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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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European HPC Exascale Project DEEP-EST Completed
Jülich/Munich, April 15, 2021 – The project “DEEP Extreme Scale Technologies,” funded by the European Union, has come to a successful conclusion. DEEP-EST started...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Scott Wins a Prize
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense—Roger Penrose Scott Answers Big Questions source Scott Aaronson has just been named the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing...
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PCIe 4.0 Rugged Short-Depth Server Appliance for Edge AI HPC
AI Transportable™ applications such as autonomous vehicles, situational command and control, aerospace, and high-complexity video-based inference and security often...
From Computational Complexity
Ordering Beauty
First, congratulations to fellow complexity theorist and blogger Scott Aaronson for receiving the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for "groundbreaking contributionsMaradona...
From Schneier on Security
DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment
The office of the Director of National Intelligence released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Cybersecurity is covered on pages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IonQ now Supports IBM Qiskit Quantum development kit
Providing a seems another and we assume better means of developing quantum applications. Would be good to compare applications.IonQ now supports IBM’s Qiskit...
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OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology
SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, today announced the successful tape...
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to Hold Virtual User Meeting June 22-24
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Meeting will be held June 22-24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Time. This meeting will be held as a virtual (online...
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Wal-Mart and TikTok
Not a big fan of TikTok, but its still booming. What's Wal-Mart doing with it? Will it last? What will be next? The right influencers in the right context....
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Bob Herbold on the Pandemic Impact
Former Microsoft and Procter & Gamble exec, and my colleague there, Bob Herbold, writes about the Pandemic impact:Bob's Gutsy Leadership BlogThe Pandemic Impact...
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DDN Unveils AI Product Innovations at NVIDIA GTC 2021
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, has announced features for itsA3I (Accelerated, Any...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation
Interesting thought here, how do we do it effectively? Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation By University of UtahApril 13, 2021 in CACM...
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Winner Takes All Effect and Automation
Had not heard it stated that way. But agree, automation is less threat than we think. As is mentioned, we will be building working relationships with our machines...
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At Virtual Nvidia GTC: Today’s Sessions on HPC and AI at Scale
Here’s an overview of HPC-related sessions at Nvidia’s GTC virtual conference today. Note that recording of these sessions can be accessed by conference registrants...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Discovery Cloud
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FBI to Cleanse Microsoft Exchange Servers
Somewhat unusual for FBI to take an effort like this, will see how well it can cleanse the servers. FBI launches operation to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft...
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Research Centers at Cambridge and Durham Universities Add Nvidia, Dell EMC HPC Resources
At GTC this week, Nvidia and Dell EMC released details of HPC installations at two UK academic supercomputing centers to accelerate computing resources at the two...
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Cambridge Quantum Names Prof. Stephen Clark Head of AI
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. ClarkCambridge...
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