From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Munmun De Choudhury as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award. The ACM-W Rising…
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Expected places for threats:Experian predicts 5 key data breach targets for 2021 by Veronica Combs in Security The pandemic warfare will shift to vaccine supply...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2021 at 12:28 PM
Bristol, UK — Graphcore announced it has raised $222m of investment to help support the company’s global expansion and accelerate future IPU silicon, systems and...Doug Black From insideHPC | January 4, 2021 at 12:07 PM
From Pingtan Marine Enterprise:
The 6 large-scale squid jigging vessels are normally operating vessels that returned to China earlier this year from the waters...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 4, 2021 at 11:49 AM
The idea is to collect and analyze random DNA floating around the ocean, and using that to figure out where the giant squid are. No one is sure if this will actually...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 4, 2021 at 11:48 AM
The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics, Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977.
Parts I and II, by Lambros...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 4, 2021 at 10:39 AM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is broadening its commitment to young scientists through a new Information Innovation Office (I2O) PostDoc...Helen Wright From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | January 4, 2021 at 09:58 AM
Towards an automation of many kinds of image context.Automating Material-Matching for Movies and Video GamesMIT News by Adam Conner-SimonsMassachusetts Institute...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2021 at 09:21 AM
This insideHPC Special Research Report, “Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers,” provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an...staff From insideHPC | January 4, 2021 at 09:00 AM
Recall is a key measure of search quality that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. But how does a search engine recognize when recall is a problem?Size...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 4, 2021 at 08:03 AM
Good thoughts by Gary Marcus, aiming at the difficulty of creating intelligence, even though we have very rich models around we can do testing with. Insights for...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 3, 2021 at 12:45 PM
A look at data tech vs Covid, What worked and what didn't. But this, though provocative is a very early look. Before we know exactly what happened. Then...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 3, 2021 at 12:14 PM
An aside interest of mine, rail supply chains. Points to the first tunnel boring machine used in Norway for the Ulriken TunnelUlriken Tunnel –The first TBM Drive...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 3, 2021 at 09:58 AM
Well put, always consider the simpler analysis that leads to better understanding first. Deep Learning Is Becoming OverusedUnderstanding the data is the firstBy...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 2, 2021 at 12:57 PM
Some of the very earliest work we did in the big enterprise used forms of this analysis. A classic pattern analysis. Good basic intro with code. Is applicable...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 2, 2021 at 12:34 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I’ll start with a confession. Recursion is one of those concepts that I struggled to understand in the beginning. Was it me or was it how it was taught? An open...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 2, 2021 at 12:03 PM
Regulating commercial delivery.Will the FAA’s new rules speed commercialization of drones? In RetailWire by Tom RyanThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 2, 2021 at 10:27 AM
Have yet to see any compelling arguments for new business models. My new phone seems to have quietly dropped the option.India Bets Big on 5G Technology Going...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 2, 2021 at 10:07 AM
We used Ikea catalogs as examples of artistically done customer outreach. Worth noting. Ikea Just Quietly Killed Its Famous Catalog. It's a Brilliant Lesson...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 2, 2021 at 09:55 AM
Memories from Oxford days Mathematical Institute src Peter Neumann, Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford University, passed away two weeks ago. Last...KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | January 1, 2021 at 09:51 PM
From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer:
So when you use AWS, part of what you’re paying for is security.
Right; it’s part of what we sell...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 1, 2021 at 06:13 PM