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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

FOCS 2022 Program

Alvy Ray Smith designed the distinctive cover art that was a notable feature of FOCS proceedings until FOCS ended the production of printed proceedings in 2010....

Robotic Echolocaton
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Echolocaton

More examples of biomimicry here and hint at possible mapping application, Flying Robot Echolocates Like a Bat to Avoid Hitting Walls,  By New Scientist, February...

OpenAI Has Hired an Army of Contractors to Make Basic Coding Obsolete
From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI Has Hired an Army of Contractors to Make Basic Coding Obsolete

 Still premature, depending on definition of 'basic',   still considerable need to check and integrate codes.   Can see the need for labeling for training activity...

Malware Delivered through Google Search
From Schneier on Security

Malware Delivered through Google Search

Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. The surge is coming from...

Start with the Basics for Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Start with the Basics for Machine Learning

Pretraining and related topics. Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the BasicsA wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them...

From Computational Complexity

After you are notified that an article is accepted...

 After just one round of referees reports(they send me the reports, I made the corrections, they were happy) I got email saying my paper on proving the primes are...

HPC User Forum to Be Held at Princeton April 18-19, Spotlight on High- and Low-Growth HPC Segments
From insideHPC

HPC User Forum to Be Held at Princeton April 18-19, Spotlight on High- and Low-Growth HPC Segments

Feb. 6, 2023 — HPC iindustry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced that the HPC User Forum will hold a conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18-19, at the...

Attacking Machine Learning Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Attacking Machine Learning Systems

 Considerable piece in SchneierJust now reading, suggested ...Attacking Machine Learning SystemsThe field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial...

CCC is Accepting Visioning Proposals from the Community
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC is Accepting Visioning Proposals from the Community

The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns...

Learning, Forgetting and Reinforcement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning, Forgetting and Reinforcement

 Very interesting thing,  came to our level of interest as we tried to analyze how consumers could 'forget' brands, and how that forgetting might be turned around...

An Arms Race to AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Arms Race to AI

An arms race.  Important point, Clouds bring the data, feed the results. Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups  in Arstechnca...

AI for Logistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI for Logistics

 Worked in logistics for years, good to see more applications emerging  Tompkins Solutions Partners With Loko AI to Deliver Innovative Automation Technology toMon...

AI with a  Modular Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI with a Modular Future

Intro to Whisper and its architecture, transcribing speech  ... Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future, By The New Yorker, February 1, 2023      in CACMWhat’s so unusual...

Open Source or Enterprise-grade Containers? How SingularityPRO Adds Value for Mission-critical HPC Workloads
From insideHPC

Open Source or Enterprise-grade Containers? How SingularityPRO Adds Value for Mission-critical HPC Workloads

Sylabs developed SingularityPRO and Singularity Enterprise to deliver an array of important features and capabilities, along with enterprise-grade support, forOpen...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Back From A Vacation

I am just back from a multi-week vacation on the cruise ship the Voyager. My dear wife—Kathryn Farley—and I were on the trip together with her brother. It was wonderful...

Attacking Machine Learning Systems
From Schneier on Security

Attacking Machine Learning Systems

The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated techniques to perturb, disrupt...

Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?
From Putting People First

Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?

Hal Wuertz, Adam Cutler and Milena Pribic of IBM Design defined a unique set of five skills for “AI Design.”

Four Themes Shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market
From The Eponymous Pickle

Four Themes Shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market

Euro Energy details in play  ... Four themes shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power MarketJanuary 27, 2023 | Article    in McKinseyBy Markus Schülde, Demand...

Lucy 4 and Generative AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lucy 4 and Generative AI

 Lucy 4 just brought to my attention in this realm. AI NewsLucy 4 is moving ahead with generative AI for knowledge managementBy James Bourne | February 3, 2023https...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Artificial Intelligence Just Lost a Leader

Roger Schank just passed away. Roger was a top leader of AI. I overlapped with him for my time at Yale. In 1974, he became a professor of computer science and psychology...
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