Communications of the ACM
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June 2021
From insideHPC
Ferrari Selects AWS for Graviton-based Instances for HPC, AI
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has been selected by Ferrari S.p.A.’s for cloud-based machine learning, HPC and artificial intelligence. Ferrari said it will utilize AWS’s analytics, machine learning compute, storage and database…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Blocking Banks
Complete implications unclear.
China Says Banks Must Block Crypto Transactions; Market Falls
China's central bank says institutions must not provide trading, clearing, and settlement for crypto transactions ...
By Omkar Godbole…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensing Buried Items
I remember an agricultural problem where we needed to sense buried cables in sandy soil. Recall there were easy methods to sense them, not sure how this differs, but might be used in conjunction with other methods. PerhapsSlender…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Global Internet Leaders Chart a Path Forward to Achieve Universal Acceptance – UA Insights from ICANN71 Prep Week
By the UASG Communications Working Group The Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Update during ICANN71 Prep Week (1-3 June 2021) – which preceded the ICANN Virtual Policy Forum on 14 June – featured renown panelists from across…
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has a new report: “Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Hype and Reality.” Here’s the bottom line:
The report offers four conclusions:
Machine learning can help defenders more …From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Shape of This Summer
Looking farther than Father’s Day src Jordan Ellenberg is the author of the new book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. I just received it as a Father’s Day present.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Worlds Smallest Computer at Work
An unusual example of embedding computing using sensors.
Snails Carrying World's Smallest Computer Help Solve Mass Extinction Survivor Mystery
University of Michigan News Service
By Katherine McAlpine; Catharine June University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Technical Artifacts as Non Fungible Tokens
Still find the notion of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) to be bizarre. Purely digital artifacts being placed up for non trivial sums. But the concept continues to expand.
WWW Code That Changed the World Up for Auction as NFT
Reuters…From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Python as Most Common AI Language?
Still think Low and No-code are advancing, but for now Python reigns.
Three Reasons Python Is The AI Lingua Franca
By Calvin Hendryx-Parker in Datanami
Earlier this year, Python celebrated its 30th anniversary as a programming…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's AI-Designed Chip
Designing the next generation of Tensor processing units. Sounds like a kind of layout game.
What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence
By Ben Dickson @BenDee983 in Venturebeat
In a paper published…From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimize Your Omnichannel Marketing Strategy
Useful look at the space via Wharton.
How to Optimize Your Omnichannel Marketing Strategy
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Wharton’s Raghuram Iyengar talks about his research on how firms can harness the full benefits of omnichannel marketing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusions Plants Rolling
Like to see this getting started, and the experience requires to run the built. What is the comparative cost for power?
Nuclear energy: Fusion plant backed by Jeff Bezos to be built in UK By Matt McGrath
A company backed byCanada's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions to Drive Autonomous Vehicles?
Some interesting things have come out of FAU, we participated. Here another. But can human emotions be use to autonomously drive? Even in part? Test it well.
Invention Uses Machine-Learned Human Emotions to 'Drive' Autonomous…From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Biology
Touched on Synthetic Biology way back, though it never was used directly in the enterprise. Apparently reemerging. A revisit to something that is apparently reemerging. Beyond Biomimicry.
Biodesign and Synthetic Biology
What…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Protecting Privacy
AI as a contra method for privacy loss.
AI Technology Protects Privacy
Technical University of Munich (Germany)
May 24, 2021
Technology developed by researchers at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) ensures that the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Missing Packages with AI
Good to see USPS in on this.
USPS Uses Edge AI Apps to Help Track Down Missing Packages Faster By FedTech Magazine
If your package gets lost in the mail, artificial intelligence may soon be coming to the rescue to speed up its…From insideHPC
Argonne and Oak Ridge Award Codeplay Software to Strengthen SYCL Support
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has awarded Codeplay a contract implementing the oneAPI DPC++ compiler, an implementation of the SYCL open standard software, to…
From BLOG@CACM
Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn't Matter?
Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Method For Software Supply Chain Attacks
Quite interesting ... a 'Software Supply Chain Attack', is inserting some malware during its creation, transport or inclusion in some system.
Google dishes out homemade SLSA, a recipe to thwart software supply-chain attacks…From The Eponymous Pickle
Differences Between Simulation and Digital Twins
Interesting. Have done lots of Monte Carlo style simulation modeling, much less using digital twins. Is this a good description? For what contexts? . We also did agent based modeling, which has similarities to DTs. Anyone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Honeywell Quantum Spinoff
More quantum spin offs and directions. Here Honeywell is involved.
Honeywell to Spin Off Quantum Unit in Merger With Software Firm By Thomas Black
June 8, 2021, 1:13 PM EDT
Honeywell to invest up to $300 million in new computer…From Schneier on Security
Peloton Vulnerability Found and Fixed
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Peloton stationary bicycles, one that would give the attacker complete control over the device.
The attack requires physical access to the Peloton, so it’s not really a practical…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Supply Chains run by Smart Contracts?
Fascinating thought. How would the 'contracts' be written to adapt to the autonomous aspects of the system?
The Age of Autonomous Supply Chains by Paul Brody, in CoinDesk
Companies can replace top-down planning with self-organizing…From Schneier on Security
Intentional Flaw in GPRS Encryption Algorithm GEA-1
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data standard that was widely used in the early 2000s. The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1, a stream cipher built on three linear-feedback shift registers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waymo Drives Autonomous Trucks
Will include a trained driver and technician, at least at first.
Self-Driving Waymo Trucks to Haul Loads Between Houston, Fort Worth By Ars Technica
Waymo and trucking company JB Hunt have partnered to haul cargo loads autonomously…From insideHPC
Lenovo Expands HPC System at Leibniz Supercomputer Center
Research Triangle Park, NC – Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Intel and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, announce Phase Two of the LRZ’s SuperMUC-NG supercomputer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sleuthing Crypto Ransom Payments?
Found this most interesting. Very technical look at the approach. Includes all the Wolfram code. reviewing now. Could this be further developed? Makes me think about the overall
DarkSide Update: The FBI Hacks the Hackers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in 3D Implant Construction
Technique Breaks the Mold for 3D-Printing Medical Implants
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
By Gosia Kaszubska
The development of three-dimensionally (3D)-printed molds by researchers at Australia's Royal Melbourne…From insideHPC
Preparing for Exascale: Aurora Software Development – Packaging and Early Hardware
By coordinating efforts to improve early exascale hardware stability at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), computer scientist Servesh Muralidharan is working to make it easier for application developers to use
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From Computational Complexity
Benny Chor (1956-2021)
Benny Chor passed away on June 10, 2021. Luca Trevisan had a blog post on the news.We present a guest post on Benny Chor's life and works by Oded Goldreich. The post has many refs to papers. They will appear at the end with pointers…