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Which Sort Do You Use?
My algorithms class is studying sorts this week. I felt like we needed a little hands on sorting to get an understanding of how…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blackboxes in Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction
A recent CNN article titled “Black or ‘Other’? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health,” discusses how race has both historically affected...
From Schneier on Security
The Story of Colossus
Nice video of a talk by Chris Shore on the history of Colossus.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Helps Customers Adopt a Zero Trust Approach to Security
New security architectures, alliance moves by IBM. IBM Helps Customers Adopt a Zero Trust Approach to SecurityCAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM...
From insideHPC
Caterpillar and Argonne Use HPC to Simulate Better Efficiency, Reduced Emissions in Diesel Engines
Heavy-duty diesel engines power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States. To tackle problems of fuel...
From Schneier on Security
New Spectre-Like Attacks
There’s new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulate, Constrain, Repeat, Learn
Berkeley Bair posts an interesting look at Reinforcement Learning. Made me think, But once you get beyond the paras below this gets quite complicated and technical...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Constructing arrays of Boolean values in Java
It is not uncommon that we need to represent an array of Boolean (true or false) values. There are multiple ways to do it. The most natural way could be to construct...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vocalis Health Determines Health Changes via Voice
An interesting and perhaps very useful direction. How much is this a diagnosis?The Doctor Will Hear You Soon By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM StaffTal...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How to Teach Math?
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics—Paul Halmos Angie Hodge is an Associate Professor of mathematics at Northern Arizona University. Her interests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argo LiDAR has 400 Meter Range
How much does it add to effectiveness in context? Argo AI says its latest LiDAR sensor has a 400-meter rangeThe tech could bolster Ford and Volkswagen's self-driving...
From insideHPC
ISC 2021 Early Bird Registration Ends May 6
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 3, 2021 – The organizers of ISC 2021 Digital would like to remind everyone in the high performance computing (HPC) community that early ISC...
From insideHPC
RPI Computer Scientist Wins NSF Award to Match Exascale Systems with Petascale Data Volumes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty member and computer scientist George Slota has been granted a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Introduces Open Source StackRox Community – Cluster Security for Kubernetes
May 4, 2021 – Red Hat today introduce the StackRox community, the upstream project that will work to open source and manage the code that powers Red Hat Advanced...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Sciences Elects 120 Members and 30 International Members!
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 120 new members- including a record number of women- and 30 foreign members. Five computing researchers are among...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for, testing for, Behaviors.
Can this be taken beyond automated driving systems? We were always looking for behaviors we could predict. And might be fundamental enough to simulate for broader...
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Computing Integrates tket Platform with Strangeworks Ecosystem
CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 4, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a developer of quantum software and algorithms, today announced that Strangeworks, Inc., an Austin...
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager Picked for Sweden’s Fastest HPC System at LinköpingUniv.
Amsterdam – Tuesday, May 4th – Bright Computing, a global leader in automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Hacked from Drone without a Click
But, It is stated that you cannot get driving control of the car from the hack.Tesla Car Hacked Remotely From Drone via Zero-Click ExploitBy Eduard Kovacs inpiece...
From Schneier on Security
Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone
This is an impressive hack: Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click...
From insideHPC