Communications of the ACM
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May 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Audio Logging a Space
Can we think of other spaces that might be logged this way?
Automatic Audio Loggers Map the Sound of Norway
Imperial College London (U.K.)
Hayley Dunning, May 3, 2022
Audio recorders created by researchers at Imperial College London…From The Eponymous Pickle
Harnessing the Power of the 4th Industrial Revolution (updated)
McKinsey takes a look at discussion of the 4th revolution as covered at Davos. Heady stuff.
Spotlight on Davos: Harnessing the power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
.... May 27, 2022 The Fourth Industrial Revolution is…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins of Diseases
Struck me as an interesting angle of the modeling technique.
Digital Twins Aid Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right Time
Linkoping University (Sweden)
Karin Söderlund Leifler, May 6, 2022
An international…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Reliable AI Models
Below quite interesting, here just the intro, full article linked to. Reviewing. I note the point about changing data in context, which I always emphasize in models.
7 Techniques for Building Reliable AI Models By Beena Ammanath…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking Further Than Ever
This could be a very big, very revealing thing.. As always, I am following.
Astronomers Prepare to Turn Webb Telescope Toward Nearby Super-Earths By Ryan Whitwam on May 31, 2022 at 6:15 am in ExtremeTech
The James Webb Space…From The Eponymous Pickle
Contact Lenses as Computer Screens
Will we see this kind of screen allowing all the time access to anything? Will we want it?
Could Contact Lenses Be the Ultimate Computer Screen? By BBC News, May 27, 2022
Saratoga, CA-based Mojo is one of a number of companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Answering Machine
Useful to the very busy, how well might it work?
Virtual ‘answering machine’ records the real world while you are in VR
People using virtual reality at work could use a new system to capture what happens around them and play back…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Easy as ABC
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details—Hermann Weyl. Shinichi Mochizuki is a mathematician…
From BLOG@CACM
Whence Machine Volition?
How could a computer develop or even express volition?
From insideHPC
NVIDIA: Systems Makers to Deploy Grace and Grace Hopper Chips; Los Alamos’ ‘Venado’ to Be 10 Exaflops AI Supercomputer
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30, 2022 — NVIDIA announced today that Atos, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPE, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro plan to deploy servers built with the NVIDIA Grace CPU and Grace Hopper “Superchip,” built
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From The Eponymous Pickle
James Dyson Working on Home Robotics
I happen to be just reading the (auto)? biography ..... By James Dyson, Invention: A Life Likely to review later.
Looking forward to see his take on home robotics,nice to see him continue to work the space.
Dyson Working…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for Explainable AI
Yet another explanation, reasonably good intro.
The quest for explainable AI Arthur Cole @acole602 in Venturebeat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is highly effective at parsing extreme volumes of data and making decisions based…From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Scale Quantum Computing
Thinking larger scale, how soon?
ACM TECHNEWS
Approach May Help Clear Hurdle to Large-Scale Quantum Computing By Harvard Gazette May 4, 2022
Researchers at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, QuEraThe…From insideHPC
Fugaku Retains No. 1 Spot in TOP500 HPCG and Graph500 rankings
Tokyo, May 30, 2022 — The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by Janpan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for five consecutive terms in multiple major high-performance…
From insideHPC
Frontier Named No. 1 Supercomputer on TOP500 List and ‘First True Exascale Machine’
AMD’s long comeback from trampled also-ran in HPC – a comeback that began in 2017 when company executives began telling skeptical press and industry analysts to expect upcoming price/performance chip superiority over Intel –
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From Computational Complexity
Discussions I wish we were having
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of VPNs to Change Borders?
Considering the use of a VPN to border the web?
ACM NEWS
How Millions of Russians are Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain By The Washington Post, May 6, 2022
When Russian authorities blocked hundreds of Internet sites in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready for WiFi-7?
Not really, until my supplier wants to invest in the upgrade. But sounds good, much more below
NEWS
What Is Wi-Fi 7? Great capacity, less latency—here's how IEEE 802.11be achieves both
Michael Koziol, 27 May 2022 in Spectrum…From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tech not Making us More Preductive?
See the US Govt article pointer to below.
Why Isn't New Technology Making Us More Productive?
By The New York Times, May 25, 2022
For years, it has been an article of faith in corporate America that cloud computing and artificial…From insideHPC
SiPearl Collaborates with NVIDIA on Accelerated Computing with European Microprocessor
Maisons-Laffitte, France, May 29, 2022 — SiPearl, the European company designing the microprocessor for exascale supercomputing, and NVIDIA announce a collaboration to provide a joint offering combining SiPearl HPC microprocessors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Early Looks at Asteroid Mining
Science, Space, Health & Robotics
Asteroid-mining startup books its first mission, launching with SpaceX
Astroforge, a Y Combinator asteroid-mining startup, has scheduled its first mission due to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9…From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber Tries Autonomous Food Delivery
How broadly, how practical? Scale considerations?
Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in California
By Reuters, May 26, 2022
Uber Technologies Inc. has rolled out pilot food delivery services that use autonomous vehicles in Santa…From The Eponymous Pickle
NY State to Give Out Robot Companions
Japan is doing a similar thing. We saw early efforts in their Eldercare program. Have not seen ElliQ. Only 800 adults are initially mentioned.
NY State Will Give Out Hundreds of Robots as Companions for the Elderly
By The Verge…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Office Buildings Are Vulnerable to Hacks
Makes sense considering the context,
Smart Office Buildings Are Vulnerable to Hacks
The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier, May 3, 2022
Smart office buildings in the U.S. raise concerns about privacy and cybersecurity. Cybersecurity…From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Life
Brought to my attention, research at the FLI, the Future of Life Institute
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GRANTS PROGRAM
In 2015, FLI launched the first peer-reviewed grants program aimed at ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) remains…From The Eponymous Pickle
Call for a Cyber Secure Tech NATO
May make sense, but should it be connected to a largely military alliance? Create incentives for cooperative cybersecure regulation and behavior.
AI News
Darktrace CEO calls for a ‘Tech NATO’ amid growing cyber threats ByThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Coding and Software in Quanta Mag
On a Coding Guru of note, I used his LaTex system.
How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection by Sheon Han
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their…From The Eponymous Pickle
NFTs to Create Lodging Reservations
Unusual Application for NFTs
Hotels Using NFTs to Create ‘StubHub’ for Lodging Reservations
The Wall Street Journal, Peter Grant, May 24, 2022
Some hotels are wagering they can reduce excess inventory from sudden cancellations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Approach May Help Clear Hurdle to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
Efforts continue to address Quantum state error correction.
Approach May Help Clear Hurdle to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
Harvard Gazette, Juan Siliezar, May 3, 2022
Researchers at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
CCC 2022 Conference
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences—Arnold Schwarzenegger Computational Complexity Conference CCC is about to happen: July 20—23, Philadelphia, PA, USA It is an annual conference…