Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to the Moon?
I continue to be interested in the supply chain processes involved.
China and NASA are racing to the moon. Side-by-side photos hint NASA has the edge, but China's secrecy makes the race hard to call. By Morgan McFall-Johnsen…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Power Still Years Away
Years Away most followers agree ...
Fusion power is 'approaching' reality thanks to a magnetic field breakthrough
A boost from magnetism is nearly enough to achieve fusion ignition.
By Jon Fingas|@jonfingas|November 30, 2022 2:52…From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Optical Computing
Reducing error in optical networks
Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Computing By MIT News, November 30, 2022
Using the new technique, the larger an optical neural network becomes, the lower the error in its computations…From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking
Of interest, December 7
Reminder: December 7 Talk, "An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking" with Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi
If you haven't done so yet, register now for the next free ACM TechTalk…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mexico Replacing China for Manufacturing?
Mentioned in passing in a meeting, this related Podcast of interest:
THE SCB PODCAST
Podcast | Can Mexico Replace China as a Manufacturing Powerhouse?
China is losing its luster as a low-cost source of manufacturing. Is Mexico an…From Schneier on Security
LastPass Security Breach
The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Would You Like a QR Code in That Cookie? Food and 3D Printing
Waste Reduction embedded, 3D printed.
Would You Like a QR Code in That Cookie? By AlphaGalileo, October 19, 2022
Given that food tags and packaging are a large source of waste worldwide, this new method of embedding edible information…From insideHPC
SC22: CXL3.0, the Future of HPC Interconnects and Frontier vs. Fugaku
HPC luminary Jack Dongarra’s fascinating comments at SC22 on the low efficiency of leadership-class supercomputers highlighted by the latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark results will, I believe, influence…
From insideHPC
SC22: Jeff McVeigh on Intel’s 3 New Server Chips; oneAPI and Heterogeneity; and an Aurora Update
We caught up with Jeff McVeigh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Super Compute Group, to learn more about the three new server chips Intel recently announced, the Max CPU and the Max GPU series, along with…
From insideHPC
At SC22: DDN’s Kurt Kuckein Talks Advanced AI Data Management at Scale
At SC22, we caught up with DDN Senior Vice President of Marketing to discuss major trends driving AI data management at scale – trends that include growing adoption of GPUs for AI workloads, the emergence of other accelerator…
From BLOG@CACM
The Legacy of Peer-to-Peer Systems
What happened to peer-to-peer as a technological concept?
From Computational Complexity
How do we keep the community connected?
A colleague said how they enjoyed watching the collapse of Twitter under Elon Musk. But I use Twitter to keep connected to the CS community. In Twitter I hear not only new results but ones that excite particular people. I watch…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will the Space Economy Change the World?
Good overview of Space and Economy. Not enough regards the timing and risks involved. And how will key aspects, like supply chains, be effectively translated into Space? Note we need to do a key materials analysis to determine…
From insideHPC
Tokyo University of Science: Research Using Data Science, Materials Informatics May Lead to Better EV Motors
Dec. 1, 2022 — Tokyo University of Science today said researchers have combined several disciplines to investigate coercity, which is the physical property of magnetic materials that has the potential to advance electric car
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From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab and Veterans Affairs Use Summit Supercomputer Security Framework for Health Research
Dec. 1, 2022 — A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) used the CITADEL security framework to securely transfer and analyze veterans’ health records on ORNL’s Summit, an…
From Schneier on Security
Sirius XM Software Vulnerability
This is new:
Newly revealed research shows that a number of major car brands, including Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura, were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack…From insideHPC
Argonne Researchers Win Gordon Bell Special Prize for Using Language Models to Track Virus Variants
Nov. 29, 2022 — Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and a team of collaborators have won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2022 Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers and Liquid-Like Electrons
New idea to me.
Quantum Computing May be Bolstered by Liquid-Like Electrons, By Tom's Hardware
November 1, 2022
When electrons are made to act in what’s known as a “helical Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid,” there are fewer particleExperiments…From The Eponymous Pickle
New Book on Synthetic Data
The data is most often, the thing. Look forward to taking a look.
Published on November 28, 2022, By Vincent Granville
Author of Intuitive Machine Learning and Explainable AI.
84 articles
Synthetic data…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Database for Materials
Materials science becoming increasingly important
Nanoengineers Develop Predictive Database for Materials
UC San Diego Today, Emerson Dameron, November 28, 2022
The M3GNet algorithm developed by nanoengineers at the Universitythe…From The Eponymous Pickle
San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'
Depending on the definition, doubt this.
San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots' in the BBC
By Ben Derico & James Clayton, BBC News, San Francisco
San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Announces an A/B Testing Service
Could have used this.
Announcing the general availability of the Alexa A/B testing service
Staff Writer Sep 30, 2022
The Alexa Skills A/B testing service, which allows skill builders to make informed design choices is generallyIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Defense Industry Challenges
The business of defending,
This is the first in a series of articles about the inflation challenge within the defense industry.
Inflation continues to run above historical averages. The general public is feeling the pinch, with…