Communications of the ACM
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January 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS on New Analytics
Thoughtful intro to piece via SAS
4 ways you might not realize advanced analytics is changing the world
by LEXI REGALADO on JANUARY 24, 2023
The word innovation often draws to mind images of self-driving cars, new phones, and shiny…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAI Announces Their Newly Elected Class of 2023 Fellows
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) juts announced their new class of 2023 Fellows. AAAI is a nonprofit that aims to advance and promote research in, and the responsible use of, artificial intelligence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI / GPT Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code! Security Threats?
Something we saw predicted and then experimented with in the 80s. Have seen only hints at the possibility since then. Could be a real powerful plus, especially looking for openings for threats to security.
ACM TECHNEWS
ChatGPT…From The Eponymous Pickle
Israel Opens First 'Smart Operating Room' That Manages Inventory
I worked on simulating operating rooms for efficient use, takes the idea much further, so of interest.
Israel Opens First 'Smart Operating Room' That Manages Inventory
The Jerusalem Post (Israel), Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, January…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wi Fi Routers Detect People in a Room
Intriguing capability, unexpected.
Wi-Fi Routers Can Detect Human Locations, Poses Within a Room
Tom's Hardware, Mark Tyson, January 18, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have been testing a system that uses Wi-Fi signals…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Move or copy your strings? Possible performance impacts
You sometimes want to add a string to an existing data structure. For example, the C++17 template ‘std::optional’ may be used to represent a possible string value. You may copy it there, as this code would often do… std::string…
From insideHPC
CRN Recognizes Hammerspace as a Cloud 100 Company for 2023
SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 30, 2023 – Hammerspace, the pioneer of the global data environment, today announced that CRN magazine has named Hammerspace to its annual Cloud 100 list. This list honors the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Passes U.S. Medical Licensing Exam
Interesting step forward, certainly will change approaches to teaching, testing.
AI Passes U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, By MedPage Today, in ACM, January 27, 2023
One objection to the use of AI programs in research was…From The Eponymous Pickle
Two charged with attacks on four power substations
Related pieces:
Identifying People Using Cell Phone with Location Data by Bruce Schneier ...
Two charged with attacks on four power substations in Washington state By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
Published 2:20…From Schneier on Security
NIST Is Updating Its Cybersecurity Framework
NIST is planning a significant update of its Cybersecurity Framework. At this point, it’s asking for feedback and comments to its concept paper.
Do the proposed changes reflect the current cybersecurity landscape (standards…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cognitive crash dummies
Mathematical, digital and physical models can help us design things better (and more safely!)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Digital Moves
Consumer goods continues to move to deeper digital
Veeral Shah Named 1st Chief E-comm & Digital Officer at Nestlé USA
Veeral Shah has been named chief e-commerce and digital officer for Nestlé USA, a new role for the company.
Shah…From The Eponymous Pickle
Beauty of Math
Quanta Magazine, 651K subscribers
"Students haven't been taught that math is discovery," says Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving. "Math is a creative discipline—you're creating castles in the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Smart Appliances Disconnect
Just bought a major appliance in this list. At first the idea of it being 'smart' attracted me, but I did think about having a major need depending on an external complex resource. Despite my background, decided not. Now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Knowledge, GPT towards a Killer Use case?
Sounds like the 'expert systems' of days past, we wrote a number in various contexts. Results I have seen now are still shaky, often easy ridiculed, but still approaching real possibilities.
Right now there is no “killer” use…From The Eponymous Pickle
Spin Control and Billions of Qubits
A short time ago we were talking a handful of QuBits, now billions? Implications for 'unsolvable' problems?
Spin Control Method Brings Billion-Qubit Quantum Chips Closer
UNSW Sydney Newsroom (Australia) January 13, 2023
Engineers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables
Mote use of finite element analysis, which we also utilized for modeling of key manufacturing systems.
Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables
Hellenic Cables in Greece uses finite element modeling…From The Eponymous Pickle
Revolutionizing Quantum Computing?
Not getting this, but interesting ...
An accident in a lab experiment may revolutionize quantum computers
By Joshua Hawkins, Published Jan 23rd, 2023 in BGR
Researchers may have made a massive breakthrough in quantum computing.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supporting your Presentation with Generative AI
Like the idea. We tested something similar which searched for supporting information in internal Wikis.
How Generative AI will Help Power your Presentation in 2023 in Venturebeat
By Sharon Goldman
@sharongoldman, January 24, 2023…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine's Wounded Soldiers to Get Bionic Arms
Three dimensionally printed, use of sensors,
Ukraine's Wounded Soldiers to Get Bionic Arms
London Daily Express (U.K.)
Jacob Paul, January 18, 2023
U.K. technology company Open Bionics plans to fit two Ukrainian soldiers with three…From The Eponymous Pickle
Swedish Quantum Computer to be Made Available to Industry
25 Qubits, link to a help desk.
ACM NEWS
Swedish Quantum Computer to be Made Available to Industry By Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), January 23, 2023
A 25-qubit quantum processor chip packaged in a specially designed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Guide to Phishing
Been Phished, I have. Schneier sends along a nice piece from TidBits on the topic. A useful guide, history and much more. Schneier's piece has lots of comments on experiences .
An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Reverse Aging for Archaeology
New three dimensional models predicts past faces from Skeletal Structure.
Faces from Ancient Egypt Coming Back to Life in Extraordinary Detail
By Newsweek, January 23, 2023
Said the Face Lab's Caroline Wilkinson, "We are prettyResearchers…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Hydrogel
Scientists have created a hydrogel “using squid mantle and creative chemistry.”
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines…From Schneier on Security
Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book, which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires.
The setup is that he just discovered …From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Google's Near Monopoly Search
Call for a reinvention of Web search.
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. in Venturebeat
The internet turns 53 this year, and it has been profoundly shaped by Big Tech companies .…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Creativity
Have mentioned that here a number of time, reviewing. We worried that when building expertise systems, even considered a definition of creativity in a domain to balance its value.
Can AI Demonstrate Creativity? By Keith…From insideHPC
MilDef Wins $4.8M Order to Digitalize Defense Force of Unnamed European NATO Country
Jan. 27, 2023 — In August 2022, MilDef announced a 20-year framework agreement worth SEK 2.8 billion (Swedish krona), with an unnamed defense force of a European NATO country. Now the first order has been placed for the contract…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptograpy Candidate Cracked
Much more detail linked to. Post quantum still an issue.
ACM NEWS
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked By David Geer
Commissioned by CACM Staff, January 24, 2023
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology…From Putting People First
Samsung aiming to bring calm to our connected world
Samsung US newsroom published an interview with Federico Casalegno, Executive Vice President of Design and Head of Samsung Design Innovation Center; Mark Benson, Head of Samsung SmartThings U.S.; and Inhee Chung, Vice President…