Communications of the ACM
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August 2022
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
Considerable advance?
Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
ScienceAlert
Michelle Starr, August 8, 2022
Scientists at Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences built an ultrafast two-quantum bit (qubit)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Animation Tool for Posing for Videogames
Animation and Videogames
University of Montreal
Salle De Presse, July 27, 2022
An animation tool developed by researchers from Canada's Université de Montréal uses bitmap sketches to control the 3D poses…From BLOG@CACM
A History of One Brute-Force Attack
A classic brute-force attack boils down to guessing credentials. In my scenario, though, the perpetrators acted somewhat differently.
From insideHPC
DOE Picks Los Alamos Lab for $9.25M Nuclear Energy Research HPC Project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million, five-year collaborative project in nuclear energy research through the Scientific Discovery through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Rolls Out Belt-Driven Self-Checkout Lanes
Will go to see this example of autonomy.
Kroger expanding new belted self-checkout to 20 Tri-State stores
Calls test of new high tech lanes a success
Kroger says its test of new self scan checkout lanes was a success…From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Autonomous Cars
Still waiting ...
Where Are The Autonomous Cars?
By Semiconductor Engineering, August 9, 2022
Level 5 vehicles, which are self-driving in all road situations, do not yet exist. Moreover, it’s not clear when that will change.
AreWhile…From The Noisy Channel
Content Quality
Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures that represents the content’s value independent of any searcher…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports 50% Y0Y Revenue Increase
HSINCHU, Taiwan – Aug. 10, 2022 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC: NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2022 was approximately NT$186.76 billion,…
From insideHPC
RMACC Names Poster Winner at HPC Symposium
BOULDER, CO – Haniye Kashgarani, a graduate student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competition at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Velocity of Response and Proactivity in Supply Chain Risk Management
Good thoughts here, make them work.
August 10, 2022: By Russell W. Goodman, in SupplyChainBrain
Velocity of response and proactivity in risk management are key to meeting supply chain challenges…From The Eponymous Pickle
Found and Displayed from Space
Found in Space: This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are …
From insideHPC
Argonne’s Polaris Supercomputer Deployed for Scientific Research
Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research community. Researchers can apply for computing time through the
…
From insideHPC
Travis Humble Named Director of Quantum Science Center at ORNL
Travis Humble has been named director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC is a multi-institutional partnership spanning industry, academia and government…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
“Hello world” is slower in C++ than in C (Linux)
A simple C program might print ‘hello world’ on screen: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } You can write the equivalent in C++: #include <iostream> #include <stdlib…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning By TechTalks, June 21, 2022
Nearly every book on reinforcement learning (RL) contains a chapter that explains the differences between model-free and model-based reinforcement…From BLOG@CACM
Mitigating the Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science Education
How can machine learning educators help learners cope with the base rate neglect cognitive bias?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake Data for Faster Learning
Embedded generalizations?
'Fake' Data Helps Robots Learn the Ropes Faster
University of Michigan News, June 29, 2022
University of Michigan (U-M) researchers expanded training datasets for teaching robots to work with soft objects…From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats NeuroAI?
Considerable, interesting piece, Below links to an intro.
MAY 18, 2022XCORR
What’s the endgame of neuroAI? in xcorr.net
It’s been 60 years since Hubel and Wiesel first started unlocking the mysteries of the visual system. Proceeding…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Method Can Improve Explosion Detection
More sensor applications.
Computational Method Can Improve Explosion Detection
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute
Rod Boyce, July 22, 2022
The University of Alaska Fairbanks' Alex Witsil and colleagues have developed…From CERIAS Blog
2022 ISSA Honorees
Cybersecurity and privacy have several notable professional associations associated with them. Some, such as ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and IFIP are more generally about computing. One of the societies specifically directed…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces Recipients of $8.3M for High Energy Density Plasmas Research
Aug. 8, 2022 — Today, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the recipients of $8.3 million for 20 research projects in High-Energy Density Laboratory…
From insideHPC
Registration Open for 2022 International HPC User Forums in October
ST PAUL, Minn., August 9, 2022 — HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced that registration is now open for two International HPC User Forums in October. The first event, hosted by CEA and TERATEC will be held…
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Verne Global Announces Data Center Sustainability Metrics
August 8, 2022 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high intensity compute, today unveiled sustainability metrics and targets intended to provie transparency of the environmental impact of their data…
From BLOG@CACM
Was Ada Lovelace Actually the First Programmer?
Historical arguments for and against.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CellPhone Recorded Coughs Detecting Covid
Maybe other infection laden viruses.
Results might provide a convenient screening tool for people who may not suspect they…From Computational Complexity
The Godfather of Complexity
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| Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 |
On Friday, August 29th, I was in the immigration line at an airport in Mexico. My phone rang with Bill Gasarch on the Caller ID but starting vacation I declined the call. The voicemail gave me thean…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VegSense Gathers Forestry Data in AR
Another idea that permits a level of continuous sensing of information by professionals for a rich scan.
VegSense Makes Sense for Forest Studies
Rice University News, Mike Williams, August 1, 2022
Rice University bioscientists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultrasound Stickers Could Continuously Image Internal Organs for Days
Remarkable scanning idea.
Ultrasound Stickers Could Continuously Image Internal Organs for Days
New Scientist, Jeremy Hsu, July 28, 2022
Xuanhe Zhao and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a wearable…