Communications of the ACM
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April 2020
From Computational Complexity
Return of the Vidcast
Bill and I just have a discussion, virtually of course.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launches Local Home SDK
In the Google Developer Blog. Permits you to create better home integration with Google Assistant. Looks to be a considerable direction. Developer Technical.
Local Home SDK Ready for Actions
Monday, April 6, 2020 Google Blog
Posted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Car Voice Assistants
A look at voice assistants and the Connected Car
In-Car Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption Webinar Replay with Cerence and Full By Bret Kinsella
Last week, Cerence CEO Sanjay Dhawan joined Voicebot’s Bret Kinsella to record
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Misinformation
Misinformation during a national emergency is not new. In this current health crisis, the “coronavirus pandemic is generating a tidal wave of information—some of it accurate, some not so much—that has saturated social and traditional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Music Helping us Understand Viruses
Much more about the idea at the link. There have been many explorations of using sound to 'visualize' data, though in my own experience I have never used the idea. In some cases has been used as a demonstration of what
MIT…
From insideHPC
JÜlich Supercomputers Power New Insights into Brain Imaging
Researchers are using biophysical modeling and simulations on Jülich supercomputers to develop new brain tissue imaging methods. "When generating a detailed network model of the brain, nerve fiber crossings pose a major challenge…
From Schneier on Security
Emotat Malware Causes Physical Damage
Microsoft is reporting that an Emotat malware infection shut down a network by causing computers to overheat and then crash. The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam -- a fake name Microsoft gave…
From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center to Optimize Storage and Data Analysis with PPI4HPC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will provide a new storage infrastructure for enhanced data analysis capabilities thanks to the PPI4HPC (Public Procurement of Innovations for High Performance Computing). "The proposed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quibi Emerges. Short form Mobile Only Content
What does this mean overall? After the crisis? Do we want to get content on mobile? Examining for an analysis effort.
Quibi’s Mobile-Only Viewing Is Already Frustrating Some People By Todd Spangler in Variety
A few hours…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Adds GPU and AI Expertise to COVID-19 HPC Consortium
A task force of NVIDIA computer scientists has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which brings together leaders from the U.S. government, industry and academia to accelerate research using the world’s
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Working Paper on Identification
Ultimately key to any kind of system. To what degree is the data valid and accurate? If we hope to learn and use decisions based upon the data. See below a reference to an HBS Working Knowledge Paper, with details at the…
From insideHPC
New Library of Artificial Antibodies Could Target Pathogens With Molecular Precision
A research team led by Berkeley Lab has developed a technique that could accelerate the design of artificial antibodies for biomedical applications – from sensing technologies that detect and neutralize infectious viruses and…
From insideHPC
AI for Any Environment, All the Time
In this special guest feature, our friends over at Advantech takes a look at the shift to edge computing environments versus large, secure data centers, a trend in stark contrast to the other end of the spectrum where large cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Supply Chain Slows Around the World on Trucking Bottlenecks
Useful piece on what is now a serious problem.
Food Supply Chain Slows Around the World on Trucking Bottlenecks in SupplyChainBrain
Truckers hauling food are facing delays across the globe in the latest disruption to supply chains…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Not As Easy As ABC
Is the claimed proof of the ABC conjecture correct? [ Photo courtesy of Kyodo University ] Shinichi Mochizuki is about to have his proof of the ABC conjecture published in a journal. The proof needs more than a ream of paper—that…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Multiplying backward for profit
Most programming languages have integer types with arithmetic operations like multiplications, additions and so forth. Our main processors support 64-bit integers which means that you can deal with rather large integers. However…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple to Improve Siri with Voysis?
Most voice assistants today do a rocky job of interpreting complex conversation and context. Beyond just simple interpretation, but on to understanding. Beyond just 'Do this' or 'Do That'. The basis of conversation is useful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating Discoveries with Data
Had not seen this effort yet, worth a look.
Accelerating data-driven discoveries
Life science companies use Paradigm4’s unique database management system to uncover new insights into human health.
Zach Winn | MIT News Office
As technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Navigation
Combining visual inputs and motion to better understand the implications of navigation. Help us predict the implications, e.g the context implications of planning for motion.
How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anticipating the Need for Ecosystem Support
Not too unexpected. Some of our early work with retail data indicated that it could be a useful source of predictions. And that same data might help you work and support the total ecosystem. Seeing that in local chains now…
From insideHPC
Video: High-Performance Memory For AI And HPC
In this video, Frank Ferro from Rambus examines the current performance bottlenecks in HPC, drilling down into power and performance for different memory options. "HBM2E offers the capability to achieve tremendous memory bandwidth…
From BLOG@CACM
Contingency Plans for CS Students in Large Classes
Some of our students will get sick before the end of the term. We need a plan.
From insideHPC
Podcast: How crowd-sourced supercomputing is helping fight COVID-19
In this Roadhouse podcast, Dr. Greg Bowman from Folding @ Home describes the how crowdsourced computing is being used to fight the coronavirus and how we can get involved. "We are excited to announce a new batch of small molecule…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding For Fun and Mental Exercise
Recently, I started reading a book about the mathematics of cryptography. (Mathematics of Secrets) Fascinating. A lot of the math is hard (to put it lightly) for me but the stories that go along with the development of it all…
From insideHPC
NERSC Supercomputer to Help Fight Coronavirus
"NERSC is a member of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. In support of the Consortium, NERSC has reserved a portion of its Director’s Discretionary Reserve time on Cori, a Cray XC40 supercomputer, to support
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 4th 2020)
Antartica was once a rainforest. Google’s DeepMind built artificial intelligences that can defeat human beings at all of the standard Atari (arcade) games. The risk of death and disability after a stroke fell substantially between…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research HPC Specialist at South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University Division of Technology and Security is offering an exciting career opportunity as a Research High Performance Computer Specialist. We are looking for a creative and innovative professional to join…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Steps in the Pandemic
More Business advice from McKinsey on next steps.
Getting ahead of the next stage of the coronavirus crisis
April 2020 | Article
By Martin Hirt, Sven Smit, Chris Bradley, Robert Uhlaner, Mihir Mysore, Yuval Atsmon, and Nicholas
Article…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Doing Mobility Reports
More on what Google can track.
Google Is Tracking Whether You're Staying Home
The company released "mobility reports" that show how people are social distancing in your area. By Jason Aten in Inc.
If there has ever been a question…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Communication
They can communicate using bioluminescent flashes: New research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents evidence for a previously unknown semantic-like ability in Humboldt squid. What's…