Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mainstreaming of Additive Manufacturing
New and quite interesting to me;
The mainstreaming of additive manufacturing in McKinsey
March 15, 2022 | ArticleThe mainstreaming of additive manufacturing
After 40 years of development, what will it take for additive manufacturing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Work in the Era of no Retirement
Brought to my attention from the HBR. Do we or should we want this?
Getting the Best Out of the Five-Generation Workforce
A 6-part series.
Work in the Era of No Retirement. Longevity is an opportunity for companies — but only…From insideHPC
Cerebras and nference Launch NLP Collaboration
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – High performance AI compute company Cerebras Systems and nference, an AI-driven health technology company, today announced a collaboration to accelerate natural language processing (NLP) for biomedical research…
From insideHPC
GRC Launches Trial Program for Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling
AUSTIN,TEXAS –March 15, 2022 — Immersion cooling company GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) today announced the launch of its Immersion Cooling Pilot Program, a “Try Before You Buy” offering that allows data center owners and operators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Darpa Red Balloon
Worked with DARPA at one point, but not this effort.
Challenge is interesting but it seems somewhat ill defined.
Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge By Stuart Madnick
Communications of theIt…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Resilience of Gig Workers in China
I taught Chinese workers at Columbia, and was impressed. Another example?
China's Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses By Wired
Huang Hui, a Ph.D. candidate at King's College in London who spent six months as…From Computational Complexity
Problem X won't be solved in MY lifetime- but what about...
1) In 1989 on the episde The Royale of Star Trek: The Next Generation (which takes place in the far future) Captain Picard is working on Fermat's last theorem which he says quite explicitly is still open.
When I saw the episode…From The Eponymous Pickle
Has the Protein Folding Model Been Solved?
Now quite a long time ago we examined this problem and various solutions. Here revisting.
Deepmind Solves Protein Folding Problem with AI?
Not completely. Talk by Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJWAdZl…From insideHPC
DevOps Institute Announces 2022 SKILup Festival
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – March 15, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a professional member association for advancing DevOps, announced early bird registration for its first in-person event, SKILup Festival: A Live DevOps Educational Experience…
From insideHPC
Hailo and CVEDIA Team for Thermal Edge AI
Tel Aviv and London, March 15th, 2022 – AI chipmaker Hailo has announced a partnership with edge computer vision company CVEDIA to launch thermal edge AI solutions. The joint effort will combine CVEDIA’s computer vision expertise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Therapists and AI
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The therapists using AI to make therapy better
By Charlotte Jee and Will Douglas Heaven
Researchers are learning more about how therapy works by examining the language therapists use with clients. It could…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Are These the Last Digits of Pi?
Ghoulish reflections on whether mathematics is emergent Composite of src1, src2 Thomas Keller and Heiko Rölke led a team at the University of Applied Sciences in Graubünden, Switzerland, that set a new record for the computation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Augmenting Intelligence with AI
Interesting piece. How do you fit in ' AI' components into an intelligent assistant framework? Do we have the needed pieces? What else need to be built and enhanced.
AlphaFold, GPT-3 and How to Augment Intelligence with AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Good Advanced Science explaining: By Sabine Hossenfelder
Relatively recently discovered, science but mostly what would be called physics. Well done, but relatively technical. Ideal to catch up on the updates of the physics you learned in high school or college.
In her channel "Science…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robustly Labeled Graphs
Interesting and Technical piece in the Google AI Blog.
Robust Graph Neural Networks in The Google Blog
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Posted by Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientist and Qi Zhu, Research Intern, Google Research
Graph Neural…From insideHPC
BullSequana XH3000, Delivering the Full Exascale Solution
In this sponsored post, Jean-Pierre Panziera – High Performance Computing CTO, Atos, discusses how the BullSequana XH3000 which supports a large spectrum of hardware technologies and feature a rich software environment will be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bacteria Fingerprint ID
Identifying bacteria using Machine Learning.
'Fingerprint' ML Technique Identifies Bacteria in Seconds, KAIST (South Korea), March 4, 2022
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) combined…From The Eponymous Pickle
Another look at IOT and especially Healthcare Vulnerabilities
Seven key vulnerabilities mentioned.
Medical, IoT Devices Vulnerable to Attack
By Dark Reading, March 11, 2022
Researchers at Forescout's Vedere Labs cybersecurity intelligence team and CyberMDX cybersecurity service providerThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Tokamak Fusion
Continue to follow. Though have been warned recently about net energy produced measures that need to be considered.
A nuclear fusion device pushes plasma to a record-breaking 100 million degrees
We're edging closer to commercially…From The Eponymous Pickle
Post Quantum Encryption Cracking
If so, a problem for one kind of approach.
Encryption Meant to Protect Against Quantum Hackers Is Easily Cracked
By New Scientist, March 11, 2022, Comments
Ward Beullens at IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland easily cracked aRainbow…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Intelligence Builds Soft Machines
Softer is naturally more adaptable in a context.
Machine Intelligence Builds Soft Machines
By University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering, February 1, 2022
A machine learning framework developed by researchersThe…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W North America: Designing for Sustainability and Inclusion
In the summer of 2019, the ACM-W North America Executive Committee began the task of formally organizing. Led by Immediate Past Chair Dr. Monica McGill, the Committee embarked on the mission of supporting, celebrating, informing…
From Putting People First
[Book] Prototype Nation
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A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production by ethnographer Silvia M. Lindtner
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Human Level AI
Another look on the meaning of human level AI, and its implication for computing and beyond. Or the use of the word 'compatible' here.
Meta's Yann LeCun on His Vision for Human-level AI
By TechTalks, March 8, 2022 From CACM…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze
Mention of Carver Mead, who I followed for some time.
Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze By Scientific American, January 28, 2022
In the winter of 1997 Carver Mead lectured on an unusual topic for a computer…From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar: How Metadata Management Must Evolve to Support Data Fabric
Looks to be useful, plan to attend:
TopQuadrant: How Metadata Management Must Evolve to Support Data Fabric by Irene Polikoff | Mar 8, 2022 | Metadata Management, Webinars
About This Webinar
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 11:30 AM EDT
If…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Argonne’s Rick Stevens on AI for Science (Part 2) – Coming Breakthroughs, Ethics and the Replacement of Scientists by Robots
In part 2 of our not-to-be-missed @HPCpodcast with Argonne National Laboratory Associate Director Rick Stevens, he discusses some of the important advances that had, by 2015, likely ended the cycle of AI for science winters.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Break-Up?
Now seen it suggested in a number of places. An Internet breakup imminent? Implications for both 'sides'. In the BBC.
Russia-Ukraine: Is internet on verge of break-up? By Jane Wakefield, Technology reporter
The world, both…From The Eponymous Pickle
Caution with Deep Learning
From the Opinion section of ACM. Worth thinking about. Has it hit a wall? Cautious , yes, always.
Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall By Nautilus
Few fields have been more filled with hype and bravado than artificial intelligence…From insideHPC
GigaIO Wins TACC Contract for Composable HPC – AI Infrastructure
San Diego, March 10, 2022 – GigaIO, maker of data center rack-scale architecture for artificial intelligence and HPC, today announced that production has begun on their composable disaggregated infrastructure testbed in the Lonestar6…