Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From Computational Complexity
The Roeder Problem was Solved Before I Posed it (how we missed it)
(This is a joint post with David and Tomas Harris.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salvaging Scarce Chips
Had to read this several times before I understood it. But apparently they are compatible for use.
Chip-Starved Firms Are Scavenging Silicon From Washing Machines
April 22, 2022 in Bloomberg
A major industrial conglomerate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens: How to Deliver Products to Market Faster by Integrating Electrical, Mechanical, PLM, and MBSE.
Former colleague now VP at Siemens sends along a Webinar alert
Via Suzanne Kopcha, Vice President Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software
Register for our holistic engineering #webinar on April 26. We’ll cover how toApril…From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of the Unreasonable Consumer?
Been thinking more and more unreasonable of late. Whats driving it?
How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable Consumer
Mukesh Gupta in CustomerThink
I recently stumbled onto a video of Adam Morgan (Co-founder of eatbigfish and the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Tool Based on Surveillance Footage
Have been thinking for sometime, how do you balance security and privacy in a world of quickly advancing and automated surveillance?
Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage in MIT News
“Privid” could help officials…From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Changing Childhood Survey
Thought this was interesting, as we grow older. How do the young think about technology? Other contexts of our lives? How should e adapt a future web. Or just let it evolve? Future for marketing? Intro here, Click through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think of Ransomware as a Data Management Problem
As most things can be thought of. Just reading work of Turing, Von Neumann et al, and their early work was all about how you effectively stored things and used them, though its safety had not yet come up.
Ransomware: Why It…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Benchmarking
Important to compare to competitive uses, and changes over time and industry changes.
Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important? By Marisa Brown in APQC
Supply chain benchmarking is important because managers need to: understand…From The Eponymous Pickle
Example of Medical Drones
Using drones for crucial healthcare delivery
U.S. Drone Company Zipline Starts Delivering Medicine in Japan
Associated Press Yuri Kageyama, April 21, 2022 via ACM
U.S. drone firm Zipline is delivering medical supplies to pharmacies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Epidemic Research
Simulation and Paradoxes are noted.
Researchers Outline Bias in Epidemic Research, Offer Simulation Tool to Guide Future Work
New York University, March 31, 2022
Researchers at New York University (NYU) have identified biases in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods and Data
Lots of companies, like the consumer goods company I worked for, are deeply involved]
Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, Unilever: CPG Companies Embracing the Data Revolution
Liz Dominguez, Managing Editor
Data across the business lifecycle…From insideHPC
OCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit will be held in person on Oct. 18-20 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose. More information can be found here. The conference organizers said the event will include: Two days…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Talks Ambient Computing
New and old interfaces providing ambient computing
In AI.Googleblog
Hidden Interfaces for Ambient Computing
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Posted by Alex Olwal, Research Scientist, Google Augmented Reality and Artem Dementyev, Hardware…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3 Shahin and I are in violent agreement: if you’re interested in high performance storage, if major milestone in the development of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Tree Heights from Sat Images
Also something we could have used in Forestry applications.
Neural Network Can Read Tree Heights from Satellite Images
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Stéphanie Hegelbach, April 20, 2022
Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich leveraged…From insideHPC
PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers
April 22, 2022 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project, a next-generation system for awarding computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Federated Graph Search from Netflix
Netflix has received some well deserved criticism of late. But there is still Interesting Tech out of Netflix.
How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated graph searchable
By Alex Hutter, Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots for Site Security
My guess that we will see many more of these types of robots providing and monitoring security.
Four-Legged Robot to Help Manage Pompeii
Reuters, Angelo Amante, March 31, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/four-legged-robot-deployed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Are we Ready for Drone Delivery?
Drone use expanding
Amazon, Alphabet, Others Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America
The Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, April 2, 2022
A handful of companies have initiated commercial drone delivery across the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Capturing Transparent Objects in Three Dimensions
I recall a related problem for the detection of errors in manufacturing process. Its broad use in this kind of application?
Fraunhofer at the Hannover Messe Preview 2022
Research News / March 16, 2022 in Fraunhofer
CapturingThe…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Paradox
If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules—Paul Arden Dietrich Braess is a professor of mathematics at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. He is famous for the discovery of a paradox. When he was doing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Impact of Earthquakes
Not predict occurrence, but predict impact. Quite useful in preparation. Addressing during an event. Recall we had looked at feasibility of prediction. More training samples needed.
Neural Network Model Helps Predict Site…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI End All Car Crashes?
What safety record does it have to have to make it? At what level of automation? When?
Can AI All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There
The New York Times, Tanya Mohn, April 19, 2022
Although artificial intelligence (AI)…From insideHPC
GRC Releases Guide on Liquid Immersion Cooling for Data Center Sustainability
AUSTIN, TX – April 21, 2022 –– GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in immersion cooling for data centers, has released a special report on sustainability in data centers. The report, titled “Liquid Immersion Cooling Reduces…
From insideHPC
Exascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for Many-Body Quantum Simulation
For several years, some in the HPC community have suspected China of sandbagging the world on its true supercomputing capabilities. Those suspicions may have been confirmed with the publication of a research paper last week in…
From Apophenia
Differential Perspectives
This update is to let you know about a new essay that’s now online in in-press form: “Differential Perspectives: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the US Census Bureau’s Use of Differential Privacy.” Click here to read the full…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Biases and Software Development
A more detailed look that in past coverage ...
Cognitive Biases in Software Development
By Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey Au, Natalia Morales, Christopher Sanchez, Rahul Pandita, Anita Sarma
Communications of theCognitive…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan and Quantum
Japan and IBM say no ....
Japan has unveiled plans to bring its first domestic quantum computer online by next March, and to have 30 million users by 2030. Via CACM
The government-backed Riken Institute is leading the computer's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Hype
Much money goes that way ...
Quantum Computer researcher warns that the industry is full of hype ....
"I’M DISTURBED BY SOME OF THE QUANTUM COMPUTING HYPE I SEE THESE DAYS
The nascent field of quantum computing generates a steady…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing Speed Limit?
Interesting look, does it clearly include quantum?
Speed Limit of Computers Detected
Graz University of Technology (Austria), Christoph Pelzl, March 25, 2022
At Germany's Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck…