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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
Germany to Support Quantum Computing with €2 Billion
Germany to Support Quantum Computing with €2 BillionU.S. News & World Report, Michael Nienaber, May 11, 2021Germany's economy and science ministries announced an...
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Computing History: Looms and
Just a bit of history. Mostly pictures, at the link, but great if you were unaware of the background. BLOG@CACMCharles Babbage and the Loom By Herbert Bruderer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborating Robotic Teams
Continuing to look at this space, now that robotics is getting more advanced, the potential expands. We examined some very early warehouse management approaches...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings
Suppose that you give me two ASCII strings having the same number of characters. I wish to compute efficiently the number of matching characters (same position,...
From Schneier on Security
Double-Encrypting Ransomware
This seems to be a new tactic: Emsisoft has identified two distinct tactics. In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data...
From insideHPC
OLCF Releases Storage Specs for Frontier Exascale
A newly enhanced I/O subsystem will support the nation’s first exascale supercomputer, the HPE Cray Frontier system, and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility...
From insideHPC
Purdue University Seeing New Opportunities for Innovation with Cloud Technology Using Azure’s AMD EPYC™ Processor-based HBv3 Instances
In this sponsored article, Preston Smith, Director of Research Services and Support at Purdue University, discusses how Purdue University's community cluster program...
From insideHPC
International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC Returns to Cetraro, Italy July 26-30
May 20, 2021 – The International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC – State of the Art, Emerging Disruptive Innovations and Future Scenarios – which had to be cancelled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Public Interest Technologist?
I happened on this description and supporting information in Bruce Schneier's blog on security. Liked the idea. A related discussion had come up when some colleagues...
From insideHPC
Teratec Forum June 22: Europe on Way to ‘Hybrid Qomputing’
This Teratec workshop will demonstrate that the next step in high performance computing is the introduction of quantum accelerators (quantum processing units, in...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Introduces Liquid Cooling Solutions for Demanding Systems
San Jose, May 20, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology solutions,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Determines Research Impact
Good use example made here, note training made on key metadata. Relatively straight forward.Using ML to Predict High-Impact ResearchMIT News, Becky Ham May 17...
From insideHPC
Summit Supercomputer Helps Crack Code to Signature Superconductor ‘Kink’
May 19, 2021 — Scientists have long been trying to understand the behavior of superconductors, materials that have zero electrical resistance when they reach sufficiently...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky at AAMAS 2021
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent...
From Schneier on Security
Bizarro Banking Trojan
Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets. …the program can be delivered in a couple of ways — either via malicious...
From Computational Complexity
Emerging from the Pandemic
The City of Chicago yesterday agreed with the latest CDC guidelines that those of us fully vaccinated no longer have to wear masks in most settings. Lollapalooza...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Google is Emphasizing in AI
Good overview of areas Google is working and emphasizing from Google I/O. Instructive. Details at the link. Not heavily technical. 11 ways we're innovating with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Timeline for Quantum Computing
Monte Carlo methods are where speed is needed. And in theory Quantum Computing could get us there. Still some nagging issues exist. The Timeline for Quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Teaching Itself
Its al about setting goals, metagoals in the right context. Why AI That Teaches Itself to Achieve a Goal Is the Next Big Thingby 7wData April 24, 2021 by Kathryn...
From insideHPC