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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 Computational Complexity
50 Years of PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) launched fifty years ago this month in the United States. The New York Times talks about its fifty reasons how the network...
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NTU Singapore Scientists Develop ‘Mini-brains’ to Help Robots Recognize Pain and to Self-repair
Singapore, 15 Oct. 2020 — Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way forNTU...
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Cambridge Quantum Computing Announces Update to t|ket⟩ Quantum Software Development Kit (Q-SDK)
Oct. 15, 2020 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced the latest version of t|ket〉(pronounced “ticket”), its high-performance quantum software development...
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Sandia: Material in House Paint Could Spur ‘Technology Revolution’
A new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart Competing with Geek Squad
Done well and priced well could attract and engage many consumers. Has Walmart come up with an answer to Best Buy’s Geek Squad? In Retailwire by George Anderson...
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NCSA’s Bill Gropp Voted IEEE CS 2022 President
Oct. 14, 2020 — The National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA) Director and Chief Scientist William “Bill” Gropp has been voted IEEE Computer Society...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What If We Asked Students To Write Textbooks?
A professor friend on Facebook posted that a student emailed him to say that they textbook the were using was “crap.” I suggested in jest that he asked the student...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM India Celebration of Women in Computing AICWiC 2020
ACM India celebration of women in computing –a virtual event was organized by ACM-W India, ACM Nagpur Professional Chapter in association with ACM Nagpur Student...
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What May Come from Exascale? Improved Medicines, Longer-range Batteries, Better Control of 3D Parts, for Starters
As Exascale Day (Oct. 18) approaches, we thought it appropriate to post a recent article from Scott Gibson of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), an overviewWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft says its AI can describe images 'as well as people do'
Recall some portion of this claim being made, but had not heard much new from Microsoft, Know sight impaired people who could use the capability. We alsoMicrosoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duplex Books Haircuts.
Fascinated by 'booking' as a simplistic form of contextual conversational. And it is interesting that Google Duplex took so long to get to this variant. ButGoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Amateur CGI with iPhone AR
Quite an interesting thought ... positioning you in your real world.iPhone AR tech can improve amateur CGICamTrackAR uses iOS' AR know-how to make adding effects...
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GCS Supports University Team deFAUlt in SC20 Student Cluster Competition
Berlin, Oct. 14, 2020 – The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) has announced it is repeating its role as sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be speaking at Cyber Week Online, October 19-21, 2020. I’ll be speaking at the IEEE Symposium...
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Exascale Day: Goodyear’s CTO Talks Exascale’s Anticipated Industrial Design Advantages
It’s Exascale Awareness Week, a lead-up to Exascale Day this Sunday, Oct. 18 (1018), and while we mainly hear about the anticipated benefits for scientific discovery...
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Sandia Labs Fellow Named to Quantum Computing Advisory Committee
Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 13, 2020 — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ceiling Mounted Home Robotics
An areas we looked at closely to augment smart home studies. Placing robot arms in key positions was a common solution to ambulatory examples. Note unpredictability...
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UberCloud Announces Oct. 27-28-29 CAE Webinars on UberCloud/Azure
Sunnyvale, CA, Oct. 12, 2020 – UberCloud will present this virtual event on October 27 (Americas), October 28 (EMEA) and October 29 (Asia), focusing on UberCloud...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Training is Supervised Learning on Optimized data
My long time background is in systems optimization. Quite intriguing claims made that could be very useful. Ultimately very technical. .Reinforcement learning...
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