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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 insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories talks about using exascale supercomputers for severe weather and water resource...
From Schneier on Security
The Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity
Interesting research: "Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures": Abstract: Well-meaning cybersecurity risk owners will deploy countermeasures...
From insideHPC
Quantum Superiority: How Far Away?
Some technologies, it’s said, are “always 10 years away” – we hear this in reference to autonomous vehicles and quantum computing. Of course, how far away we think...
From insideHPC
Intel, NSF Name Winners of Wireless Machine Learning Research Funding
Intel and the National Science Foundation (NSF), joint funders of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program, today announced recipients...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Highlights of 2020 Security Conferences for Computer Architects
While some in computing saw computing security as mostly a software issue, 2018’s Meltdown and Spectre publicized that security is a hardware issue as well. This...
From My Biased Coin
Writing Code for a Paper : A Note to Students
This post both relates to some of the stuff I'll be presenting at Friday's STOC workshop on Algorithms with Predictions, but is also for future students in my classes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics June Newsletter
I see that Virtualitics has a June Newsletter out, we helped test early beta versions. I see you can now schedule a 30 day free immersive trial. See my past experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Counterfeiting Crimes
An area we also worked in, detecting counterfeits. But then isn't this another cooperation with law enforcement?Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit to tackleThe...
From insideHPC
Collaboration Moves to the Cloud in a Work-from-home World
In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair explain how remote access and cloud collaboration tools allow companies of all sizes to discover and innovate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinating by Drone and Bubbles
Fascinating detail. As a long time part time botanist, of interest. But how well can it effectively being done? Will the use of drones interfere with natural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Ways to Build Assistant Voice Apps
Look forward to the details on this, any way you can create better intelligence is good. Note changes in training methods.Google Assistant Upgrades Action Developer...
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing IoT Security Best Practices
New research: "Best Practices for IoT Security: What Does That Even Mean?" by Christopher Bellman and Paul C. van Oorschot: Abstract: Best practices for Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Pay for Data
Another project with aim at paying users for their data. Links to our long term data as an asset view.Andrew Yang Is Pushing Big Tech to Pay Users for DataBy The...
From insideHPC
Never Enough Bandwidth: Optical I/O Consortium Formed to Set Interconnect Standards
More than 20 companies have joined an industry consortium to establish specifications for multi-wavelength integrated optics – the emerging interconnect technology...
From Schneier on Security
COVID-19 Risks of Flying
I fly a lot. Over the past five years, my average speed has been 32 miles an hour. That all changed mid-March. It's been 105 days since I've been on an airplane...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and IBM Announce New Intelligence Offerings
Next steps between SAP and IBM partnership: Digital Transformation towards the intelligent enterprise.In Cision: PRNewswire https://www.prnewswire.com/IBM and...
From insideHPC
SeRC Turns to oneAPI Multi-Chip Programming Model for Accelerated Research
At ISC 2020 Digital, the Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Stockholm, has announced plans to use Intel’s oneAPI unified programming language by researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hitchhiking Drones
And had mentioned this novel idea as well in a recent post. Also covered in considerable detail in IEEE Spectrum. As noted will require some considerable design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Robotic Dog Now Available
It here, good piece on the rollout in IEEE Spectrum by Evan Ackerman. Been noting some application plans here over several years. Expensive, but if it effectively...
From The Eponymous Pickle