Communications of the ACM
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September 2020
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Argonne’s David Martin Talks Industrial HPC and Accessible Exascale
David Martin manages the Industry Partnerships and Outreach program at Argonne National Laboratory, and in this interview he talks about the never ending, always expanding demand for more power from HPC users – and the potential…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Talk: How Will the AI Genie Behave?
You are all cordially invited to the following 29th Arnoff-Schloss lecture, which will be on Zoom on Friday, September 18th, 2020, from 3:30PM to 4:30PM. Please register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Dmhl-hxnTqyf9tkh01uwZQ…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Performance Engineering with Machine Learning
Had never heard this specifically positioned this way, nice idea. Needs some more detail to explain, how it has been done, but a great start. We did a form of this with business process modelling, and the integration with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better VR Hearing
Adding additional sensors in AR cold lead to specific new application areas. Spatial Audio could add to maintenance capabilities when linked to machine learning. Also that Facebook continues to be interested in 'smart glasses'…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino Receives the 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
The 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award has been awarded to Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), “For advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular…
From insideHPC
Class of 26 joins DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
A class of 26 future high-performance computing (HPC) leaders is enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Including the new fellows…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
A group we followed during the last AI surge. I was reminded of their excellent innovation work. Following again. Publications in English. If anyone has pointers to particular areas of interest do pass them along. Especially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps and DeepMind AI
Another interesting example of AI pattern matching applications. Use in location and mapping is intriguing.
Google Maps is improving travel ETAs with DeepMind AI
The partnership allows Google Maps to predict traffic jams before…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Launches Services for Property Managment
Can expect push back on this regarding privacy.
Amazon wants to bring Alexa to property managers. by Sarah Perez in Tech Crunch
The company this morning launched a new service, Alexa for Residential, that aims to make it easier…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Data Center Group Releases Cloud-Based Business Agility Solutions for the New, Smarter Normal
Sept. 3, 2020 – Research Triangle Park, NC – Today, Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announces a range of new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions and Lenovo Cloud Services to enable customers to keep pace …
From insideHPC
The Joint Network Center Archives Scientific Data for Max Planck Society with Quantum
SAN JOSE — Sept. 2, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that the Joint Network Center (GNZ) at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) reduced its backup window…
From insideHPC
Altair CTO Interview: PBS Professional Gets a Major Upgrade
Altair® PBS Professional® is the industry-leading workload manager that’s been an HPC workhorse for decades, enabling efficient job scheduling, management, monitoring, and reporting with reliable scaling from small clusters to…
From Schneier on Security
2017 Tesla Hack
Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet....
From Schneier on Security
2017 Tesla Hack
Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.
From Schneier on Security
2017 Tesla Hack
Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sentinels can be faster
A standard trick in programming is to use “sentinel values”. These are special values that represent metadata efficiently. The C language represents strings as a sequences of characters terminated with the null character. The…
From My Biased Coin
Broad Testing Thank You
I have a loose association with the Broad Institute, an institute created so that "complementary expertise of the genomic scientists and the chemical biologists across MIT and Harvard be brought together in one place to drive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Risk and Resilience
Good thoughts, I like he term 'value chains', but also like means to use the concept analytically use it such that it gives us genuine measures. Not done enough .
Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains by McKinsey…
From insideHPC
New Competence Centre to Fast-Track Academic and SME Participation in EU Supercomputing Initiative
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland’s high-performance computing authority, today, Wednesday 2nd September launched Ireland’s Euro-HPC Competence Centre, which is hosted at ICHEC. ICHEC analyzes complex data…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies HPC Community: Cancer Computer Founder Roy Chartier Talks HPC in Support of Cancer, COVID Research
Roy Chartier, founder and CTO of Cancer Computer, Ottawa, with more than 25 years in HPC, HPDA and AI, has assembled a team of volunteers who support cancer researchers by connecting them with the computer hardware, processing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Elon Musk on Brain Implants
Some more detailed comments on the Neuralink talk given by Elon Musk last week. And a link to the talk. Was an area we looked at carefully, especially how it linked to neuromarketing engagement.
Humans and technology/Brain-computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fighting Disasters with AI
We connected with PNNL, an impressive group.
DOE Announces ‘First Five Consortium’ to Fight Natural Disasters with AI
Oliver Peckham in Datanami
As wildland fires tear across California and hurricane season starts to warm up, natural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CAS Signs Enterprise Agreement with P&G
Considerable agreement for data and process workflow.
CAS announces signing of multi-year enterprise agreement with P&G
Agreement expands long-term partnership to support CPG leader’s commitment to disruptive innovation.
Global
Columbus…
From insideHPC
GigaSpaces Announces Version 15.5 for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments to Empower Digital Transformation Initiatives
New York — September 2, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory data and analytics processing platform, announced today the release of GigaSpaces InsightEdge version 15.5, to simplify and scale hybrid…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human AI Collaboration
Google talks one of the most important aspects of the use of advanced tech. I would further say that this should not be about just 'AI' as it is defined today, but all enhanced computational collaboration. Points to a number…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Satellites?
Have been among those to warn of having too many communications sats in orbit. Now it is becoming a reality. Article talks some of the details.
Hundreds of astronomers warn Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites could limit scientific…
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It's a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted....
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught.
It’s a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted.
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught.
It’s a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Boredom Separate us from Machines
Pondering the proposition. Attention span and creativity.
Boredom is what separates us from machines In TheNextWeb
Humans can't match the attention spans of bots
Our horrible attention spans distinguish us from bots, according…