piece gives us a look at the current status of world tech with current supporting tech like VR. Last I looked SL was not heavily used.
Why 'Second Life'…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Releases Milestone Report
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has published a milestone report that summarizes the status of all thirty ECP Application Development (AD) subprojects at the end of fiscal year 2019. "This report…
From insideHPC
WekaIO Receives Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award
Today WekaIO announced that The Business Intelligence Group has named Weka a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. “the WekaFS file system can deliver 80 GB/sec of bandwidth to a single GPU server,
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From insideHPC
New Intel oneAPI DevCloud makes it easier for coders working from home
Today Intel introduced the oneAPI DevCloud to make it easier and more productive for coders currently working from home. "Developing code at home requires access to compute cycles, the latest software development tools, access…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Autopilot Detecting Traffic Lights
From insideHPC
Manufacturing Engineers can turn to Cloud HPC for Work from Home
In this special guest feature, Wolfgang Gentzsch from the UberCloud describes how engineers can perform work from home in the same way they do at their offices, while maintaining or even increasing productivity. "In our short…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Novel Risks in the Enterprise
Something we studied in some detail, solution was to have sufficient knowledge and resources, internal and access to external to be able to address the context of such problems. Making them less 'Novel'. Not sure how well…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning
On the safety of Reinforcement Learning. Considerable,largely technical piece.
Physically Realistic Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Bair Berkeley By Adam Gleave
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved superhuman…
From insideHPC
LLNL Researchers aid COVID-19 response in anti-viral research
Backed by five high performance computing (HPC) clusters and years of expertise in vaccine and countermeasure development, a COVID-19 response team of LLNL researchers from various disciplines has used modeling & simulation,
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10–When Remote is Really Remote
For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Cambodia. This year I have had two from China who have gone home already because of COVID…
From Schneier on Security
Story of Gus Weiss
This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Joins Hyperledger
Wal-Mart's early looks at this seem to be identification and tracking related supply chain applications. Is this an indication of further dives into the space?
Walmart Joins Hyperledger Alongside 7 Other Companies By Samuel…