Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From insideHPC
HPE: New Cluster at City University of Hong Kong Delivers 10X Speed Boost for HPC, AI
HONG KONG – April 6, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it has built a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster for the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for scientific research and report…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Blogs that are Current
Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one—Andrew Wiles. Harry Lewis is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he has taught since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is AI?
Good, extensive, not very technical look at the question. Intro below.
What Is Artificial Intelligence?
By Jessica Hall on April 4, 2022 at 8:00 am in ExtremeTech
To many, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. To others…From The Eponymous Pickle
Explainable AI Risks
Excerpt From Opinion Section of ACM. Fascinating piece here.
By Veda C. Storey, Roman Lukyanenko, Wolfgang Maass, Jeffrey Parsons
Communications of the ACM, April 2022, Vol. 65 No. 4, Pages 27-29 10.1145/3490699…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones and Digital Twins
Interesting play with Drones and Twins
Hive raises $25M for drone-powered asset digital twins
George Lawton@glawton
April 5, 2022 9:27 AM
vHive, an Israeli startup that provides software to help off-the-shelf drones create digital…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
String representations are not unique: learn to normalize!
Most strings in software today are represented using the unicode standard. The unicode standard can represent most human readable strings. Unicode works by representing each ‘character’ as a numerical value (called a code point)…
From insideHPC
Founder of STEM-Trek to Keynote RMACC’s 12th annual HPC Symposium
BOULDER, CO; April 5, 2022 – Elizabeth Leake, Director of Research Computing at Boise State University and founder of the global nonprofit STEM-Trek, has been selected as a keynote speaker for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spooky Actions at Work
Linking Spooky action of Quantum to Machine Learning,
Spooky Action Could Help Boost Quantum Machine Learning Mysterious quantum links could help lead to exponential scale-up By Charles Q. Choi in Spectrum IEEE
Machine learning…From Computational Complexity
Masks
Illinois Tech removed the last of their mandatory masking restrictions yesterday. Chicago had zero Covid deaths. Yet I still get messages like this in my twitter feed.
I don't care who you are. If I see you without a mask indoors…From The Eponymous Pickle
NFT Stock Alert
Good short piece on the potential value, risks and alternatives to investing in NFTs
Motley Fool Issues Rare "NFT" Stock Alert
Andrea Jankelow, Investing in Fool.com
April 4, 2022 ... '
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Direction of Automotive Tech
Real Direction of Automotive Technology?
EVs Are on the Way, But Can AVs Keep Up? In SupplyChainBrain
Advances in automotive technology aim to bring an end to the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. Will the human driver…From BLOG@CACM
Developing Technical Leaders
How does one get to Carnegie Hall?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Snapshots into 3D
Image transformation of value for complex manufacturing error examination type applications.
NVIDIA’s Tiny New AI Transforms Photos Into Full 3D Scenes in Mere Seconds By Jason Dorrier -Mar 27, 2022 in Sigularity WEB Demo…From insideHPC
Outer Space Edge Computing: HPE Reports Completion of 24 Experiments on International Space Station
HOUSTON – April 4, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2), the in-space commercial edge computing and AI-enabled system to run on the International Space Station…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFT Mint Sweet Spots
Read this with some interest, but not with full understanding .... suggest you look at the link for more, including explanatory charts. I too am always looking for new ways to make a living. Could this be linked with auction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Now, Contact Lenses, with Apps?
Took a look at the idea some decades ago, are they now here effective and practical? If so, can see the available Apps idea being a very big thing.
Looking Through Mojo Vision’s Newest AR Contact Lens
With batteries, motion…From The Eponymous Pickle
Declarative Machine Learning Systems in Practice
Simpler systems to define machine learning
Declarative Machine Learning Systems
By Piero Molino, Christopher Ré
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 42-49 10.1145/3475167
In the past 20 years, machine learning…From insideHPC
Lockheed Martin, Intel Sign Agreement To Advance 5G-Ready Communications For US, Allied Defense Systems
BETHESDA, MD, April 4, 2022 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) are partnering to develop 5G-capable solutions designed for faster and more decisive actions on security challenges. A memorandum …
From Putting People First
[Book] Human-Centered AI
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In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives.
From insideHPC
Azure HBv3 VMs and Excelero NVMesh Performance Results
[SPONSORED POST] Azure offers Virtual Machines (VMs) with local NVMe drives that deliver a tremendous amount of performance. These local NVMe drives are ephemeral, so if the VM fails or is deallocated, the data on the drives
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From insideHPC
AMD Acquires Distributed Services Platform Vendor Pensando
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 4, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pensando for approximately $1.9 billion before working capital and other adjustments. Pensando’s distributed services platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Money with NFT Art?
Been intrigued by the Art marketing aspect of NFTs. Here a short case study of interest.
How Much Real Money Can You Make From Virtual Art?
By The New York Times,March 14, 2022
Late on a Friday last spring, Izzy Pollak decided…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Hybrid AI Wins at Bridge. And Explains Win. A more Human Intelligence?
Most impressive, the win includes many kinds of human like interaction, a complex, multi-player gaming interaction. Are we closer, or is this simply luck?
A Hybrid AI Just Beat Eight World Champions at Bridge—and Explained…From Putting People First
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research
Although large-scale data are increasingly used to study human behaviour, researchers now recognize their limits for producing sound social science. Qualitative research can prevent some of these problems. Such methods can help…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Cleaning up Ocean Criminal Activity
More detailed sensors and resulting patterns.
How AI is Cleaning Up the High Seas By ZDNet, April 1, 2022
One company used risk models to detect criminal activity via markers like anomalous loitering; the results helped European…From The Eponymous Pickle
New DDoSes Attacks Emerge
New online security issues.
Via ACM TECHNEWS
New Attack Amplifies DDoSes by 4 Billion-Fold
By Ars Technica, March 17, 2022
Researchers from eight organizations warn of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) amplification attack…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Related Startups
Short extract from Nature on Quantum startups, lots more at the link.
Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups
A Nature analysis explores the investors betting on quantum technology.
Elizabeth Gibney…From CERIAS Blog
The more things change….
Last week was our 23rd CERIAS Symposium. It was a great event, thanks to wonderful speakers and lots of behind-the-scenes work by the wonderful staff. We have developed a history of some outstanding presentations and interactions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Identities: Here for the EU
More broadly, how do we manage the notion of readable digital identity? Its use, misuse and maintenance? Now and in the future. Good piece.
Europeans Wary of New Digital Identity By Arnout Jaspers, Commissioned by…From The Eponymous Pickle
Updates in Chrome OS
Lots useful new in Chrome? Exploring
Celebrating update 100 with new Chromebook features
Mar 30, 2022, By Alexander Kuscher, Director of Chrome OS Software
Three illustrated Chromebooks float on a white background. The middle Chromebook…