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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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Kroger to Take Bitcoin? .... NO!
Having worked with Kroger was stunned by this earlier today, consider the implications. But no was a hoax. To influence share prices? Walmart had earlier been...
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Practical Holograms?
Ever since seeing early versions of holographic images ay Disney World have thought of their uses, both in interaction with consumers, and as a means to graphically...
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Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Some optimistic views but challenges still exist, good overview.Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality, By Samuel GreengardCommunications of the ACM, November 2021...
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Tales of Grace Hopper
Told of my own minor interactions with Grace Hopper at the Pentagon, towards the end of her career, here is more:Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Ways to Make a Dollar
I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I know do use it. Simply...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Register for This Year’s Final Departmental BPC Plan Working Session
The BPCnet Resource Portal is an initiative by the Computing Research Association with support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer...
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Example of Key Health IOT
Have become educated in advanced BP measurement lately which led me to note this IOT example. And the need for it. Note this is something in progress, as yet...
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Impact of Covid on Automation
Wladowsky-Berger does a good job in covering the topic:Impact of Covid-19 on Job Automation“Why are there still so many jobs?,” asked MIT economist David AutorAs...
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Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech Careers From TV, Not SchoolZDNet, Liam Tung, August 6, 2021(Note this is about careers, not the tech itself, Assume its...
From My Biased Coin
HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here. I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection...
From insideHPC
SciDAC: DOE Funding $30M Opportunity Using HPC for High Energy Physics Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million for research in computation and simulation techniques and tools “to understand the universe via...
From insideHPC
MIT: Forcing ML Models to Avoid Shortcuts (and Use More Data) for Better Predictions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail...
From insideHPC
Nov. 4 Chicago Quantum Summit to Focus on Quantum Ecosystems
CHICAGO — Experts in quantum science and technology from around the globe will gather tomorrow, November 4, both virtually and in person, for the fourth annual Chicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual roundtables to initiate...
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Edge Computing and Healthcare
Many applications and emerging possibilities.How Edge Computing is Transforming HealthcareBy Vanessa BraunsteinWhen analyzing healthcare and life science data from...
From Computational Complexity
A Complexity View of Machine Learning?
Complexity is at its best when it models new technologies so we can study it in a principled way. Quantum computing comes to mind as a good relatively recent example...
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research
Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corporations!
As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts...
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Words vs Images?
Considering WorthNot Worth a Thousand Words By Bertrand Meyer October 12, 2021Three minutes into my talk at my first meeting of the IFIP working group on programming...
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