Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Math Monthly
Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one—Andrew Wiles. Della Dumbaugh is a professor of mathematics at the University of Richmond. Her research is in the history of algebra and number theory. She…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Edge to include VPN
Wondered about this recently why not? How secure can it be? MS has big storage assets. Why not leverage further data for better security?
Microsoft Edge to include built-in VPN
The catch is it only covers 1GB of data usage per…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins in the Warehouse
Intro below. We did something very very early on using a number of simulated alternatives, as quite valuable. Here seems to be taken to a new level.
How digital twins are transforming warehouse performance in VentureBeat…From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Driverless
No driver Taxi, but an in-taxi supervisor?
Baidu and Pony.ai become first robotaxi services to operate without safety drivers in Beijing
A supervisor must still be present in the vehicle, however, in TheVerge By Emma Roth
Baidu…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hands Free VR
Note haptics (touch) enabled/
Physical Sensations in VR Go Hands-Free
IEEE Spectrum, Michelle Hampson, April 11, 2022
A new virtual reality (VR) haptics system developed by researchers at the Chofu, Japan-based University of Electro…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Sounds Alarm on Chinese Drones
China Drones in play?
Ukraine Sounds Alarm on Chinese Drones, Opening Skies to U.S. Startups
The Wall Street Journal, Heather Somerville, April 22, 2022
Hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups are searching for survivors…From Putting People First
System 1 vs. System 2 thinking: Why it isn’t strategic to always be rational
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
From Putting People First
Internet users are ‘poisoning’ their personal data in the fight against online surveillance
With 'obfuscation' or 'data poisoning,' they are redoubling their efforts to prevent companies from tracking them online, writes Aurélien Defer in Le Monde. But these time-consuming and sometimes very complex methods of resistance…
From Putting People First
[Book] Livable Proximity
Ezio Manzini's ideas for the city that cares.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Record Relationships using KESER
Health record relationships. KESER Knowledge Extraction.
VA, ORNL, Harvard Develop Novel Method to Identify Complex Medical Relationships
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 28, 2022
A team of researchers from the U.S. Department…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Strips out Noise
Note AI methods in use for noice removal.
Deep Learning, Supervised Learning. Other applications in noise reduction?
AI Strips Out City Noise to Improve Earthquake Monitoring Systems
New Scientist, Chris Stokel-Walker, April 13…From The Eponymous Pickle
Preservation of Video, Documents in NFTs
An interesting use of NFT to preserve video and interviews
First Holocaust Museum in Metaverse to Display NFTs from Survivors
The Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 29, 2022
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) created by Holocaust survivors…From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring And Machine Learning of Animal Viruses
Note broad monitoring, machine learning and testing used.
Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out
The New York Times, Carl Zimmer, April 27, 2022
Researchers are using machine learning models to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Tracking Animals with Deep Learning
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL Deep Learning Tracking
Time to get social: tracking animals with deep learning
Researchers at EPFL have made strides in computer-aided animal tracking by expanding their software,The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Biometric Security
Considering uses and misuses
New Approaches to Biometric Security
By Jake Widman, Commissioned by CACM Staff, April 28, 2022
Businesses and organizations of all sorts need to restrict access—to systems, devices, accounts, places…From The Eponymous Pickle
Products with Digital ID
Standardizing Digital Product ID
Will customers know everything about products with digital ID?
Apr 21, 2022, by Matthew Stern in Retailwire
A recent article in Fast Company forecasts a world in which products can tell customers…From BLOG@CACM
Musk Buying Twitter Is Not About Freedom of Speech
It's about freedom to control speech.
From insideHPC
AWS Launches Storage-Optimized EC2 Instances (I4i) Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors
April 27, 2022 — Amazon Web Services has launched new new I4i instances powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. The company said The instances offer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Spotting With Fly Eyes
Biomimicry example
AIs Spot Drones with Help from Fly Eye
Scientific American, Monique Brouillette, April 20, 2022
Researchers at the University of South Australia, defense firm Midspar Systems, and Australia's Flinders University…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Exascale in China and a Philosophical Turn on Riding Advanced Tech to Super-wealth and Media Power
The mystery shrouded in a riddle that is the state of exascale supercomputing in China is the main topic of this week’s @HPCpodcast episode. Setting off a re-focus on the recurring topic: the release of a research paper from
…
From insideHPC
INCITE Issues Call for Papers for HPC-intensive Research Proposals
INCITE, the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program, has issued a call for proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects through June 17, 2022…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Decision Trees
Good general piece from KDNuggets, in Basics of Decision Trees
Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained
All you need to know about decision trees and how to build and optimize decision tree classifier.
By Nagesh Singh Chauhan, Data Science…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
In software, it is a common problem to want to remove specific characters from a string. To make the problem precise, let us consider the removal of all ASCII control characters and spaces. In practice, it means the removal of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
These Solar Cells Produce Electricity at Night
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These Solar Cells Produce Electricity at Night Researchers used radiative cooling to generate enough to power LEDs or charge a cellphone PRACHI PATEL11 APR 2022 In IEEE Spectrum
By taking advantage of the temperature…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Gets Profits from Catastrophe?
Colonialism? No more than any kind of automation at any level.
How the A.I. industry profits from catastrophe
After COVID and economic collapse, low-paying algorithm-training jobs are becoming a way of life for many. by Karen…From The Eponymous Pickle
Baking Security into Chips
A former Alma Mater of mine is putting a security brain into Chips:
In Department of Electrical and Computer…From insideHPC
Kao Data Partners with Virgin Media O2 Business to Increase High-Performance Connectivity Options
London, 28th April 2022 – Kao Data, a developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced it has signed a formal carrier agreement with Virgin Media Business Wholesale – the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobility as a Standard: MaaS
Reviewing this as a set of IEEE Standards worth examining
NURTURING THE ERA OF END-TO-END MOBILITY AS A SERVICE (MAAS): STANDARDS FOR CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTATION
About (Outline)
Image of a futuristic carThe automotive…From The Eponymous Pickle
US and allies warn of Russian hacking threat to critical infrastructure
Infratructure counts, keep it safe
US and allies warn of Russian hacking threat to critical infrastructure By Sergiu Gatlan
Today, Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities warned critical infrastructure network defenders of an increased…From insideHPC
Harvard’s Cannon Supercomputer is Anything but Loose
In this sponsored post, Dr. Scott Yockel, University Research Computing Officer at the Harvard University and Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager of HPC and AI at Lenovo, discuss how the Cannon Supercomputer’s mission…