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Congratulations to the 2019 ACM Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2019 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s most prestigious…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Universal Acceptance Continues Momentum During ICANN66
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus I am invigorated after returning from ICANN66, which took place in Montréal 2-7 November. Always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Perceiving Common Sense Physics
Having machines understand common sense 'physics' may well be way to train them to do general AI. How humans learn is a potential model. Infant cognition. Helping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Screen by Realities?
Will every screen be replaced by a virtual reality experience?In Smithsonian:Alex Kipman on how it's "inevitable" that devices like the HoloLens will replace every...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Prototype for Microsurgery
Seems a considerable advance. Full and more technical article at the linkRobot Prototype Shows Promise for Microsurgery on Eyes, AneurysmsBy Vanderbilt School...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK
Another example that will likely be criticized as being easy to mis-use.Police to Use Facial Recognition Drones to Help Find the MissingBBC News (U.K.)By Ken Macdonald...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images
Good-non technical view of the current state of creating and evolving images. Somewhat like the 'photo shopping' enigma still going on, but more subtle and automated...
From insideHPC
Video: Characterizing Network Paths in and out of the Clouds
Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at CHEP 2019. "Cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with funding agencies moving beyond prototyping and starting to fund...
From insideHPC
STFC Machine Learning Group Deploys Elastic NVMe Storage to Power GPU Servers
At SC19, Excelero announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a new HPC architecture to support computationally intensive analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Takes a Driverless Ride
Vint Cerf takes a hands-free, unaccompanied drive in a Waymo and muses the technology.A Hands-Free Ride By Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, December 2019...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Our Relationship with AI
Wired Launches a new podcast: Sleepwalkers, in the post below with links to it. Will be listening to and following. Posting comments here.Rethinking Our Relationship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Supporting Teachers in Class Sessions
Assistance is important, especially with respect to repetitive tasks that need strong context.Robots can learn how to support teachers in class sessionsby University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fighting Cybercrime in the Cloud
Evidence for Cybercrime in the cloud.Machine Learning Advances Tool to Fight Cybercrime in the CloudPurdue University NewsBy Chris AdamPurdue University researchers...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Systems Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking Systems Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Our research effort is aimed at achieving...
From insideHPC
SC19 Cluster Competition Configs: Small is Mostly Beautiful
"Ok, you’re running a student cluster competition. You tell the university student teams that they can build any cluster they want with the only restriction being...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Games
There is value in having game developers aid in designing interaction with business problems.The Sims’ Creator Shares His Secrets“If I was going to teach somebody...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Humor for Engagement
Humor as engagement. Can it be delivered artificially, as a strong component of story?It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh |by Dina Gerdeman...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Like Underwater Drone
The Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone (SHARD) swims like a squid and can explode on command. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benchmarking a Big Quantum Computer
This article ultimately gets very technical, but attracted me because the bit size starts to get interesting for real problems. The abstract and intro part are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Novel Mobile Mapping Algorithm
As I read this, it too could have been used usefully for our forestry application, since we had large scale databases of measurements based on location contexts...
From insideHPC