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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
P vs NP Proof Claims
Ken Ribet once was sent a freebie book that he looked at and decided he didn’t want, so took it to a second hand bookstore on his lunch break, sold it, and bought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Doing the Kitchen Labor
Intriguing to see where this is going, a close observer of process details and their improvement. Opportunity is to do this right now. Amid the Labor Shortage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deriving Equations from Sensor Data
Heres an interesting thing, a kind of algorithm synthesis to do AI with? Reading, Warning: Technical. Note, this is research, but I am intrigued. Deriving ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Workforce Ecosystems
The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How did the Pandemic Change Internet Traffic?
And how might that change in future pandemics? Implications? Could we detect events that effect the internet this way? Look at the Internet and the Pandemic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Internet Observatory
Brought to my attention: Stanford Internet ObservatoryA program of the Cyber Policy Center, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple to Detect Child Abuse Crimes in Photos, iCloud, Messages
Bruce Schneier article on the inclusion of a backdoor is interesting. He makes the case, as he often does that any backdoor type of inclusion might readily be...![[Book] A City Is Not a Computer](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] A City Is Not a Computer
A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers.
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Part of Team Claiming Blockchain Defense against Quantum Security Threats
UK-based Cambridge Quantum is part of a troika that has announced a defense against quantum computing-based security threats to blockchain networks. A project team...
From insideHPC
LLNL Names Bradley Wallin to Lead Weapons and Complex Integration
Aug. 10, 2021 — Bradley Wallin has been named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) principal associate director (PAD) for Weapons and Complex Integration...
From Putting People First
COVID-19’s psychological burden is associated with antisystemic attitudes and political violence
Research in US, Denmark, Hungary and Italy suggests that the ongoing pandemic places many countries at an increased risk of political unrest. The violence that...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Adds Spam Filter Testing to Evaluation of Internationalized Email Support Among Global Systems
By the Email Address Internationalization (EAI) Working Group The UASG’s most recent evaluation (UASG030A), conducted by Standcore LLC, has expanded testing ofUASG...
From My Biased Coin
Queues with Small Advice
I have had papers rejected, with comments of the form that the results seem too easy, and are at the level of a homework assignment. Generally, I think these reviewers...
From Schneier on Security
Cobolt Strike Vulnerability Affects Botnet Servers
Cobolt Strike is a security tool, used by penetration testers to simulate network attackers. But it’s also used by attackers — from criminals to governments — to...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. I have been following the details, and discussing it in several...
From insideHPC
DOE to Fund $37M to Small Businesses for Climate, Energy and Scientific R&D
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a plan to provide $37 million for small businesses pursuing climate and energy research and development (R&D)...
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Katz Named Steering Committee Chair of Research Software Alliance
ReSA, the Research Software Alliance has named as its inaugural Steering Committee chair Daniel S. Katz, chief scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deere for Autonomous Agriculture
Deere connection could push Farm, agriculture use of roboticsJohn Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots By WiredJohn Deere recently announced that it...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Searches for NSF CISE Division Directors
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
From Putting People First