Many public agencies already have tracking and communications technologies embedded in their emergency and transit vehicles.
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Nobel Laureates Consider the State of Quantum Computing
Most experts are reluctant to predict when a large-scale quantum computer will be commercialized.
Cybersecurity in Industrial IoT: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Today's IIoT environments demand sophisticated, multi-layered security strategies.
Global Auto Dealer Management Systems Hacked
Lawsuits claim the attacks exposed consumers' personal information and stopped dealerships' sales, financing, servicing, and payroll operations.
How Today’s Recommender Systems Use Machine Learning to Cater to Your Every Whim
Today’s recommender systems, driven by sophisticated models, are able to increasingly personalize your online experience.
Security Challenges of Intent-Based Networking
Intent-based networking allows operators to describe the high-level intent of what they want a network to do.
Technical Perspective: Tracing the Network Traffic Fingerprinting Techniques of OpenVPN
"OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting," by Diwen Xue et al., investigates network traffic fingerprinting of a very popular privacy technique—OpenVPN.
OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
In this paper, we explore the implications of deep packet inspection for VPN detection and blocking.
Technical Perspective: Creating the Internet of Biological and Bio-Inspired Things
"mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking," by Inhee Lee et al., describes a critical milestone in the mobile system community’s efforts toward creating the Internet of biological things.
mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-Modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking
We propose a wireless sensing platform, mSAIL, specifically designed for a monarch butterfly migration study based on previously developed custom-designed ICs.
Human Intuition and Algorithmic Efficiency Must Be Balanced to Enhance Data Mesh Resilience
Data mesh management with a human touch.
Vendor-Locked DevOps Strategies
Cloud-agnostic and vendor-locked strategies are two sides of the same coin.
Adopting and Sustaining Microservice-Based Software Development
The microservice approach to software development offers an alternative to the conventional monolith style.
More Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Researchers are exploring ways to reduce a quantum system's lopsided ratio of error-correction qubits to logical qubits.
Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement
In this paper, we design an online algorithm for refugee allocation.
Technical Perspective: Improving Refugees’ Integration with Online Resource Allocation
"Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement," by Narges Ahani et al., applies online resource allocation concepts to a new and important area: refugee resettlement.
Ensuring Business Continuity with Backup Cloud Storage Choices
A properly selected backup data storage solution will help ensure the safety and reliability of your data, which is a vital aspect of any business's successful and stable operation.
Access to a system should not imply authority to use it. Enter the principle of complete mediation.
Thoughts on AI Interoperability
While the core transport protocols of the Internet are binary in character, one could imagine a more text-oriented exchange protocol for inter-ML systems.
Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines
This paper discusses algorithmic priority inversion in mission-critical machine inference pipelines used in modern neural-network-based perception subsystems and describes a solution to mitigate its effect.
Technical Perspective: Bridging AI with Real-Time Systems
"Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines," by Shengzhong Liu et al., proposes a new methodology for overcoming the limitations of current AI frameworks to enable the use of deep neural networks in mission-critical systems.
After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?
The Role of Autonomous Machine Computing in Shaping the Autonomy Economy
The role of Autonomous Machine Computing in fostering the Autonomy Economy.
Governments Are Spying on Your Push Notifications
Companies are being compelled to turn over potentially valuable push notification metadata to authorities.
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