Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does this AI Think like a Human?
Like the aspect of evaluating explanations. Quantifiable? Like a human? Trying to follow the details.
Does This AI Think Like a Human?
MIT News, Adam Zewe, April 6, 2022
A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
Attacking Russian Hacking
Counter attacks occurring, overall net success?
FBI Disrupts Russian Hackers
U.S. FBI Says It Disrupted Russian Hackers
Reuters, Sarah N. Lynch, April 6, 2022
U.S. officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized…From The Eponymous Pickle
Footgear to Guide People with Vision Problems
Guiding Footware
Engineer Makes Footgear to Guide People with Vision Problems
Asahi Shimbun (Japan), Akiko Suzuki, April 8, 2022
Japanese engineer Wataru Chino has designed footwear that incorporates a flexible motor-mounted device…From insideHPC
Ohio Supercomputer Center Acquires Dell HPC
April 12, 2022 — The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will launch Ascend, a Dell Technologies-based high performance computing cluster with NVIDIA GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs to support AI, machine learning, , simulation, big data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miso Robotics at a Panera
Further goes automation of fast food and drink
Panera will test an AI coffee system from the makers of the Flippy burger bot in Engadget
Miso Robotics' CookRight Coffee is designed to help restaurants run more efficiently.
Miso…From The Eponymous Pickle
Book on AI and Human Future
Completed now ...
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future Hardcover – November 2, 2021
by Henry A Kissinger (Author, Former US Scty of State), Eric Schmidt (Author from Google), Daniel Huttenlocher (Author from MIT Dean)
Three of the…From Putting People First
Behavioral sciences in the latest IPCC report on the Mitigation of Climate Change
The latest IPCC report on the Mitigation of Climate Change has a lot of meat in it for those engaged in human-centered design, behavioral change strategies, and behavioral sciences.
From Computational Complexity
The Roeder Seq Problems was Solved Before I Posed it (Math)
(Joint Post by Bill Gasarch, David Harris, and Tomas Harris)
The divisor graph D(n) is an undirected graph with
vertex set V={1,...,n}$ and
edge set E={(a,b) : a divides b or b divides a }
We denote the length of the longest…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $1M for Research on Medical Isotopes
April 11, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1 million in funding for three awards to advance research and development (R&D) to translate newly developed radioisotopes into evaluation for potential use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Fixing Bugs in Machine Written Software
Broadly useful? What kind of bugs? If code has been written by Machine:
Jigsaw fixes bugs in machine-written software
Published March 31, 2022
By Rahul Sharma , Principal Researcher Suresh Parthasarathy , Principal Research Developer…From The Eponymous Pickle
ABC Algorithm Example
Most interesting, will take a further look. Much more detail and images at the link.
How to Apply Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Solve Unconventional Problems
Solve a puzzle for fun. Learn a new Algorithm. Win-win. Full code…From The Eponymous Pickle
Olfactory Displays
We experimented with the control of Olfaction in Retail. Like the analytical analysis described.
Scientists Artificially Recreate Smells Using Olfactory Display
Tokyo Tech News (Japan), April 1, 2022
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ericsson Suspends Russia Business
Colleague brought this to my attention. More attention to the situation.
Ericsson suspends business in Russia, puts staff on paid leave
Ericsson is suspending its business in Russia indefinitely and has put employees on paid leave…From insideHPC
Former Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Joins HPE as Chief Product Officer for HPC and AI
HPE has hired former Intel senior HPC executive Trish Damkroger as Chief Product Officer of the HPC & AI Organization. Damkroger left Intel last year after the company confirmed in October that she would be replaced by Jeff McVeigh…
From BLOG@CACM
Software Architecture Decisions: Culture Considerations
Architecture decisions can have effects on a company and its culture that go beyond the soundness of the technology.
From The Noisy Channel
Search: Teaching the Fundamentals
Earlier this year, Grant Ingersoll and I kicked off a 4-week co:rise course on Search with Machine Learning. We covered search fundamentals, and then went on to teach ranking (both hand-tuned and LTR), content understanding,Teaching…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Chat Bot Examples You May Have missed
Nice set of examples, had not heard of these. Still how much better and useful are they than a generalized chatbot/query service like Google? In the enterprise we wrote systems that supported difficult management decisions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sophie: Virtual Brand Ambassador?
A link linking Metaverse and Voice called Sopie, can it provide some environment for a related sale? Concept very interesting will it work?
Virtual Human Brand Ambassador Sophie is Selling NFTs and Metaverse Art Experiences…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Discussion About Proving—Again
Deja Vu All Over Again—Yogi Berra Rich DeMillo is one of my greatest friends, colleagues, and terrific co-authors. He is currently fighting an illness, and we wish him the best. Rich was the key guest for Harry Lewis’s class…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Does Analytics Gaming
Interesting approach, gamifying analytics, which we also tried.
Hooked on data science: gamification drives engagement among students and trainees
by ALEX COOP on MARCH 21, 2022
While studying business intelligence as an undergraduate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Honey and Computer Chips
Never Heard of this.
Honey Holds Potential for Making Brain-Like Computer Chips
WSU Insider, Sara Zaske, April 5, 2022
Washington State University (WSU) scientists used honey to produce memristors, in a step toward more environmentally…From The Eponymous Pickle
Restaurants and Metaverse Marketing
Games and more envisioned.
Virtual Stores Test Consumers’ Appetite for Metaverse Marketing
Wendy’s and Chipotle join a growing number of companies exploring the potential of virtual worlds
Restaurants' Virtual Stores Test Consumers'…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Models for Vaccines
Much more in Nature Mag, linked to below.
Could Computer Models Be the Key to Better COVID Vaccines?
In Nature, Elie Dolgin, April 5, 2022
Scientists have been developing mathematical and computational models over the past several…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Culture Digital Culture
Volunteers Scramble to Preserve Ukraine's Digital Culture
in IEEE Spectrum, Tekla S. Perry, April 6, 2022
More than 1,300 volunteers are working to preserve Ukraine's digital culture before the servers and personal computers used…From The Eponymous Pickle
Air Tags Being Used for Stalking
Capabilities will be used as people think is useful to them.
AirTags Are Used for Stalking Far More than Previously Reported
Ever since Apple introduced AirTags, security people have warned that they could be used for stalking…From The Eponymous Pickle
Preserving the Internet?
Well put.
Preserving the Internet, By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, April 2022, Vol. 65 No. 4, Page 5 10.1145/3522782
Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf
The Internet has become aThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
RiskIQ Looks at sites Targeting Ukraine
Examining targeted Threat Intelligence
RiskIQ Threat Intelligence Roundup: Trickbot, Magecart, and More Fake Sites Targeting Ukraine
APRIL 07, 2022, BY TEAM RISKIQ
Threat intelligence is more crucial than ever to attack surface…From insideHPC
TSMC: Q1 Revenue Rose 35.5% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Apr. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2022 was approximately NT$171.97 billion, an increase of 17 percent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kirigami and AI For Materials Design
Most interesting, had seen this reported on before, worked with Argonne in the big enterprise :
Ancient art of kirigami meets AI for better materials design in TechXplore
by John Spizzirri, Argonne National Laboratory
KirigamiBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Intro to IFTF: Institute for the Future
Worked with IFTF for years, mostly as a representative of a big company, promised I would try to reconnect and present some of their work, here is a start, more things of interest to follow:
MAKING THE FUTURE WITH…