Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
From Yoshua Bengio
Generative Flow Networks
I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection…
L’article Generative Flow Networks est apparu en premier sur Yoshua…From The Eponymous Pickle
65 Competencies
Not all should be needed for all contexts, but the list is useful for breadth of consideration. Considerable article summarizes their application and evolution well.
65 Competencies: Which Ones Should Your Data Analytics Experts…From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Chip Shortage from Ukraine War
New element of our supply chainto consider.
Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spur Another Global Chip Shortage By Wired, March 2, 2022
Ukraine is just one of a series of choke points in the global semiconductor industry.
On Thursday…From The Eponymous Pickle
Homomorphic Data Issues
Less than total security?
Researchers Can Steal Data During Homomorphic Encryption
By NC State University News, March 4, 2022
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) and Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University haveHomomorphic…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2022 Day 2
The morning keynote was by Barbara Ericson. She talked about a lot of her early work including some of her online books CSAwesome and her work with the free online CS textbooks at Runestone Academy. I need to look at these some…
From insideHPC
Singapore Healthcare to Acquire Nvidia Supercomputer
The Singapore healthcare service, SingHealth, and the Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NCSS) announced the acquisition of an Nvidia supercomputer during this week’s SupercomputingAsia (SCA22) conference. “The collaborations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Digital Infrastructure
Good overview
How Do Digital Infrastructures Increase a Firm’s Value? by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
“In the information age, the value of a firm rests fundamentally on how it stores, shares and processes information,” wrote Seth“Digital…From insideHPC
HPC4EI Virtual Event: Focus on Materials on April 8
March 4, 2022 — The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will host a virtual event, “Focus on Materials,” on April 8, 2022 at 8 am Pacific Time. Speaker profiles and the agenda can be found here. The HPC4EI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Vannevar Bush
Good piece on essential Bush, his work was influential to me.
The Essential Vannevar Bush Quotes by G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EEs…From insideHPC
Exascale: Aurora Early Adopter Series March 30 – Data Parallel Python, Bringing oneAPI to Python
March 4, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold an online event on Wednesday, March 30 at 11 am Central Time as part of its Aurora Early Adopter Series – Praveen Kundurthy, Intel senior technical evangelist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Fighting Cyber War too
Not unexpected, now and in the future.
Ukraine says it is fighting first 'hybrid war' in the BBC
By Joe Tidy, Cyber reporter
Ukraine's cyber-security authority says it is fighting a war in the digital realm, as well as on the…From BLOG@CACM
Making Bad Decisions
In software engineering, many technical decisions are context-dependent, and there are often complex edge cases to consider.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Validating Non-Fungible Tokens
Considerable detailed piece. Obviously key to their usage.
Validating NFTs, By Keith Kirkpatrick, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 3, 2022
The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) exploded last year, reaching a trading value…From The Eponymous Pickle
Joystick Immersion for VR
Better immersion in VR.
For Better Immersion in VR: Flying Joysticks
Via Informations dienst Wissenschaft
February 22, 2022
At Germany's University of Duisburg-Essen, researchers have developed a toolkit for flying control elements…From BLOG@CACM
High-Performance Mobile System-on-Chip Clusters
Simply stating the problem is not enough; it is necessary to look for a quick way out of the situation, relying on available resources.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2022 Day 1
SIGCSE 2022 is my first in-person conference in over 2.5 years. It’s my first SIGCSE in a lot longer than that. It looks to be a great conference . There are 1518 people registered in total with 780 attending in person. I HAD…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon EcoVistas
Like the idea that this is addressing a system rather than just one, or a few simplistic measures.
Amazon EcoVistas to Guide Sustainable Dam Siting
The Engineer (U.K.), February 18, 2022
Researchers at the nonprofit Cary Institute…From insideHPC
IonQ’s Barium Systems Demonstrate Qubit Readout Performance
COLLEGE PARK, MD – March 3, 2022 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today published results from its new barium-based quantum computer showing its state detection fidelity. The results reflect a 13x reduction in state…
From insideHPC
2022 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition: 12 Teams from HPCUs and HSIs
The 2022 Intersect360 Research Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is off and running, with 12 teams of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Whole Foods
Inevitable moves to make retail more labor efficient and error free.
Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods, By The New York Times, March 2, 2022
"Would you like to sign in with your palm?"
That was the question a"Let's…From insideHPC
D-Wave, CaixaBank Group Collaborate on Quantum for Finance Industry
Valencia, Spain and Burnaby, BC, Canada – March 3, 2022 – CaixaBank, a financial group in Spain, and D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced the business results for two…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces March 2022 HPC User Forum
ST PAUL, Minn., March 2, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced that registration is open for the HPC User Forum’s March 2022 virtual meeting. As with previous HPC User Forum virtual events, the upcoming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Biometric Doorbells
Expect more biometrics for security.
In the Future, Amazon's Ring Doorbell Might Use Biometric Data to Surveil Neighborhoods
The company has been awarded patents for using smell and skin texture to identify a "suspicious" person…From Computational Complexity
REU programs in general, and two at Univ of MD this summer.
REU stands for Research Experience for Undergraduates.
REU programs are funded by the NSF. The NSF website of REU programs is here.
Univ if MD at College Park dept of Comp Sci is running two REU programs this summer:
I (William…From insideHPC
Cyberwar: Microsoft Comes to Ukraine’s Aid Combating Russian Malware
“I’ve never seen it work quite this way, or nearly this fast. We are doing in hours now what, even a few years ago, would have taken weeks or months.” -- Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust, Microsoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will No-Code Win?
Great piece, continuing to consider
By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 1, 2022
The history of computing is rife with advances that have made things easier for the common user.Yet…From insideHPC
Arcitecta Wins Data Management Awards at Supercomputing Asia 2022
MELBOURNE and SINGAPORE – March 2, 2022 – Big data software company Arcitecta today announced that Mediaflux, its end-to-end data management platform, has been awarded the “Most Complete Solution” and “Best Software Architecture…
From insideHPC
Heavyweight UCIe Consortium Launched to Standardize Chiplet Ecosystem
A consortium of tech industry heavyweights today announced the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) industry consortium with a mission to establish a die-to-die interconnect standard and foster an open chiplet ecosystem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning is a Bad Idea for Security
Deep Learning Is a Bad Idea for Security
By Fortune February 28, 2022
Zulfikar Ramzan is the chief scientist and CEO of Aura Labs.
Ramzan holds a controversial belief regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and security: "I think…From The Eponymous Pickle
Defense of Personal Data
Chip said to aid personalization
Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data
By MIT News February 25, 2022
Saurav Maji and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an integrated circuit chip that…