Communications of the ACM
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September 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improvements for Future Voice Assistants
Survey of future improvements that could be useful. Not complete or specific to voice assistants. But useful thoughts.
5 ways that future A.I. assistants will take voice tech to the next level By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrends…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Proposes Building Assistant with Minecraft
The idea seemed a bit odd at first, but the idea brings together ideas used in agent modeling, where you build a simulation that has agents interact with other agents (or people) and then use the results of the interactions to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Zero Knowledge Proofs
Relatively short, definitional and largely non technical definition of zero-knowledge proofs. Previously covered here, and under examination. Useful for any kind of transaction.
Hacker Lexicon: What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stronger Cryptowallet Proposed
Recent incidents have shown that the wallet can be a key area of insecurity.
Researchers Invent Cryptocurrency Wallet That Eliminates 'Entire Classes' of Vulnerabilities
ZDNet by Charlie Osborne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Scientists Captured the Giant Squid Video
In June, I blogged about a video of a live juvenile giant squid. Here's how that video was captured. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China About to Issue its own Cryptocurrency
Wondering the broad implications of this. Will it embody regulations that will determine how it will be traded versus other currencies? Or use smart contracts to determine trade contacts? Or? Overall very hard to determine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Build AI we can Trust
A long time question. Its the old problem of 'common sense' reasoning, and it usually a step above common sense .... maybe call it 'light reasoning' , as the article below suggests. Humans often omit that kind of reasoning…
From Schneier on Security
When Biology Becomes Software
All of life is based on the coordinated action of genetic parts (genes and their controlling sequences) found in the genomes (the complete DNA sequence) of organisms. Genes and genomes are based on code-- just like the digital…
From insideHPC
ANSYS to Acquire LSTC
Today ANSYS announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), the premier provider of explicit dynamics and other advanced finite element analysis technology…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Enhances SuperWorkstations for Desktop HPC
Today Supermicro Computer launched a new server-grade high-end workstation to its broad portfolio of fully configurable SuperWorkstation systems. The SYS-5049A-T joins a robust range of solutions supporting dynamic computational…
From insideHPC
MemComputing Selected by Air Force Research Lab Space Accelerator
Today MemComputing announced it has been selected as one of eight startups nationwide to join the Catalyst Space Accelerator, centered around space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). "The type of complex…
From Computational Complexity
Random non-partisan thoughts on the Prez Election
This post is non-partisan, but in the interest of full disclosure I disclose that I will almost surely be voting for the Democratic Nominee. And I say almost surely because very weird things could happen.I can imagine a republican…
From insideHPC
Applying Cloud Techniques to Address Complexity in HPC System Integrations
Arno Kolster from Providentia Worldwide gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "OLCF and technology consulting company Providentia Worldwide recently collaborated to develop an intelligence system that combines real-time updates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Element AI Financing
Had seen this mentioned in the supply chain space:
Element AI closes financing, securing $200-million backed by the Caisse, Quebec and McKinsey
SEAN SILCOFF, TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
Montreal artificial intelligence startup Element AI…
From Schneier on Security
Smart Watches and Cheating on Tests
The Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice in the UK has recommended that all watches be banned from exam rooms, basically because it's becoming very difficult to tell regular watches from smart watches....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finances of AI Research: DeepMind
Are such losses in leading edge tech signficant, or to be expected?
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence by Gary Marcus in Wired
Alphabet’s DeepMind unit, conqueror of Go and other games, is losing lots of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Supply Chain Roadmaps with AI
View of push-pull models for supply chains.
How Supply-Chain Companies Can Build Roadmaps With AI
September 13, 2019
by Karthik Ramakrishnan and Ben Humphries, SCB Contributors
The supply chain as we know it is on the precipice of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US: Slide Deck
Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released the completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, titled A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US! An HTML version is available here. Slides summarizing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IJCAI: International AI Conference
I was reminded in a meeting today that IJCAI, The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, has international meetings and publishes papers of interest to AI. In the past I attended many meetings…
From insideHPC
CSCS to Host HPC User Forum in October
CSCS will host the HPC User Forum October 7-8 in Lugano, Switzerland. "It is the first time that CSCS has the pleasure to host the HPC User Forum. The meeting will offer a review of key trends in high-performance computing, with…
From insideHPC
Exxact Releases New eBook “Getting Started with Deep Learning”
Today Exxact Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Computing (HPC) and GPU-accelerated deep learning solutions, announced that their new, comprehensive eBook: "Getting Started with Deep Learning" is now available…
From insideHPC
Panasas Powers Energy Exploration at Magseis Fairfield
Today Panasas announced the release of a case study featuring the marine survey activities of Panasas customer Magseis Fairfield, a Norway-based geophysics firm that provides ocean bottom seismic acquisition services for exploration…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC – The European Strategy for Supercomputing
Jean-Marc Denis from EPI gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is a 1 billion Euro joint initiative between the EU and European countries to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe…
From insideHPC
Leadership Performance with 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
According to Intel, its new 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family includes Intel Deep Learning Boost for AI deep learning inference acceleration, fresh features and support for Intel Octane DC (data center) persistent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
N Shot Learning
Remember we kind of discovered this accidentally during the early days of using neural networks. Its a natural thing, having a simple example. An having N shots is next. But is often limited in context.
Artificial Intelligence…
From Schneier on Security
Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Leadership Skills are Learned
I just started more regularly listening to the K@W Podcasts, nicely done, easily accessed today, for example they are readily available by voice command from Alexa and Google systems. .....
Most leadership Skills are Learned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MSoft and IOT with Plug and Play
The internet of things (IoT) seems to be everywhere these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reprogrammable Colors in Ink Make Chameleons
When I first scanned this it seemed trite, but then I though of a whole group of possible ideas. Say a car that could become more visible in darkness. Or new kinds of art or marketing that could change with their environment…
From insideHPC
Mellanox to Ship 1 Million ConnectX Adapters in Q3 2019
Today Mellanox announced it is on track to ship over one million ConnectX and BlueField Ethernet network adapters in Q3 2019, a new quarterly record. "Leading data centers worldwide select the award-winning ConnectX and BlueField…