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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 …
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Quantum Computing: Inaugural €10,000 Hartree Centre & Atos Joseph Fourier Prize Launched
London, 16 September 2020 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, together with the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre this...
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Altair Acquires HPC I/O Diagnostics Specialist Ellexus
Altair has announced its second acquisition in two days. The company today announced the acquisition of Ellexus, an input/output (I/O) analysis tool designed to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Promises 1000 qubit Quantum Computer
To what kinds of problems are likely to be addressed by Quantum computers? Will this then be a narrowly focused 'supercomputer'. HPC (High performance Computing)...
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Pure Storage to Acquire Container Platform Portworx
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the multi-cloud storage as-a-service vendor, has agreed to acquire Portworx, a Kubernetes data services platform, for approximately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Flying Taxi Services
Closer to filling up the skies? Good detail at the link.Japan on Track to Introduce Flying Taxi Services in 2023SkyDrive’s success in conducting a piloted eVTOL...
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Supermicro Contributes to the MN-3 Supercomputer Earning #1 on Green500 List
Supermicro and Preferred Networks (PFN) collaborated to develop the most efficient supercomputer anywhere on earth, earning the #1 position on the Green500 list...
From Putting People First
The effect of Covid-19 on education in Africa
This report, and the survey findings behind it, provides a unique insight into the perspectives of EdTech experts regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Computer Science Teachers Should Read Books
Since I retired I have been reading more computer science related books. You may have read my book reviews on Humble Pi, Weapons of Math Destruction, or Computer...
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Altair Acquires HPC Workload Management Specialist Univa
Altair has acquired Univa, an enterprise-grade workload management, scheduling, and optimization solutions company for HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) on-premises...
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Qumulo Launches on AWS Outposts for File Storage and Data Management
SEATTLE – Sept. 15, 2020 – Qumulo, a cloud file data platform that helps organizations store and manage file data, today announced availability on AWS Outposts....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Robotic Chemistry
Better, faster, cheaper are the claims being made, with links to previous IBM work in the space. Worked with a company analysis lab, and know the time and complexity...
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Xilinx Ships Multi-Function Telco Accelerator Card for 5G O-RAN Virtual Baseband Unit Markets
SAN JOSE, Sept. 15, 2020 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the T1 Telco Accelerator Card for O-RAN distributed units (O-DUs) and virtual baseband units...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ken Regan Turned 61
Happy birthday to Ken Ken Regan is of course my partner on GLL. He is faculty in the computer science department at the University of Buffalo. His PhD was in 1986...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Failure Detection, Prediction and Risk Analysis
We did related work which included risk analyses on solutions of many types, including AI machine learning and classical analytics. Even those that could be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inconsistent Benchmarking Found
Important finding. Further classification of form of inconsistency would also be useful for later pre checking new papers.. Researchers find ‘inconsistent’ benchmarking...
From Schneier on Security
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
This sounds like a bad idea.
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
Matt Blaze discusses an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of...
From Schneier on Security
New Bluetooth Vulnerability
There’s a new unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability: The issue is with a protocol called Cross-Transport Key Derivation (or CTKD, for short). When, say, an iPhone is...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Foundation Unveils IBM Hardware/Software Contributions at OpenPOWER Summit
Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, IBM announced it is contributing two technologies to the OpenPOWER community: the A2O Power processor core, an “out-of-order” follow...
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