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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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DOE Funding $29M to Develop Advanced Chemical Sciences Software
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $28.9 million in funding for nine research projects to advance the development of sophisticated software for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Trust in AI
Accurate measures in context would be very useful.NIST Wants to Measure Trust in AI By Wired, June 22, 2021The National Institutes of Standards and Technology...
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Xilinx Announces FPGA EDA Tools with ML
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced Vivado ML Editions, which the company said is the industry’s first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine-learning (ML)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving the Virtual Classroom
Presentation and paper on efforts at improving the virtual classroom.How To Improve the Virtual ClassroomBy University of California, San Diego, June 21, 2021Researchers...
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Stop the Ransomware Pandemic
Excerpt from The Economist via ACM: Stop the Ransomware Pandemic, Start with the Basics By The Economist, June 22, 2021TWENTY YEARS ago, it might have been the...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Test Your Email Provider’s Support for Digital Inclusivity
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Do you know if your email provider is digitally inclusive? Can you send email to and receive email from any valid...
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CPG Adds ML Capabilities to Data Center Battery Monitoring Service
ASHBURN, VA. – June 22, 2020 – CPG, an end-to-end data center technology partner, today unveiled upgrades to its cloud-based Insight for Batteries predictive analytics...
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NVIDIA Launches AI LaunchPad: AI Enterprise Infrastructure
NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA AI LaunchPad, a program delivered through hybrid-cloud providers designed to give enterprises access to NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure...
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DOE: 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Call for Nominations
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which is presented by the Secretary of EnergyDOE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laundry in Space
Former employer activity. Not new, recall some similar activity in the 70s.How do you do laundry in space? NASA taps P&G to find solutionBy Andy Brownfield Dec...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Use Face Masks
Former employer tech activityCircular economy for plasticsFraunhofer, SABIC, and Procter & Gamble join forces in closed-loop recycling pilot project for single-use...
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insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data
This insideHPC technology guide, insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data, discusses how organizations needinsideHPC...
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SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona
Maisons-Laffitte,France and Barcelona, June 22, 2021 – SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low power microprocessor for the European exascale...
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Fugaku in Joint Research for COVID Therapies
Tokyo — June 22, 2021 — Fujitsu Japan Limited today announced a research project leveraging Fugaku, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, to identify small molecule...
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HPE Buys Startup Open Source ML-HPC Platform Determined AI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup with a software stack designed to train AI models...
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Dataiku Launches in AWS Marketplace
NEW YORK — AI and machine learning platform Daitaku announced today that it is available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings...
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Ceph Foundation Announces Formation of Ceph Market Development Group
San Francisco — June 21, 2021 – The Ceph Foundation, dedicated to enabling industry members to collaborate and pool resources to support the Ceph community, today...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Are Arrays So Hard For Beginners?
Beginner programmers often, dare I say usually, struggle with arrays. Sometimes it is hard for experienced programmers like myself to understand why but with years...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Will Offer Onion Routing for iCloud/Safari Users
At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called “iCloud Private Relay.” That’s basically its private version of onion routing...
From Schneier on Security