Communications of the ACM
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April 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Design Leaders
McKinsey talks design. Is design mostly strategically long range, or not? Do you design your reactions to difficult times?
Are you asking enough from your design leaders? By Melissa Dalrymple, Sam Pickover, and Benedict…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NOAA Expands Drone Fleet
Note mention of AI strategy, from increased specific data.
NOAA Expands its Data Drone Fleet
By George Leopold in Datanami
As it ramps up a national AI strategy, the U.S. government is beefing up its drone fleet to collect ever…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has released a white paper titled 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap. The white paper, written by CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) with Syed Rafiul Hussain…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–What about Cheating?
The College Board has been making some moves to make it harder to cheat on Advanced Placement exams. Given that their business plan relies a lot of the integrity of the exams that makes a lot of sense for them. A lot of teachers…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for BeeGFS Virtual Community Meeting
ThinkParQ will host the annual BeeGFS Virtual Community Meeting on World Bee Day, May 20, 2020. BeeGFS is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and…
From insideHPC
How Your Computer Can Help Scientists Fight COVID-19
Today IBM announced that anyone in the world with a PC, laptop or Mac and an Internet connection could help scientists seek chemical compounds that might be effective against COVID-19. "The project, designed and led by Scripps…
From insideHPC
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power New IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Today, AMD announced that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors to power its latest bare metal servers. Available now, these new bare metal servers are the first 2nd Gen AMD EPYC based…
From insideHPC
Breaking Boundaries with Data Parallel C++
Programming languages are a dime a dozen; throw a rock in any direction and you’ll hit one. Question is … can you use any of them to program data-centric applications that are deployable across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and AI accelerators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts to Text
Continued advances in this space, in this case primarily for patients with inability to to control devices with their limbs. Detailed article.
Neural implants plus AI turn sentence-length thoughts to text
The key was to think…
From Schneier on Security
Dark Web Hosting Provider Hacked
Daniel's Hosting, which hosts about 7,600 dark web portals for free, has been hacked and is down. It's unclear when, or if, it will be back up....
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Look inside the El Capitan Supercomputer coming to LLNL
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some of the more interesting configuration aspects of the pending El Capitan exascale supercomputer coming to LLNL in 2023. "Dan talks about the briefing he received on the new…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Malicious Patterns
A term I had not seen before, but its wide use for malicious activities in smartphones is described here. Considerable detail below.
A Vector for Skulduggery By Paul Marks in CACM
March 31, 2020
Dark Patterns.
An analysis of
Dark…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Detective: Analyze and Visualize Security
Interesting capability released by Amazon in AWS. Intriguing capability needs a deeper look.
Amazon Detective in AWS.amazon.com
Analyze and visualize security data to rapidly get to the root cause of potential security issues…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Research at Home
An idea for human-interest interviews Pixabay free src Dr. Lofa Polir is, like many of us, working from home. When we last wrote about her two years ago, she had started work for the Livingston, Louisiana branch of LIGO. They…