Communications of the ACM
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June 2022
From CERIAS Blog
CERIAS is on the move!
In May of 1998, Purdue chartered CERIAS -- the Center of Education and Research In Information Assurance and Security -- as a campus-wide, multidisciplinary center for the new (at the time) field of cybersecurity. CERIAS grew…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bitcoins Anonymous?
Examining implications..
Via ACM NEWS
How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity By ZDNet, June 10, 2022
It has been a totem of the cryptocurrency community that the numeric addresses of Bitcoin and other wallets will…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing: A Useful Look at Why
How broadly might Quantum computing realistically improve our algorithmic capabilities Below a short intro.
Quantum computer succeeds where a classical algorithm fails
Quantum computers coupled with traditional machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
26 MAY 2022| by Avery Forman
Leaders today must be ready to take a stand on thorny social and political issues. A case study by Nien-hê Hsieh and Henry McGee examines…From Computational Complexity
I am surprised that the Shortest Vector Problem is not known to be NP-hard, but perhaps I am wrong
From The Eponymous Pickle
Which Exec Role Should Guide the Path to the Metaverse?
Too early too define yet, this a reasonable start.
Which exec role should guide the path to the metaverse? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
Crate & Barrel Holdings last week revealed that Sebastian Brauer, who oversees product design…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Coversational AI System and AI Test Kitchen
Test Kitchen is interesting.
Google Debuts LaMDA 2 Conversational AI System and AI Test Kitchen By Jaime Hampton in Datanami
At its annual developer conference last week, Google announced the second release of its conversational…From The Eponymous Pickle
New Book: Solving Almost any Machine Learning Problem
What seems to be an interesting and inexpensive book, initially on Github, but then in a paper book version brought to my attention by Vincent Granville. "Approaching (Any) Machine Learning problem" by Abishek Thakur. Paper…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automotive 3D Printed Parts
Remarkable capability being used by GM
GM 3D Prints 60,000 Parts to Keep Tahoe Deliveries on Time By Tim Stevens in CNET
What's happening : GM turned to industrial 3D printers to avoid a crucial parts shortage.
Why it matters…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Datacenters
Power and Carbon and further considerations of their infrastructure
By Samuel Greengard
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 9, 2022
As businesses and governments worldwide search for ways to reduce their…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Robot Has the View
Object identification
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)
March 16, 2022
A sensor developed by researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering successfully captures…From The Eponymous Pickle
ZDNet Presents Best Tech Podcasts
Good group of tech podcasts, will be taking a look.
Best tech podcasts: Listen and learn
Informative and fun, tech podcasts deliver news and insights about the diverse and ever-changing world of technology to your ears on your…From The Eponymous Pickle
Liquid Mirror Telescopes
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Blockchain could mean for Customer Experience
Have not seen many examples of blockchain in this space.
What blockchain could mean for customer experience
Steven Van Belleghem -June 10, 2022 in CustomerThink
I have written and spoken quite a lot about the concept of ‘friction…From The Eponymous Pickle
Athena Concealed Weapon Detection System
Unaware of the current tech in this area, but clipped this as an example.
Introducing Athena Securitys Concealed Weapons Detection System engineered to detect a wide range of mass casualty threats like handguns, shotguns, and…From insideHPC
Report: Worsening Supply Chain, Fab Equipment Problems for TSMC and Samsung Could Hit HPC and AI
To the combination of economic and geopolitical forces generating high global inflation and rising recession expectations can be included the continuing shortage of microprocessors that, according to a story in the Wall Street…
From insideHPC
NNSA Completes LLNL Exascale Facility for El Capitan
WASHINGTON – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the completion of construction on the Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project at the Lawrence Livermore National…
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Nose Again for Monitors
Another space we experimented with, in understanding Smell in context
E-Nose' Sniffs Out Volatile Organic Compounds
American Chemical Society, June 8, 2022
Researchers from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in China could add $600 billion to its economy
Considerable piece from McKinsey ....
The next frontier for AI in China could add $600 billion to its economy
Artificial intelligence could disrupt transportation and other key sectors in China, adding significant economic value…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution
interesting connection between causes and new approaches. Can we relate this to statistical methods as well?
AI Is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution By The Gradient, June 9, 2022
Through automation and algorithms,AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Blockchain Stop Wasting Energy by Getting It to Manage Energy
Is this workable?
Making Blockchain Stop Wasting Energy by Getting It to Manage Energy
Ars Technica, John Timmer, June 5, 2022
A group of researchers from China's Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua universities identified an optimization…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Begins Laying Off Entire Russian Workforce
Implications for IBM and Ukraine?
IBM Begins Laying Off Entire Russian Workforce By Josh Norem in Extremetech
The ongoing war in Ukraine has caused hundreds of companies to announce they were suspending operations in Russia…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gecoding Systems: What3Words
Had the need to look at alternative geocoding systems and came upon 'What3Words' in a closer look at Apple Maps, which supports the method. This allows the encoding of every square meter of the earth onto a three word code…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: atNorth’s Nordic Renewable Energy-powered HPC/AI Colocation Services
At ISC 2022 we spoke with atNorth CCO Gisli Kr., who discussed the company’s Iceland- and Sweden-based HPC/AI colocation services powered by renewable (hydro and geothermal) energy. Kr. also discusses its latest offering, GPU…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Network Flow
Classic problem we worked with.
Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow
By Quanta Magazine June 9, 2022
For now, it’s primarily a theoretical advance, since the speed improvements kick in only for networks…From The Eponymous Pickle
The IBM Technology Atlas
Nicely put YouTube talk by Darío Gil, IBM SVP & Director of Research, exploring some of the offerings. https://youtu.be/ky32162U06M
IBM Research
The most important tool for any explorer, whether they're charting a new course…From insideHPC
It’s a Wrap! We’ll See You at ISC Next Year
[SPONSORED POST] After attending ISC, it’s safe to say that no remote conferencing or communication technology can ever replace the experience of face-to-face human interaction. It was fantastic to engage directly with our customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UserTesting Stock: Using AI for Customer Market Research
UserTesting Stock: Using AI for Customer Market Research
Last month, we wrote about TaskUs stock (TASK), which offers a way to invest in a little light human slavery digital offshoring services. But the company relies heavilyAbout…From The Eponymous Pickle
Model to Find Best EV Charging Sites
Something we will need to start to consider.
Model Finds Best Sites for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
NC State University News, Matt Shipman, June 6, 2022
North Carolina State University (NC State) researchers …From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Acquires Quantum
Had not heard of Orca Computing.
Ministry of Defence acquires government's first quantum computer
By Liv McMahon in BBC Technology team
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired the government's first quantum computer.
Quantum…