Google workloads for consumer devices: mitigating data movement bottlenecks Boroumand et al., ASPLOS'18 What if your mobile device could be twice as fast on common tasks, greatly improving the user experience, while at the same time significantly extending your battery life? This is the feat that the authors of today’s paper pull-off, using a technique … Continue reading Google workloads for consumer devices: mitigating data movement bottlenecks
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Securing wireless neurostimulators
Securing wireless neurostimulators Marin et al., CODASPY'18 There’s a lot of thought-provoking material in this paper. The subject is the security of a class of Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) called neurostimulators. These are devices implanted under the skin near the clavicle, and connected directly to the patient’s brain through several leads. They can help to … Continue reading Securing wireless neurostimulators
PrivacyGuide: towards an implementation of the EU GDPR on Internet privacy policy evaluation
PrivacyGuide: Towards an implementation of the EU GDPR on Internet privacy policy evaluation Tesfay et al., IWSPA'18 (Note: the above link takes you to the ACM Digital Library, where the paper should be accessible when accessed from the blog site. If you’re reading this via the email subscription and don’t have ACM DL access, please … Continue reading PrivacyGuide: towards an implementation of the EU GDPR on Internet privacy policy evaluation
End of Term
We've reached end of term again, and The Morning Paper will be taking a two-week break, beginning again on Monday 16th April. I hope you enjoyed the selections from the last three months. So much great research, it's hard to highlight just a few! But in case you missed them, here's a small selection covering … Continue reading End of Term
The surprising creativity of digital evolution
The surprising creativity of digital evolution: A collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities Lehman et al., arXiv 2018 Today’s paper choice could make you the life and soul of the party with a rich supply of anecdotes from the field of evolutionary computation. I hope you get to go … Continue reading The surprising creativity of digital evolution
Adversarial patch
Adversarial patch Brown, Mané et al., arXiv 2017 Today’s paper choice is short and sweet, but thought provoking nonetheless. To a man with a hammer (sticker), everything looks like a hammer. We’ve seen a number of examples of adversarial attacks on image recognition systems, where the perturbations are designed to be subtle and hard to … Continue reading Adversarial patch
Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically
Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically Hestness et al., arXiv, Dec.2017 With thanks to Nathan Benaich for highlighting this paper in his excellent summary of the AI world in 1Q18 This is a really wonderful study with far-reaching implications that could even impact company strategies in some cases. It starts with a simple question: "how … Continue reading Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically
Anna: A KVS for any scale
Anna: A KVS for any scale Wu et al., ICDE'18 This work comes out of the RISE project at Berkeley, and regular readers of The Morning Paper will be familiar with much of the background. Here’s how Joe Hellerstein puts it in his blog post introducing the work: As researchers, we asked the counter-cultural question: … Continue reading Anna: A KVS for any scale
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity Bagrow et al., arVix 2017 If I know your friends, then I know a lot about you! Suppose you don’t personally use a given app/service, and so the provider doesn’t have data on you directly. However, many of your friends do use the app/service, and there’s … Continue reading Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
Tracking ransomware end-to-end
Tracking ransomware end-to-end Huang et al., IEEE Security & Privacy 2018 With thanks to Elie Bursztein for bringing this paper to my attention. You get two for the price of one with today’s paper! Firstly, it’s a fascinating insight into the ransomware business and how it operates, with data gathered over a period of two … Continue reading Tracking ransomware end-to-end
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