Communications of the ACM
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April 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid Scholar for Non Obvious Information
Interesting application here for virus search. Much more detail at the link.
Machine learning tool could provide unexpected scientific insights into COVID-19 by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in TechXplore
Berkeley Lab…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Urgent COVID-19 Response: The Congressional Digital Service Fellowship
Passing along this opportunity from TechCongress, an organization focused on bringing technologists and researchers into the halls of Congress to help raise the tech IQ of policymakers and policymaking… The COVID-19 pandemic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Behavior of Shoppers During the Pandemic
A look at shopping behavior in SupermarketNews Adds some understanding to current and future shopping behavior. Online has not replaced in store shopping yet.
Most grocery shoppers choose stores over online during coronavirus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte Insights on the Future of Work
Useful thoughts via Deloitte.
Future of work
The future of work is being shaped by two powerful forces: The growing adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace, and the expansion of the workforce to include both on- and…
From Schneier on Security
Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
MIT researchers have built a system that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms: The software, developed by a team at MIT, looks for the words in a sentence that are most important to an NLP…
From insideHPC
Cortical.io Taps FPGAs for Message Intelligence
Today Cortical.io announced Message Intelligence, an out-of-the-box solution that filters, classifies, and routes streams of messages in real time at a massive scale. "Combining the Cortical.io proven Semantic Folding method
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From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects Conference
The Hot Interconnects Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place Aug. 19-20 in San Jose, California. "Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art…
From insideHPC
PRACE Awards 195 Million Core Hours to fight Coronavirus
PRACE is joining the battle against COVID-19 by providing huge computational power – 195 Million core hours – to the first ten projects awarded under the Fast Track Call for Proposals to support the mitigation of the impact of…
From insideHPC
Surprising Mechanical Lessons About Predicting Innovation Success
Thomas Thurston from WR Hambrecht Ventures gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "For a century, corporate innovators, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have had to rely on their instincts when deciding which strategies…
From insideHPC
Rugged COTS Platform Takes On Fast-Changing Needs of Self-Driving Trucks
This white paper by Advantech, "Rugged COTS Platform Takes On Fast-Changing Needs of Self-Driving Trucks" discusses how the fast-changing needs of autonomous vehicles are forcing compute platforms to evolve. Advantech and Crystal…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Enabling Quantum Computing Platform Access for National Science Foundation Researchers with Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft Quantum
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) and Anne Kinney Assistant Director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Helps with Treatment
By the image at the link the spot robot dog looks rather scary. Previous applications were things like security patrolling drilling platforms.
Robot Helping Hospitals Remotely Treat Coronavirus
The Verge
Nick Statt
A robot from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Taking Your Temperature?
Sounds infeasible, privacy?
Connecticut City Testing Drone That Detects Fevers, Coughs
The Hill By Zack Budryk
April 23, 2020
A "pandemic drone" being tested by police in Westport, CT, in cooperation with drone manufacturer Draganfly…
From The Noisy Channel
MMM, Search!
This morning, I had the pleasure of being hosted by Grant Ingersoll to talk about search with his team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is an indispensable in the best of times, and even more so in a time of global crisis…From insideHPC
Podcast: Trish Damkroger on HPC’s Role the fight against COVID-19
In this Chip Chat podcast, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The podcast covers how Intel’s HPC solutions offer computing resources to…
From insideHPC
Kronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0
Today, the Khronoss Group consortium released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality to be broadly deployed by hardware vendors, and it significantly…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Forecasts Widespread Covid-19 Disruption to HPC Market
Today Hyperion Research released its updated analysis of the potential impact areas of the covid-19 pandemic on the HPC market based on recent discussions with HPC system vendors and buyers. There is a large variation in the
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From insideHPC
NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox
NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox for a transaction value of $7 billion. “With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies from AI computing to networking, full-stack offerings from…
From insideHPC
Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 3
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
Software is ultimately a collaboration between people and machines. People still need to be adaptive in critical systems. Which needs to lead to better designing of such systems. Here quite a considerable look at the
Revealing…
From BLOG@CACM
The COVID Catalyst
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Fight Bias in ML Based Experiences
Forrester piece with interesting interview and links:
How To Fight Bias In ML-Based Experiences By Andrew Hogan in Forrester Blog
Recently, I interviewed Carol Smith about AI and ethics — she’s a Senior Research Scientist at Carnegie…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Innovate Cooperation Model
Look at CPG innovation for e-commerce. Looking for this.
P&G innovate cooperation model in e-commerce livestream
BEIJING and HANGZHOU, China, April 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Procter & Gamble (P&G) presents exclusive livestream
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Organs on a Chip
Had seem examples of this some years ago, to what degree has it been predictively accurate?
Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
A new approach reveals how different tissues contribute to inflammatory diseases…
From Schneier on Security
Automatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done, they had to provide Cartdash…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Time For Some Jokes
Can we still smile? [ Hardy and Littlewood] John Littlewood lived through the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, yet he appears not to have remarked on it in print. Nor can we find mention of it by Godfrey Hardy in A Mathematician’s Apology…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sampling efficiently from groups
Suppose that you have to sample a student at random in a school. However, you cannot go into a classroom and just pick a student. All you are allowed to do is to pick a classroom, and then let the teacher pick a student at random…
From insideHPC
Agile HPC with VMware Cloud Foundation & UberCloud
Thomas Francis from the UberCloud and Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "In this solution we combine the capabilities of the VMware platform, with the solution provided by UberCloud which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virus vs CPG
IRI report of particular interest:
IRI continues to monitor COVID-19 and its impacts on the CPG retail industry.
Where consumers could afford to pantry-stock, they did so; and across all household income levels, trips to stores…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and Public Health Solutions
How does blockchain technology link with public health data and aid in the future solution of current and future public health care problems like pandemics? A considerable look at the issue by the former IBMer, with very useful…