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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
DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Always intriguing, how can robotic systems autonomously navigate complex and messy environments, like virtual tunnels, caves, underground urban environments, or...
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DOE Announces $29 Million for Data Analysis Tools
March 26, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $29 million to develop new tools to analyze massive amounts of scientific information, including...
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HPC User Forum: Virtual Event Coming Up in May
The HPC User Forum has been reconfigured as virtual events for 2021 and registration is now open for the May meeting at: www.hpcuserforum.com or directly at: https...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chipotle Wants to use Autonomous Nuro Delivery
Surprising to me, given the number of delivery services out there. Note the use of Nuro, which many retailers have tested. Still...
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Preparing for Exascale: ALCF’s Aurora Early Science Program and Visualizing Cancer’s Spread
Scientists are preparing a cancer modeling study to run on Argonne’s upcoming Aurora supercomputer before it goes online in 2022. The U.S. Department of Energy’s...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Congrats Avi and Laci on the Abel Prize
The joy of knowing, understanding, and creating is common to all the sciences.—Vera Sós. Dorit Aharonov is a researcher in quantum computation. She was a Ph.D....
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José Correia, University of Porto, Wins PRACE Best Poster Award at EuroHPC Summit
PRACE has selected the winner of the PRACE Best Poster Award at PRACEdays21 during the EuroHPC Summit Week 2021 Digital from 22 to 26 March. The winner is JoséJos...
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Intel Announces 5 CERN-Argonne oneAPI Challenge Winners
Intel has announced the winners of the Great Cross-Architecture Challenge, a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Argonne...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Potato Masher
A squid potato masher for only $11.50. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Weapons Systems
Lukasz Olejnik has a good essay on hacking weapons systems. Basically, there is no reason to believe that software in weapons systems is any more vulnerability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lip Reading Software for Messaging
Intriguing idea. An air gap indeed, but secure? Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure MessagesUniversity of California News, Lorena...
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Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?
The considerable challenge. Adaptable workers, processes and systems will be required.Technology Will Create Millions of Jobs. The Problem Will Be to Find Workers...
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cPacket Networks Delivers 100Gbps Packet Capture and Analytics for Network Observability
SAN JOSE – cPacket Networks, a leading provider of intelligent observability for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks, today announced a new addition to its cStor...
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Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics
An local example of the use of quantum simulation.UC Chemists Use Supercomputers to Understand SolventsUniversity of Cincinnati News, Michael Miller, March 19,University...
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Enhancing Exoskeletons
Interesting approaches to add AI to exoskeletal robotics solutions. Broad applications?Engineers Combine AI, Wearable Cameras in Self-Walking Robotic Exoskeletons...
From Computational Complexity
The key to my Taylor series problem: Buddy can you spare a penny, nickel, dime, or quarter
In my last blog post I posed a question about finding the coeff of x^100 in a particular Taylor Series. The question and answer are given here:The key to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Lookout for Metrics
This was just pointed out to me today 'Amazon Launches Lookout for Metrics in AWS '. As described this seems quite useful. Detecting anomalies can be doneAmazon...
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Battlefield History Training and Simulation
Certainly not a new thing, saw and participated in such wargaming simulations as early as the late 70's with very advanced graphics. But was clearly not whatVirtual...
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Aliro Quantum Partners with HQAN to Build Distributed Quantum Networks
BOSTON, March 24, 2021 – Aliro Quantum and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN) have joined forces inAliro...
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