Communications of the ACM
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August 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethics of AI in Asia
How will this differ from Europe and the US?
Public and private actors in Asia are working to define regulatory frameworks, build a trusted AI ecosystem, and maintain harmony between humans and machines.
by MIT Technology Review…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Code It Up
So you think you have a proof that P=NP Randi 2014 documentary source James Randi is a magician who has challenged paranormal claims of all kinds. Today Ken and I want to make a suggestion to those who claim they have proved…
From insideHPC
Bright Reseller Raid Media Systems Targets German Supercomputing Market
Raid Media Systems has become the latest partner to sign up to the Bright Computing Reseller Program. As a reseller, Raid Media Systems has chosen to partner with Bright Computing in order to provide its customers with an easy…
From insideHPC
Professor Michela Taufer to Receive 2019 IBM Faculty Award
Professor Michela Taufer from the University of Tennessee has been selected to receive a 2019 IBM Faculty Award for $20,000 USD. This award is highly competitive and recognizes her leadership in High Performance Computing and…
From insideHPC
Quantum Annealing could help solve fundamental questions in nuclear physics
A new study led by a physicist at Berkeley Lab details how a quantum computing technique called “quantum annealing” can be used to solve problems relevant to fundamental questions in nuclear physics about the subatomic building…
From insideHPC
Xilinx Launches Alveo U50 FPGA Datacenter Accelerator Card
Today Xilinx launched the new Alveo U50 data center accelerator card, the industry’s first low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support. Designed for the datacenter, the Alveo U50 is uniquely designed to supercharge…
From insideHPC
Interactive Supercomputing with Jupyter and DASK
Anderson Banihirwe from NCAR gave this talk at SciPy 2019. "This talk demonstrates how to use Dask and Jupyter on large high-performance computing (HPC) systems to scale and accelerate large interactive data analysis tasks --…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Makes AI Debugging Tool Open Source
And with similarities to Google's What-If tool, Microsoft has made its debugging tool open source. Have not seen this one directly as yet, but this is NOT a No-code solution, likely making it harder for management to understand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Quantum Initiative
Considerable detail at the link on this effort.
The Drive to Quantum Computing
By R. Colin Johnson
July 30, 2019
The U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act signed into law last December mandates a multi-billion-dollar, 10-year effort…
From Schneier on Security
Phone Farming for Ad Fraud
Interesting article on people using banks of smartphones to commit ad fraud for profit. No one knows how prevalent ad fraud is on the Internet. I believe it is surprisingly high -- here's an article that places losses between…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google What-IF Tool for Code Free ML Visualization
Like the idea of visual tools that map with specific process, resource needs and output results. Leads to better understandable and resilient results.
Google's What-If Tool And The Future Of Explainable AI
Kalev Leetaru Contributor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Activity Centric Computing Systems
Task completion and coordination with other agents has become important.
Activity-Centric Computing Systems
From insideHPC
HPE Acquires MapR Business Assets
Today HPE announced it has acquired the business assets of MapR, whose data platform for artificial intelligence and analytics applications is powered by scale-out, multi-cloud and multi-protocol file system technology. This
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Draft Security Feature Recos of IOT
Good to see this moving forward. Essential.
NIST Releases Draft Security Feature Recommendations for IoT Devices
National Institute of Standards and Technology
By Chad Boutin
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM, Chainyard Build Supplier Trust Blockchain
Intriguing play by IBM, using their Hyperledger Blockchain. Would seem also that 'smart contracts' would be natural additions to such an approach, to specify context and domain specific constraints. Note the large number of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Patent Law When AI's Invent
Recently posted about the implications of AI's being allowed to be cited as inventors. The following article in TechExplore further looks at how this could influence patent law, also country by country implications. All in…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans Assisted Cognitively
On assistance and related topics, humans doing more with less. Cognitive limits.
Humans: Doing More With Less
A Talk By Tom Griffiths in The Edge
Imagine a superintelligent system with far more computational resources than
As…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Is Our Future Liquid Cooled?
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the growing trend of liquid cooling in the datacenter. "The new VSC-4 system built by Lenovo checks in at #82 on the TOP500 list and is liquid cooled, leading to a debate on the…
From insideHPC
HPE Speeds Gen10 Servers with Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005
HPE is now shipping HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers with the new Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005, the latest in a growing line of field programmable gate array-based, server-accelerator cards from Intel. "Compared…
From insideHPC
Phison Steps up with PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD solutions
Phison Electronics is showcasing its high performance PCIe Gen4 storage products this week at the Flash Memory Summit. "The Phison E16 provides industry leading performance, capacity and NVMe features required to build the PCIe…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Intel Collaboration to Extend HPC and AI Leadership
Today Intel and Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of HPC and AI to help accelerate solutions for the world’s most challenging problems. Building on the companies…
From Schneier on Security
Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
Siena Anstis, Ronald J. Deibert, John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance systems until we can figure out how to curb human rights abuses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Originated Robotic Delivery
Consider it inevitable, but there are many consequences still not addressed.
Will PepsiCo’s robots replace the pizza delivery guy on college campuses?
By Matthew Stern in Retailwire
There is nowhere the pizza guy is more popular…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GAN's Current and Research Work
Technical but interesting view of the current status, we experimented with GANs for some design-type applications. Emphasizing the 'collaborative' style of such models. Below is a bit fragmented, but still instructive, so…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Augmented Knitting
Combination of design and planning production from templates is interesting. Designing other products by working from basic templates/goals and constraints would be interesting.
AI knitting system designs and creates garments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges of Automation
Former IBMer we worked with writes:
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects. ....
The Challenges of Automation
“Technological…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Muscles
Intelligence for machines, but also superior strength?
Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
New MIT system of contracting fibers could be a boon for biomedical devices and robotics.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toyotas Impressive Self Driving Car
Impressive looking. More examples of self navigation research evolve from major players
Toyota's latest self-driving test car is smarter than ever
Its 'compute box' is small enough to mount against the car's back seat.
We got a…
From insideHPC
The Convergence of HPC and AI
In this special guest feature, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing writes that the convergence of HPC & AI presents new challenges for containers, job scheduling, and system management. "But here’s the rub … traditional HPC applications…