Communications of the ACM
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July 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Computers Understand Complex Words, Concepts?
Provocative questions on understanding concepts.
Can Computers Understand Complex Words, Concepts?
UCLA Newsroom
Stuart Wolpert, June 16, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Massachusetts Institute…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready for #CSTA2022
The CSTA Annua Conference is only days away. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s my first plane ride since CSTA in Phoenix in 2019. That’s a long time for me. Or was. The online conferences have been excellent but there is nothing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Quantum Metrology
Admit had not heard of this application.
Sabine Hossenfelder Quantum Metrology
Quantum mechanics is famous for its uncertainty principle that limits what you can measure. But oddly enough, quantum effects can actually help scientists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Dimensional Digital Knitting
Interesting application for mundane and health care applications.
3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring MIT Media Labs
We present an…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on the Future of Information Work
Important in many ways.
The Future of Information Work
By Longqi Yang, David Holtz, Sonia Jaffe, Siddharth Suri
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 27-29 10.1145/3538638
COVID-19 caused approximately one…From The Eponymous Pickle
Max Planck on Mimicking Brain Cortex
Intriguing idea of mimicking brains. Technical.
Advanced 'mini brains' in a dish: Organoids that mimic human brain cortex in development and disease by Max Planck Society
"Outer Radial Glia" (oRG) cells are nervous systemOrganoids…From The Eponymous Pickle
Course the Military is on it
Also worked with an an example in this space:
The U.S. Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse, By Wired, July 6, 2022
On May 10, two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Mckinsey on the MetaVerse
Another piece by McKinsey on the Metaverse. They seem to be obsessed by it. It again is worth taking a look at it, but there are no guarantee it will be the future. We experimented with related methods, and they did not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Networks are Changing Shoud We Change organizations?
Some useful thoughts are presented.
Supply Chain Networks are changing, Should Supply Chain Organization Design Follow? By Alan O’Keeffe from Gartner
Supply chain leaders are well aware of the consequences of disruption on their…From The Eponymous Pickle
Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
Technical and intriguing
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Go generics are not bad
When programming, we often need to write ‘generic’ functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple function that sums up numbers. Go lacked this notion until recently, but it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lettting Drones Fly Out of Sight
This came to mind in an efficiency/cost vs safety analysis of late. Will see an increase of commercial use.
The Next Frontier for Drones: Letting Them Fly Out of Sight
Associated Press
Matt O'Brien; Nathan Ellgren, July 6, 2022…From insideHPC
DOE Announces $18.3M for Chemical Sciences Simulation and Modeling Research
July 8, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18.3 million in funding for eight research projects to advance the development of sophisticated modeling and simulation software for the chemical sciences. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Advances
Brief look at updates in 3d Printing.
3D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots
The New York Times, Steve Lohr, July 3, 2022
Companies like Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-off VulcanForms are integrating three-dimensional…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bitcoin Blockchain Activity Plummets
'Tourism' in the space a new term to me.
Bitcoin blockchain activity has plummeted in recent months in Techradar By Sead Fadilpašić published about 1 hour ago
Bitcoin tourists are leaving in droves
Between rising inflation, fear…From insideHPC
OpenACC and Hackathons Summit 2022 Aug. 2-4
July 8, 2022 — OpenACC will hold its annual summit from Tuesday, Aug. 2 to Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 from 7-11 am Pacific Time. It will be a digital event. The event website is here. OpenACC said this annual summit showcases leading…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fewer Foreign Students. Implications?
Taught a course at Columbia that showed me the considerable dominance of foreign students. How much will this change things for universities?
Fading Beacon By The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2022
American higher…From insideHPC
TSMC Issues Monthly Revenue Report
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jul. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for June 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for June 2022 was approximately NT$175.87 billion, a decrease of 5.3 percent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Electric Connection: Homes Helping the Grid
Appliance connections.
Home Helping the Grid. By Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. May 26, 2022
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Oklahoma have…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Dissolving Pacemaker
Quite interesting ....
FROM ACM TECHNEWS
Smart Dissolving Pacemaker Communicates with Body-Area Sensor, Control Network
Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University scientists have unveiled a smartNorthwestern…From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Identifies Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithms
Still worries about how quantum decryption will alter security.
NIST Identifies Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithms
Nextgov, Alexandra Kelley, July 5, 2022
Officials from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology…From insideHPC
AIC Launches High Density 4U JBOD
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — AIC Inc., a provider of enterprise storage and server solutions, announced the launch of J4078-02-04X, an ultra-high density 4U 78-bay JBOD enclosure. This new JBOD supports…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeper into Meta AI's Unsupervised Step
(Updated) after reading. See supporting images at link. ....
Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward In the quest for human-level intelligent AI, Meta is betting on self-supervised learning By ELIZA STRICKLAND in IEEE…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI to Fight Food Fraud
Somewhat unexpected application, good details embedded here. Note the automated tasting sensors involved, which we investigated for coffee taste applications.
Using AI to Fight Food Fraud By Sandrine Ceurstemont, Commissioned…From insideHPC
Women in HPC Announce July Events
July 7, 2022 — Women in HPC has announced its July schedule of opportunities for the HPC community. From reviews, to networking, to the announcement of our participation at SC22 in Dallas, here is a summary of events as described…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: Getting ‘More Science Per Pound’ at Durham University’s COSMA HPC Service
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In this interview with Dr. Alastair Basden of the UK’s Durham University, he discusses the latest activities at the university’s COSMA HPC Service as it tests and incorporates new high performance technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toyota Partners with Israel’s Quantum Machines for Solutions
New to me partnership in Quantum.
Toyota Partners with Israel’s Quantum Machines for Quantum Computing Solutions, By The Times of Israel, July 7, 2022
Japanese automotive giant Toyota has tapped Israeli company Quantum Machines…From The Eponymous Pickle
Babbages Engine Reaches 200
Am an avid historian of computation:
Babbages Engine is 200 years old
Below just an intro, go to the link for more and furtherlinks.
Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200 Error-riddled astronomical tables inspired theIT…From insideHPC
MemVerge Memory Machine Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator and Container Certification
MILPITAS, Calif. – July 7, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge today announced the MemVerge Memory Machine has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator and container certifications. “This is an important step in enabling cloud…
From insideHPC
NIST Completes 3rd Round of Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process
Washington, DC — The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it has completed the third round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process, which selects public-key cryptographic…