NTT Research, a division of NTT announced that members of its Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab authored or co-authored 17 papers that are being delivered at Crypto 2022, one of the leading international conferences on cryptologic research. A paper co-authored by CIS Lab Director Brent Waters won the event’s Best Paper Award, his second such award in the past three years. In addition, NTT Corporation and NTT Social Informatics Laboratories contributed another six papers. Organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), this year’s hybrid event will take place in Santa Barbara, August 13-18. NTT Research is one of the conference’s eight gold-level sponsors. NTT Research and NTT Corporation Engage in Breakthrough Research at Crypto 2022 (aithority.com)

Could analog artificial intelligence (AI) hardware – rather than digital – tap fast, low-energy processing to solve machine learning’s rising costs and carbon footprint? Researchers say yes: Logan Wright and Tatsuhiro Onodera, research scientists at NTT Research and Cornell University, envision a future where machine learning (ML) will be performed with novel physical hardware, such as those based on photonics or nanomechanics. These unconventional devices, they say, could be applied in both edge and server settings. How analog AI hardware may one day reduce costs and carbon emissions | VentureBeat

Understanding this breakthrough requires a fair amount of background. Most readers will know that a quantum advantage is when a quantum computer answers a problem with a dramatically better runtime than a classical computer and that verifiability means it is easy to check that the answer is correct. The structure that is mentioned in the title of the paper refers to the distinction between periodic functions and random functions. The former are important to famous quantum algorithms such as Shor’s, while the latter are important in cryptography. The authors of the paper devised their own unusual problem to which several valid answers are possible. They considered a quantum processor that can give a superposition of inputs to a random oracle function and a normal computer that can only access the function classically. They showed that this setup produces a verifiable quantum advantage despite there not being any structure in the problem that the quantum computer could exploit. Research Roundup for July 2022 – Quantum Computing Report

The recent attacks against critical infrastructures have led to new approaches to security solutions, such as Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering. Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering, or CCE, is an approach for safeguarding critical infrastructure systems. To put it briefly, CCE is about imagining the worst possible outcome of a cyber threat perpetrator, and then building a non-cyber or physical mitigation to lessen the possibility of a disaster occurring. https://cybermagazine.com/network-security/how-cce-brings-changes-to-securing-critical-infrastructure

Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices. Reliable, compact, durable, and efficient, acoustic devices harness mechanical motion to perform useful tasks. A prime example of such a device is the mechanical oscillator. When displaced by a force – like sound, for instance – components of the device begin moving back-and-forth about their original position. https://news.stanford.edu/2022/04/21/new-hardware-integrates-mechanical-devices-quantum-tech/

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, appointed Dr. Al Emondi as its head of partner strategy. Emondi joined NTT Research in March 2022 on a contract basis as part of its leadership advisory team. He is also president and chief executive officer of Piontier, LLC, a technology development and neurotech product line consultancy. https://www.enterpriseai.news/2022/05/10/ai-career-notes-may-2022-edition/

Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices. Reliable, compact, durable, and efficient, acoustic devices harness mechanical motion to perform useful tasks. A prime example of such a device is the mechanical oscillator. When displaced by a force – like sound, for instance – components of the device begin moving back-and-forth about their original position. Creating this periodic motion is a handy way to keep time, filter signals, and sense motion in ubiquitous electronics, including phones, computers, and watches. https://scienmag.com/new-hardware-integrates-mechanical-devices-into-quantum-tech/