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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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The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC Government Policy and the ‘Partitioning of the Internet’
All over the world, HPC has burst into geopolitics. HPC – broadly defined here as advanced supercomputing combined with big AI – is at the fault lines of national...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany Says Level 4 Driverless by 2022.
Seems quite broad, but further a large number of commercial vehicles mentioned. Level 4 ... meaning " ... Level 4 is considered to be fully autonomous driving...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing the number of digits of an integer quickly
Suppose I give you an integer. How many decimal digits would you need to write it out? The number ‘100’ takes 3 digits whereas the number ’99’ requires only two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Drones Attack
This will likely be a big piece of the defense and military future.Drones May Have Attacked Humans Fully Autonomously for the First TimeNew Scientist, David Hambling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Interactions with Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality
Will this mean that people will be able to immerse themselves in games and imulation? I am not much of a gamer, but like the idea that people will more realistic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Luaunches a new Operating System: Fuchsia
Interesting. What is it, just a transition for the 'Nest Hub'? Linkey to persist. Lots more at the link, but still a bit unclear. Does this mean that a google...
From insideHPC
ORNL’s Gina Accawi: Designing Software for Manufacturing Cybersecurity
May 27, 2021 — As a computer engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gina Accawi has long been the quiet and steady force behind some of the Department of Energy...
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6 Argonne Researchers Win DOE Early Career Research Program Awards
May 27, 2021 — Argonne scientists Corey Adams, Melina Avila Coronado, Lindsey Bleem, Si Chen, Sheng Di and Xueying Lu are among 83 scientists nationwide to receive...
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Annual OLCF User Meeting Set for June 22–24
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will hold its 17th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excel as a Programming Language
Intriguing Podcast. The mere notion get considerable disdain from coders. But an interesting point is made about the idea.Advancing Excel as a programming language...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Quantum Workspace
Hmmm, why a 'Quantum Age', is it not just a computing age using new tools? But as a structure for training in a new space, OK. Building a Workforce for the ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake Job Offers
No longer in the market, but in between had received a number of 'too good to be true' offers to start employment. Many via Linkedin. Although they look targeted...
From Putting People First
The human factor — why data is not enough to understand the world
In a world shaped by one AI, artificial intelligence, we need a second AI, too — anthropology intelligence, writes Gillian Tett in the Financial Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Predicting Earth Quake Intensity
Predicting earthquake and their intensity was something we proposed some years ago, mentioned here. glad to see the idea taken much further. Looking at this...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA-Industry Committee Announces Virtual Roundtable Series
Created in the fall of 2020, the CRA-Industry standing committee will convene industry partners on computing research topics and connect them with CRA’s academic...
From insideHPC
SDSC Names Interim Director
San Diego — Frank Würthwein, the lead of Distributed High-Throughput Computing at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, has been named SDSC’s interim director effective...
From insideHPC
6,000 GPUs: NERSC Says Perlmutter Delivers 4 Exaflops, Claims Top Spot in AI Supercomputing
Claiming the no. 1 position in AI supercomputing, the U.S. National Energy research Scientific Computing Center today unveiled the Perlmutter HPC system, a beast...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Othello/Reversi for After the APCS Exam
My good friend and former teaching partner, Tom Indelicato posted about his end of year project for his AP CS A student recently. With his permission I share it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Matter for Product Design
With a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns“Programmable matter” technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease...
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