Communications of the ACM
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June 2021
From insideHPC
ORNL Names Innovation Crossroads Cohort of Manufacturing, Building and Clean Energy Technology Entrepreneurs
Six science and technology innovators from across the United States will join the fifth cohort of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads program in June. The southeast’s only research and development program for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Fibers for Textiles
Realization of a fabric with the ability to store and process data digitally ...
Engineers Create a Programmable Fiber
MIT News, Becky Ham, June 3, 2021
The first programmable digital fiber has been designed by engineers at the…From insideHPC
HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage
This Reference Architecture highlights the key findings and demonstrated scalability when running SAS® 9.4 using the Mixed Analytics Workload running on HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage. These results demonstrate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Bid for Chip Supremacy
Nice overview of the current state of silicon chip development and manufacture worldwide. Emphasizing companies currently involved and current moves likely. Implications for the delivery of advanced technologies worldwide.…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Mom’s Day
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher—Joan Cusack Interactive version bought from TPT Mary Kay Farley, my dear wife’s mom, and Dorothy Lipton, my mom, have unfortunately both have passed away. Kathryn and I miss them…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enzymes Embedded in Plastics
Based on a conversation I have had, this is a considerable breakthrough with broad application.
Enzymes successfully embedded in plastics
Research News / June 01, 2021 Fraunhofer Institute
In general, plastics are processed atMaterials…From Computational Complexity
When do you use et al. as opposed to listing out the authors? First names? Middle initials? Jr?
If I was refering to the paper with bibtex entry:
@misc{BCDDL-2018,
author = {Jeffrey Bosboom and
Spencer Congero and
Erik D. Demaine and
Martin L. Demaine and
Jayson…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Therapy
Seems stretched, but the name especially is cute, reminds me of some similar approaches demonstrated to us in Japan.
Something Bothering You? Tell It to Woebot.
The New York Times, Karen Brown, June 1, 2021
A chatbot application…From The Eponymous Pickle
Vinton Cerf Discusses CMEs
Vint Cerf Discusses a number of environmental dangers to the earth. And in particular Coronal Mass Ejections (CME). I recall that when our enterprise was thinking of using the internet for transfer of data the potentialIt…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification for Productivity
Current re-look at gamification. We did a brief trial of using gamification for crowd sourced problem solving. Not productivity, but for potential originality in solutions. No pressure to participate. You did have to have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Typing at Brain Speed
Most interesting advance. How far will will we get with brain interfaces? Why should we be typing at all?
Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed By IEEE Spectrum June 3, 2021
Two tiny arrays of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and their Sidewalk Experiment
Is this a crowdsourced experiment? Are we being forced to participate? A true value to consumers? Dangerous or not? Amazon provides their considerable technical white paper on it, part of it below, and Arstechnica's too. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpler Attacks Occuring on Operatonal Technology
We need more and effective protection.
Cyberattacks on operational technology are on the rise in ZDnet
Common techniques are setting a low bar for attacks on control processes. Sometimes, attackers have no idea what the system…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Smiling Back
Not sure how much this buys you, but it makes sense where creating a android-like image to have emotion matching to group or task. We experimented only slightly with this in brand equity systems, mostly keeping the image smiling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Post Pandemic Wallets
Wondering how far this will go, likely as good as the number of times it is asked for. I note its use is not mandatory.
EU Plans Digital ID Wallet for Post-Pandemic Life By Associated Press, June 4, 2021
European Commissioner…From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies
As usual, an interesting piece from Irving's Blog (Below an intro, details and much more at the link)
The Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies By Irving Wladawsky by IWB
Economist Digital Money V1Bitcoin was created…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Federated AI
Good general idea, further detailed at the link.
Changing How Data is Used By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2021
The ability to examine data in deep and revealing ways has fundamentally changed the world…From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Security from CyLab
Looks to be a good effort underway. In general IOT devices have high levels of security danger, because they are minimally protected to begin with, are often placed in networks where they are open to external threats, and in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Will an Illusion?
No I don't think so, but we should also consider the alternative. Free will drives action towards goals, and we should expect that of people and systems. 'Free' should still mean carefully regulated, if we hope to remain…
From insideHPC
The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud
By Eric Bassier, Quantum Corp. With the proliferation of IoT devices, sensors and robots spanning industries such as autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, surveillance, smart cities and healthcare, edge computing is creating vast…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and UK Research Quantum
Many big players are inventing in quantum. Watch it. And the implications for things like optimization, crypto and analytics in general.
IBM partners with U.K. on $300M quantum computing research initiative in VentureBeat…From The Eponymous Pickle
FBI Classifies Ransomware
I mentioned the FBI recently, that given all all the resources we provide them, they should be able to 'solve', or at least make far less dangerous the curse of Ransomware. I see that they now classified RW into about 100 types…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security and Human Behavior
Currently much more involved in security issues of late. I see that Bruce Schneier is blogging and talking about the Security and Human Behavior conference in Cambridge, much more about it below, , with many more links. ISecurity…
From insideHPC
US-China Tech Rivalry Takes 2 New HPC-Related Turns
Two new developments emerged this week in the US-China technology rivalry that have bearing on the HPC futures of the two superpowers. According to a Reuters story, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei…
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Silicon Valley as We Know it?
Just Saw Tim O'Reilly's column from March. Provocative thoughts. Good read. Been a person who dove into the valley in the 90s, working with the Institute for the Future and others. See my IFTF tags for the time. Also with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Digital Trasformation
A long time follower of IKEA, both as a customer, and briefly interacting during our building innovation centers. Most notably in their use of VR approaches to deign consumer uses of IKEA furnishing design. Like to see more…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
NASA is sending baby bobtail squid into space.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Directional Smells, Virtual Odors, Stereo Smell
In our innovation enters we tried to enhance smell, but not usually directionally. It was expected that the people would determine changes in smell by their own motion. Might be useful for example in detecting gas leaks in…
From insideHPC
2021 iRODS User Group Meeting June 8-11
June 4, 2021 – The worldwide iRODS user community will connect online from June 8 – 11 for the 13th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting – four days of learning, sharing of use cases, and discussions of new capabilities that have …
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Camera that Knows Where it is
Think of a camera as a means of adding information to a database about space.
Bristol Researchers' Camera Knows Exactly Where It Is
University of Bristol News (U.K.)
A camera developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of…