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ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Munmun De Choudhury
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…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Data Breach Targets
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...
From insideHPC
Graphcore Announces $222M Series E Funding Round
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...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: China Launches Six New Squid Jigging Vessels
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...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Giant Squid by Collecting Environmental DNA
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...
From Schneier on Security
Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
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...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
I2O PostDoc Fellowship- Deadlines February 1st and March 1st, 2021
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is broadening its commitment to young scientists through a new Information Innovation Office (I2O) PostDoc...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Material-Matching for Movies and Video Games
Towards an automation of many kinds of image context.Automating Material-Matching for Movies and Video GamesMIT News by Adam Conner-SimonsMassachusetts Institute...
From insideHPC
Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers – Part 2
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...
From The Noisy Channel
Recall: Size Isn’t Everything
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insights for AI from the Human Mind
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Can only do so much in the face of a Pandemic
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ulriken Rail Tunnel
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning is Overused
Well put, always consider the simpler analysis that leads to better understanding first. Deep Learning Is Becoming OverusedUnderstanding the data is the firstBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Association Pattern Analysis
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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion–How and When to Teach
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will the FAA’s new Rules Speed Use of drones? Google Responds.
Regulating commercial delivery.Will the FAA’s new rules speed commercialization of drones? In RetailWire by Tom RyanThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
India Bets Big on 5G
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Catalog is Gone
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...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter M. Neumann, 1940–2020
Memories from Oxford days Mathematical Institute src Peter Neumann, Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford University, passed away two weeks ago. Last...
From Schneier on Security