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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
AWS and Intel Announce Gaudi (Habana)-based EC2 Instances for AI Training
As customer validations go, it’s safe to say AWS is at the – *cough* – high end of any vendor’s wish list. So it’s understandable Intel is crowing today about a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2020 AAAS Fellows Announced
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) just announced its 2020 Fellows! The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams to be Enhanced for Business Plays
Been looking for ways that the now numerous collaborative systems will really improve task and goal oriented business process. Its still mostly the basics. Very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Trainium Chip For Cloud ML
Cute name, new to me. Another example of the hardware linking with the software methods for driving AI. What improvements can we expect, and where?Amazon debuts...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Do I Care About This Program I am Coding?
Why do we program? Well, for some of us it is because we get paid to write code. For some it is part of our learning experiences. For a few it is the fun of it....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holiday Shopping in 2020
Based on a number of studies. Will be interesting to see how this plays out after some normalcy returns.Holiday shopping in 2020Consumers, longing for normalcy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Interview by Adam Gordon Bell
A few weeks ago, Adam Gordon Bell had me on his podcast. You can listen to it. Here is the abstract: Did you ever meet somebody who seemed a little bit different...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Hyperion’s Earl Joseph on the High Cost and High Potential of HPC Taking on ‘National Problems’
Earl Joseph, CEO of HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, has been working in and scrutinizing HPC for decades, first on the vendor side and later as the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Templates for Computerized Robot Design
Seems a useful approach as we use robot solutions for more applications. Includes both physical designs and control programming. And Optimization to tasks involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four Stages of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
A good intro look at RPA from DSC. Below the intro, more at the link. A good place to start with AI oriented automation. Also not emphasized enough. I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Plans to Deliver Quantum Safe Crypto in Cloud
Much more at the link. Available at all scales, speeds, needs?IBM Cloud Delivers Quantum-Safe Cryptography and Hyper Protect Crypto Services to Help Protect Data...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Java Buffer types versus native arrays: which is faster?
When programming in C, one has to allocate and de-allocate memory by hand. It is an error prone process. In contrast, newer languages like Java often manage their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Watch Plenary Presentations from the CCC’s Visioning Workshop on Reversible Classical Computing
In early October the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a virtual workshop on Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need the Right Data, Methods and the Willingness to use them
Challenges and Dilemmas in contextChina's Surveillance State Sucks Up Data. U.S. Tech Is Key to Sorting ItThe New York Times By Paul Mozur; Don ClarkChips from...
From Schneier on Security
Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
Many systems are vulnerable: Researchers at the time said that they were able to launch inaudible commands by shining lasers — from as far as 360 feet — at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safer Navigation in Unknown Territory
Key aspect of safer navigation .... dealing with uncertainty in unknown territory.ML Guarantees Robots' Performance in Unknown TerritoryPrinceton Engineering News...
From Schneier on Security
Check Washing
I can’t believe that check washing is still a thing: “Check washing” is a practice where thieves break into mailboxes (or otherwise steal mail), find envelopes...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 2
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 Computational Complexity
James Randi, Magicians-Author-Skeptic, passed away at the age of 92
James The Amazing Randi died on October 20, 2020, at the age of 92. He is survived byhis husband Jose Alvarez. His Wikipedia page is here A few Randi Points: 0)...
From My Biased Coin