[Qp-l] Fwd: ACM TechNews, Friday, July 6, 2018

[Zoltan Zimboras]

http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/394894-the-chinese-challenge-to-us-quantum-competitiveness




On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Tamás Kozsik <tamas.kozsik at elte.hu> wrote:

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> *Chinese Scientists Set New Quantum Entanglement Record*
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> *XinhuaJuly 3, 2018*
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> Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have set
> a world record for entanglement of 18 quantum bits (qubits), keeping China
> ahead in the international research competition to establish a functioning
> quantum computer. The computing power of a quantum computer grows
> exponentially with the number of qubits that can be manipulated, and a big
> enough system could solve large computation problems that are beyond the
> ability of current classical computers, says the Chinese Academy of
> Sciences' Pan Jianwei. For example, a quantum computer with 50 qubits would
> be more powerful than today's fastest supercomputer in solving quantum
> sampling problems. Pan's team has been leading the race for quantum
> supremacy, achieving the first five, six, eight, and 10 entangled photons
> in the world. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Europe are actively collaborating on
> quantum research, and high-tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and
> IBM have their own quantum computing research underway.
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> [image: Entrance to Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York] *Big
> Tech's Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College*
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> *The Wall Street JournalChristopher MimsJune 29, 2018*
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> Two-year community colleges are being increasingly tapped by the
> technology industry to fill a talent shortage, with the U.S. Council on
> Foreign Relations' Edward Alden noting the trend of setting up talent
> pipelines for tech companies of all sizes is "taking off across the
> country." Technology giants are establishing apprenticeships, new
> certifications, and degrees, in a trend driven in part by mounting student
> loan debt and a widening skills gap between available job candidates and
> open positions. For example, Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC,
> provides internships with companies that have local offices, and supports
> continuing education for workers at companies such as Infosys and Credit
> Suisse. Wake Tech serves 74,000 students, 90% of whom are part-time. One
> reason technology companies turn to community colleges is that they are
> seeking candidates who are unavailable elsewhere, such as veterans with
> security clearances.
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> *Calling Android: Researchers See If Rowhammer-Based Exploits Still
> Possible*
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> *Tech XploreNancy OwanoJuly 4, 2018*
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> Researchers at institutions that include Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in
> the Netherlands have discovered a variant of the Rowhammer hack that allows
> malicious applications to access the entire operating system and assume
> complete control over an Android device. This "RAMpage" exploit entails
> ramming memory pages to acquire arbitrary read and write access. "It
> targets an Android's universal generic memory management system called ION
> introduced by Google in 2011 as part of Android 4.0," says Threatpost's Tom
> Spring. "It's part of a subsystem used to manage and allocate memory. An
> attack consists of a write and refresh request on the device's RAM until it
> flips a bit in an adjacent row." The Rowhammer attack involves manipulating
> data from dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), caused by the unintended
> phenomenon of charge leakage from memory cells. The researchers published a
> paper describing their defense against the exploit.
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> [image: Computer screen’s internet browser and the words] *USACM Calls on
> Congress to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Protections*
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> *Association for Computing MachineryJim OrmondJuly 2, 2018*
>
> ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USACM) this week submitted
> recommendations to the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Consumer
> Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security that focus on
> protecting personal privacy in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge
> Analytica scandal. USACM urged Congress to immediately act to protect the
> public good and the integrity of the democratic process by addressing
> technical and ethical issues raised by the data breach. Specifically, USACM
> wants Congress to draft and adopt comprehensive personal privacy protection
> legislation extending beyond social media to meet nine critical goals,
> including limiting collection/minimizing retention of personal data;
> clarifying and simplifying user consent processes and maximizing user
> control of data, and simplifying data-sharing policies and assuring
> data-flow transparency. USACM chair Stuart Shapiro says the organization
> has significant expertise in the technical and ethical aspects of the case,
> and looks forward to serving as an apolitical resource for Congress in
> pursuit of solutions.
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> *This Robotic Insect Walks on Water*
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> *ZDNetGreg NicholsJuly 5, 2018*
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> Harvard University researchers have updated a centimeter-scaled microrobot
> introduced earlier this year to be able to walk on the surface of water.
