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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Lecture on Deep Learning
Quite good, relatively non technical. Worth a look.Turing LectureDeep Learning for AIBy Yoshua Bengio, Yann Lecun, Geoffrey Hinton from ACMCommunicationsYoshua...
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Matterport for Creating 3D Virtual Tours
Had mentioned I was looking at simplified Lidar Solutions. Here just mentioner to me: Matterport. Below shows some of the technology supported. Examining this...
From insideHPC
DDN Selected by Bytesnet to Provide Differentiated and Customizable ‘Pay-Per-Use’ Storage Services for Data-Intensive Organizations
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 30, 2021 – DDN, an artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced Bytesnet, a Dutch service provider...
From insideHPC
ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 16 projects totaling 6.75ALCF...
From insideHPC
PRACE Summer of HPC 2020 Award Ceremony at ISC
June 30, 2021 — Serge Bogaerts, PRACE Managing Director, announced the PRACE Summer of HPC Awards 2020 to Antonios-Kyrillos Chatzimichail, Igor Abramov, and Josip...
From Putting People First
AI still sucks at moderating hate speech
But scientists are getting better at measuring where each system fails.
From Putting People First
Human behaviour: what scientists have learned about it from the pandemic
Several Covid-19 policies have shown "just how deeply some governments distrust their citizens. As if the virus was not enough, the public was portrayed as an additional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inhalio: Digital Scent as a Service
Recently received an update of this. Previously had examined for retail scent oriented applications as part of our innovation spaces. Impressive new directions...
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Drones for Space Rocks
Many rocks fall, but relatively few are found. A solution? Meteorite-Hunting Drones Could Help Find Freshly Fallen Space Rocks By New ScientistA team of scientists...
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Quantum Safe Trust for Vehicles
Threats of Quantum Powered Cyberattacks, safety of vehicles and their data. A 2019 claim by Google AI on groundbreaking quantum computations, while welcomed by...
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Linking Machine Learning and Quantum Computing
Experimenting with Quantum computers using Machine Learning IBM Releases Qiskit Modules That Use Quantum Computers to Improve MLVentureBeat, Chris O'Brien, April...
From Schneier on Security
More Russian Hacking
Two reports this week. The first is from Microsoft, which wrote: As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealingwrote...
From The Noisy Channel
Using AI to Understand Search Intent
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post advocating the use of AI for query understanding. I argued that holistic query understanding with embeddings and deep learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast food too Slow in Opening Dine-in?
An example of semi-permanent change from COVID? We certainly are doing far more drive through than before the pandemic. Been discussing dynamic for some time...
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Copilot Assistant Coding
Actually did this in the early days, with human co-pilots, but it never took off. Now with secure code more of a necessity, could be useful. This could drive...
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NASA Talent Mapping
Took a number of looks at advanced 'talent mapping' in the enterprise. Now is the time this could be very useful especially if we can measure talent well, predict...
From Schneier on Security
Insurance and Ransomware
As ransomware becomes more common, I’m seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Sujata Banerjee (VMware) and William D. Gropp...
From Computational Complexity
Intersecting Classes
If you have two complexity classes that have complete sets, the intersection might not, for example NP ∩ co-NP. The world of total-function classes acts differently...
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