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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
Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots
Back to the control of swarms. Intelligence is good, but collective intelligence is better? The process described here is very interesting.Coordinating Complex...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Rhode Island's State Appetizer Is Calamari
Rhode Island has an official state appetizer, and it's calamari. Who knew? As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From insideHPC
KDD 2020 Data Mining Conference Goes Virtual Aug. 23-27
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering, Designing the Quantum Internet
Most interesting upcoming ACM talk. An area we are now exploring. Register at the link.Title: Quantum Networks: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network...
From insideHPC
Arm and DARPA Announce 3-Year Development Agreement
Arm and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a three-year partnership agreement to “enable the research community that supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Hits Quantum Volume of 64 in Deployed System
How useful is this for real problems in context? Looking for some write up on that and will report here. Statement of volume metric below is useful. Note this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart is Growing
Though I rarely use them online, their stores are more impressive these days. Apparently adjusted well to Covid.Walmart keeps growing and growing and … in Retailwire...
From Putting People First
You are not your data but your data is still you
New worlds need new language. TOne of those things to name is what is happening to ourselves and our data proxies. Expanding our language from privacy to personhood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip
More chips to support high speed AI applications.Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)August 5, 2020Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Algorithm Fairness Adjustments
In particular looking at search results.Algorithm Improves Fairness of Search ResultsCornell ChronicleMelanie LefkowitzAugust 17, 2020Cornell University researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures
Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: "Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually...
From Putting People First
UX designer breaks down the “malicious” design of Trump’s campaign website
While UX designers are trained to be on the side of the user, there are ways that the user experience can be manipulated to be in favor of the "product" — in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cars Hands Free Very soon?
This suggests only lane keeping approaches. Though they see to be seriously on the way. Seems to be less regulatory interference.Hands-Free Driving Could Be on...
From Putting People First
[Book] AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience
The book explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI) through interviews with AI experts and explores AI history, product examples and failures, and proposes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling Quantum Chips
Implications of this as it matures? Scaling up the process of making real quantum processors Scaling up the quantum chipMIT engineers develop a hybrid processBecky...
From insideHPC
Veteran Argonne Supercomputers Help Convert CO2 into Ethanol
By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (1.75 terflops, stood up in 2017, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) and Blues (stood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quiet Ornithopter Drones
Clear surveillance will take a different angle soon. Their use of 'biomimicry' uses birds to some degree. Differences are interesting, they can point to changes...
From Putting People First
Why computing belongs within the social sciences
This article argues [that] the well-publicized social ills of computing will not go away simply by integrating ethics instruction or codes of conduct into computing...
From Putting People First