Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft at Odds with EU
Much more to follow.
Microsoft Faces Antitrust Complaint in Europe About Its Cloud Services in WSJ excerpt
France’s OVHcloud has filed a complaint that Microsoft is abusing its position to hurt competition
A French cloud-computing…From insideHPC
Open Compute Project Announces Hardware-Software Co-design Strategy.
April 14, 2022 – Today, the OCP Foundation, the nonprofit organization focused on hyperscale, announced a new hardware-software co-design strategy that is exemplified by recent contributions to the OCP by Microsoft and Intel …
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: What’s New in HPC-class Storage and a New Feature: Top of the News
Join us for this episode – episode 20, be it noted – of the @HPCpodcast. It includes a new segment, Top of The News, offering a look at the top HPC developments of the week. Our discussion features federal funding for PsiQuantum…
From insideHPC
World Quantum Day: Bank of Canada in Quantum Simulation of Cryptocurrency POC with Multiverse
Toronto – April 14, 2022 – The Bank of Canada, a G7 central bank, and Multiverse Computing, a developer of quantum computing solutions for the financial industry and other sectors, announced completion of a proof-of-concept …
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Makes a Company Future Ready?
Mostly paying close attention to changes, testing adaptations in changing contexts.
What makes a company “future ready”? in the HBR by Howard Yu, Jialu Shan, Angelo Boutalikakis, Laurence Tempel, and Zuriati Balian, …From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Virtual Cities
An approach I had not seen, but we had used a simplistic SimCity like model for thinking about interaction in groups.
Cities Using Digital Twins Like SimCity for Policymakers
Bloomberg CityLab, Linda Poon, April 5, 2022
Cities…From insideHPC
World Quantum Day: Intel and QuTech Collaborate on Silicon Qubits
April 14, 2022 — Researchers at Intel and QuTech, an advanced quantum computing research center consisting of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless on the Farm
Tired of Waiting for Driverless Vehicles? Head to a Farm
Associated Press, Scott McFetridge, March 16, 2022
Driverless vehicles are more abundant on farms than city streets, with John Deere to start manufacturing autonomous tractors…From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Guide for Startups
Looks to be a good new guide from Linkedin:
Franz, introducing our guide for startup founders.
At LinkedIn, we know that when leading the growth of a startup, founders often find themselves responsible for many goals-- building…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers Get Smarter at Simulating Chemistry
Useful direction, having worked in a chem lab, would be useful to have an idea of what you will get.
Quantum Computers Get Smarter at Simulating Chemistry
IEEE Spectrum, Charles Q. Choi, March 17, 2022
A team of scientists from…From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Launches Black Opal Pro on World Quantum Day
LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, today released Black Opal Pro, an updated version of its interactive quantum computing learning platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike and Technical Innovation Center
Like the fact that logistics innovation will be included. As we did with our innovation center.
Nike steps up its game with a new Tech Innovation center
Apr 13, 2022 by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
Nike is opening a new hub solely…From insideHPC
Nominations Open for PRACE €20 000 HPC Excellence Award
April 13, 2022 — The newly created PRACE HPC Excellence Award recognizes an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research that leads to significant scientific advances through HPC. The award can be given to any …
From insideHPC
MANTA Launches Release 36 of its Data Lineage Platform
April 13, 2022 — ТАMPA, Fla.– Data lineage platform MANTA today announced the launch of Release 36 of its data lineage platform. New features are designed to give customers deep visibility into data pipeline complexities. With…
From insideHPC
ALCF to Hold Polaris HPC Developer Session Online April 27
On Wednesday, April 27, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will offer an overview of the ALCF’s latest high performance compute system for its user community. Polaris is a HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10+ with Nvidia GPUs and is…
From insideHPC
HPC Leader and U. of Wyoming President Edward Seidel to Give RMACC Keynote
BOULDER, CO – University of Wyoming President Edward Seidel has been selected to Keynote the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, August 2-4 in Boulder. President…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovative, Practical Applications of the Metaverse: Podcast and Transcript
Good overview, Note it points to past pieces.
Innovative and Practical Applications of the Metaverse
March 29, 2022 | Podcast with Richard Ward, Mina Alaghband of McKinsey
The immersive experience of the metaverse allows for…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Floats have 15-digit accuracy in their normal range
In programming languages like JavaScript or Python, numbers are typically represented using 64-bit IEEE number types (binary64). For these numbers, we have 15 digits of accuracy. It means that you can pick a 15-digit number,Continue…
From insideHPC
PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems
The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems powered by the second-generation wafer-scale engine (WSE-2) processor. PSC said the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plants Talking
Am a long-time amateur botanist, and heard of such things long ago, thought little of it, but the science is still evolving. Here an excerpt of work underway:
Some aspects of plant behavior can be studied in the same terms…From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia Said to be Jamming GPS Signals
More about uses of digital at war.
Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says By Elizabeth Howell published, about 21 hours ago
'Ukraine may not be able to use GPS,' a Space Force official told
Another…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Sample Legal Chatbot
Clive Spenser sends this along, a demonstration chatbot set up for legal rules. Worth a look to see what can be done using logical rules. Worth a look.
For demonstration purposes, we have set up a VisiRule legal chatbot on…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Counts as Malware?
Tricky perhaps, maybe just what should not be there.
What counts as ‘malware’? AWS clarifies its Definition By Kyle Alspach
Amazon Web Services had strong words this week about research published on a new strainIn…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Last Mile Education Fund–Making a Big Difference
We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rule (no calculators back then) and it really slowed me down with math. I sometimes wonder…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Chatbots Just an Illusion?
Good test and challenge of current 'best' performing AI, with comments.
The AI Illusion – STATE-OF-THE-ART CHATBOTS AREN’T WHAT THEY SEEM
GPT-3 is very much like a performance by a good magician
By Gary Smith March 21, 2022 In…From insideHPC
Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes
When war crimes are committed on a large enough scale, there’s too much evidence for retreating armies that committed them to hide. The Nazis left evidence of the Holocaust wherever it was an occupying force, the Russian army…
From insideHPC
Bechtel Announces Engineering and Construction Services for Semiconductor, Data Center Sectors
RESTON, Va., April 12, 2022 — Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, construction, and project management, today announced the formation of its new Manufacturing and Technology business to address growing customer and market…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI to Release Spring Solicitation Funding Opportunity
April 12, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative (HPC4EI) announced today it will issue a spring 2022 solicitation in May 2022. More information about this notice of…
From insideHPC
Altada Partners With Data Management Platform SlyceData
CORK, Ireland & NEW YORK — Apr 12, 2022: Altada Technology Solutions, a global provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that supercharge data-driven decision making in the financial services, travel/security and healthcare…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Pizza etc. with Robots
Here a long time amateur cook, very interested in how this could all be well automated. Starting to see it in fast food. Like also the connection to things like clothing.
A newAdam…