Communications of the ACM
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June 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Amazon Sidewalk
This continues to generate controversy, here from CNet and ACM:
Amazon Sidewalk: What to know before sharing your home's bandwidth
By CNet June 9, 2021
June 8 marked the launch of Amazon Sidewalk, a new feature that promises to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Excel with Python
Nice idea. In fact can think of several application examples where we were appending to capabilities of existing spreadsheets. One a much used, almost historical example. Could have led to quicker prototypes at least. Pre…
From insideHPC
Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities
June 22, 2021, New York – Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize Machine Learning (ML)features, announced today a $20M Series A investment round…
From insideHPC
Xilinx Claims Highest AI Performance-per-Watt for Edge Compute
SAN JOSE, June 9, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the adaptive computing company, today introduced the Versal AI Edge series, designed to enable AI innovation from the edge to the endpoint. With 4X the AI performance-per-watt…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Was just pointed out to me, seems a good resource.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) leads the industry in offering cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and best practices. ...
Welcome to the Cloud…From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Why Our Judgment is Flawed
An important idea to understand, and I think even our quick jump to assume that our judgments are wrong also needs to be better understood. In ourselves and in our growing number of machines.
Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Add Atlantic Sea Cable
Somewhat surprising with all the attempts to get Satellite based links. I assume to get more backup connections as we continue to depend more on reliable data.
Google's new subsea cable handles data surge between US, Brazil,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Mental Health
But needs to be carefully studied in various contexts. Recall some of the various 'therapist' capabilities in early AI that had unexpected results.
Technology to Manage Mental Health at Your Fingertips
Texas A&M Today, Vandana…From BLOG@CACM
A MERge Analysis of an Organizational Change: The Case of Internalization at Home
How the Technion assimilated its international activities into its other units’ activities and, at the same time, reduced operational costs related to its international activities.
From insideHPC
ECP Pushes Cross-Platform Tested Compilers for HPC and Exascale Architectures
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working to combine two key technologies, LLVM and continuous integration (CI), to ensure that current and future compilers are stable and performant on high-performance computing (HPC)
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From insideHPC
RMACC Names HPC Symposium Poster Winner
BOULDER, CO – Doga Cagdas Demirkan, a third-year mining engineering Ph.D. candidate at Colorado School of Mines, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competition held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Advanced…
From The Noisy Channel
Ranking vs. Relevance
Most folks who work on search worry about relevance. But it’s surprisingly difficult to find a useful definition of relevance.
Defining Relevance
Merriam-Webster defines relevance as “the ability (as of an information retrieval…From insideHPC
Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage
SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship with the University of Minnesota’s Supercomputing Institute (MSI)…
From insideHPC
GUC Tapes Out AI/HPC/Networking Platform on TSMC CoWoS Technology with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and 112G-LR SerDes IPs
Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 8, 2021 – Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Advanced ASIC Leader, announced today that it has successfully taped out AI/HPC/Networking CoWoS Platform with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Margaret Martonosi Receives the 2021 ACM/IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced that former Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research Association- Widening Participation (CRA-WP) Board Member and…
From My Biased Coin
Machine Learning for Algorithms Workshop (July 13-14)
We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers. Announcement below, link at https://fodsi.us/ml4a.html, free registration (but please register in advance)!
In…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Players Want to Play Semantics for Meaning
This precisely what we wanted to do, to let our systems understand the meaning of words, rather than just what the meaning they have been assigned by language. But would that work? We wanted to assign the meaning that WE had…
From insideHPC
IBM Releases AI Toolkit for Deep Learning Uncertainties
Deep learning is smart and it knows it. It loves to show off its ability to connect dots no one else can see, to be the smartest in the room. But that’s when deep learning can go wrong – when it thinks it knows everything. What…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deepfake Picture Editing
“Markpainting” is a clever technique to watermark photos in such a way that makes it easier to detect ML-based manipulation:
An image owner can modify their image in subtle ways which are not themselves very visible, but will…From Schneier on Security
Information Flows and Democracy
Henry Farrell and I published a paper on fixing American democracy: “Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help Democracy.”
It’s much easier for democratic stability to break down than most people realize, but…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid Photographed off the Coast of Antarctica
Wow.
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 insideHPC
Weka Claims 6 Records on STAC-M3 WEKAFS File Systems on EC2
CAMPBELL, Calif. – June 8, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance computing (HPC), today announced record-breaking performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Machine Learning in Supply Chain Logistics
Am a long time player in the space. Here a good overview of general example of work being done in supply chain with AI style approaches. Not enough detail, but can provoke some usage ideas.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine…From insideHPC
JPL Used Bright Cluster Manager for 2020 Mars Mission
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab used Bright Computing’s Cluster Manager to help manage the lab’s HPC cluster environment to produce trajectory correction calculations and entry, descent and landing calculations for the spacecraft that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scoping from Big Data to Big Knowledge
This was brought to my attention by the 'Windows Weekly Podcast' this week, in part because it dealt with conversations we had with Linkedin long before they were acquired by Microsoft. This did not lead anywhere, but touched…
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems
“If you think any of these systems are going to work as expected in wartime, you’re fooling yourself.”
That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S. Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized…From The Eponymous Pickle
Demonstrating Quantum Advantage
Some description of how quantum computing can improve the performance of algorithms using sensors and classical methods. Here a short intro, much more at the link.
Engineers Demonstrate Quantum Advantage
University of Arizona News…From insideHPC
DOE Honors 2 Early Career Lab Scientists
Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are recipients of the 2021 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program award. Andrea Schmidt and Xue Zheng are among 83 scientists…
From insideHPC
TYAN Delivers AI and Cloud Optimized Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
TAIPEI, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, brings 3rd Gen Intel-Xeon-Scalable processor-based server platforms featuring built-in AI …
From insideHPC
OCP Issues Call for Papers for 2021 Global Summit
The Call for Papers for the 2021 OCP Global Summit, November 9-10, 2021, is now open. These conference will includes keynotes, exhibits, expo hall talks and engineering workshops. The number of engineering tracks and their content…