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ACM-W Connections — December 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters Grace Hopper India 2018 News from ACM-W…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way to Think About Cooling With Shade
Clever idea. With images.A new way to provide cooling without powerDevice developed at MIT could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations.David L. Chandler...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Solutions for Monitoring Conduct Risk
Risk should be considered in any kind of decision process. Even seemingly very simple decisions can have high risk. So, this means they are not simple decisions...
From insideHPC
How Quantum Corp. Wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Jason Coari from Quantum Corp. describes how the company wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars. "Scientists andHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting the Level of Goals
Goals make me think of specific numerically defined measures, so if we measure a goal, which this piece suggests we can, can we use optimization techniques, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Tech Talk: From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning
Good piece. With frightening implications of the combination surveillance, neural methods, and the use of high speed video generation to fake anything we want...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready, Fire, Aim–Why Is Design First So Hard To Learn?
“Hours of coding can save you minutes of planning”We’re talking about top-down design in my APCS Principles class this week. I gave the students a worksheet (part...
From Schneier on Security
Distributing Malware By Becoming an Admin on an Open-Source Project
The module "event-steam" was infected with malware by an anonymous someone who became an admin on the project. Cory Doctorow points out that this is a clever new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of Machine Learning
Abstract of a good paper, describes well the reasons neural network methods evolved from our early uses in the 90s to the current day. Would not have guessed its...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bitcoin for Real World Payments Drops 80%
Ultimately Bitcoin has to be usable for real-life exchange. Its use there has dropped considerably. More evidence towards a cryptocurrency winter. At leastBitcoin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cryptocurrency Winter Upon Us? Blockchain Still Rising
Once again, I am promoting MIT Tech Reviews Chain newsletter. Lots of useful introductory links in their newsletter link below. I won't do this forever, suggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart has a Toy Lab
In a completely different domain, we asked the same question: How can we get consumers to feel they are very involved with us, are our special customer? Special...
From insideHPC
Amazon AWS develops their own ARM Chip – Are they Smarter than they Look?
Today the AWS cloud rolled Amazon EC2 A1 Instances powered by new Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors. That's right, that clever fellow Jeff Bezos is making his own...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teams for Digital Procurement
Procurement a long time interest ... huge amounts of money involved, a classic place for better analytics.Digital Procurement: The Benefits Go Far Beyond Efficiency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpson's Paradox Again
Mentioned this topic once before, here is a more data oriented explanation, less technical and practical to real world problems . Everyone should understand this...
From insideHPC
Artificial Intelligence and Cloud-to-edge Acceleration
In this video, Wei Li, Vice President and General Manager for Machine Learning and Translation at Intel, discusses the increasing importance of AI, the visionArtificial...
From Schneier on Security
Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government
On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use...
From Putting People First
Nielsen Norman Group on the user experience of chatbots
Far from being ‘intelligent’, today’s chatbots guide users through simple linear flows, and our user research shows that they have a hard time whenever users deviate...
From Putting People First
[Report] Hiding in Plain Sight: Impact Investing in the Creative Economy
In October 2018, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors published Hiding in Plain Sight: Impact Investing in the Creative Economy, a new report from RPA sponsored project...
From insideHPC