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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 insideHPC
Lenovo Introduces As-a-Service Solution for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix
April 20, 2021 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) with Nutanix announces an As-a-Service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Research Allocates Ad Funding (without AI)
Struck me because we did something similar and also quite different for advertising fund allocation very early on. We the results of integer optimization models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Driving from a Different Contextual View
From the most recent CACM Mag. An Arab oriented view of the problem. Instructional.Autonomous Driving in the Face of Unconventional Odds By Hesham M. Eraqi...
From Schneier on Security
Biden Administration Imposes Sanctions on Russia for SolarWinds
On April 15, the Biden administration both formally attributed the SolarWinds espionage campaign to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and imposedNew...
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South Partner on Logistics Optimization
Canberra, Australia and Montevideo, Uruguay, April 19, 2021 — Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South today announced a partnership to jointly develop and market complementary...
From insideHPC
SDSC, Core Scientific in HPC Composable Partnership to Extend ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has announced a partnership with Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for...
From insideHPC
May 1 Deadline ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Nominations are open (link to form is below) for the ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, which honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A trichotomy of intellectual activity
I like to separate intellectual work among three categories: Emulation: the reproduction or direct application of existing ideas. Most academic work and maybe most...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Scholarships Update
The pandemic is not over and we are all subject to its consequences. Travelling is still a dream these days. Who could foresee that the world would look so big...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – April 2021
by Jodi Tims, ACM-W Chair “There is no such thing as a free lunch” – or so the saying goes. In spring of 2012, I accepted the invitation of Gloria Townsend, then...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarships Looking Forward
by Viviana Bono (chair of the ACM-W scholarship programme) The pandemic is not over and we are all subject to its consequences. Travelling is still a dream these...
From Apophenia
The Muddled Speech of Numbers: Blood clots, COVID-19 vaccines, and statistical risk
Earlier this week, the CDC paused the roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination after 6 women experienced serious blood clots. Their caution has merit...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 33 – Health Informatics with Katie Siek (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electrified Urban Transport
Recall we experimented with Segways in our innovation center, and observed them being used in locations like the grocery store 'Jungle Jims'. Here more about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Army Studies Real Time Conversation
Considerable, interesting piece on the topic. Leads to the open question about how we converse with our robot assistants. And leads on to other kinds of hybrid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Work Disrupting
Microsoft writes on the Next Great Disruption, interesting stats and more, at the link;The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?Over the past year,...
From insideHPC
UK Intervenes in Nvidia Acquisition of Arm Ltd.
Even as Nvidia announced its new “Grace” Arm CPU for AI and HPC last week, the UK government this morning issued a “public interest intervention” notice that targets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laugh More, Lead Better
Recall some of our own experiments in humor-augmented management. Laugh more, lead better in McKinseyNaomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman, lecturers at Stanford...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investing in Eco
How can more people become involved in Crypto?Investing in Eco, Cryptoby Katie Haun and Arianna Simpson in Andreessen HorowitzOne of the challenges in any new...
From Computational Complexity