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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
Arm Moves Production-Level EDA to the Cloud with the Help of AWS
The following is a blog announcement from Arm: Released in February, the Arm Cortex-M55 CPU became a milestone for the Arm ecosystem because it gave hardware and...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Launches AI, HPC Storefront on AWS Marketplace
Nvidia has issued a blog announcing the availability of more than 20 NGC software resources for free in AWS Marketplace, targeting deployments in healthcare, conversational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pythagorean Theorem Day Programming Project
I’ve been doing little programming projects for my own amusement. I thought about doing Advent of Code like the cool kids are (Looking at you Mike Zamansky who...
From Schneier on Security
NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Musings on the Goals of High School Computer Science Education
Recent conversations on Twitter and Facebook have had me thinking about the goals of teaching computer science in high school. There is no single goal and it probably...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Request for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) invites proposals for visioning activities that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing...
From insideHPC
DDN’s Storage Adopted for “AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure” Supercomputer in Japan
Chatsworth, CA — DDN, provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and data management software and hardware solutions enabling Intelligent Infrastructure, today announced...
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AMAX Extends Line of Workstations to Support Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs
Fremont, CA, December 15, 2020 – AMAX’s HPC and AI Solution Group announced that it is now offering a wide selection of AceleMax workstations for AI, renderingAMAX...
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Atos GPU-Accelerated Quantum System to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Dublin and Paris – 17 December 2020 – Atos today announces it will deliver its first GPU-accelerated Atos Quantum Learning Machine Enhanced (Atos QLM E), the world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Encourage Risk-Taking Behavior in Humans
Fascinating premise, but highly context dependent, would not go into a project with this idea strongly held. Has some relationship to the 'Media Equation' concept...
From insideHPC
An Update from Women in HPC – Expanding Membership and Mission
In this interview, we hear from two leaders of Women in HPC, the worldwide organization that encourages, mentors and supports women and addresses gender issuesAn...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Database and Theory
A dean of engineering Jennifer Widom was appointed as the Dean of Engineering at Stanford not long ago. No doubt her research in databases and her teaching played...
From Schneier on Security
More on the SolarWinds Breach
The New York Times has more details. About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update – a Trojan horse of sorts – that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Powers of Persuasion
The below was published in Foreign Policy mag.. Also in Schneier's blog here, which should have its own stream of comments. Consider implications for advertising...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 4
In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal Social Selling Platform
Some advances in Beauty care selling strategy.L’Oreal Invests in Social Selling Platform as Part of E-Com StrategyBy CGT Staff As part of its acceleration strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Homomorphic Encryption Environment
More on what IBM is doing in the space of 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption', which is now including 'quantum safe' capabilities. Here is a definition of that capability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Remote Work
From McKinsey: What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countriesThe future of remote work is likely to be hybrid in the wake...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccinated? Show us Proof.
In the NY Times, Interesting positioning. To travel, for work, for school? To get services? To Survive? Obvious, or chilling? Vaccinated? Show Us YourThe...
From insideHPC