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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
Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology
Contributed article, excerpt below in the March 2021 CACM.My first reaction was No! But some very good points made ... 'The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New, Old, Ancient Results
Nonexistence theorems and attempts at lower bounds Cropped from src Joshua Grochow is an assistant professor in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New, Old, Ancient Results
Nonexistence theorems and attempts at lower bounds Cropped from src Joshua Grochow is an assistant professor in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and its Useful Nature as an Asset
Recall this echoes some of our own examination of 'data as an asset'. Thoughtful ideas here but I think it is still useful to consider it as an asset that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Blockchain
Wladawsky talks Blockchain. Good thoughtful piece with lots of backup. How Can Blockchain Become a Truly Transformative Technology?I first became interested inThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scramble for Post Quantum
Moving more rapidly than expected. The Scramble for Post-Quantum CryptographyBy Samuel Greengard , Commissioned by CACM StaffResearchers are working to counter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ring Door Bell Goes Radar
Like some of the directions the doorbell tech is going, getting to be quite common. Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 uses radar for bird’s-eye view of front door activity...
From insideHPC
Fending off Bitcoin Mining HPC Thieves – Idaho National Lab’s ‘Cryptojacking’ Detector
Demand for HPC resources from Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency miners has only increased with the recent explosion in the cryptocurrency’s price – up 65 percent...
From Schneier on Security
Encoded Message in the Perseverance Mars Lander’s Parachute
NASA made an oblique reference to a coded message in the color pattern of the Perseverance Mars Lander ‘s parachute. More information.
From insideHPC
HPE to Build Research Supercomputer for Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology
HPE’s string of HPC contract wins has continued with the company’s announcement today that it’s building a supercomputer for KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Need a Challenge Network
Good thought, agreed, always worked best when challenged. Why You Need a ‘Challenge Network’ in K@WIn the following excerpt from his new book, Think Again, Wharton...
From insideHPC
Multiscale COVID-19 Virus Model Aided by HPC at TACC, PSC, Chicago Research Computer Center
The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced completion of what it said is the first complete, multiscale model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a project that leveraged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real-Time Marker-Less Motion Capture for Animals
Real time feedback for animal movement and posture. Real time Studies of animal Motion by Neural activity.By EPFL (Switzerland)Nik Papageorgiou, December 10, 2020...
From insideHPC
Open Compute Project Foundation Announces the OCP Future Technologies Initiative
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has announced the formation of the OCP Future Technologies Initiative, a formal project within the Foundation whose mission...
From insideHPC
NeoPhotonics 400G ZR Modules Support Extended Operation up to 80C Case Temperatures
SAN JOSE — February 25, 2021 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitization of Creativity and the Maker Movement.
A considerable piece. In particular note the connection to the 'Maker Movement', an approach we were introduced to as early as the 80s. Of course 3D printing...
From insideHPC
RSTOR Updates Software Defined Cloud Platform for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Infrastructures
SARATOGA, Calif. – Feb. 25, 2021 — RSTOR, a software defined cloud platform provider that enables enterprises to manage data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014
Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated)...
From Schneier on Security
National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism
Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog