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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
Adjusting Algorithms
Algorithm, Malgorithm, Jalgorithm? Fairness in Judgement. Right, algorithm just means a standardized method. Like iany tool can be used or misused. Good piece...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Continues Grab-and-Go Rollouts
Amazon still thinks the 'Go' concept is a good one, perhaps with locational interests, now a roll out in London. Amazon will open the doors to a grab-and-go, checkout...
From insideHPC
Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks
This article describes the extensive evaluation testing of the optimal operational configuration for running Ansys RedHawk-SC Electronic Design Automation (EDA)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Excited for CSTA 2021
As a member of the CSTA Conference Committee, I attended the first of two presenter training sessions today. Wow! CSTA 2021 will be good. Now I have read most of...
From insideHPC
ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Open Sources Hyperledger
Had examined this sometime ago, seems IBM wants it and blockchain to succeed. This will promote it it be be better tested. IBM Donates Code Improvements to Open...
From Schneier on Security
VPNs and Trust
TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country...
From Schneier on Security
Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit
Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – June 2021
We’ve reached the end of another year of programming for ACM-W. And what a year it has been! In spite of the challenges we’ve faced, ACM-W activity worldwide continued...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thursday—June 17th—A Debate on Program Correctness
There are two ways to write error free programs; only the third one works–Alan Perlis Perlis on Coding Joy source Alan Perlis, the first Turing Award winner, summarized...
From insideHPC
Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC
Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Chip Shortages Leading to Fakes
Chip shortages leading to fakes and safety in the operation of systems.The Global Chip Shortage is Creating a New Problem: More Fake Components By ZDNetFrom...
From insideHPC
Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market
San Antonio, TX, June 15 , 2021 – Subzero Engineering, a maker of data center containment solutions, and Armstrong World Industries (AWI), a designer and manufacture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Autonomous Warehouse Robotics
Advances in Amazon Warehouse robotics to improve safety and operations. Note includes autonomous operation.Amazon Details Warehouse Robots, 'Ernie' and 'Bert'CNBC...
From insideHPC
Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit Targets Hyperscaler Data Centers
Intel has unveiled a programmable networking device for hyperscalers and their massive data center infrastructures. Called the Infrastructure Processing Unit and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Space Weather Prediction
Ultimately a very important function, Coronal Mass Ejection is dangerous to many technical functions on earth. Neural methods for pattern analysis for coronal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How long should you work on a problem ?
Lev Reyzin says that working too long on a problem might be unproductive: I, personally, have diminishing (or negative?) returns to my creative work as I explicitly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Based TikTok Says it Will Collect US Biometric Data
See also Bruce Schneier with further comments on this. TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints andBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle