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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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Meta Picks AWS as Strategic AI Cloud Provider
Amazon Web Services has announced that Meta (formerly Facebook) has deepened its relationship with AWS as a strategic cloud provider, using AWS’s cloud infrastructure...
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D-Wave Launches Developer Quantum QuickStart at Q2B Conference
BURNABY, BC — Dec. 6, 2021 – D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company developing both annealing and gate-model quantum computers...
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AI Chipmaker Hailo Partners with KAGA FEI America
SAN JOSE and TEL AVIV — December 6, 2021 – AI (Artificial Intelligence) chipmaker Hailo has partnered with KAGA FEI America, Inc. (KFAI), a global semiconductor...
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Tales and Tests of the Faraday Bag
Most interesting look and test of a faraday 'bag', aka 'cage'. for security of devices in our growing world of things. Saw this quoted in Schneier , where...
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Tool Predicts Where Coronavirus Binds to Human Proteins
Computational tool for predicting binding sites.Tool Predicts Where Coronavirus Binds to Human ProteinsCornell Chronicle, Krishna Ramanujan, November 29, 2021Cornell...
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Storing Data with DNA
Often brought up, as an interesting benchmark? Scientists Claim Big Advance in Using DNA to Store DataBBC News, Paul Rincon, December 1, 2021Scientists at the Georgia...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Week 2021
Well, its CS Ed Week again. Still no cards in the Hallmark store for it. I’ll get back to that in a moment. CS Ed Week has long been a time to introduce more students...
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The Atos Perspective for Exascale – A Race Beyond 10^18
In this sponsored post, Agnès Boudot, SVP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum at Atos, discusses how exascale means more than 10^18 or exaflops performance. For Atos, Exascale...
From Computational Complexity
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause for Complexity Theorists, If you Only Believe
(Guest Post by Hunter Monroe) In this guest post and discussion paper, I present a remarkable set of structurally similar conjectures which, if you...
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Mckinsey Most Recent Reports:
Most Recently from McKinsey & Company Monthly Highlights, December 2021While economic growth has been sluggish over the past two decades in advanced economies,the...
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Machine Learning and Disease Treatments
'Transformational' Approach to ML Could Accelerate Search for Disease TreatmentsUniversity of Cambridge (U.K.), in CACM.November 29, 2021The transformational machine...
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Creating 3D Maps with a Backpack
Intriguing LIDAR example here. Accuracy and use example? Could have used this for mapping retail interiors during sales analysis.Creating 3D Maps with a Backpack...
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The Future is Big Graphs
Like the thought. But how do we define big here? Complete?The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing SystemsBy Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati...
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Laser Space Communications Sat to be Launched
New aims to improve solar system wide communications.How NASA's new laser communications mission will work in space in Space.comBy Elizabeth Howell about 5The...
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Simpler Quantum Computer Design
Simplicity is good.Stanford Engineers Propose Simpler Design for Quantum ComputersStanford News, McKenzie Prillaman, November 29, 2021Stanford University engineers...
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Salt Grain Sized Camera
Quite an achievement The ultracompact camera system relies on a technology called a metasurface, which is studded with 1.6 million cylindrical posts and can be...
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Science and Technology links (December 4th 2021)
It used to be that all the exciting new processors came from Intel and AMD, and they were meant for your PC. The mobile revolution changed that: it lead to theContinue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
First - Understand the Problem
Things are different for me being retired. I don’t get the blogging inspiration the way I used to. Today a post by Mike Zamansky (Work through the example!!!!!)...
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Smart Contract Bug
Recall we looked at the concept of a 'smart contract'. Here a useful example of related bugsSmart Contract Bug Results in $31 Million Loss in SchneierA hacker...
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