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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
Waymo Self-Driving Stats Revealed
Quite impressive. 61 million miles, 21 months, 47 collisions and near misses. By far most caused by other cars. No one seriously injured. Better than human....
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Dell, NetApp, IBM Lead Coldago Research’s File Storage Map for 2020
Coldago Research, a market research and analysis firm, released today its 2020 edition of its map for file storage (see below) in which 31 vendors were examined...
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Five Argonne Researchers Named 2020 Distinguished Fellows
Five leading researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been recognized as Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the highest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garbage in - Garbage Forever?
Of course the well known phrase is applicable to many kinds of 'intelligence', analytics, AI and forecasting and inference. Here we just make sure it goes beyond...
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Spying via Body Movements on Video calls
Anther example of patterns from one kind of transmission (body movement) to another kind (typing) that could leak specific information. In the 70s we worked similar...
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Robotic Ships
Looked at robotic ships for a supply chain project now sometime ago there and were movements then. See the tag re 'autonomous ships'. IBM was involved. Then...
From Schneier on Security
The Legal Risks of Security Research
Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published “A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research.” From a summary: Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking...
From insideHPC
Flow Science Announces FLOW-3D HYDRO CFD for Water & Environmental Industry
Santa Fe, October 29, 2020 – Flow Science has launched FLOW-3D HYDRO, a CFD modeling solution for the civil and environmental engineering industry. FLOW-3D HYDRO...
From insideHPC
German Climate Computing Center Picks StrongLink for 150 PB Data Management Project
The German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) has selected StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS), provider of autonomous large-scale data management and archive solutions...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TileCode–Creating games on and for handheld devices
People are Microsoft always seem to be working on interesting and unexpected (to me anyway) things. My most recent discovery is TileCode. From the website:Microsoft...
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research Announces Nov. 4 Pre-SC20 HPC and AI Market Update Webinar
SUNNYVALE, CA—October 29, 2020 — HPC and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research has announced that CEO Addison Snell will present the latest research and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Auction Theory
A favorite topic we used for supply chain decision modeling. Nicely overviewed here in Kellogg. Below a good reminder to me of its outline , and there follows...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Papers: Core Computer Science
As part of the rollout of the 2020 CRA Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the first four papers around the “Core...
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CRA Releases ‘2020 Quadrennial Papers’ Focused on Illuminating Computing Research Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Four Years
The following has been reposted from the CRA Bulletin. Today the Computing Research Association (CRA) released the first of more than a dozen planned white papers...
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GIGABYTE Releases Motherboards for AMD Platform
Taipei, Taiwan, October 29, 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a high-performance servers and workstations company, today announced two new server motherboards...
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Cognite Collaborates with Microsoft to Transform Industry through Digitalization, Becomes Independent Software Vendor
OSLO, Norway— Cognite announced it is working with Microsoft to catalyze the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries. The Cognite Data Fusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Restock Kroger Proves it Worth in Pandemic
Quite some good details here.It took three years, but Restock Kroger is finally proving its worth.The grocery chain reported first-quarter revenue of $40.55 billion...
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Here Comes the No-Code Generation?
Been a long time follower of automating coding. What will it mean to the future? Hardly superpowers. In fact when it finally fully arrives, you will hardly...
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RMACC’s 2021 HPC Symposium Scheduled For May 18-20
BOULDER, CO – The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) has set May 18-20 as the dates for its 2021 High Performance Computing Symposium and forRMACC...
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