> The microbot was first created to demonstrate that sophisticated mobile
> robots can be engineered at very small sizes by taking inspiration from
> nature. The Harvard Ambulatory Microbot (HAMR) has been equipped with
> special feet that give it the ability to walk on water or dive beneath the
> surface. The feet consist of four asymmetrical flaps that spread HAMR's
> approximately two grams of weight over sufficient area that no one foot
> will break the surface tension of the water. The robot can walk by moving
> its legs at a frequency of up to 10 Hz, and it can carry an additional
> payload that nearly equals its own weight. HAMR dives by applying voltage
> through its feet to break the surface tension.
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> [image: Traffic cameras and sensors on a traffic light] *Portland
> Installing 200 Sensors to Improve Traffic Safety*
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> *Government Computer NewsMatt LeonardJune 29, 2018*
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> Portland, OR's Traffic Safety Sensor Project involves installing 200
> CityIQ sensor nodes in the city's "high crash network" to gather data on
> vehicle and pedestrian traffic, in the hope that will help officials learn
> how to prevent fatal accidents. The sensors will be installed on 30
> Portland streets that account for more than half of the city's traffic
> fatalities, even though they make up only 8% of the city's roadways. The
> nodes, which are attached to existing street light poles, have more than 30
> built-in sensors, including two cameras that capture images of the roadway
> and sidewalk, and an array of environmental sensors for measuring
> temperature, pressure, and humidity. Specialized chips power vision
> analysis in the units and produce metadata featuring traffic and pedestrian
> counts, along with time and location stamps. The metadata is transmitted to
> a cloud platform, where it can be accessed via application programming
> interfaces.
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> *New Data Science Major Promotes Diversity in High-Tech*
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> *University of California, RiversideHolly OberJune 28, 2018*
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> The Center for Advancing Women in Technology (CAWIT), an organization
> dedicated to increasing the participation of women in technology “from
> campus to career,” has bestowed a $400,000 gift on the University of
> California, Riverside (UC Riverside) to support the creation of a new data
> science degree to bring more women and underrepresented groups into
> technology fields. Through its Technology Pathways Initiative (TPI), CAWIT
> is funding programs at several different universities, including UC
> Riverside. TPI funds interdisciplinary degree programs that integrate
> computing and information technology into majors that tend to draw women.
> An integral part of the UC Riverside program will be outreach activities
> aimed at establishing data science-related curricula, projects, and
> activities in K-12 education. The program is expected to have a "soft
> rollout" in fall 2018 with a fully operational degree in fall 2019; about
> 50 new students are expected to enroll each year.
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> *Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021*
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>
> *IEEE SpectrumJohn BoydJune 28, 2018*
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> Japan's Fujitsu and Japanese research institute RIKEN are field-testing a
> prototype CPU for the next-generation Post-K supercomputer, which they
> believe will lift the country to the top of global supercomputer rankings.
> The Post-K follows development of the 8-petaflops K supercomputer in 2012,
> also by Fujitsu and RIKEN, which has since been upgraded to 11 petaflops in
> application processing speed. The two organizations intend to "create the
> world's highest performing supercomputer," with "up to 100 times the
> application execution performance of the K computer," Fujitsu says. Aiming
> to place the Post-K machine in exascale territory, the researchers are
> using the Arm8A-SVE (Scalable Vector Extension) 512-bit architecture, which
> has been enhanced for supercomputer use. The Post-K runs on CPUs with 48
> cores plus 2 assistant cores for the computational nodes, with 48 cores
> plus 4 assistant cores for the I/O and computational nodes. "It will be the
> largest Arm system in the world and in fact, likely the largest
> supercomputer in the world," says RIKEN's Satoshi Matsuoka, recipient of
> the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2011.
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> [image: An example of a therapy session augmented with humanoid robot
> NAO’s face tracking.] *Personalized 'Deep Learning' Equips Robots for
> Autism Therapy*
>
>
> *MIT NewsBecky HamJune 27, 2018*
>
> Researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab
> have developed a personalized deep learning network to help robots gauge
> the effect of autism therapy on children, using data that is unique to each
> patient. The team used humanoid NAO robots that exhibit emotional states
> via eye color, limb movement, and tone of voice, while interacting with 35
> autistic children in 35-minute-long sessions. MIT's Oggi Rudovic says most
> subjects responded to the robot "not just as a toy, but related to NAO
> respectfully as it if was a real person," especially during storytelling.
> The personalized deep learning framework could learn from video, audio, and
> physiological readings collected on each child, while information about the
> child's autism diagnosis and abilities, their culture, and their gender
> also was considered. The robots' perception of the subjects' responses
> correlated 60% with human experts' assessments.
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> *It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.*
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> *The New York TimesVeronique GreenwoodJuly 3, 2018*
>
> At the University of Bristol in the U.K., researchers have created a
> virtual reality (VR) environment that allows biochemists studying a
> molecule to perform simple tasks nearly 10 times faster than on a
> two-dimensional (2D) screen-based simulation. The new tool allows users to
> experience the latest information on what scientists know about how
> molecules move and flex, says University of Bristol's David Glowacki.
> Anyone with a virtual reality setup can access the new simulation, which
> runs on Oracle supercomputers. The researchers timed users, both in VR and
> on computers with a touchscreen or mouse, on three molecule manipulations.
> For two tasks, users were significantly faster in the VR environment, while
> the third task took about the same time using either setup, which Glowacki
> suggests is because the solution was essentially a 2D movement. The
> findings indicate that VR could allow scientists to learn about molecule
> movements much more rapidly. In addition, the new tool could allow
> researchers who are physically separated, such as at pharmaceutical
> companies or universities, to examine molecules collaboratively and
> simultaneously, Glowacki says.
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> *5G Technology Brings 3D Views to Inter-Vehicle Communication*
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> *VTT Technical Research CenterJune 28, 2018*
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> Through its 5G-Safe project, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has
> developed new 5G solutions related to road weather services, road
> maintenance, automated driving, and real-time, inter-vehicle transmission
> of three-dimensional (3D) views. The research also included the Finnish
> Meteorological Institute and several corporate partners. "The speed of the
> 5G network enables transmitting large 3D views between vehicles. As a
> result, the communication distances of car observations can be increased
> and data can be obtained from areas which the car's own sensors do not
> cover and are not in its view," says VTT's Tiia Ojanpera, who leads the
> 5G-Safe project. The new solutions and services will gather data and send
> warnings automatically. The 5G-Safe project solutions are slated for
> completion by the end of the year.
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> *A New Direction for HPC Math Libraries*
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> *The Next PlatformRob FarberJune 27, 2018*
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> The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra, an ACM fellow and recipient
> of the 2013 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award, recently presented a new direction
> for math libraries at the International Supercomputing conference in
> Germany. The Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme-Scale
> Systems (NLAFET) project concentrates on employing directed acyclic graphs
> (DAGs) processed by a runtime system. NLAFET seeks to develop novel
> architecture-aware algorithms that reveal the maximum amount of
> parallelism, leverage heterogeneity, skip communications bottlenecks,
> respond to escalating fault rates, and help fulfill emerging power
> constraints. The DAG serves as an intermediate language to express the
> parallelism and data dependencies of the numerical algorithm without
> locking in any specific computer architecture, with the decisions about
> what to parallelize and how data movement is to be organized postponed
> until a machine-specific runtime interprets the DAG and makes the decisions
> for most efficiently running the computation. The outcomes of these efforts
> will be published in the NLAFET software library.
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>
> [image: Tennis great John McEnroe disputes a call.] *'You Cannot Be
> Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights*
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> *ReutersJune 26, 2018*
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> IBM's Watson artificial intelligence (AI) platform is analyzing players'
> emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament to compile highlights in which
> players display a heightened sense of emotion. In addition to recognizing
> emotions, Watson is also analyzing crowd noise, players' movements, and
> match data. IBM's Sam Seddon says the company is using machine learning to
> pinpoint scenes after exciting play when athletes show their emotions. "If
> you've got the visual element from the player, and you know that it's a
> tight pressure point in the match, then those are the points that you are
> going to really target in on in the highlights package," he says. Watson
> also is offering a Wimbledon chatbot service via Facebook Messenger, which
> provides fans with access to customized information on scores, news, and
> players.
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