Communications of the ACM
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August 2022
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cyber Security and CS Education
Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Well, you had to trust the people you did let in of course. I will not say much about the students I went…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Defense Receives first Quantum Computer
UK Moves forward in Defence Quantum Computing
Ministry of Defence acquires government's first quantum computer
In the BBC, By Liv McMahon, Technology team
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired the government's first quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
European Space Agency Seeks Possibility of SpaceX Launching
In Reuters:
Exclusive: Europe eyes Musk's SpaceX to bridge launch gap left by Russia tensions
By Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette
PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions…From The Eponymous Pickle
'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack
Brought to my attention last week. Notably Cloud aspects.
'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD, Intel CPUs
By The Hacker News, July 18, 2022
The most serious attack vector for Retbleed is likely through cloud…From insideHPC
RISC-V Summit China 2022 Announces Agenda
Shanghai, August 12, 2022 – The RISC-V Summit China 2022 (Aug. 24-26) today announced its 2022 agenda, including keynotes, tutorials, and technical presentations in English language and Chinese language editions. This year’s
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Report: Orgs with zero-trust segmentation avoid 5 major cyberattacks annually
Report on Zero Trust Segmentation.
Report: Orgs with zero-trust segmentation avoid 5 major cyberattacks annually in Venturebeat
A new report by Illumio found that organizations leveraging zero-trust segmentation avert five major…From The Noisy Channel
Similarity-Sensitive Diversity
In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminal idea of Claude Shannon, who introduced entropy to information theory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Workshop on AI Generated Characters
Brought to my attention, interesting look at using Virtual characters. Positive use cases emphasized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se6eSBT6D1Y
This full-day workshop, organized by the MIT Media Lab with NTT DATA, was dedicated…From insideHPC
HPE Wins $35M HPC DR Deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology
Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system, intended to improve the resilience of Australia’s weather forecasting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Look at AI and Banking
Not too much here, but made me think about the broader problem.
AI Is Transforming How We Bank
By The Information, August 11, 2022
Crypto is far from the only technological innovation causing problems for financial regulators.…From BLOG@CACM
The Continual Re-Creation Of The Key-Value Datastore
The evolution of single machine key-value stores.
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on the Coming Data Driven, Smart Workflow
From McKinsey;
The data-driven enterprise of 2025
Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be “data driven.”
By 2025, smart workflows and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy and Robots in the Home
Implications of Amazon's acquisition of iRobot and more:
iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home In light of Amazon’s recent acquisition, we revisit our 7 September 2017 Q&A with iRobot’s CEO BY EVANEditor…From insideHPC
SDSC’s Peter Rose Wins COVID-19 NIH/NICHD Award
Aug. 9, 2022 — Peter Rose, director of the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently presented with a team award from the National Institutes of Child Health and
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From insideHPC
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
Considerable advance?
Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
ScienceAlert
Michelle Starr, August 8, 2022
Scientists at Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences built an ultrafast two-quantum bit (qubit)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Animation Tool for Posing for Videogames
Animation and Videogames
University of Montreal
Salle De Presse, July 27, 2022
An animation tool developed by researchers from Canada's Université de Montréal uses bitmap sketches to control the 3D poses…From BLOG@CACM
A History of One Brute-Force Attack
A classic brute-force attack boils down to guessing credentials. In my scenario, though, the perpetrators acted somewhat differently.
From insideHPC
DOE Picks Los Alamos Lab for $9.25M Nuclear Energy Research HPC Project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million, five-year collaborative project in nuclear energy research through the Scientific Discovery through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Rolls Out Belt-Driven Self-Checkout Lanes
Will go to see this example of autonomy.
Kroger expanding new belted self-checkout to 20 Tri-State stores
Calls test of new high tech lanes a success
Kroger says its test of new self scan checkout lanes was a success…From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Autonomous Cars
Still waiting ...
Where Are The Autonomous Cars?
By Semiconductor Engineering, August 9, 2022
Level 5 vehicles, which are self-driving in all road situations, do not yet exist. Moreover, it’s not clear when that will change.
AreWhile…From The Noisy Channel
Content Quality
Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures that represents the content’s value independent of any searcher…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports 50% Y0Y Revenue Increase
HSINCHU, Taiwan – Aug. 10, 2022 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC: NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2022 was approximately NT$186.76 billion,…
From insideHPC
RMACC Names Poster Winner at HPC Symposium
BOULDER, CO – Haniye Kashgarani, a graduate student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competition at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Velocity of Response and Proactivity in Supply Chain Risk Management
Good thoughts here, make them work.
August 10, 2022: By Russell W. Goodman, in SupplyChainBrain
Velocity of response and proactivity in risk management are key to meeting supply chain challenges…From The Eponymous Pickle
Found and Displayed from Space
Found in Space: This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are …
From insideHPC
Argonne’s Polaris Supercomputer Deployed for Scientific Research
Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research community. Researchers can apply for computing time through the
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From insideHPC
Travis Humble Named Director of Quantum Science Center at ORNL
Travis Humble has been named director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC is a multi-institutional partnership spanning industry, academia and government…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
“Hello world” is slower in C++ than in C (Linux)
A simple C program might print ‘hello world’ on screen: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } You can write the equivalent in C++: #include <iostream> #include <stdlib…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning By TechTalks, June 21, 2022
Nearly every book on reinforcement learning (RL) contains a chapter that explains the differences between model-free and model-based reinforcement…