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April 2019


From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Fried Squid Recipe

Friday Squid Blogging: Fried Squid Recipe

This is an easy fried squid recipe with saffron and agrodolce. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....


From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of the Firm

Future of the Firm

In O'Reilly, about the firm, its future, and who is doing the work.  Today often part-time.  A considerable piece with lots of links to related work.

Future of the firm
Mapping the complex forces that are reshaping organizations…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Checklist for Debugging Networks

Checklist for Debugging Networks

Not a bad high level view.     I would consider also frequently reviewing goals, data stability, Data biases and measure or sensor errors,  trending results.  Make sure to involve domain experts in every results review.  Take…


From insideHPC

Supercomputing Aerodynamics in Paralympic Cycling

Supercomputing Aerodynamics in Paralympic Cycling

A project carried out at the National University of Ireland Galway and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and KU Leuven has been exploring the role of aerodynamic science in Paralympic cycling. "This work also opens the…


From insideHPC

Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Biomolecules

Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Biomolecules

Researchers are using HPC to design potentially life-saving proteins. In this TACC podcast, host Jorge Salazar discusses this groundbreaking work with the science team. "The scientists say their methods could be applied to useful…


From insideHPC

A look inside the White House AI Initiative

A look inside the White House AI Initiative

In this special guest feature, SC19 General Chair Michela Taufer discusses with Lynne Parker, Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Parker describes her new…


From insideHPC

Thermodynamics of Computation: Far More Than Counting Bit Erasure

Thermodynamics of Computation: Far More Than Counting Bit Erasure

David Wolpert from the Santa Fe Institute gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The thermodynamic restrictions on all systems that perform computation provide major challenges to modern design of computers. As a result, the …


From Schneier on Security

Unhackable Cryptography?

Unhackable Cryptography?

A recent article overhyped the release of EverCrypt, a cryptography library created using formal methods to prove security against specific attacks. The Quantum magazine article sets off a series of "snake-oil" alarm bells. The…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Power of Influencers

Power of Influencers

Reasonable introduction.  Its now been around for a long time.  Really since the beginning of all advertising, just now with the understanding that influencers come in many different forms, and can be better characterized and…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Kellogg Pilots Virtual Reality Merchandising Solution

Kellogg Pilots Virtual Reality Merchandising Solution

A surprising area to see this kind of implementation.     The 'lower shelf' optimal location for product goes against some very old beliefs in CPG.   But the guidelines for that were found to be mostly contextual long ago.  See…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Pharma Compliance Again

Pharma Compliance Again

Thought I had heard about this long ago.  We used the idea in innovation center 'digital directions' blueprint analysis.  Here it is again, now more practical?

This smart pill will tattle to your doctor if you don’t take yourDigitalTrends…


From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Avi Wins The Knuth Prize

Wigderson wins the well deserved Knuth Prize From Avi’s 60Fest at IAS Avi Wigderson is this year’s selection for the ACM/IEEE Donald E. Knuth Prize. Today Ken and I wish to congratulate Avi and say a bit more. We thank first…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AWS Features Blockchain

AWS Features Blockchain

How To Example of Blockchain integrated with AWS Cloud

How to Build an Application with Amazon Managed Blockchain

May 2 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
(2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET)

Building enterprise blockchain applications on your own infrastructure…


From Putting People First

The story of Spotify personas

The story of Spotify personas

Spotify’s product designer Mady Torres de Souza and senior user researchers Olga Hörding and Sohit Karol explain how they developed their personas tool, how they use it today and why it’s so useful for an autonomous, cross-functional…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchains plus Clouds Scale

Blockchains plus Clouds Scale

Technical.

In the current ACMQueue:

There is a growing expectation, or at least a hope, that blockchains possess a disruptive potential in numerous domains because of their decentralized nature (i.e., no single entity controls

“…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Enterprise: Judgement, Reasoning and Decisions.

Intelligent Enterprise: Judgement, Reasoning and Decisions.

Stephen DeAngelis of Enterra Systems, who we have worked with writes on
The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise  in LinkedIn: 

" ... We live in the Digital Age. The World Economic Forum has declared data is a resource as valuable…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Naming Products with Deep Learning

Naming Products with Deep Learning

Perhaps an example of creativity, which most would call naming a product.   Not quite sure this is that, but the approach is interesting.   Creativity with naming does depend on goals,  contexts,  and  impressions.   Some of

Product…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Securing the Body Internet

Securing the Body Internet

As the body internet continues to expand,   hacking of devices and cnnections is possible, , but has never been done.   The system of devices and connections can be hacked.     Now work at Purdue shows how the signals involved…


From insideHPC

Atos Opens AI Laboratory in France with the Google Cloud

Atos Opens AI Laboratory in France with the Google Cloud

Today Atos inaugurated a new AI laboratory in France. Set up as part of the global partnership between Atos and Google Cloud, the laboratory will enable clients, businesses and public organizations to identify practical cases…


From insideHPC

Penguin Computing steps up with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Penguin Computing steps up with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

cloud computingToday Penguin Computing announced that the company's Relion family of Linux-based servers is now available with the latest generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors including both the processor formerly codenamed Cascade Lake…


From insideHPC

Thomas Schulthess from CSCS Awarded Doron Prize

Thomas Schulthess from CSCS Awarded Doron Prize

"With his precious scientific and technical contribution, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schulthess has laid important foundations for the success of research groups that use the CSCS infrastructure and carry out computational research. For…


From insideHPC

Video: EuroHPC – The EU Strategy in HPC

Video: EuroHPC – The EU Strategy in HPC

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, Leonardo Flores from the European Commission presents: EuroHPC - The EU Strategy in HPC. "EuroHPC is a joint collaboration between European countries and the European Union about…


From Schneier on Security

Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border

Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border

This is a pretty awful story of how Andreas Gal, former Mozilla CTO and US citizen, was detained and threatened at the US border. CBP agents demanded that he unlock his phone and computer. Know your rights when you enter the…


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates

2019 CGTC/SC3, July 10-12, 2019, Washington DC, USA. The GCTC/SC3 Expo is the prominent smart city event for technology innovators, municipal officials, and federal government officials to discuss possible areas of collaboration…


From BLOG@CACM

In Search of A Rare Roman Pocket Calculator

In Search of A Rare Roman Pocket Calculator

As far as we know, three original copies of the Roman hand abacus have survived. There is a fourth device, but nobody knows where it is.


From Computational Complexity

Cuckoo Cycles

Guest Blog by John Tromp (Thanks for the opportunity, Lance)



In the past few months, cycle finding has become one of the most widely run
graph theory problems. An estimated quarter-to-half million GPUs are constantly
looking…


From Schneier on Security

Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Researchers have been able to fool Tesla's autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Assistant Bees Head to Space Station

Robotic Assistant Bees Head to Space Station

Interesting concept is placed in test.    Some technical detail at the link.  Again recall our look at small scale, cooperative physical assistants.

Robotic ‘bees’ are heading to the International Space Station  by Trevor Mogg…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Taught Computer Makes Diagnoses

Self Taught Computer Makes Diagnoses

We followed work ongoing at Stanford on pulmonary diagnosis.  These new methods and directions are interesting. Here diagnoses derived from X-Rays.

How Can Doctors Be Sure A Self-Taught Computer Is Making The Right Diagnosis? …


From Putting People First

When ethnography becomes a joke

When ethnography becomes a joke

For a number of years, we have witnessed a diminishing appetite for ethnographic work among commercial clients, writes Patricia Sunderland, PhD and founder of Cultural Research and Analysis, on the site of the Qualitative Research…