Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toshiba Targets Quantum Cryptography
Considerable effort under way here:Toshiba targets $3 billion revenue in quantum cryptography by 2030By Makiko Yamazaki in ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp...
From insideHPC
HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Cities Week Global- A Month of Collaborative Engagement (Oct 19-Nov 10, 2020)
This year Smart Cities Week is taking on a big challenge with a month of online virtual collaborative global engagement from October 19-November 10th, 2020. Called...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Cities Week Global- A Month of Collaborative Engagement (Oct 19-Nov 10, 2020)
This year Smart Cities Week is taking on a big challenge with a month of online virtual collaborative global engagement from October 19-November 10th, 2020. Called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Power Tool From Math Into Quantum Computing
The implication that this idea can be used for problems already well solved by FFT methods, is considerable. These kinds of pattern recognition techniques areBringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology
Previously mentioned, we experimented with the idea before the current state of machine learning, with a kind of simulation more akin to 'digital twins'. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Engines?
Interesting proposal. Speculative? Relates to laws of thermodynamics brought up recently here. Can entanglement be a fuel? Consider the implications. Perfect...
From Computational Complexity
Nature vs Nurture close to my birthday
Since I was born on Oct 1, 1960 (that's not true---if I posted my real birthday I might get my identity stolen), I will do a nature vs nurture post based onhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Microwave Ovens
My microwave oven learns, say to cook a baked potato, but this takes it to a new dimension. For possible industry applications. See also my previous note on...
From Putting People First
Remote events (like this one) are terrible. How to fix them and why.
In this talk, Andre Jay Meissner and Fredrik Matheson talk about what we’ve lost, why existing tech and formats are a poor replacement, and what we can do to change...
From Putting People First
The Big Home Reboot: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2020
IKEA just launched its seventh Life at Home Report, exploring how people have grown closer to their homes in this extraordinary year
From Putting People First
The value of ethnographic research and contextual inquiry
In this article, Lylo Trotta explain the value that both contextual inquiry and ethnographic research provide and discuss why these practices are a crucial, even...
From insideHPC
Getting to Exascale: Nothing Is Easy
In the weeks leading to today’s Exascale Day (1018) observance, we set ourselves the task of asking supercomputing experts about the unique challenges, the particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Small Sensors and Robotics: Insects in Tow
Back to our interest here in small robotics and now taking it beyond bio mimicry to directly using insectoriva.Researchers Use Flying Insects to Drop Sensors Safely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernizing Legacy Code with AI
Done a lot of this, can have surprisingly big value, even finding latent bugs along the way. IBM Watson's Next Challenge: Modernize Legacy Code in Spectrum IEEE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversations on Architecture for Digital Twins
Based in part on a conversation with swim.ai Have yet to look at that service, but plan to. Seems such architecture would have to be very adaptable. Linkable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Photons for Comunications in Quantum Computing Systems
Precisely generating photons can be seen as a form of communication, and thus says this can then be beyond just computing.Generating Photons for Communication in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Traveling Salesperson Algorithm Improved
Classic problem often used as a benchmark for algorithmic solutions.Computer Scientists Break the 'Traveling Salesperson' Record From Quanta MagFinally, there’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Declarations of Conflicts of Interest
Had not heard of this specifically stated this way. Contracts. Considerable discussion below. We Need to Automate the Declaration of Conflicts of InterestBy Richard...
From The Eponymous Pickle