Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Robotics Changing Logistics
Short piece on the implications.
Watch: How Are AI and Robotics Changing Logistics?
March 30, 2022 Robert J. Bowman, in SupplyChainBrain
Oliver Hedgepeth, professor of logistics with American Public University System online, offers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Clocks of War
Wars invite the establishment of clocks of action, expectations and results. And here? By each of the major players.
The Ukraine War's Three Clocks in Rand (who we used over the years as consultants)
As the war in Ukraine…From The Eponymous Pickle
War and Crypto
As expected.
War Is Calling Crypto's 'Neutrality' Into Question
By Wired, March 10, 2022
Whose side is cryptocurrency on? If you had asked Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person (or persons) who created the Bitcoin platform in…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers
AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers
By New Scientist, February 11, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) can eliminate errors from a group of quantum bits, thanks to Lorenzo Cardarelli and colleagues at Germany's…From Computational Complexity
A Ramsey Theory Podcast: No Strangers at this Party
BILL: Lance, I am going to blog about the Ramsey Theory Podcast called
No strangers at this party
From insideHPC
NVIDIA in Partnership to Build Taiwan’s 1st HPC System for Medical Research
NVIDIA and Taiwan-based Asustek Computer have announced a partnership with Taiwan’s National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) to develop Taiwan’s first AI biomedical research supercomputer. According to an article in Digitimes…
From insideHPC
ICPP 2022 Call for Papers
ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybersecurity Workers Needed
Qualified workers needed for talent pipeline.
Hackers' Path Eased as 600,000 U.S. Cybersecurity Jobs Sit Empty
Bloomberg, Olivia Rockeman, March 30, 2022 in Boomberg
Cybersecurity jobs search platform CyberSeek estimates roughly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cashierless on Campus
Cashierless pushes on in new environments.
Cashierless stores graduate to college campuses by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
Automated grocery stores have been slowly but surely popping up worldwide since the launch of Amazon Go…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?
Other kinds of related detection of behaviors?
AI Technology Aimed at Gambling Addiction
By The New York Times, March 11, 2022
Researchers are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to potentially identify and predictOne…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: The GTC Cornucopia
Last week’s rendition of NVIDIA’s bi-annual GTC extravaganza unveiled a raft of new HPC/AI announcements, the latest public performance of a company in its prime led by a leather-clad CEO generally regarded as a master marketer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mysterious Cyberhack
Wathching the infrastructure for changes
Mysterious Satellite Cyberhack By Wired
March 28, 2022
The attack only impacted fixed broadband customers and didn’t cause disruption to airlines or Viasat’s US government clients…From BLOG@CACM
Biases in Author Recognition
When reading papers, we make simplifications and have assumptions about author roles and relative contributions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training the Metaverse with Sim Eye Movements
Simulated Human Eye Movement Aims to Train Metaverse Platforms
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Ken Kingery, March 7, 2022
Virtual eyes developed by computer engineers at Duke University could be used to train virtual…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Ozone Hole in Logic
Set Theory proved to be perpetually paradoxigenic… Poem and analysis src Mr. Apollinax might have made a good escort for Lofa Polir, had she lived a hundred years ago. The titular character of a poem written circa 1915 by Thomas…