Communications of the ACM
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June 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cutting Out of Stocks: Reality and Perception
A favorite topic. Availability is essential to support marketing, else whats a shelf placement for? Thus too while online works well.
Stores have cut out-of-stocks. Why don’t consumers know that? in Retailwire by Andrew Blatherwick…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains and Maps
Freeman Dyson, a favorite source, talks brains and maps ......
The Brain Is Full of Maps in The Edge
A Talk By Freeman Dyson [6.11.19]
I was talking about maps and feelings, and whether the brain is analog or digital. I’ll give…
From Computational Complexity
Compressing in Moscow
This week finds me in Moscow for a pair of workshops, the Russian Workshop on Complexity and Model Theory and a workshop on Randomness, Information and Complexity. The latter celebrates the lives of Alexander Shen and Nikolay…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: September HPC User Forum at Argonne
Hyperion Research has posted the Speaker Agenda for the HPC User Forum at Argonne. Registration is now open for the event, which takes place September 9-11 in Greater Chicago. "The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
2019 Scholarship winners
In 2019, ACM-W scholarship winners, including undergraduate students and Ph.D. students, attended conference such as CHI in Glasgow, UK, WSDM in Melbourne, Australia, and more. (more …)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kids Echo
Now, with a 2+ old granddaughter, who has learned to interact vocally with an Echo, an interesting development. Is it child abuse, as some have suggested? How should privacy be differently addressed?
Amazon’s new Echo Dot …
From insideHPC
Video: Readying Quantum Chromodynamics for Exascale
In this video, Fermilab scientist Andreas Kronfeld discusses the LatticeQCD project for Quantum Chromodynamics. As part of the Exascale Computing Project, LatticeQCD is increasing the precision of QCD calculations to understand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Itunes Shutting Down, History and implications.
A favorite prof at Wharton discusses ITunes. Long been interested in how the music industry has been changed by tech.
Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down
Wharton's Peter Fader and UT-Arlington's David
[Podcast]…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Kroger - Ocado Fulfillment Center
Continued high tech improvements by Kroger. Adds a number of jobs here.
Kroger breaking ground on $55M Butler County facility that will bring more than 400 jobs...
Kroger and Ocado are set to break ground this morning in Butler…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Chips Surge on the Edge
Methods and needed software innovations still being hashed out.
New Artificial Intelligence Chips Lean Toward the Edge in NAnalyze
What a difference a year makes. Few companies had enjoyed the sort of bull run AI chipmaker Nvidia…
From insideHPC
Teams from Across the Globe to face off in the SC19 Student Cluster Competition
SC19 has published the roster for their upcoming Student Cluster Competition. In this non-stop, 48-hour showdown, student teams race to complete real scientific application workloads on small clusters they have designed and built…
From insideHPC
IBM Celebrates Women Leaders In AI
Today IBM announced a global listing of Women Leaders in AI. The list recognizes and celebrates women across a variety of industries and geographies for pioneering the use of AI to advance their companies in areas such as innovation…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Different Kinds of Professional Development for Computer Science Teachers
What to teach and how to teach are different questions. The first is all about content knowledge and the second is about pedagogy. For the most part it feels like professional development for CS educators is focused almost completely…
From Schneier on Security
Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot
How in the world did I not know about this for three years? Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that always wins at rock-paper-scissors. It watches the human player's hand, figures out which finger position…
From insideHPC
New Paper: Practical Annealing-Based Quantum Computing
Researchers at D-Wave Systems have published a new paper on Practical Annealing-Based Quantum Computing. "According to the paper, quantum annealing is the viable way forward to connect quantum hardware to real-world applications…
From insideHPC
Univa Powers Intel Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters
Today Univa announced that the company is participating in the Intel Select Solution for HPC and AI Converged Clusters. "By giving our customers a path to take this next step, Intel has likewise put a lot of work into developing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Amazon Air Drone
More technical details. Not much yet about the underlying process. That is which type orders, in which locations and what decisions will be made to decide which deliveries will be made this way. As I also mentioned, will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Predict Human Movement
Relatively simple but useful idea. Imagine too its premise being used to predict the interaction of people and drones in a swarm performing tasks? Or determining nearby resources?
Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans
A…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS for Social Good White Paper Competition
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social Good,” in order to harness CS to address societal challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supercharging Innovation With Process
Like the approach, and its use for products and processes. We did it every day. But I would add innovation should be used with a specific process to address these needs. Sometime people think that innovation should be non…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the Online #CSed Conversations
At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversation and the more benefit for everyone involved. For computer science teachers, who are…
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing in the World of Artificial Intelligence
In this special guest feature, Thierry Pellegrino from Dell EMC writes that data analytics powered by HPC & AI solutions are delivering new insights for research and the enterprise. "HPC is clearly no longer reserved for large…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the coming wave of 40+ Different AI Chips
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC Team asks, “What are we going to do with 40+ AI chips?” One such chip, Graphcore, is touted as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of…
From insideHPC
Supermicro steps up with NVIDIA EGX for AI on the Edge
Today Supermicro announced support for the NVIDIA EGX platform, allowing customers to rapidly develop AI applications in their Edge networks. "Enhancing our GPU servers and advanced platforms optimized for AI at the Edge technology…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Breaks STAC-M3 Performance Records with WekaIO
Today Penguin Computing and WekaIO announced record performance on the STAC-M3 Benchmark. The STAC-M3 Antuco and Kanaga Benchmark Suites are the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time…
From Schneier on Security
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
Last week, I hosted the eighteenth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Harvard. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Glasses and Face Recognition
Could happen quickly. Cloaking technology to follow? Future implications?
Facial recognition smart glasses could make public surveillance discreet and ubiquitous A new product from UAE firm NNTC shows where this tech is headed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Driverless Cars Change Airlines?
This will happen, how long it will take to become significant remains a question. But every kind of mobility will be effected. Good piece on the topic. Effects on the airlines? Some straightforward models of demand and behavior…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Net-Zero Graphs
A new class of undirected graphs with quantum relevance Cropped from source Gustav Kirchoff was a German physicist active in the mid-1800s. He is known for many things, especially for his “Laws” governing voltage and current…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Gmail to be Available July 2
Dynamic Email announced:
Gmail’s ‘dynamic email’ will be available to everyone July 2nd.
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