Communications of the ACM
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July 2022
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti: Neuromorphic Device Uses Up to ‘5 Orders of Magnitude’ Less Energy
GRENOBLE, France – July 7, 2022 – Technical research institute CEA-Leti announced it has developed an event-driven, object-localization system that couples piezoelectric, ultrasound transducer sensors to a neuromorphic, resistive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Digital Innovation Accelleration
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Observability Stack
Noting requirements of a 'Data Observability Stack', see link.
IBM acquires Databand to bolster its data observability stack
IBM today announced that it acquired Databand, a startup developing an observability platform for data…From The Eponymous Pickle
Aerial Sensors Detecting Underwater Robots
Naval applications?
Dartmouth News, Harini Barath, June 30, 2022
Dartmouth College researchers have created Sunflower, an aerial sensor system that uses lasers which enable aerial drones to detect and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Another look at Ghost Imaging
Wrote about the 'around the corner' imaging. Here related. Links to other resources.
AI can use your brainwaves to see things that you can't
A computer algorithm can use a technique called "ghost imaging" to reconstruct objects…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building in Explainability into ML Models
Key to making them effectively Useable
Building Explainability into Components of ML Models
MIT News, Adam Zewe, June 30, 2022
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and cybersecurity startup Corelight have…From insideHPC
Micron: DDR5 Server DRAM Now Available
BOISE, Idaho, July 06, 2022 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM in support of industry qualification of next-generation Intel and AMD
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From insideHPC
DOE Announces 18 Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy
July 6, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced awards for 18 projects with private industry to enhance collaboration with DOE national laboratories and U.S. universities to take on challenges in fusion energy…
From insideHPC
Report: US Pressures Netherlands on Exports of ASML Chip Equipment to China
Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML’s wunderkind chip manufacturing technology has become embroiled in the technology trade war between the United States and China, according to a Bloomberg story. The U.S. is pressuring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building with Acoustic Levitation
Thinking the possibilities
Acoustic Levitation Used to Build Complex Structures in Mid-Air
New Scientist, Matthew Sparkes, June 29, 2022
A system developed by researchers at Spain's Public University of Navarre incorporates a robotic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Prosthesis via Brain Machine Interface
More Personalized healthcare via Robotics
Robotic Arms Connected to Brain of Partially Paralyzed Man Allow Him to Feed Himself
Frontiers Science News
Peter Rejcek, June 28, 2022
Johns Hopkins University researchers led a team that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Crime
Where have I seen this before? How quickly will it be knocked down?
AI Algorithm Predicts Future Crimes One Week in Advance With 90% Accuracy
TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceCrimeMachine LearningPopularUniversity Of Chicago
By MATT…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Horst Simon on DOE’s Post-Exascale Vision – More Flexibility, More Vendor Diversity
Following DOE's next-gen supercomputing Request for Information (RFI) issued last week, we discussed what it all may mean with Dr. Horst Simon, Special Advisor to the Laboratory Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Police Data Hacked
This has seen broad reporting. Implications for China unclear. Police Database. Depth and breadth emphasized.
Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion Chinese citizens
A sample of the data included crime reports…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Fake Job Seekers
Note how remote working can aid this.
Deepfakes Are Interviewing For Tech Jobs in Extremetech
By Adrianna Nine on July 5, 2022
The tech industry has been rife with recruiting issues in recent years, from post-interview ghosting…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Info Encoded into Phase and Arrival time of Photons
Technical results.
Secure Communication with Light Particles
Technical…From Computational Complexity
The Highland Park Shooting
This week I should be celebrating Mark Braverman's Abacus Medal and the Fields Medalists. Instead my mind has been focused 25 miles north of Chicago.
Mass shootings in the United States have become far too commonplace, but the…From insideHPC
PRACE Council Elects New Chair and Vice-Chair
PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) today announced that at its 44th PRACE Council Meeting on 8 June 2022 – held in hybrid mode – PRACE members elected a new chair and vice-chair. The new incumbents will …
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Supports Atmospheric Convection Modeling
July 5, 2022 – Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into the Energy Exascale Earth …
From BLOG@CACM
The Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science
Using Bayes' Theorem, the correct answer to both the medical diagnosis problem and to the lion classification question, can be calculated.
From insideHPC
At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions
We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (HPL-AI benchmark) “Venado” supercomputer to be installed at Los Alamos National…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking a Look at Binge Times
Reading this book, quite good so far, can it be used as a predictor of future times and Technologies? Predictably just a 'black swan' event, or more? More to follow.
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion Dollar Battle…From insideHPC
Phase 1 of Pawsey’s Setonix Supercomputer Now Available to Users
Perth, Australia — The first phase of the Pawsey Supercomputing Center‘s Setonix supercomputer is now available, designed to offer a faster, user-friendly interface to accelerate discoveries. Setonix Phase 1 is delivering double…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab
Not sure I would build with Zinnia Elegans, but assume that's a test plant. Fascinating direction.
Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab
MIT News, Adam Zewe, May 25, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
How will control be applied?
Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
The New York Times, David McCabe; Adam Satariano, May 23, 2022
More than 50 countries, including France, Austria, and South Africa, are boosting their efforts to control…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels
On my first visit to the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and the MIT Media Lab, I notices a message on the windows. “Some people would rather move atoms than pixels.” That has stuck with my for years now. And it is quite true. Robots…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Says No to AI Patents
Contrary to the US it currently seems.
UK decides AI still cannot patent inventions By Chris Vallance in the BBC, Technology reporter
The UK's Intellectual Property Office has decided artificial-intelligence systems cannot patent…From BLOG@CACM
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?
Most languages differ less in what they make possible, and more in terms of what they make easy.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard Predicts Happiness
How specific or Even Specifically Useful?
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceHarvard Medical SchoolMachine LearningMental HealthPsychological ModelPsychology
The authors…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcome New Computer Science Teachers
Spring is an interesting time on social media. I help moderate a couple of CS teacher groups on Facebook and let me tell you, membership is booming! Why? Well, several reasons. For one thing a lot of teachers have been voluntold…