Communications of the ACM
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January 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Trials Useful in Retail
Lots of things we also examined, with different names and contexts.
Can the metaverse solve retail’s returns challenges?
by Nikki Baird in Retailwire
We’ve seen a lot of press about the volume of returns that are pouring in from…From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog
Note: The automated tagging function in Google Blogger has been inactive for the last six months or so, which means that some tags I apply may not have been consistent. It is now working again. Does not effect content,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transform a face mask into a monitor?
'Fitbit for the Face' Can Turn Any Face Mask into Smart Monitoring Device
Northwestern University Newscenter, Amanda Morris, January 12, 2022
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a sensor that they say can transform…From The Eponymous Pickle
Heart Cells with Electronic Warning Sensors
ACM NEWS
'Pop-Up' Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Heart Cells Misbehave
By University of California San Diego, December 28, 2021
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that monitors the electrical…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy 1,000th Post and 75th Birthday, Dick
Plus an open Zoom mini-workshop Monday 1/17, 4–5:30pm ET From Rich DeMillo Richard Lipton founded this blog 1,000 posts ago. He was not quite as young as in the photo. This blog is almost 13 years old but measures time by the…
From insideHPC
Atos to Install HPC system at Technische Universität Dresden
Munich, Paris – January 13 2022 – Atos today announces that it has been awarded a contract to install a new supercomputing cluster at Technische Universität Dresden (TU) in Germany. The supercomputer will be used for data intensive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted
Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted, Brain Modelling Pioneer Says Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better in Spectrum IEEE
By KATHY PRETZ During the past 20 years, deep learning has come to dominate artificial intelligence…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Welcomes Leading Tech Entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as UA Ambassador
By Dr. Ajay Data, UASG Chair The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome Indian tech entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as a Universal Acceptance (UA) Ambassador. Sharma is the founder and CEO of One97 Communications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Age of AI-ism?
Looks to be a very interesting book, plan to read it. Authors are interesting, notably I was at a meeting with Kissinger long ago in DC. Never thought of him as a technical futurist.
By Contributor Rich Heimann…From CERIAS Blog
Reflecting on 30 years
One of my students sent me a weblink (in the story, below). It caused me to reflect a little on the past. Here is some text I shared on a few social media feeds.
30 years ago, when I started COAST (which became CERIAS) at…From The Eponymous Pickle
JFrog Talks Log4j Vulnerabilies
I was pointed to this by the by TWIT site post by Steve Gibson, pass it along for some good info about the Log4j problems.
LOG4J LOG4SHELL RESOURCE CENTER
JFrog Log4j vulnerabilites
Resources at your fingertips
The Log4j & Log4shell…From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn to Create Voice-Plus-App Experiences, with No Coding Required
Amazon-Alexa continues to push Voice-App experiences:
Learn to Create Voice-Plus-App Experiences, with No Coding Required
Entice Alexa customers to go deeper with your brand by extending into your apps and websites. Don’t miss…From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Models for VR Applications
Interesting. thinking how this would be useful. ....
CACMmag (@Communications of the ACM) Tweeted: #Mathematicians at @UniversityRudn have proposed a model for calculating the optimal parameters of a #5GNetwork for #VirtualReality…From The Eponymous Pickle
Human-Robot Teams
Giving systems levels of automation, like IT today.
Human-Robot Teams: The Next IT Management Challenge
Productivity can skyrocket when people and robots work together, yet so can human frustration and fury.
John Edwards in InformationWeek…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Security Products at CES
Worth a look at what is being offered.
AI News
MicroAI showcasing host of AI security products at CES Las Vegas
By Fin Strathern | January 6, 2022
MicroAI, a Texas-based edge AI product developer, is demonstrating its LaunchpadThe…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Taiwan under Threat from China – TSMC and the ‘Techno-politics’ of Advanced Chips
In this week's episode of the @HPCpodcast, Doug Black and Shahin Khan discuss how global competition around advanced technologies has turned geopolitics into "techno-politics" and techno-nationalism. In HPC, this means chips
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Debates its Own ethical Existence
Too early to do this, but setting the stage is useful.
AI News
Oxford Union invites an AI to debate the ethics of its own existence
By Fin Strathern | December 16, 2021
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics & Society, Google…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins, Simulation,Design
Like drawing the relationship to general simulation, which has been around for a long time.
Digital twins improve real-life manufacturing
Using simulations can ease the complex development process and provide insights into how…From insideHPC
AIOps Hybrid Cloud Management Company Virtana Raises $73M
SAN JOSE — January 13, 2022 — Virtana, a provider of AI-driven monitoring for hybrid cloud management, has raised $73 million from Atalaya Capital Management, Elm Park Capital Management, HighBar Partners, and Benhamou Global…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Planning Before Coding
After all these years one would think I would know better. But it turns out that when coding for fun I don’t always do the planning that I should. It always comes back to hurt me. If you have been reading this blog lately you…
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Container Technologies for Exascale Computing
In this episode of the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP) Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series, Andrew Younge of Sandia National Laboratories discusses container technology and how it fits into the wider scheme of exascale and
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From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Appoints Aravind Ratnam to Chief Strategy Officer
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a quantum control engineering solutions company, today announced the addition of Aravind Ratnam as Chief Strategy Officer. Most recently, Ratnam served as Head of Products for Sense Photonics…
From insideHPC
GRC in Data Center Sustainability Collaboration with Intel
AUSTIN, TX – January 12, 2022 — GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), today announced a multi-year collaboration with Intel focused on helping the global data center industry reduce the environmental impact of digital infrastructure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Makes Some AI Meta Humans
Indeed.
Baidu Unveils Its Metaverse of Custom Virtual Humans
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ in Voicebot.ai
Chinese tech giant Baidu introduced a metaverse of virtual humans this week at Baidu Create 2021, in deliberate contrast to the presentation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement of the Digital Economy
Good piece by correspondent Dr Wladawsky-Burger:
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects. By Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A New MeasurementSeveral…From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q
SEATTLE – Jan. 12, 2022 – Qumulo, maker of file data storage and management for hybrid cloud environments, today announced the availability of AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q. This new offering, running on Amazon Web Services…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Process Analysis: When to Use
Yes, absolutely, of anything significant, also for anything new or advanced like AI, or things that interact with people or have risky aspects.
Why a Business Process Analysis is critical before applying Automation
Simon Carter…From Computational Complexity
On the California Math Framework
Guest post by Boaz Barak and Jelani Nelson
In a recent post, Lance Fortnow critiqued our open letter on the proposed revisions for the California Mathematics Framework (CMF). We disagree with Lance’s critique, and he has kindly…From insideHPC
AMD Announces GA of New AWS EC2 Hpc6a Instances
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today GA of Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Hpc6a instances based on the AMD EPYC CPU, built for high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud. AWS pre-announced Hpc6a last November. The instances deliver…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Guns available in US
Safer firearms
Smart Guns Reportedly Coming to U.S. Stores This Year
By Gizmodo, January 11, 2022
"Smart guns," the personalized firearms once heralded as tech's solution to rampant U.S. gun deaths before quietly pittering out of…