Communications of the ACM
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May 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
DDOS Attacks Amplified
More Dangers out there.
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 that boosts DDoS"This…From Putting People First
[Book] Expand: Stretching the Future By Design
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From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas—time, proximity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reconsidering The Genius Experience
Have had different levels of experience with them over the year, it depends much on their individual background. Apple at one time 'flew in' a group to help work with execs being trained with new devices. Experience wasApple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Control Electronics for Quantum Computers
Controlling your Quantum Computing
Engineers Develop Control Electronics for Quantum Computers That Improve Performance, Cut Costs
FermiLab, April 29, 2022
The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit developed by engineers at the U…From Putting People First
Systems thinking for public servants
How to use systems thinking to drive improved outcomes in complex situations.
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Agrees to Acquire QPhoton
LEESBURG, Va., May 24, 2022 — Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire QPhoton, a quantum photonics innovation company that has developed a series of quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTF: News from the Future
We and our executives worked with and provided corporate insight and data for the Institute for the Future https://www.iftf.org/home/ for years, here a pointer to their work, will have links posted here monthly:
News from…From The Eponymous Pickle
Backlash to Zoom Emotion Detecting
I agree that AI is not fully ready to do this well today, but that 9t is inevitable, this will happen. And its a good idea to experiment with it now. Not Dystopian.
In AI News Zoom receives backlash for emotion-detecting…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK fines Clearview AI £7.5M for Scraping Citizens’ Data
Recently talked to a company about collection 'public data' to build an infrastructure of facial images for non individual recognition purposed. . The governing laws about using such data is complex and getting more so, so beware…
From insideHPC
UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Exascale Workload Modeling
Rockport Networks today announced that Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has selected the Rockport Switchless Network as part of the ExCALIBUR program around new networking technologies for its COSMA7…
From BLOG@CACM
Programming is For More than Engineering; Computer Science is About More than Building Things
Programming should be part of computing education curriculum, and take into account all the ways students will use computing.
From insideHPC
Lenovo Talks TruScale HPC-as-a-Service, Supply Chain Strategy and ISC 2022
This Q&A was conducted by Nages Sieslack of the ISC 2022 organizing team who spoke with Noam Rosen, Managing Director for High Performance Computing at Lenovo EMEA. Lenovo will be exhibiting in person at ISC 2022 in Hamburg from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bluetooth Hack can Unlock Tesla
This will get further attention.
Bluetooth Hack Can Unlock Tesla, Devices By Ars Technica
Sultan Qasim Khan at U.K.-based security firm NCC Group has devised an exploit for unlocking Teslas and countless other devices by hacking…From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Motion Capture with Neural Network State Prediction
Improving Motion Capture
MIT News, Lauren Hinkel, April 29, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and IBM researchers developed the rendering invariant state-prediction (RISP) neural network…From The Eponymous Pickle
Restaurant AI Phone
Just made sever reservations and payments at restaurants, is this good enough? In the right direction.
SoundHound Debuts Restaurant Voice AI Phone Service With Square Payment
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ in Voicebot.AI
SoundHound will…From insideHPC
Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court
Atos’ fight over the UK Met Office awarding a $1.56 billion contract to Microsoft to build the world’s biggest weather and climate supercomputer will soon go to the UK High Court, according to a story in the Financial Times.
…
From insideHPC
Metaverse UGC Platform BUD Raises $36.8M Series B
23rd May 2022; BUD, a metaverse user-generated platform, announces its $36.8M Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from ClearVue Partners, NetEase and Northern Light Venture Capital. Existing investors…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Slate for Public Company Board of Directors
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. (May 23, 2022) – D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company, has announced the anticipated public company board of directors that is expected to go into …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of Digital Twins in City Planning
Had not seen this approach used in city planning before
Barcelona Bets on 'Digital Twin' as Future of City Planning
Politico Europe, Aitor Hernandez-Morales, May 18, 2022
Officials in Barcelona, Spain, are using the Barcelona Supercomputing…From BLOG@CACM
Validity and Reliability in Data Science: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
We examine the essence of the components of data science, as well as their interrelations, from the educational perspective.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Potentially Deadly AI?
Don't know how much of a real issue this is, but it is being reported by the Swiss Spiez lab, about their own drug discovery platform. I would like to see a deeper follow up. Please pass along and I will post.
Widely Available…From The Eponymous Pickle
Infant Pacifier as Sensor
Clever application
Smart Pacifier Developed to Monitor Infant Health in Hospitals
By WSU Insider, May 19, 2022
U.S. and South Korean researchers have designed a wireless, bioelectronic pacifier to monitor the electrolyte levels…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Image Captioning
Another example of an area we worked in, Webinar, details at the link:
AI advances in image captioning: Describing images as well as people do
Image captioning is an interesting problem in the intersection between computer vision…From The Eponymous Pickle
Has Science-based Marketing taken a Pandemic hit?
Surprised at the suggestion, but interesting.
Has science-based marketing taken a pandemic hit?
May 20, 2022 In Retailwire by Tom Ryan
Surveys show that trust in scientists took a hit during the pandemic and it may be impacting…From insideHPC
Hello World! ISC Is ON And We Are Back!
As the HPC world gathers in Hamburg, Germany for the International Supercomputing (ISC) conference, a deep and heartfelt sigh of relief can be heard from every corner of the globe. After two years of virtual events, Zoom calls…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hilbert’s Lost Problem
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way—Pólya. David Hilbert famously presented 23 important open mathematical problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems
Integrating game playing.
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems in Bir Berkeluy
Nathan Lambert, Aaron Snoswell, Sarah Dean, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Tom Zick, Apr 29, 2022
Deep reinforcement learningAt…From Computational Complexity
In the 1960's students protested the Vietnam war!/In 1830 students protested... Math?
I was at SUNY Stonybrook for college 1976-1980.
I remember one student protest about a change to the calendar that (I think) would have us go home for winter break and then come back for finals. I don't recall how that turned…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon Making Cybersecurity Progress
Worked at the Pentagon, but long before this level of analysis was being done, but like to see advances being completed. It is now essential now that cyber security is fundamentally well done. Here a brief overview.
Pentagon…From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Overview of Stereoscopic Software Solutions
Currently looking at how Lidar is being used for geology oriented analyses. Discovered this overview survey regarding stereo Mapping and analyses.
MARKET OVERVIEW OF STEREOSCOPIC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
May 21, 2022
Vendor-neutral…