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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
The Top Five Trends Driving the Need for New HPC/AI System Architectures
Earlier this month Ayar Labs hosted a webinar on the topic of “Disaggregated System Architectures for Next Generation HPC and AI Workloads,” discussing the need...
From insideHPC
Winners of Student Cluster Competition, Gordon Bell Prize Named at SC20
It was awards day at Virtual SC20, and among the most coveted and closely watched of them ate annual SC Student Cluster Competition and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Programming is social
Software programming looks at a glance like work done best done in isolation. Nothing could be further from the truth in my experience. Though you may be working...
From insideHPC
TACC’s Frontera HPC System Expansion for ‘Urgent Computing’ – COVID-19, Hurricanes, Earthquakes
Frontera, deployed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center supercomputer and the ninth fastest HPC system in the world, will receive an expansion to support urgent...
From insideHPC
Atos Launches HPC Software Suites
Paris, November 19, 2020 – Atos today announces its new HPC Software Suites designed to enable users to better manage their supercomputing environments, optimize...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Papers: Artificial Intelligence
As part of the rollout of the 2020 Computing Research Associations (CRA) Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Smart Glasses are for Sale
Recall I have been following the idea of 'smart glasses' for a long time. Since we experimented very early on with prototype glasses to display maintenance diagrams...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Double-blind peer review is a bad idea
When you submit a manuscript to a journal or to a conference, you do not know who reviews your manuscript. Increasingly, due to concerns with biases and homophily...
From Computational Complexity
Vaughan Jones and Kaikoura
Vaughan Jones, one of the greatest mathematicians from New Zealand, passed away on September 6 at 67. Jones is an expert in knot theory among other areas and received...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces 3D Object Detection
Could lead to very interesting applications. More phone based marketing and location possibilities? And another round of complaints like we have seen from face...
From Schneier on Security
Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan
Symantec is reporting on an APT group linked to China, named Cicada. They have been attacking organizations in Japan and elsewhere. Cicada has historically been...
From Schneier on Security
The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On IOT Security: Guidelines for Improvement
As we depend on many new communicating 'things' in our environment, their design and management over time and context must be done better.IoT Security Is a Mess...
From insideHPC
Making AI Accessible to Any Size Enterprise
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and NetApp have teamed up with NVIDIA to discuss how the companies are helping to drive Artificial Intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing the Echo
Fast Company looks at the design and redesign of the Amazon Echo since 2014. Thoughtful examination of how complex consumer design works.Why Amazon radicallyYou...
From Putting People First
Experientia speaks at EFUS webinar on insecurity at night
On 24 November Elena Guidorzi, research unit coordinator of Experientia will speak at the EFUS web conference entitled "Reducing and preventing the feeling of insecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Multi Agent Interacting Systems
Fascinating piece. Aren't we all multi agent interacting systems? Can we effectively model that to understand it in context? Berkeley Bair takes a took. Its...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Complexity Theory
Crazy ideas meet crazed audience Merrill Flood was a mathematician who publicized the Traveling salesman problem TSP back in the 1940s. He says that he found the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain: Its Now about Risk
Now even more so, its about risk. Measuring, predicting and addressing.Supply Chain Risk Management - Reach the Next Level of Supply Chain Maturity Marcus Evans...
From The Eponymous Pickle