Communications of the ACM
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August 2022
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Claims Quantum Machine Learning Breakthrough: Training with Small Amounts of Data
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced a in quantum machine learning “proof” they say shows that raining a quantum neural network requires only a small amount of data, “(upending) previous assumptions stemming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge
Chips for AI
A Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge
UC San Diego News Center
By Ioana Patringenaru, August 17, 2022
An international team of researchers created the NeuRRAM neuromorphic chip to compute directly in memory and run…From The Eponymous Pickle
Starlink Hacked
Another look at this recent development.
Researcher Hacks Starlink Terminal to Warn SpaceX of Dangerous Flaws
Lennert Wouters has apparently made the details of his hacking tool open source.
By Passant Rabie
A researcher from Belgium…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair “What gets measured gets managed.” This quote is popular in business settings because it speaks to a widely accepted truth: if you can’t measure something, it’s difficult – if not impossible – to improve…
From insideHPC
Sylabs and Anchore Collaborate to Bring SBOM Support for Singularity Containers
Reno, NV – August 24, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced it has collaborated with Anchore to bring Syft Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruption Examined
Via Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A collection of his observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects....
Disruptive Forces Necessitate Bold Decisions
In January of 2021…From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti-Reflective Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through Walls
Could be useful in homes, offices.
'Anti-Reflective' Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through Walls
In TechRadar, Steve McCaskill, August 18, 2022
Scientists at Austria's Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and France's University…From insideHPC
Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering
BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project. At Lightmatter, Ho will…
From insideHPC
ALCF to Hold Annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 4-6
The ARgonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold its annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop this October 4-6. The event is designed to help researchers improve the performance and productivity of simulation,
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From insideHPC
Quantum Company Q-CTRL Names Alex Shih Head of Product
SYDNEY, August 23, 2022 – Quantum control infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced the addition of Alex Shih as head of product. He will lead the company’s product management teams to deliver the technology’s value…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day Oct. 7 with Virtual Event
On Friday, Oct. 7, the Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will hold a free virtual event entitled “Computational Science Supports Energy Initiatives” from 8 am to 2:15 pm Pactific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think:
Just Reading, very interesting, will review further as I progress. by a correspondent I have often mentioned here.
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It ... by Byron Reese…
From BLOG@CACM
The Legacy of Barry Boehm
One of the founders of software engineering as we know it.
From insideHPC
LLNL and Korea Institute of Science and Technology to collaborate
Livermore, CA — Leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on basic science and technology …
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Car Security Issues
Schneier points to other vehicle encryption issues, here just a snippit, more at the link. in the
Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search in IheRegister
Top tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tests AI Robotics in a Kitchen
Look forward to seeing this. Kitchen has many tasks that could be automated, but usually not well positioned for broad application and integration. Note here a number of hints at Google investment in the topic. Ready to test…
From Putting People First
A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competition Makes Big Datasets Winners
For a number of reasons, big datasets are better. I have used ImageNet, good example, very useful. Also Mechanical Turk.
Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners By Chris Edwards
Communications of the ACM, September 2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
Surgery Robot on ISS
Clearly needed as distances and times in space grow.
A Surgery Robot Will Board the ISS in 2024
By Adrianna Nine on August 4, 2022 in ExtremeTech
After nearly 20 years of development, a small remote-controlled surgery robot is…From Putting People First
“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance
“There is nothing shocking or radical about ending an economic practice that has too many negative externalities. We have banned certain kinds of economic activity in the past because of them being too toxic for society. ”
From Putting People First
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish car magazine Vi Bilägare.
From Computational Complexity
20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bionic Hand Arms Race
Quite interesting developments are at hand at hand. Good overview of the space, linking to more.
THE BIONIC-HAND ARMS RACE in IEEE Spectrum
The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Road beyond 5G, Value?
Have not seen much out of 5G
The Road to 6G By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 14-16 10.1145/3546959
Although 5G technology is still in its relative infancy, top technologyThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Plants into Building Design
Like the integration of plants and buildings. Beyond sustainability.
Playing with Dirt Leads to Big Potential for Sustainable Buildings
UVA Today, Karen Walker, July 27, 2022
University of Virginia (UVA) researchers are experimenting…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Catching sanitizer errors programmatically
The C and C++ languages offer little protection against programmer errors. Errors do not always show up where you expect. You can silently corrupt the content of your memory. It can make bugs difficult to track. To solve this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scar Tissue Control for Implants
Design prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
A new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens on EV Development
Siemens on V Development
Drive vehicle electrification and manage increasing complexity by transforming electric vehicle development
Until recently, electric vehicles were costly to develop and buy, leaving OEMs and customersDownload…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Theoretical Question About UAPs
What should be the Bayesian prior for a new NASA study? Crop from ‘Interstellar’ discussion David Spergel is a physics professor emeritus of Princeton University who now heads the James Simons Foundation. He shared the 2010 Shaw…
From insideHPC
Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country”
It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascale computing – that was begun more than 20 years ago. We’re talking
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