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 insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Steve Conway on the Imperative of AI Ethics and Why ‘Hardware Is Easy, Software Is Hard’
Steve Conway of industry analyst firm Hyperion Research is one of those technologists with the rare talent for talking complex technology in a straightforward,The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Data Observability
Never called it that in particular, but yes it is important, and is worth the included tag. And I add, the changes and non-changes in data should also be 'observable'...
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corona App Gateway for the European Commission
Continued work to privately digitize the understanding of contact tracing.SAP, Deutsche Telekom to Build Corona App Gateway for European CommissionReutersBusvine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Partners with ADT
A perhaps unexpected move, to address increasing concern about issues of security in the smart home.Google Invests $450M in ADT to Begin Smart Home Security Partnership...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Landing, Exploring Venus with Steam Punk Sensors
Quite a curious idea, more and images at the link. Applicable in other contexts?Steampunk Venus Rover Ideas Win NASA Contest to 'Explore Hell' With ClockworkSpace...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sign Language Translating Glove
Consider the broad increase in functionality from these kinds of AI applications.A high-tech glove can translate sign language with 99-percent accuracyIt could ...
From Schneier on Security
BlackBerry Phone Cracked
Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Project Kuiper to Provide Internet from Space
Have followed this for some time. Internet from space, globally. Apparently the technology works well. Some of us are still worried about floating that manyHere...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cleverer Automata Exist
A breakthrough on the separating words problem Zachary Chase is a graduate student of Ben Green at Oxford. Chase has already solved a number of interesting problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Wants TikTok
The hot global video and music sharing capability it would seem primarily competes with YouTube and Facebook. Meanwhile Microsoft has largely gotten out of consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mouse Co-Creator Dies
In our meeting with the co-creator of the mouse in the 80s, Doug Engelbart, was quick to mention William English as the person to create the first mouse device....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Delivery
Once again, its the accurate and efficient delivery problem. Often a key component of process.COMMANDing Drug DeliveryMIT NewsSabbi LallJuly 10, 2020Massachusetts...
From Computational Complexity
The Gauss story is false yet we still tell it. Should we?
When teaching discrete math a while back I told the following story which some had already heard in High School: When Gauss was in 1st grade the class was being...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Python: Part 1
Python has been on my radar for years but I haven’t really had the motivation to learn it myself. It’s time though for several reasons. Reason number one is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tutorial and Presentation on AI and Machine Learning
Link via DSC to a considerable presentation on Machine Learning from Google. Below a quick intro with a clue to some common uses of what we are now calling AI.Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introductory Guide to the Use of the Data Warehouse
Hardy comprehensive, as the title suggests, but a good introductory piece on the data warehouse. A minimum you should know when dealing with corporate data. Non...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Medical Things
From the ACM, Vint Cerf talks about the current and near future state of medicine.On the Internet of Medical ThingsBy Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, August...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Smart Supermarket Shelf
A space we did lots of work on with startups and big players. Our innovation center tested them all.Smart Supermarket Shelves: A Shopping TransformationYuval...
From The Eponymous Pickle