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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
Shrinking BERT Networks to Model Language
Considerable shrinking of neural networks, more likely for applications at the Edge.Shrinking massive neural networks used to model languageA new approach could...
From Schneier on Security
The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
The workshop on Economics and Information Security is always an interesting conference. This year, it will be online. Here’s the program. Registration is free.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Hands Closer to Human
New robotic hands with lots of possibilities for more dexterous manipulation Robot Hands One Step Closer to Human, Thanks to WMG AI Algorithms By University of...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
Clever tactic: This new malware was discovered by researchers at Dutch cyber-security company Sansec that focuses on defending e-commerce websites from digital...
From Schneier on Security
Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
Neat story: German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IRS to Make ID Protection PIN Open to All
Good direction. Now how will it be effectively used? See more detail at the link.IRS to Make ID Protection PIN Open to All in Krebs On SecurityThe U.S. Internal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Orbit in Developer Relations
Read about this in Andreessen Horowitz. About better online communities. Involved in an effort that will need some of this. Investing in Orbit by Martin Casado...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Discusses How it Organizes Information
Below the introduction. Informative.How Google organizes information to find what you’re looking forBy Nick Fox in the Google BlogVice President of Product &When...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Texting to Alexa
Noted for using voice in specific context. Say for the need of privacy in conversation. Amazon now lets you text Alexa on iOS to ask for things instead of only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Smart Things Really Smart?
Interesting challenge. Depends on what 'smart' means. Like what I have often said, its in a 'context'. Smart can be exactly what it needs to be to provideAre...
From insideHPC
Announcing The Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards and GoFundMe Account
Rich Brueckner was one of the most influential (and beloved) figures in high performance computing. As editor-in-chief of insideHPC, he touched thousands of lives...
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Demonstrates Optical Interconnect Solution on GlobalFoundries’ Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Process
Santa Clara, CA, Dec. 2, 2020 –Ayar Labs announced it has successfully demonstrated its patented monolithic electronic/photonic solution on GlobalFoundries’ (GF)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing New ICMI 2021 Blue Sky Papers Track
The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada October 18-22, 2021. ICMI is the premier international...
From insideHPC
Creators of MLPerf Launch MLCommons Consortium for Machine Learning Benchmarks, Metrics, Datasets, Models and Best Practices
SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 3, 2020 – Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons launched an industry-academic partnership to accelerate machine learning innovationCreators...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches Storage Array, Data Management Solutions
Lenovo Data Center Group today launched edge-core-cloud data management solutions with a single set of tools and capabilities. Part of the Lenovo DM Series of storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google General Voice Accessibility
In the Google Blog, a means of more general voice accessibility via voice on the android phone. Now updated. ACCESSIBILITYUse Voice Access to control your Android...
From Schneier on Security
Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software: First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using VisiRule to Create Chatbots
Had been looking for an easy way to create chatbots that include FAQ's. Recalled a company called VisiRule that supported rule-based expert systems. VisiruleChatBot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alphabet's Loon Balloons for Internet Connectivity
Application of the general idea is expanding. Here with autonomous navigation. Alphabet's Loon Balloons in Internet ConnectivityAlphabet’s Loon hands the reins...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing