Communications of the ACM
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May 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success of AI is in Infrastructure
In VentureBeat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing many changes to the enterprise, none of which is more vital to its success than infrastructure. Changing the nature of workloads – not just how they are generated and processed…From insideHPC
Atos Talks European HPC Openness and a Hybrid Future of AI, Machine Learning and Quantum Supercomputing
This exclusive Q&A interview was conducted by Nages Sieslack of the ISC 2022 conference organization, with Eric Eppe, head of portfolio and solutions, HPC & Quantum at France-based HPC systems vendor Atos. Nages Sieslack: How…
From insideHPC
IBM Quantum Promises 4,000-Qubit Processor in 2025, Envisions ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum computing processors. The updated quantum plan comes a year after…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Differential Privacy
I’m low-key. I like my privacy—Kemba Walker. Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, received the ACM 2021 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. They worked on and studied the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Together Caregiving
Newly announced, recalls work we saw in Japan, which also connected multiple people, as needed, to the eldercare dynamic.
Alexa Together will let caregivers remotely set up routines for aging loved ones
A person receiving support…From insideHPC
Classiq Announces $25K Quantum Circuits Challenge
TEL AVIV – May 11, 2022 – Quantum computing software company Classiq today announced the Classiq Coding Competition, rewarding those that create highly-efficient quantum circuits to solve important real-world problems. Quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquake Detection Algorithms
Relates to our previous examination of work done on earthquake detection. Makes sense such work is out of Japan.
Gravity signals could detect earthquakes at the speed of light
Algorithm set for deployment in Japan could identify…From The Eponymous Pickle
Context In Machine Intelligence
I often make this point ... context is everything ... in fact I like to make the expansion of this as well: 'Context is everything', and its always changing" Its like how we use all 'intelligence' that is presented inAdvancing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Big Data Journalism
Finding information and useful interaction with it. Though unclear what a 'big data journalism' means here.
Interactive Tools May Help People Become Big Data Journalists
By Penn State News, May 6, 2022
Pennsylvania State University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Achaeological Artifact Visualization
Thinking of some other uses of creation and identification.
DIY Digital Archaeology: Methods for Visualizing Small Objects, Artifacts
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, April 13, 2022
Researchers at Germany's…From Computational Complexity
Queen Elizabeth is the 3rd longest reigning monarch; The problem with definitions
A few days ago Queen Elizabeth passed Johann II of Liechtenstein to be the third longest reigning monarch (see here).
A summary of the top 4:
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
I refer to “bitset decoding” as the action of finding the positions of the 1s in a stream of bits. For example, given the integer value 0b11011 (or 27 in decimal), I want to find 0,1,3,4. In my previous post, Fast bitset decoding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Blames Russia For Satellite Hack
In the BBC, more examples of tech warfare and implications.
UK blames Russia for satellite internet hack at start of war By Chris Vallance, BBCTechnology Reporter
Russia was behind a cyber-attack targeting American commercial…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Plan for Quntum
Reasonable? See links in the article to former quantum roadmaps.
IBM wants its quantum supercomputers running at 4,000-plus qubits by 2025 By A. Tarantola in Engadget
That's nearly a full magnitude more powerful than today's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ricardian Contracts vs Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention, unsure as yet how broadly the definition is used at this time, can see the need for the understanding of such an agreement by human and machine means.
The Ricardian contract, as invented by Ian Grigg,…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter’s Face
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding—Bill Thurston. Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist who is famous for many things—including his face. His name “Peter” alone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Authority Falls Due to Algorithm
Regulation 0f algorithms causes Dutch Tax Authority to fail. An unusual event. Fairness and impacts.
The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next? European regulation hopes to rein in ill-behaving algorithms byUntil…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing COVID-19 Patient Breathing Effort
Respitatory Support for COVID Patients with computational modeling
University of Warwick (U.K.), April 21, 2022
A team…From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarms of Drones for Forestry
Recal my previous mentioning the use of drones in Forestry, with the potential of advanced sensors and cooperation with mapping and multitasking activity. We did that with photography and later with Satellite images and helicopters…
From insideHPC
Tesla: Cooling Tech Engineer Stole Dojo Exascale Supercomputer Secrets
Theft of secret information about Tesla’s in-house supercomputer, the exascale-class “Project Dojo” system due to be up and running this year, are at issue in a suit filed by the company against an HPC cooling technology engineer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Interpretability, Towards Language
Yes, with training in the questions we need to ask to shape the results we need for a given context. Not always easy.
Beyond Interpretability: Developing a Language to Shape Our Relationships with AI By Medium, May 9, 2022 in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Decision Trees by Hand without Code
Cool little piece that is instructional and even inspirational. Math and process seen together to produce real value.
Random Forest and Decision Trees by hand — no coding
By Thomas Le Menestrel, Computational Engineering…From The Eponymous Pickle
Yes to a Passkey Standard
Yes, need easy to use, clear, very secure and broadly available. Have now worked some of the methods from the major players. Work well, but not well enough together. Make it happen.
Apple, Google, Microsoft Want to Kill the…From insideHPC
Open Compute Project Global Summit Issues Call for Papers
May 9, 2022 — Call for papers for the 2022 OCP Global Summit is now open. The summit will take place over three days from October 18-20, 2022 and will offer keynotes, exhibits, expo hall talks, use cases and engineering workshops…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFIF Design Futures Class
I worked with IFTF for years as part of their connection to our big enterprise, connecting with our top corporate level. Were always very thought provoking and useful. Here an intro, click through for much more details…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Simulated Kiss in VR
New Experiences in VR
VR Researchers Have Basically Figured Out How to Simulate the Feel of Kisses
A modified VR headset can create the sensation of touch, either on a user's lips or even inside their mouths.
By Andrew Liszewski…From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project BoF Days May 10-12
May 9, 2022 — The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) 2022 Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days will take place Tuesday, May 10–Thursday, May 12, with six to eight sessions per day conducted via Zoom. Registration and the agenda…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Mouse?
New Logitech Mouse. Better? We did many explorations of data and process entry in varying contexts.
l mouse that’s easier to grasp
A trimmer build and left-handed option make the Lift extra helpful. SCHARON HARDING - 4/19/2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Ransomware
No End in sight?
Researchers Share In-Depth Analysis of PYSA Ransomware Group
April 18, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan in ThehackerNews
An 18-month-long analysis of the PYSA ransomware operation has revealed that the cybercrime cartel followed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon Needs More Nerds
(In another time, between some other wars, I was a nerd at the Pentagon. Even now with much smarter devices, we need more hard and software, even beyond the AI enablement.
from ACM OPINION
To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs…