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17/03/2017

HPC Wire
Tiffany Trader
March 14, 2017

A new supercomputing project in Japan is targeting exascale capacity. The project's leader, ExaScaler CEO Motoaki Saito, has founded three high-performance computing firms that will each tackle a key component in the development of an exascale system, including a manycore processor, liquid cooling, and a three-dimensional (3D) multilayer memory system. Keio University professor Tadahiro Kuroda will contribute a high-capacity, low-power 3D integrated circuit he developed, while one of Motoaki's companies will provide liquid carbon fluoride cooling technology. With this approach, the build-out will consist of 18 connected supercomputers supporting a 24-petaflops system to be installed at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology's Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences. Japan News says the development team aims to realize the fastest computing speed by June, "which would make the computer the third-fastest in the world." Junichiro Makino at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2012, says this milestone could have "revolutionary" implications for next-generation supercomputers.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/03/14/new-japanese-supercomputing-project-targets-exascale/

Another Japanese supercomputing project was revealed this week, this one from emerging supercomputer maker, ExaScaler Inc., along and Keio University. The partners are working on an original supercomputer design with exascale aspirations.

17/03/2017

Computerworld
Patrick Thibodeau
March 15, 2017

High-performance computing (HPC) experts at the U.S. National Security Agency and the Department of Energy warn of the high probability that China will assert global domination of the supercomputing field as soon as 2020 without an aggressive increase in U.S. investment. Their report speculates China's ascension not only imperils national security, but also U.S. leadership in high-tech manufacturing. The report notes China's 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight system is comprised of "homegrown" elements, and is used for cutting-edge research. Hyperion Research's Steve Conway says the report is a wake-up call for government officials about "the dangers of taking U.S. HPC leadership for granted when other nations, particularly China, are intent on seizing global leadership of the market for supercomputers." The report also notes China's HPC investments are designed to improve the country, raise its population out of poverty, and establish a world-leading economic power.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3180984/high-performance-computing/spy-agency-doe-see-china-nearing-supercomputing-leadership.html

China's computing efforts are a threat to U.S. national security and may undermine profitable parts of the U.S. economy, a new report warns.

17/03/2017

Naming Computers Endangers Privacy, Say 'Net Standards Boffins
The Register (UK)
Richard Chirgwin
March 14, 2017

A group of advocates for Internet standards contend an overabundance of online protocols disclose enough information to make hostnames a privacy risk. "It is common practice to use the hostname without further qualification in a variety of applications from file sharing to network management," they note. "Hostnames are typically published as part of domain names and can be obtained through a variety of name lookup and discovery protocols." In a paper, the team says experiments at an Internet Engineering Task Force meeting demonstrated that with sufficient hostnames in a database and access to other datasets, "the identification of the device owner can become trivial given only partial identifiers in a hostname." Protocols they identified as leaking hostnames include the dynamic host configuration protocol, various aspects of the domain name system, link-local multicast name resolution, and NetBIOS over TCP. They suggest applying MAC address randomization principles to hostnames.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/14/naming_computers_endangers_privacy/

'Richard's iPhone' could be anybody's, but it's easy to find out which Richard's it is

17/03/2017

The Conversation
Megan Squire
March 9, 2017

There is active research transpiring in the area of unknowable password development, with Elon University professor Megan Squire citing several notable projects. Researchers at California State Polytechnic University in 2016 proposed a solution that measures a person's unique brain chemistry response while listening to their choice of soothing music. Squire notes this biometric response is incorporated into the user's login process. If a user is under stress, they cannot relax enough to match their previously measured "chill" state, and the login will not go through. Meanwhile, Google's Project Abacus proposes replacing the traditional password with a Trust Score, a proprietary blend of identifiable characteristics determined by Google. The score includes biometric factors such as typing patterns, walking speed, voice patterns, and facial expressions. "If the Trust Score falls below a certain threshold, say by observing a strange typing pattern or an unfamiliar location, the system will require the user to enter additional authentication credentials," Squire says.

https://theconversation.com/why-we-should-not-know-our-own-passwords-73747

As searches of smartphones and other digital devices at US borders become more common, can research and computer science help protect travelers' privacy?

17/03/2017

HKBU eNews
March 6, 2017

Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University have developed "lip motion password" (lip password), new technology that utilizes a person's lip motions to create a password. The system verifies a user's identity by simultaneously matching the password content with the underlying behavioral characteristics of lip movement. The researchers say the technique has advantages over conventional security access control methods--a lip password can be used for speaker verification because it can detect and reject a wrong password spoken by the user or the correct password spoken by an imposter, while verification based on a combination of lip motions and password content ensures that access control is twice as secure. In addition, lip movements are less susceptible to background noise and distance, and can be used by the speech-impaired. A user also can easily reset the lip password to strengthen security, and there is no language boundary.

http://hkbuenews.hkbu.edu.hk/?t=enews_details/1758&acm=50_726

HKBU scholar invents world’s first “lip password”: A patented double security system for identity authentication 浸大研發全球首創「唇語密碼」﹕雙重安全身份認證系統

08/03/2017

How MIT's New AI System Lets You Control a Robot With Your Mind
TechRepublic
Hope Reese
March 6, 2017

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Boston University have devised a system that uses brain-signal feedback via electroencephalogram to control a robot and correct errors mid-task. Experiments involved a Baxter robot responding to human commands by picking up either paint cans or wires and sorting them into proper bins. The real-time interface monitors brain waves in 10 to 30 milliseconds, and the controller's transmission of an "error-related potential signal" when they see the robot making a mistake prompts its machine-learning algorithms to sense and correct the error. MIT CSAIL's Stephanie Gil says this breakthrough demonstrates that natural thought processes can control robots, which means humans do not have to be "trained" to think in any prescribed way. Gil notes the system could find potential use in factories "where the more dangerous tasks can be performed by robots under the supervision of a human operator."

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-mits-new-ai-system-lets-you-control-a-robot-with-your-mind/

A new machine learning system developed by MIT and Boston University offers a feedback system for humans to correct robot mistakes using brain waves.

08/03/2017

Robots Could Look, Feel "Human" on the Outside
Wireless Design Magazine
Michael Luciano
March 7, 2017

Researchers at the University of Oxford in the U.K. say technology currently is available to enable robots to "wear" human tendons, muscle, and skin. The researchers suggest robots could mold these human tissues as grafts before they are transplanted onto human patients. They say humanoid robots could play a major role in helping people prone to injuring their muscles, tendons, and skin, and propose a "humanoid-bioreactor system" that mimics the human body in framework, dimensions, and mechanics. The grafts would be placed over the robot's endoskeleton, and as the robot interacts with its environment, the grafts would experience natural strains and twists as if they grew on a human body. The researchers say the system could enable patients who need new tissue to interact with the robot that is wearing their future grafts, and it could be the basis for future "biohybrid humanoids."

https://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/blog/2017/03/robots-could-look-feel-human-outside

For decades, robots (namely humanoid) have captivated the imaginations of writers, scientists, and general public. They’ve been subjects of science fiction flicks like the Terminator, I-Robot, and Robocop - just to mention a few...

08/03/2017

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, fossBytes is sharing you an enriching infographic of the women who totally rocked at science

07/03/2017

As we start to 3D-print everything -- including houses, of all things -- it's pretty impressive that a company built one in just 24 hours.

Located in Russia, this 400-square-foot home (37 square meters) was built in just a day, at a cost of just over $10,000.

http://mashable.com/2017/03/03/3d-house-24-hours.amp

03/03/2017

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03/03/2017

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03/03/2017

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
— Richard Dawkins