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September 2022


From BLOG@CACM

Where to Look: CS Ethics Research

Where to Look:  CS Ethics Research

 A select range of publications, peer-reviewed or close, provide sources for student research.


From Daniel Lemire's Blog

A review of elementary data types : numbers and strings

A review of elementary data types : numbers and strings

Computer programming starts with the organization of the data into data structures. In almost all cases, we work with strings or numbers. It is critical to understand these building blocks to become an expert programmer. Words…


From insideHPC

IonQ Wins $13.4M Quantum Contract with U.S. Air Force Research Lab

IonQ Wins $13.4M Quantum Contract with U.S. Air Force Research Lab

Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has secured a $13.4 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) with access to its trapped ion systems for quantum computing hardware research…


From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM builds the world's largest dilution refrigerator for quantum computers

IBM builds the world's largest dilution refrigerator for quantum computers

Preparation for additional scaling. 

IBM builds the world's largest dilution refrigerator for quantum computers

The super-fridge is known as project Goldeneye.

By Loukia Papadopoulos, Created: Sep 11, 2022 9:56 AM

INNOVATION

IBM's…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Reduces 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Four Equations

AI Reduces 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Four Equations

The power of leveraging patterns in the right context

ACM NEWS

Uncovering Hidden Patterns: AI Reduces 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Four Equations

By SciTechDaily, September 29, 2022

A daunting quantum problem thatFrom…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Overloading the Grid with Car Charging

Overloading the Grid with Car Charging

 Sufficient infrastructure ready?

Too Many Electric Cars Charging at Night May Overload Electrical Grid

By New Scientist, September 29, 2022

The computer models showed that having more drivers charging during the day could reduce…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers

Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers

Umpressive directions in agriculture automation ...

Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers

One side of the John Deere See & Spray Ultimate’s 120-foot sprayer boom, which features 36 cameras.

The Wall…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Why No Self Driving Car Yet?

Why No Self Driving Car Yet?

Depends on the specific definition , But Same Answer ....

ACM NEWS

Why Don't You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet?

By Forbes, September 29, 2022

People often ask, "Where's my self-driving car?" "Why don't I have one and when will it come…


From Putting People First

[Book] OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes

[Book] OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes

These are guidelines for any individual or organisation interested in designing, planning, and implementing a citizen participation process. The guidelines walk the reader through ten practical steps, and detail eight different…


From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Love your data

Love your data

Some councils put up 'Ignore your sat nav' signs because drivers kept relying more on the wrong information from electronic directions instead of trusting their own eyes.


From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Steve Conway Ranges Across the Global HPC Scene

@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Steve Conway Ranges Across the Global HPC Scene

In this episode of @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug caught up with Steve Conway, former senior advisor at Hyperion Research and now head of his own consulting firm, Conway Communications. A well-known HPC executive and analyst who…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Lip Reading

AI Lip Reading

Something I did not know. More privacy implications? 

AI is already better at lip reading that we are

People, on average, can only guess around one word out of five correctly.

By Andrew Tarantola, September 29, 2022 2:30 PM in engadget…


From insideHPC

At ISC 2022: Microsoft Talks HPC-AI and AMD Chips in the Azure Cloud

At ISC 2022: Microsoft Talks HPC-AI and AMD Chips in the Azure Cloud

We visited with Microsoft Azure during ISC – here is our conversation with two HPC-AI specialists, Alex Jean and Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw, for an update on Azure’s line-up of new capabilities and services in support of advanced AI…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Setchain Application Multiplies Blockchain Transaction

Setchain Application Multiplies Blockchain Transaction

Thinking the implications of this. 

Setchain Application Multiplies Blockchain Transactions Per Block

IMDEA Software Institute News (Spain), September 26, 2022

Researchers at Spain's IMDEA project, Switzerland's Tezos Foundation…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote

Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote

Saw a number of variants of this as I worked from home during COVID.  Good thoughts

Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote,  By Keith Kirkpatrick

Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 29, 2022

Permitting workers to split…


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Announces New Awards to Fund the Prediction and Prevention of Pandemics

NSF Announces New Awards to Fund the Prediction and Prevention of Pandemics

The National Science Foundation announced a series of grants as a part of their new Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) program. The quick onset, mass devastation, and unpredictability of new strands and waves…


From insideHPC

SPEC Forms International Standards Group for Data Center Energy Use

SPEC Forms International Standards Group for Data Center Energy Use

applicationsGAINESVILLE, Va., Sept. 27, 2022 – The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) announced the formation of the International Standards Group (ISG) to collaborate with international stakeholders to develop standardized server…


From Computational Complexity

Machine Learning and Complexity

 

Schloss Dagstuhl by Monet by Dall-E

At Dagstuhl earlier this month, I hung out for a little bit with the participants of the other seminar, Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century.Perhaps…


From The Eponymous Pickle

NSF Announces $10-million Partnership with Intel

NSF Announces $10-million Partnership with Intel

 Watching the building of semiconductor resources, will ultimately be crucial.

