Communications of the ACM
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May 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe's Future Beyond Energy
For example in tech ...
McKinsey Global Institute
Securing Europe’s future beyond energy: Addressing its corporate and technology gap May 4, 2022 | Article
By Sven Smit, Magnus Tyreman, Jan Mischke, Philipp Ernst, Matthias Evers…From The Eponymous Pickle
War and Technology
Good piece on the topic and related implications.
By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, May 2022, Vol. 65 No. 5, Page 9 10.1145/3528570
As COVID-19 surged around the globe two years ago, I reflected…From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavior Generation Method
I see that BJ Fogg, who we worked with at Stanford, always full of good ideas, is giving a free training session on his wanding behavioral method, I plan to attend.
BJ Fogg, PhD Adjunct Professor at Stanford | Research LabUse…From The Eponymous Pickle
Grabbing With Feeling
Deeper sensors for haptic interaction.
A Flexible Way to Grab Items with Feeling
MIT News, Rachel Gordon, April 15, 2022
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Edward Adelson and Sandra Liu have developed a robotic gripper…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Synthetic Biology
Excellent topic we explored. Here a very good, largely non technical intro paper in the current ACM. I see this as a very direction in the years to come.
Artificial Intelligence for Synthetic Biology
By Mohammed Eslami, Aaron…From The Eponymous Pickle
Trees in Wolfram
I see that the Wolfram language has added new and improved features using Trees. Below a good intro. As usual, Their capabilities, which we used in house, are nicely done and described, worth a look.
April…From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Product Reviews with AI
Generating opinionated product reviews. Nice general idea, but how well?
Everyone Has Opinions, Even AI
Dartmouth College, David Hirsch, April 25, 2022
Dartmouth College computer scientists trained an artificial intelligence…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
In software, we often use ‘bitsets’: you work with arrays of bits to represent sets of small integers. It is a concise and fast data structure. Sometimes you want to go from the bitset (e.g., 0b110011) to the integers (e.g.,Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introducing Quantum Sensing
Also new to me, quite the revelation that quantum effects can greatly improve how we sense. Sensing makes for more and more accurate data, here a short intro.
A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom Once…From insideHPC
General Dynamics IT Unit Wins $89.5M EPA HPC Contract
May 6, 2022 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an $89.5 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a unit of aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics (NYSE:GD). The money
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Opens its OpenAI for Inspection
Seeking to take a deeper view. Examination can reveal key flaws.
Home/News/Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—And It's Free in ACM NEWS
Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—And It's Giving It Away for Free
By MITMeta's…From The Eponymous Pickle
A view of Industry 4.0
Manufacturing pulls together all the tech, data and process, a good read.
McKinsey Talks Industry 4.0 and More
Digital transformations are notoriously difficult to scale up across manufacturing networks, but when implemented successfully…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Stone Could hold the key to Quantum Computing?
Completely New to me.
An Ancient Namibian Stone Could Hold The Key to Unlocking Quantum Computers?
DAVID NIELD 19 APRIL 2022 in ScienceAlert
One of the ways we can fully realize the potential of quantum computers is by basingScientists…From Putting People First
Behavioral science driven public policy “led astray”
Many behavioral scientists propose and test interventions that attack policy problems by seeking to change individual behavior (adopting an “i-frame”) rather than the system in which they operate (an “s-frame”). Such i-frame…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Now on Future Open Source
This week a very good podcast session in TWIT:Security Now: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/869?autostart=false Regarding the future of security, especially on Open source.
For full text https://www.grc.com/sn/SN…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Jack Dongarra Talks Turing Award, the TOP500 and the Past and Future of Supercomputing
At @HPCpodcast we’ve been fortunate to host some highly distinguished computer scientists and HPC thinkers, people who have shaped supercomputing as the technology has advanced human knowledge and taken on the world’s most vexing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chip Scans Possible
Chips scans possible to reveal designs
X-Ray Tech Reveals Chip Design in IEEE
No trade secret or hardware trojan can hide from ptychographic X-ray laminography
By ANTHONY F.J. LEVI GABRIEL AEPPLI30 APR 2022
HEN YOU’RE BAKING…From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimized Face Recognition
Advances in recognition.
An Optimized Solution for Face Recognition
MIT News.Jennifer Michalowski, April 6, 2022
Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that a deep neural network taught to identify…From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces Special June HPC User Forum: Exascale at Oak Ridge
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 5, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced a special HPC User Forum to be held June 21-22, 2022 hosted onsite by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft Heinz Tech Investment
Useful examples here.
Kraft Heinz’s Latest Tech Investments Tackle Control Tower and Digital Twins
Lisa Johnston Senior Editor
The Kraft Heinz Company is investing heavily in its supply chain resiliency as part of the next step…From insideHPC
Nominations Open for SC 2025 General Chair and Steering Committee Openings
May 4, 2022 — The SC Steering Committee is seeking future leaders for the SC Conference Series. Nominations for the SC25 general chair are now open and will close on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. To enter a nomination, send an email…
From insideHPC
Post-Exascale Fabric: NNSA Awards Cornelis Networks $18M for High Performance Network R&D
Those who gave up for dead Intel's Omni-Path fabric, which Intel began working on 2012 and stopped supporting seven years later, may want to re-think that. Cornelis Networks, the company breathing life into Omni-Path since 2020…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Platforms vs Users
Obviously, but worth a thought:
Platforms Need to Work with Their Users – Not Against Them
by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Andrew Hall, May 04, 2022 in HBR.org
As online platforms have become dominant, many have leveraged their…From The Eponymous Pickle
Etna Volcanology with Fiber Optic Cables
Fraunhofer work on Etna Sensors
Scientists Spy on Mount Etna with Fiber-Optic Cables
Wired, Matt Simon, April 8, 2022
Scientists at the German Research Center for Geosciences at the Technical University of Berlin, working with…From Computational Complexity
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
I don't mention it that often in this blog, but I fell in love with opera in the 90's and watch as much as I can, often fitting opera into my travels or vice-versa. Rarely do the tech world and operas collide but they did so(R)evolution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Library Inventory
Inventory taking and misplaced items.
Robot Takes Stock of Books at Akita Public Library
The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
Tsutomu Yamatani, April 12, 2022
The loan and return procedures at the Omonogawa Library in Yokote, Akita Prefecture…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Sedgewick to Emeritus Status
Retire from your job, but never retire your mind. Bob Sedgewick is becoming an emeritus professor: When Faculty transfer to emeritus status and retain a professional connection with Princeton, they are expected to conduct their…
From Putting People First
Privacy is a collective concern
It’s easy to assume that because some data is “personal”, protecting it is a private matter. But privacy is both a personal and a collective affair, because data is rarely used on an individual basis, writes Carissa Véliz in…
From Putting People First
Radical user-centricity, a key RegTech success factor
One of the key success factors of Regulatory Technology ("RegTech") is a commitment to radical user-centricity, according to a new white paper by the World Economic Forum.
From insideHPC
Tachyum Prodigy FPGA Running Applications in Linux Interactive Mode
LAS VEGAS — May 3, 2022 –Tachyum Inc. today announced it is running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) Linux and the floating-point unit enabled on the FPGA …