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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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3D Printed Eyeball
First Example of Eyeball Printing Man Becomes First 3D-Printed Eyeball RecipientNew York Post, Ben Cost, November 25, 2021The U.K.'s Steve Verze became the world's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Technology Leaders Create Endowed Professorship Fund at University of Washington in Honor of Former CRA and CCC Chair Ed Lazowska
Written by Shar Steed, originally posted on the The CRA Bulletin. The University of Washington (UW) Allen School recently shared the story behind the creation of...
From insideHPC
FTC to Sue Nvidia for ‘Illegal’ Arm Deal
Already facing worldwide regulatory challenges and delays, the planned acquisition by Nvidia of Arm Ltd. may have finally run into a roadblock too high. The U.S...
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Sandia Labs Takes 7 R&D 100 Awards and 2 Specialty Honors
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories capturedSandia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Reproducing
In what specific sense, we ask. Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, Scientists SayCNN, Katie Hunt, November 29, 2021Researchers at the University of Vermont, Tufts...
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Autonomous Ships for the Supply Chain
Improving supply chainsAutonomous Electric Container Ship Completes First TripInteresting Engineering,Ameya Paleja, November 22, 2021The world's first all-electric...
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Weka Extends Capabilities WekaFS Data Platform
CAMPBELL, Calif., December 2, 2021 – AI data platform vendor WekaIO (Weka) today announced the availability of its latest version of WekaFS, the fastest storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notes on Usage
“Crypto” Means “Cryptography,” not “Cryptocurrency” in SchneierI have long been annoyed that the word “crypto” has been co-opted by the blockchain people, and...
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Research Integrity Considered
Usefulness for internal research?Want research integrity? Stop the blame gameHelping every scientist to improve is more effective than ferreting out a few frauds...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters
[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide, "insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters," will show how the Silicon Mechanics Miranda...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The New Journal
Publish and be damned!—attributed to the Duke of Wellington after a blackmail over memoirs Seminar src Paul Beame is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science...
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Honeywell Quantum and Cambridge Quantum Combine to Form Quantinuum
CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO., Nov. 30, 2021 – Two companies in the quantum computing industry have combined to create Quantinuum, aimed at accelerating development...
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@HPCpodcast: Will the Metaverse Hit Next-Big-Thing Status?
Is the metaverse really real? Sorry – it’s not real, though uber virtual realism is a big part of its promise. But will it be the next phase of the internet, the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pharma Giant, Bayer, partners with AI-based Assessment Platform
Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that owns big name brands such as Aspirin, Aleve, Midol, Cenesten and Iberogast, recently partnered with Ada Health, an AI-based...
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MLCommons Releases MLPerf Training v1.1 AI Benchmarks
San Francisco — Dec. 1, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, the open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Training v1.1, the organization’s machine learning...
From insideHPC
Duality Announces Quantum Science and Tech Advisory Committee
Chicago — Dec. 1, 2021 — Duality has announced the members of its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), which will support participating startups with business know...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA’s Gilad Shainer Talks Infiniband-based Quantum-2 and Cloud Native Supercomputing
NVIDIA has made a series of significant HPC-related announcements recently, many of them at the company’s GTC conference in early November, including the launch...
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New Rowhammer
Schneier writes about rowhammer, I like the image of a rowhammer.New Rowhammer TechniqueRowhammer is an attack technique involving accessing — that’s “hammering...
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Covid ReShaping Supply Chains
Another example of ther need for needed disaster planning.How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chainsNovember 23, 2021 | Article, By Knut Alicke, Ed Barriball, and...
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