NSF Announces $10-million Partnership with Intel

By Mirage News, September 8, 2022

Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new program…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Hints at Apple Mixed Reality Efforts

Hints at Apple Mixed Reality Efforts

Apple has done innovation quite well,  Look forward to their Mixed Reality efforts. 

Apple Might Use ‘Reality’ Naming Convention for Its Mixed Reality Devices

By Josh Norem on August 30, 2022 at 12:15 pm  in ExtremeTech

It’s been…


From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Far We Have Come With Programming Languages

How Far We Have Come With Programming Languages

Last night I had a dream during which someone suggested that COBOL would make a good first programming language. They tried to promote the data division and English language syntax as plusses. When I shared this on social media…


From insideHPC

Oxford Quantum Circuits to Offer Quantum Computing-as-a-Service at Cyxtera Colo Data Center

Oxford Quantum Circuits to Offer Quantum Computing-as-a-Service at Cyxtera Colo Data Center

London and Miami – September 28, 2022 – Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and Cyxtera (NASDAQ: CYXT), a data center colocation and interconnection services company, announced today that customers will soon have access to quantum …


From insideHPC

Amar Maletira Named CEO of Rackspace Technology

Amar Maletira Named CEO of Rackspace Technology

San Antonio – September 26, 2022 – Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT), a cloud technology solutions company, today announced the appointment of Amar Maletira as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Maletira, who has served as Rackspace…


From insideHPC

ISC 2023 Names LBNL’s John Shalf Program Chair

ISC 2023 Names LBNL’s John Shalf Program Chair

HAMBURG, Germany, September 28, 2022 – The organizers of ISC High Performance have announced that John Shalf, department head for Computer Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), will be the ISC 2023 Program …


From insideHPC

Aurora on (Revised) Schedule? Intel Says it’s Shipping Ponte Vecchio-Sapphire Rapids Blades to Argonne

Aurora on (Revised) Schedule? Intel Says it’s Shipping Ponte Vecchio-Sapphire Rapids Blades to Argonne

The rumors had begun to cirulate – October is near, that kicks off the fourth quarter, 2023 isn’t far behind, all of which means Intel is coming up against a hard deadline to deliver its delayed Aurora exascale-class supercomputer…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Comment on Hands-Free Driving

Comment on Hands-Free Driving

 Received the below of interest, linking to Automotive hands-free, I will also link to Spiritcar, and pass along things I think are useful to my readers: 

  ... My name is Alexis Walker, and I’m working with Spiritcar.com. I noticed…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Chula Chatbot Career Coach

Chula Chatbot Career Coach

Interesting, especially regards to how much a coach it can be. 

Chula Chatbot Serves As an Education and Career Coach

By Chulalongkorn University, September 26, 2022

A chatbot developed by lecturers at Chulalongkorn University is…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Neural Networks Predict Forces in Jammed Granular Solids

Neural Networks Predict Forces in Jammed Granular Solids

 Unexpected application for a neural network.

Neural Networks Predict Forces in Jammed Granular Solids  By Göttingen University (Germany), September 8, 2022

A team of researchers from Germany's Göttingen University and Belgium's…


From The Eponymous Pickle

On Weak IOT Security

On Weak IOT Security

 Considerable piece.  IOT has long been a susceptible ecosystems. 

Security in the billions: Toward a multinational strategy to better secure the IoT ecosystem  From AtlanticCouncil

By Patrick Mitchell, Liv Rowley, and Justin Sherman…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI, GPS Technology Could Save Lives in Wildfires, Floods, Disaster

AI, GPS Technology Could Save Lives in Wildfires, Floods, Disaster

 Watching Hurricane activity in South Florida, getting further appreciation of linking many camera and sensor resources to make disaster, supply chain decisions. 

AI, GPS Technology Could Save Lives in Wildfires, Floods, Disaster…

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