Communications of the ACM
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September 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
LIDAR News
Brought to my attention:
Welcome to the Lidar News blog page. We currently host “In the Scan“ – one of the world’s leading 3D laser scanning and lidar blogs with over 3000 posts over 9 years.
We are interested…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Energy Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Developers
Amazon Alexa Smart home developer highlights in September.
Join the Developer Community.
Ask questions during Developer Office Hours, hear from members of the voice community on Alexa & Friends, and join the conversation in the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Shades of Computational Intelligence
Below the intro, I like the broad take. But we have gotten more used to the AI thing, it remains, artificial.
Tired of AI? Let’s talk about CI.
Bryce Murray, PhD in TowardsDataScience
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere…From The Eponymous Pickle
Greece, USC, Wharton and AgentRisk Develop COVID Risk Analysis
Interesting approach and claims.
How Greece Let in Tourists, Kept Out COVID-19, By University of Southern California, September 24, 2021
A hand clad in the colors of Greece holds a test tube containing a COVID test.
The EvaResearchers…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
New release of the simdjson library: version 1.0
The most popular data format on the web is arguably JSON. It is a simple and convenient format. Most web services allow to send and receive data in JSON. Unfortunately, parsing JSON can be time and energy consuming. Back in 2019…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zscaler and Siemens Join for Zero Trust
Interesting example of Zero trust security, for operational and IOT systems
Zscaler and Siemens join to bring zero-trust security to operational technology systems
Analysis by Zeus Kerravala
Zscaler Inc. and Siemens AG announced…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternative use of SpaceX Sats
Alternative to GPS use for location.
SpaceX Satellite Signals Used Like GPS to Pinpoint Location on Earth
By Ohio State News, September 24, 2021
Researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dial the Trust Down to Zero
The way to make security work
Dialing the Trust Level Down to Zero
By R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 23, 2021
Twenty-first century cybersecurity has been steadily moving away from the "perimeter" mentality…From The Eponymous Pickle
Low CodeTipping Point?
Is this reasonable? Well only maybe if it allowed non-coding deicision makers to code them selves. And informed them well of they understood the decisions they were embedding in the code.
The low-code ‘tipping point’ is here …From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An AI Tutor for CS Education
Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education. The project “goal is to build a personalized and autonomous intelligent teaching assistant (an AI Tutor) for programming education, enabling…
From insideHPC
Preparing for Exascale: Aurora to Drive Brain Map Construction
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will be home to one of the nation’s first exascale supercomputers when Aurora arrives in 2022. To prepare codes for the architecture and scale of the system, 15 research…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Does the Future of Math and Computing Hold?
Khari Douglas will be covering the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on the CCC blog all week. Stay tuned and check out the HLF blog for more coverage of the event. On the final day of the 2021 Heidelberg Laureate Forum a…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Person in Squid Suit Takes Dog for a Walk
No, I don’t understand it, either.
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 posting guidelines here.
From Schneier on Security
I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto
This isn’t the first time I’ve received an e-mail like this:
Hey! I’ve done my research and looked at a lot of facts and old forgotten archives. I know that you are Satoshi, I do not want to tell anyone about this. I just wanted…From insideHPC
ORNL’s Del-Castillo-Negrete to Receive HENAAC Award
September 24, 2021 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete, a distinguished staff member in the Fusion Energy Division, is being honored for his scientific achievements with a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement…
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Stolen Cryptocurrencies
Good article about the current state of cryptocurrency forensics.
From Schneier on Security
The Proliferation of Zero-days
The MIT Technology Review is reporting that 2021 is a blockbuster year for zero-day exploits:
One contributing factor in the higher rate of reported zero-days is the rapid global proliferation of hacking tools.
Powerful groups…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Chip Supply Chain Threatened
Supply chain quality issues
Counterfeit, Substandard Chips are Penetrating the Supply Chain, Industry Insiders Warn By Computing (U.K.), September 20, 2021
Global markets are already seeing an increase in prices for componentAs…From The Eponymous Pickle
Defying Cost Volatility
In an era where pricing is important.
Defying cost volatility: A strategic pricing response
Input cost increases provide an opportunity to restructure and improve pricing while also institutionalizing best practices. Yet margins…From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanding the Zoom of it
Been intrigued by what innovative things could be done with methods like Zoom to make them more valuable. Here some new features from Zoom, interesting but not very remarkable.
Zoom will soon tell your boss if you’re late for…From insideHPC
HPC as a Service to Accelerate Transformational Growth
[SPONSORED POST] This whitepaper discusses how HPC delivered as a service through HPE GreenLake combines the power and compliance of on-premises systems, with cloud-like financial flexibility, ease of management, and consumption…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Investing in Technology Is No Longer a Choice
Insightful thoughts by Bain & Company, with good graphics.
Why Investing in Technology Is No Longer a Choice
In a rapidly changing business climate, our survey finds that only 14% of businesses are making the most of technology…From insideHPC
DOE Names 3 2021 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows
September 23, 2021 — The Department of Energy (DOE) announced three DOE National Laboratory scientists as DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows. This honor, authorized by the America COMPETES Act, is bestowed …
From insideHPC
David Bader Selected for 2021 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 22 September 2021 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has named David Bader as the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Fernbach Award. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybersecurity Threat Vectors For AI Autonomous Cars
Cyber Hacking Trends for Autonomous Vehicles
Cybersecurity Threat Vectors For AI Autonomous Cars September 16, 2021 in AiTrends
Over-the-air software updating for autonomous cars is one of many potential paths for cyber hackers…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Announces New Members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Several Computer Science Researchers Included
Contributions to this post were provided by the Computing Research Association’s Senior Policy Analyst Brian Mosley. Yesterday, President Biden announced 30 of America’s most distinguished leaders in science and technology as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM, Biz Ready Quantum
More on this effort from Fortune. The effort by IBM would seems to be considerable part of Quant strategy. I would want to get a good time line of matching my problem to likely developed specs, like number of Qubits, error…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pitch Perfect
Khari Douglas will be covering the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on the CCC blog all week. Stay tuned and check out the HLF blog for more coverage of the event. It may not be your forte, but communicating your research…
From insideHPC
Scality Awarded U.S. Patent for Hyperscale Data Protection
SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 22, 2021 – Scality, maker of distributed file systems and object storage solutions, has been awarded a patent designed to empower customers to recover from disasters or ransomware attacks with increased …