Communications of the ACM
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February 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS: How AI Changes the Rules
Looks to be a good paper from SAS, below an overview, link through for more. Always liked how SAS looked at the broader aspect of 'analytics'. Reading.
New Imperatives for the Intelligent Organization
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Sheet Metal Design Waste
Note the connection between design and fabrication. in a workflow. Minimizing waste. If you have a model of workflow, its easier to look at things like design and waste, And AI methods can address patterns that minimizeMIT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searchandising
OK, the term is completely new to me, this Algolia advertising piece links to a free ebook/pamphlet that describes it.
Searchandising: 9 best practices for better conversion rates, Posted: February 18, 2021
Merchandising is asearchandising…From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing Data Security
Its data, getting it and securely putting it to use. Always highlighted in emergency situations.
Microsoft enhances data security in Power BI business intelligence apps By Mike Wheatley in SiliconAngle
Microsoft Corp. is beefing…From insideHPC
HPC Cost Modeling
This ebook from our friends over at Rescale, "HPC Cost Modeling: Defining the Modern HPC Experience," focuses on why the historical methodology for determining cost, price per core hour is at best incapable of providing effective…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Communications
Satellite connectivity for challenges like emergency communications.
Connecting machines in remote regions by Zach Winn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On Nov. 26, seven fishermen aboard a small fishing boat off the coast…From BLOG@CACM
Tips for Successful Examinations in the Age of Remote Education
Rather than fancying you can control Internet access, design exams to reward students who won't need it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Military Digitization
An approach to military digitization, also for peace time efforts of crisis management and disaster recovery.
German Armed Forces Order Deployable Mission-Critical Communication Networks from Motorola Solutions to Drive Greater…From insideHPC
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, Western Digital Leverage AI and Big Data in Fight Against Breast Cancer
Western Digital today said it has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center to provide the storage infrastructure for from mammography scans cancer detection. The center’s AI Precision Health Institute (AI-PHI) has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Biometrics for Identification
Handprints are a much older biometric ID capability, and iris scanning is also well known. We tested the methods in our innovation centers.
MIT News,Rachel Gordon,February 8, 2021
AI Can Use the Veins on Your Hand Like Fingerprints…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming AI for Good Global Summit: AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour
AI for Good Global Summit is hosting a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour on Wednesday, February 24th from 10AMb – 11:30AM EST. This panel will bring together Computing Community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fabricating Functional Devices and Drones
3D Printing and more. Impressive too for spacecraft?
Fabricating Fully Functional Drones From MIT CSAIL
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)…From The Eponymous Pickle
Perseverance Rover Landing, Testing Robotics
Am a long time follower of advanced robotics. The Mars rover is set to arrive tomorrow. With new advances in Torque and Force arm sensing in a harsh environment. Look forward to seeing more demonstrated.
NASA’s Mars RoverATI…From insideHPC
In the Core-Cloud-Edge Triad, Why Edge Is Coming to the Fore in 2021
Industry analyst Shahin Khan, founding partner of OrionX.net, here talks about the strategic shift among core-cloud-edge and why compute at the edge, HPC at the edge, will seize the ascendancy in 2021. It all plays into Khan’s…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alan Selman
A special journal issue in his honor Elvira Mayordomo, Mitsu Ogihara, and Atri Rudra are going to be the editors of a special issue of the journal Theory of Computing Systems dedicated to Alan Selman. Alan passed away this January…
From insideHPC
QCI Launches Qatalyst, Quantum Computing Application Accelerator
LEESBURG, VA – February 17, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), whose mission is to bridge classical and quantum computing, today announced the commercial availability of Qatalyst, a quantum application accelerator…
From insideHPC
Pure Provides New Levels of Performance, Flexibility, and Protection to Make Data Management Easier than Ever
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 16, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), specialist in storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced updates to its industry-recognized Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Ethics of AI
Concise piece on the topic from Cisco
Analytics & Automation
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Cisco Blog
Utkarsh Srivastava
Intelligent machines have helped humans in achieving great endeavors. Artificial Intelligence (AI) combined…From The Eponymous Pickle
GIS Data for Covid Vaccination Distribution
Off to get my Covid vaccination this morning and saw this:
How GIS Data Can Help Fix Vaccine Distribution in Information Week
Esri Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty explains how geographic data and maps can streamline COVID-19…From insideHPC
Fugaku Leverages AI for Tsunami Flood Prediction
February 15, 2021 – A new AI model that harnesses the power of the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, is targeting tsunami flooding prediction in coastal areas before the tsunami reaches land. The development of the new technology…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Partners With Veeam on Ransomware Protection
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 16, 2021 — Quantum Corporation. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced its ActiveScale S3-compatible object storage system has achieved Veeam Ready qualification for Object and Object with Immutability, extending…
From insideHPC
PSC’s Big Data and AI Supercomputer Replaced by New Bridges-2 Platform
February 15, 2021 — From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses, the Bridges platform at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM on AI Explainability
Think of how humans interact in a conversation. We require an appropriate in-context level of explainability to support and trust what we hear. We would expert an intelligent agent to answer questions like: Tell me moreIBM…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Musk and Computer-Brain Interfaces; Oracle Adds Arm Servers to its HPC Cloud
This week Jessi, Henry, and Dan discuss computer-brain interfaces and how Elon Musk’s Neuralink has recently done this with a pig. Surprisingly, we have some concerns about this, primarily security and control... Our next topic…
From insideHPC
ORNL Employees Recognized with DOE Secretary’s Honor Awards
Feb. 5, 2021 — Thirty-two Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees were named among teams recognized by former U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette with Secretary’s Honor Awards as he completed his term. DOE’s site…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS 2021- Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point
Significant contributions were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas. The virtual AAAS 2021 meeting took place February 8th – 11th, 2021 and included a highly topical session titled Computing, Artificial Intelligence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Cyber Command
I did training at Ft Meade. Have not taken a look at the US Cyber Command site for some time. Note their new training platform. Worth following.
Fort Meade, Md. - PCTE is a training platform supporting…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Behind in Recognizing Emotions
Fairly clear, and also in our experience when the motion was of the 'satire' type. Faces could be used to signal opposite emotions as well
Artificial intelligence still lags behind humans at recognising emotions by University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Inbound Sales
This happened to come up in a conversation last week. Good summary below and more detail at the link.
4 Behaviors that Boost Inbound Sales by Matthew Dixon, Ted McKenna, and Tom Shepherd in HBR
Summary.
Particularly during…From The Eponymous Pickle
Post-Quantum Crypto
Will Quantum be able to cut through Crypto? Effects on other solution expectations?
The Scramble for Post-Quantum Cryptography
By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 4, 2021
Researchers are working to counter…