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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cloud Access for NSF CISE Research
An increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pin Screens to the Walls
Is it the future of display to have information pinned on the wall. Or floating in space?Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to yourLenovo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AI. An Abandonment of Watson?
I see that our interesting correspondent and critic from before the first AI winter, Roger Schank, has posted a note strongly criticizing IBM on AI and cognitive...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Alveo Platform for Networking and AI Video Analytics
SAN JOSE, Feb. 23, 2021 – Addressing the demands of the modern data center, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a range of new data center products andXilinx...
From insideHPC
RISC-V International Unveils Fast Track Architecture Extension Process and Ratifies ZiHintPause Extension
Zurich – Feb. 23, 2021 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and openRISC...
From insideHPC
Semtech to Enable 50Gbps PAM4 Front Haul 5G Wireless Deployment with 5G Front Haul Tri-Edge CDR IC Solution
CAMARILLO, CA, Feb. 23, 2021 –Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today...
From insideHPC
AIOps Company ScienceLogic Raises $105M from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital
Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raisedAIOps...
From Computational Complexity
Good Names and Bad Names of Game Shows and theorems
In my post on Alex Trebek, see here, I noted that Jeopardy! is not a good name for the game show since it doesn't tell you much about the show. Perhaps Answers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing Floating-point Numbers Really Fast in C#
Programmers often write out numbers as strings (e.g., 3.1416) and they want to read back the numbers from the string. If you read and write JSON or CSV files, you...
From Schneier on Security
The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity
Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.” From the introduction: Treating data like it is property fails to recognize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linux and Open Source Go to Mars
Big follower of astronomy and astronautics. Connections to modern computing are also of continued interest. The latest efforts to Mars are instructive. What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Big Quantum Win was a Mistake
Interesting, recall the announcement then, mostly technical points are made here, but worth noting. Not clear then hw this will effect Microsoft's work in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernizing Data Dashboards.
Good thoughts, somewhat obvious, but still useful tips about the ideas involved. Modernizing Data Dashboards. Posted by Technovert Solutions on February 21, 2021...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Crowdsources New Products
Interesting approach will examine further and post here. Thoughts about usefulness?Amazon is using crowdsourcing to create new products by Tom Ryan in Retailwire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Impacting Supply Chains
Good thoughts, all players should examine these methods.Blockchain and RPA Leading Supply Chain Trends in 2021 By Marisa Brown, APQCIt is worrisome to note that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating with Dreaming
Recall our early dream experiments. Could this re-open our sleep learning goals?Scientists Communicated With People While They Were Lucid Dreaming By ShellyWe...
From insideHPC
Octopai Announces Support of Snowflake
Tel Aviv – February 22, 2021 – Octopai, the leader in Automated Data Lineage and Data Discovery, announced today its support and analysis of Snowflake, the fastest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More No and Low Code Emerges
More solutions, but have yet to see them widely used. Would want to see them strongly tested for security issues. Probably open source to allow that? Low-code...
From insideHPC