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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Cell Factory Modeling
Predicting how fast and efficiently enzymes work.ACM TECHNEWSAlgorithm Uncovers Secrets of Cell FactoriesBy Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), September...
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Highlights Risks of Quantum Simulation Technology
Tech Bulletin form ACM Policy Council (TPC) ACM TechBrief Highlights Risks of Quantum Simulation TechnologyACMAugust 2, 2022A technical bulletin from ACM's Technology...
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AI Helped Create a Vaccine
I Was There When: AI Helped Create a VaccineBy In Machines We Trust in ACM OpinionSeptember 1, 2022As soon as the first genetic sequence of the COVID-19 virus was...
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DOE: $23.9M for Data Management and Scientific Data Visualization Research
Sept. 1, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $23.9 million in funding for 10 projects in advanced scientific data management and visualization...
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HPC-AI Chips in the News: NVIDIA, AMD Ensnared in US-China Trade War; Arm Sues Qualcomm
NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US...
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NFTs Targeted
Laundering of assets via NFTs seen. NFTs Increasingly Targeted by CriminalsBy The Wall Street JournalAugust 30, 2022Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic warned...
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Streetlights as Wi-Fi Hotspots
Generally useful? Ultimately automotive application?Streetlight Wi-Fi Hotspots: A Bright Ideain IEEE Spectrum, Charles Q. Choi, August 30, 2022A new algorithm...
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Face Recognition Struggles to Recognize Us After Five Years
Useful indication of how this changesFace Recognition Struggles to Recognize Us After Five YearsNew ScientistMatthew Sparkes, August 24, 2022A test designed by...
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The NIST Process for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Guest post by Jonathan KatzOver the past few months there have been several interesting developments in the NIST post-quantum standardization process.By way ofShor's...
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SiMa.ai Ships ML SoC Platform for Embedded Edge Applications
SAN JOSE — August 30, 2022 — Edge machine learning company SiMa.ai today announced it has begun shipping what the company said is the industry’s first purpose-built...
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Robot Dogs Learning Tough Terrain
Been following this for some time, and potential uses. Robot Dog Learns to Walk Tough Terrain in 20 MinutesNew Scientist, Alex Wilkins, August 26, 2022Researchers...
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UC San Diego Students Team for SC22 HPC Student Cluster Competition
The 2022 Supercomputing Conference (SC) organizers recently announced that a team of students from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Computer Science...
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3D Printable Bioelectronic Inks
Researchers Design Inks for 3D-Printable Wearable Bioelectronics, By Texas A&M University Engineering, August 25, 2022A new class of biomaterial inks developed...
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COPPA and more Online
More on COPPA and updates, protecting children online.ACM NEWSProtecting Children's Privacy Online By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff, August 30, 2022...
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LastPass Hacked
Reasons still unclear.LastPass, Password Manager with Millions of Users, Is HackedThe Wall Street JournalBy Alyssa Lukpat, August 26, 2022On Aug. 25, online password...
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Lenovo HPC Powers SPEChpc™ 2021 with AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ Processors
By: Kevin Dean, Senior HPC & AI Performance Engineer Lenovo; Jimmy Cheng, Advisory Engineer, HW – Server Performance Engineer – Benchmarking, Lenovo; Ramesh Joginpalli...
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OLCF’s Doug Kothe on Pushing Frontier Across the Exascale Line and the Future of Leadership Supercomputers
Everyone involved in the Frontier supercomputer project got a taste of what a moonshot is like. Granted, lives were not on the line with Frontier as they were when...
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Los Alamos, PNNL, Univ. of New Mexico Researchers to Lead $70M DOE HPC Climate Model Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding for seven projects intended to improve climate prediction and aid in the fight against...
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Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
In Google Blog, what and how can we get things done with commands? How will the language models help. Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic...
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