Los Alamos works to fight deepfakes
It's a growing trend popping up all over the internet, and now New Mexico researchers at one of our national labs are creating software to help detect it.
You've probably seen them, and might not even know it. They're called deepfakes.
They "are an emerging type of media, that have emerged in the last couple years that involve the use of artificial intelligence technology to create images or videos or other media that are not realistic but look very realistic to humans," said Juston Moore, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (full story)
Study predicts more dominant effect of extreme drought on plants
A study, reported recently in Nature Climate Change, reveals that the effect of extreme drought on plants will become increasingly dominant under future climate change.
"Even though plants can, in many cases, benefit from increased levels of carbon dioxide that are predicted for the future atmosphere, the impact of severe drought on destroying these plants will be extreme, especially in the Amazon, South Africa, Mediterranean, Australia, and southwest USA," said Chonggang Xu, the study's lead author, from Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Full story)
Announcements from SC19
Eideticom NoLoad CSP, Eideticom Introduction image.
Eideticom and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the results of a collaboration to develop the world’s first NVMe-based compressed parallel filesystem.
The company says this high-performance Lustre/ZFS-based parallel filesystem leverages Eideticom’s NoLoad, an NVMe-based, Computational Storage Processor (CSP) that offers high performance and efficiency benefits for High Performance Computing .
The collaborative effort was sponsored under LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3). (Full story)
Should Santa deliver by drone?
Coordinated vehicle/drone delivery to a
grid of locations, LANL image.
A new routing algorithm anticipates the day trucks and drones cooperate to drop packages at your doorstep quickly and efficiently. “People have considered combinations of ground vehicles and drones for deliveries in the past,” said study coauthor Kaarthik Sundar of the Information Systems and Modeling group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, “but they focused on trucks that would move from one point to the next, park while the drones visited various nearby locations, and then wait for the drones to return before moving on. We instead propose solutions for a truck that moves continuously, while a drone flies out and returns to the truck as it proceeds along its route.” (Full story)
Also from the Reporter this week:
Chemist Jennifer Hollingsworth named AAAS Fellow
Jennifer Hollingsworth, LANL photo.
Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist Jennifer A. Hollingsworth is being honored as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her work in materials chemistry.
“We’re thrilled that Jennifer is receiving this well-deserved honor and joining the ranks of Los Alamos staff that are AAAS Fellows. Not only is Jennifer an outstanding researcher but also she is deeply committed to community engagement and STEM education,” said John Sarrao, Los Alamos deputy director for Science, Technology & Engineering. (Full story)
Building a workforce, one intern at a time
Intern Mario Martinez is participating in
the PILAS program, SF New Mexican photo.
The PILAS program was started with $40,000 from Los Alamos National Security to pay first-semester student salaries, followed by $40,000 from the Santa Fe Community College Foundation for the second semester. The recently completed third semester was funded with $40,000 from the Española-based Regional Development Corp., which is largely funded by LANL operator Triad National Security LLC. The SFCC foundation is funding the spring semester for $40,000 with an additional $10,000 from Triad. (Full story)
