Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Universities, Rich in Data, Struggle to Capture Its Value
Needs more automatic matching to actual uses, needs, outcomes.
Universities, Rich in Data, Struggle to Capture Its Value By UCLA
December 29, 2022
Merging together data from various sources is a major challenge, respondents…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can we Make Traffic a Thing of the Past (and greatly improve supply chains)
Traffic Management outlook.
Making Traffic a Thing of the Past By Logan Kugler
Communications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Pages 19-20 10.1145/3570519
Americans wasted a whopping 3.4 billion hours in 2021 thanks to…From The Eponymous Pickle
To the Highest Bidder: A Military Database of Fingerprints, Iris Scans
Disconcerting direction.
To the Highest Bidder: A Military Database of Fingerprints, Iris Scans
By The New York Times, December 30, 2022
SEEK II purchased by German researchers on eBay
The Defense Logistics Agency says the SEEKCredit…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Guides Lung Needle More accurately
Healthcare robotics advances
Robot Guides Lung Needle More accurately
New Scientist, Jeremy Hsu, December 9, 2022
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill) have developed a flexible needle…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The first computer music
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) The first recorded music by a computer program was the result of a flamboyant flourish added on the end of a program that played draughts in the early…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attackers Bypass Coinbase, MetaMask 2FA via TeamViewer
Interesting connection with TeamViewer, Security in Meta?
Attackers Bypass Coinbase, MetaMask 2FA via TeamViewer
BleepingComputer
Bill Toulas, November 21, 2022
Anti-phishing company PIXM found scammers are waging a phishing campaign…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid
Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat:
The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, hit the shoreline near Chinese Harbor at about 2 a.m. on Dec. 15.
Six crew members…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Year in Physics from Quanta Mag
Physics, like AI, is increasingly important to understand and apply ...
In a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space…From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia Is Jamming More GPS Satellite Signals
Use of Jamming versus Sat Signals, GPS
Russia Is Jamming More GPS Satellite Signals Around Moscow
By New Scientist, December 27, 2022
Map of GPS Interference near Moscow for 26 December 2022.
Credit: GPSJam
Russia has acceleratedThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Making Movies Now
Cheaper and more efficient, but better?
AI Is Here, and It's Making Movies. Is Hollywood Ready?
By Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2022
'Vubbing' software can visually alter an actor's image to sync with foreign dialogue.
The movie…From The Eponymous Pickle
World Ahead: 2023
Always interesting, from Irving Wladawsky-Berger,
AI is essential AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure, By Wired December 29, 2022 Illustration in comic-book style shows researchers in a lab working in virtual reality.
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure
From The Eponymous Pickle
IISc Scientists Build Energy-Efficient Computing Platforms
More energy Efficient Computing
IISc Scientists Build Energy-Efficient Computing Platforms to Beat Power Deficit
TechCircle, December 2, 2022
An energy-efficient computing platform developed by researchers at the Indian Institute…From Schneier on Security
Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
Yet another smartphone side-channel attack: “EarSpy: Spying Caller Speech and Identity through Tiny Vibrations of Smartphone Ear Speakers“:
Abstract: Eavesdropping from the user’s smartphone is a well-known threat to the user…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Swat a way to drive
by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) Flies are small, fast and rather cunning. Try to swat one and you will see just how efficient their brain is, even though it has so few brain cells…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn
by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Kerstin Dautenhahn is a biologist with a mission: to help us make friends with robots. Kerstin was always fascinated by the natural world around her, so it…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly checking that a string belongs to a small set
Suppose that I give you a set of reference strings (“ftp”, “file”, “http”, “https”, “ws”, “wss”). Given a new string, you want to quickly tell whether it is part of this set. A sensible solution might be to create a set and then…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Shame?
Interesting Observation
Gen Z Overwhelmed by 'Tech Shame' at Work
Fortune, Chloe Berger, December 15, 2022
An HP survey of 10,000 office workers worldwide found Generation Z employees are most likely to feel technological frustration…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Gift of Nonconstructivity
Can we quantify “nonconstructive advantage”? Japan Times source Péter Frankl has been in the news again this year. The news is substantial partial progress on his famous conjecture that for any finite family of nonempty sets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
The value and emergence of Code:
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Torie Bosch - editor (Author), Ellen Ullman - introduction (Author)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Aces Flight After Software Update
Fixing code on the fly ...
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Aces Flight After Software Update
in Space.com
Tereza Pultarova, November 26, 2022
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Condor will pass 1000 Qubits
New advances, how much more valuable?
AN IBM QUANTUM COMPUTER WILL SOON PASS THE 1,000-QUBIT MARK
The Condor processor is just one quantum-computing advance slated for 2023
CHARLES Q. CHOI
IBM’S CONDOR, THE world’s first universal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing with DNA
Like the idea, examining the approach further.
Designing with DNA By Duke University, December 28, 2022
An open-source software program developed by researchers at Duke and other universities lets users take drawings or digital…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The last speaker
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the cs4fn archive) The languages of the world are going extinct at a rapid rate. As the numbers of people who still speak a language dwindle, the chance of it surviving dwindles…
From Schneier on Security
QR Code Scam
An enterprising individual made fake parking tickets with a QR code for easy payment.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will a Spot Robot Make LA Safer?
No, and it won't even get the chance to.
See Spot Spy? New Generation of Police Robots Faces Backlash
Los Angeles Times, Libor Jan; Gregory Yee, December 21, 2022
Critics are eyeing the deployment of more sophisticated robotsFull…From The Eponymous Pickle
Banning Your Enemies
Intriguing play, enemies, or some lesser or even arbitrary qualification? Note is different than making a mistaken identification. Is a safety based ban OK?
Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner's…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the End of Programming
Many, like myself started our career in coding. This should increase security by standardizing safer coding approaches. Or will it?
The End of Programming (Opinion) By Matt Welsh
Communications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol…From The Eponymous Pickle
Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global Surveillance
Tracking of many kinds interacting.
Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global Surveillance
By Associated Press, December 27, 2022
A worshiper in the Old City of Jerusalem holds a mobile phone showing a message saying he's beenPolice…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem
I Worked more on cleansing clothes rather than creating them. Note Blockchain use. Phygital. Hmmm.
Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem
By CNN, December 23, 2022
On Phygital fashions.
Lablaco wants to use…