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AWS Launches Nvidia GPU-Driven EC2 P4d Instances for AI, HPC
From insideHPC

AWS Launches Nvidia GPU-Driven EC2 P4d Instances for AI, HPC

Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d Instances powered by Nvidia GPUs with EC2 UltraClusters capability delivering 3xAWS...

New Windows Zero-Day
From Schneier on Security

New Windows Zero-Day

Google’s Project Zero has discovered and published a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver. The exploit doesn’t affect the cryptography...

Leadership by Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Leadership by Algorithm

An interview with David De CremerFrom Knowledge@WhartonArtificial Intelligence Will Change How We Think About LeadershipSupports K@W's, Technology ContentThe increasing...

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 30 – Open-Source Exhibitions with Andreas Matt
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 30 – Open-Source Exhibitions with Andreas Matt

A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast is taken from a video interview...

Salesforce: Mapping Algorithms for Office Reopening
From The Eponymous Pickle

Salesforce: Mapping Algorithms for Office Reopening

Depending on how well it works could be interesting to try.  By Salesforce.  Further calibration with data and results? How different is this than using methods...

Robots Patrolling the Uncanny Valley
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Patrolling the Uncanny Valley

The notion of the 'uncanny valley', further and more widely examined.  Typically the idea has been applied to android robotics, that is robots or even visualizations...

Fugaku in the News: Simulations Show Humidifiers Could Limit COVID-19 Spread
From insideHPC

Fugaku in the News: Simulations Show Humidifiers Could Limit COVID-19 Spread

Scientists using the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Arm-based Fugaku system at Japan’s  Riken Center for Computational Science, have generated findings...

Crowsourcing Smartphone Sensors to Test Infrastructure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowsourcing Smartphone Sensors to Test Infrastructure

Though likely to cause concern over privacy.Motorists' Smartphones May Help Highways Bosses Keep Roads SafeUniversity of BirminghamResearchers at the U.K.’s University...

From Computational Complexity

I polled my class about the election

 In 2016 I had the Sophomore discrete math class do a poll of who they wanted for president.In 2020 I had the  both my  Senior Crypto class and Clyde's Sophomore...

Juniper Research: Industrial IoT Connections to Reach 37B by 2025
From insideHPC

Juniper Research: Industrial IoT Connections to Reach 37B by 2025

Hampshire, UK – 2nd November 2020: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global number of Industrial IoT connections will increase from 17.7 billion...

insideHPC Guide to AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment
From insideHPC

insideHPC Guide to AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment

In this white paper sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a look at AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment where an increasing demand for digital...

Google Health’s human-centred observational study on AI’s real-world problems
From Putting People First

Google Health’s human-centred observational study on AI’s real-world problems

The gulf between the technical brilliance claimed for Google’s deep learning model and its real-world application points to a common problem that has hindered the...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Night of the Ethical Algorithm

Algorithms for the Election Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth are the authors of the book Ethical Algorithms and the The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design....

How will the pandemic impact software programming jobs?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How will the pandemic impact software programming jobs?

Software programming is not for everyone, but among the careers that are mostly unregulated, and thus mostly free from rents, it has consistently been one of the...

Can AI Find Evolving Earthquakes?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can AI Find Evolving Earthquakes?

More advances moving towards closer to rea-time prediction?Technology Finds Long-Hidden Quakes, Possible Clues About How Earthquakes EvolveStanford News, JosieStanford...

Smarter Models Include Uncertainty, Risk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Models Include Uncertainty, Risk

In the earlier days of AI we always included uncertainty and risk models in parallel.  Even if risk was apparently minimal.    This seems to be much less done today...

RiskIQ and Ransomware
From The Eponymous Pickle

RiskIQ and Ransomware

 Useful detail.RiskIQ Has Released Its Corpus of Infrastructure and IOCs Related to Ryuk RansomwareOCTOBER 30, 2020BY TEAM RISKIQRyuk Ransomware has flooded USHowever...

Global Knowledge Research Foundation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Knowledge Research Foundation

My introduction to this group.  Ultimately its about knowledge and its use: In a recent ACM Video Interview   Stephen Ibaraki spoke with Amit Joshi, Director of...

Identifying Asymptomatic Virus from Cough Prints
From The Eponymous Pickle

Identifying Asymptomatic Virus from Cough Prints

 Most interesting, depending upon how well it works in practice.MIT Open Voice Model Used to Identify Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients From Cough Recordings  By BRET...

Virus Tracing Apps have Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virus Tracing Apps have Problems

Privacy, but then what value do they deliver?Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife with Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix ThemThe New York TimesNatasha Singer; Aaron...
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