Communications of the ACM
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September 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Law and Technology
Worth a read, NFT and more.
These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
By Andres Guadamuz
Communications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 20-22 10.1145/3548761
Imagine you want to stream some music. On today'sBut…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
CTL Demystifies Blockchain Technology: What’s the big deal?
Blockchain technology is a mysterious topic for many. Is it a network? A database? A cryptography algorithm? Is it the same as cryptocurrency? In episode 10 of “ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders,” we aimed to demystify blockchain…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Above and Beyond Scholarship
We are delighted to introduce “Above and Beyond Scholarship”, a special project focused on the ACM-W Scholarships Program. The ACM-W Scholarships provide support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Launches Subscription Service
LEESBURG, Va., Sept. 20, 2022 – Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT) today announced the launch of a subscription service providing access to its Dirac 1 Entropy Quantum Computing (EQC) system. The Dirac 1 photonic EQC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Tries out AR with Machine Learning for Clothing Trial
Experimented with this and related cosmetics approaches.
Walmart Rolls Out AR to Try on Clothing Virtually
By Fast Company, September 19, 2022
Walmart has launched a new augmented reality feature that allows shoppers to virtually…From insideHPC
Volta Data Centers in London to Operate Under Verne Global Brand
September 20, 2022 – LONDON – Verne Global, the Iceland-based sustainable data center provider for high intensity computing, has announced that Volta Data Centres, located in the City of London will begin marketing and operating…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACM-W Chair – September 2022
Welcome to this edition of the ACM-W Newsletter. Today we thank all of the members of the ACM-W from around the world for their continued support. The ACM-W has grown in scale and diversity over the years, strengthening our mission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI New Role in Science
Note Microsoft's AI4Science.
Supercomputer Emulator: AI's New Role in Science
By IEEE Spectrum
August 29, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable tool in many scientists' lives, such that its use by researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Send in the Drones
Have been searching some broader practical uses as well.
Send in the drones: Unmanned aerial program offers independent testing and prototyping
by Paul Menser, Idaho National Laboratory
Ever since the Wright brothers innovated in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian official says civilian satellites may be military target
Obvious, chilling .... The clear future of warfare
Russian official says civilian satellites may be “legitimate” military target
Russia wasn't happy about Starlink providing broadband in Ukraine after invasion.
JON BRODKIN - 9/16…From The Eponymous Pickle
Zendesk: Sentiment and Intent With AL
Powerful direction, How well?
September 15, 2022
Zendesk Launches New Customer Sentiment and Intent Functionality Powered by ML
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 — Zendesk, Inc. today announced Intelligent Triage and Smart Assist,Industry…From insideHPC
PNNL, Oak Ridge Among Winners of $15M in DOE Funds for Extreme-Scale Scientific Computing
Sept. 19, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $15 million in funding for basic research to explore potentially high-impact approaches in scientific computing and extreme-scale science. DOE said the projects will…
From Computational Complexity
There are two different definitions of Integer Programming. Why?
Alice and Bob have the following conversation.
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ALICE: In your book you define INT PROG as, given a matrix A and vectors b,c,
find the integer vector x such that Ax\le b and c DOT x is maximized.
This…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cisco Futurist Talks the Future of Human-Machine Interactions
A Cisco Futurist talks the future of Human-Machine Interactions
Human-Machine Interactions of the Future: Unpopular Opinions [Part 1] By Annie Hardy
This is part 1 of a 3-part blog series on a Cisco futurist’s perspectivesAt…From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquakes Predictable?
Examined this, even tried some existing test systems.
Earthquakes Seem to Come in a More Predictable Pattern Than We Thought By New Scientist, August 30, 2022
A machine learning model developed by researchers at the University…From The Eponymous Pickle
One Man's Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
Back to the tough problem
ACM NEWS
One Man's Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense By The New York Times, August 29, 2022
David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM's famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins and Retailwire
How to Build a Digital Twin in Retailwire
Start learning how to build a digital twin in NVIDIA Omniverse. The session covers how to aggregate disparate 3D datasets from many software ecosystems and visualize them in full-design…From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking the Pulse of Supply Chains
Interesting thoughts
Taking the Pulse of Shifting Supply Chains in McKinsey
August 26, 2022 | Article
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have asked supply chain leaders annually about their efforts to overcome disruptions…From The Eponymous Pickle
North American Companies Send in the Robots, Even as Productivity Slumps
Expect more.
North American Companies Send in the Robots, Even as Productivity Slumps
Reuters
By Timothy Aeppel, August 29, 2022
North American companies ordered a record 12,305 robotic machines in the second quarter, 25% more than…From insideHPC
Jabil Photonics: GA of Coherent Optical Products Featuring Nokia’s Optical Engine
Basel, Switzerland – September 19, 2022 – Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL), maker of optical communications products, today announced the general availability and customer testing of its CFP2 DCO ECO Coherent Transceiver. Jabil said the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tricking Termites to Generate New Materials
A new kind of biomimicry
Mimicking Termites to Generate Materials
California Institute of Technology
Ben Peltz, August 26, 2022
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists have developed a framework for the design of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Aids Search for the Origin of Cosmic Rays
Testing theoretical models, often done with prospective simulation.
Simulation Aids Search for the Origin of Cosmic Rays
By Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
September 15, 2022
An international research team created a computer program…From The Eponymous Pickle
Art of Problem Solving
I was a long time problem solver in the enterprise, with a math background, but was unfamiliar with this book, Also mentioned in this YouTube presentation: https://youtu.be/TL7XhfrLF4k Examining further from their publications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Metamaterials: Talk With Current Examples by Sabine Hossenfelder
As usual excellent YouTube talk on Physics and Related topics on MetaMaterials. Notably superlenses and Earthquake cloaking. The future of material design?
Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNugreoNuo0&t=213s
By,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard, Amazon AWS to do Quantum Science
Yet more Quantum efforts starting up.
ACM TECHNEWS
Harvard, AWS Alliance to Advance Research in Quantum Science
By Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
September 14, 2022
Harvard University…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does the Ethereum Merge Mean?
Had exactly this question in mind when I read of the 'Ethereum merge'. Below an intro and much more at the link.
What The Merge Means, by Ali Yahya from https://a16zcrypto.com/
September 15, 2022
The Merge – the major Ethereum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Decodine Canine Cognition
New ways to link to animal toughts?
By Emory University, September 15, 2022
Emory University researchers have decoded visual images from a dog's brain.
The researchers captured functional magnetic resonance…From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Digital City
Much to consider in making a city and running it in simulation to improve its design and operation.
How Do You Build a (Digital) City?
Bloomberg
Immanual John Milton, August 27, 2022
Technology companies, governments, and retailers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum AI Breakthrough: Theorem Shrinks Appetite for Training Data
Less data for more results.
Quantum AI Breakthrough: Theorem Shrinks Appetite for Training Data
Los Alamos National Laboratory
August 23, 2022
A proof devised by a multi-institutional team of scientists demonstrates that quantum…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 16 2022)
Attractive female students get better grades. They lose this benefit when courses move online. A research paper is much more likely to be highly ranked if the author is famous. The USA has many more prisoners than police officers…