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CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program

The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) cohort...

Phone Cloning Scam
From Schneier on Security

Phone Cloning Scam

A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones...

Silicon’s Successors: 2-D Materials Aim to Carry the Post-Moore’s Law Torch
From insideHPC

Silicon’s Successors: 2-D Materials Aim to Carry the Post-Moore’s Law Torch

Even as a flurry of new silicon has been launched recently by AMD and Arm, with more to come this week from Intel, silicon’s five decades of microprocessor dominance...

NCSA’s Delta Supercomputer to be Allocable by XSEDE this Summer
From insideHPC

NCSA’s Delta Supercomputer to be Allocable by XSEDE this Summer

Delta, a $10 million National Science Foundation-funded advanced computing system housed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University...

From Computational Complexity

Do any NP-reductions use deep mathematics? Non-rhetically

BILL: Lets say we didn't know that FACTORING NPC --> NP=coNP.then what direction would we think Factoring in P or NPC?  STUDENT: In P. After all, Number Theory...

Albertsons Partners with Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

Albertsons Partners with Google

Interesting out of market play,  but I do remember being shown a Google physical store mapped space that digitized the experience of shopping lists.  See my tags...

My programming setup
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

My programming setup

As my GitHub profile indicates, I program almost every single working day of the year. I program in C++, C, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, R, Swift, Rust, C#; even...

Key lessons from Digital Ethnography Summit
From Putting People First

Key lessons from Digital Ethnography Summit

In a year in which Covid-19 has forced researchers to resort to online research, what opportunities for the industry exist in digital ethnography? Liam Kay of ResearchLive...

New Ars Electronica video series on digital humanism
From Putting People First

New Ars Electronica video series on digital humanism

What does it mean on a practical level to become a digital humanist? 'User Manual for Digital Humanists' is a new Ars Electronica video series that focuses on re...

VR Brings Joy to Assistive Living Facilities
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR Brings Joy to Assistive Living Facilities

Perhaps a novel way of using VR.  Aims at creating artificial environments for treatment.  Seems odd, but perhaps a useful means of improving environments.   Manipulative...

Intro to Bayesian
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intro to Bayesian

Good intro to the idea  of Bayesian computation and modeling,   But ultimately does include math.  We successfully used the method for simulating relatively complex...

Building Multilingual, Multipurpose, Multi Context Wikipedias
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Multilingual, Multipurpose, Multi Context Wikipedias

A long time user, and supporter of Wikipedia.  Have run into the problem that this describes,   Posts in different languages in the WP vary in their knowledge content...

Smart Bandages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Bandages

 Quite some claims, but sensor based application is a good idea.Smart Bandage Could Hasten Healing, Might Even Detect CovidIEEE Spectrum, Kathy Pretz, March 29,...

Data Labeling Errors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Labeling Errors

Make sure the the data and metadata is correct, in context.MIT Study Finds 'Systematic' Labeling Errors in Popular AI Benchmark Datasetsin VentureBeat, Kyle Wiggers...

The Value of Advanced Material Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Value of Advanced Material Science

A long time follower, because of some of my astrophysics connections made me understand the potential of doing things more efficiently.    And you start that with...

Towards Zero Power Electronics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Zero Power Electronics

Particularly useful for communications, IOT, SensorsEnergy-efficient sensor nodes from FraunhoferEconomical wireless communicationResearch News / April 01, 2021...

Experts on Conversational Marketing Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Experts on Conversational Marketing Trends

Good thoughts on how conversation supports marketing and decisions.  Stats about the conversational AI spac ealso interesting.5 Experts Weigh in on Conversational...

Cleveland Clinic and IBM Partner on HPC, AI and Quantum Computing
From insideHPC

Cleveland Clinic and IBM Partner on HPC, AI and Quantum Computing

ARMONK, N.Y. and CLEVELAND — Cleveland Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced a planned 10-year partnership to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint effort...

June 25: 2nd International Workshop on HPC for Business and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik
From insideHPC

June 25: 2nd International Workshop on HPC for Business and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik

The second International Workshop on High Performance Business Computing and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik will be held virtually and free of charge on Friday...

Uses of Process Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uses of Process Mining

Had heard the term 'Process Mining' relatively little used lately.    But as I mentioned in recent posts, it helps you to understand how existing process and related...
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