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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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ColdQuanta’s Research-as-a-Service Begins 1st Project with Oak Ridge
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 18, 2021 — Cold atom quantum technology company ColdQuanta has announced the company has embarked on its first project under its new Quantum...
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Frontier: OLCF’S Justin Whitt on Deploying the First Exascale Supercomputer
In this installment of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series produced by the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, Justin Whitt, program directorFrontier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Trains for Clogged Infrastructure
Intriguing solution.How to Move More Goods Through America's Clogged Infrastructure? Robot TrainsThe Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, October 9, 2021Autonomous...
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Facebook's Tools can Target a Single User
Well I would think the title above is clearly true, but the question is how effective is it in a useful context? And is that ethically more powerful than a typical...
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Pentagon Predicting Events
Long after I worked for NCSS at the Pentagon, but you could start to hear the same questions at the time, when we were predicting events using large scale visualization...
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Join insideHPC at Today’s HPE Exascale Day Broadcast
Exascale Day, today, is a special occasion for HPE, which isn’t surprising considering that the company is the prime contractor for two of the first three exascale...
From Computational Complexity
Is MATH Ready for P=NP? Is Alexandra Fahrenthold Ready for P=NP?
(This post was inspired by Harry Lewis emailing me about his granddaughter.) Harry Lewis's grand daughter Alexandra Fahrenthold (see both pictures) wants informationon...
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Adaptive Queueing Systems
Did quite a bit of work in queueing systsems. Even recently saw a presentation by McDonald's on how they address drive-through and the resulting queues/Mathematicians...
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More Smart Glasses
Additional experiments with the idea. Will this become common, replacing phones and watches?TCL unveils Thunderbird Smart Glasses with a full-color transparent...
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Better Detection of Earthquakes with Machine Learniing
New work in the space using Machine Learning, we had proposed related methods when studying neural models. Here a convolutional neural network.Researchers Create...
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Robots Learning to Walk with an Obstacle Course
Establishing a means for training that matches the elements of the real word. Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to WalkWired, Will Knight, October...
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A VR exploration of the Universe
With my background in astronomy I relish the thought. An ideal application given all the data we have gathered. General availability? Will be looking for this...
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Science and Technology links (October 16th 2021)
The thymus is an important component of our immune system. As we age, the thymus degenerates and our immune system becomes less fit: emotional and physical distress...
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MIT and QCRI Deep Learning Predicts Traffic Accidents
And forecasting generalizes to multiple cities. Deep Learning Helps Predict Traffic Crashes Before They HappenMIT News, Rachel Gordon, October 12, 2021A deep learning...
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Trustworthy AI Blog
IBM Writes on Trustworthy AI in a new Blog:Financial services: Trustworthy AI’s promise and payoffIBM, Forrester, UBS, Regions Bank, and State Bank of India show...
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Damkroger Said to Be Out as Head of Intel HPC
Word is circulating that Trish Damkroger, vice president and general manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Group, will leave her position and be replaced...
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Deepfake Voices Fool Human, Smart Assistants
A Concern.AI-Generated Deepfake Voices Can Fool Humans, Smart AssistantsBy New Scientist, October 14, 2021Freely available voice-mimicking software can deceiveThe...
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Nissan Intelligent Auto Plant
A more intelligent robotic automobile plant at Nissan. Smart Robots Do All the Work at Nissan's 'Intelligent' PlantAssociated Press, Yuri Kageyama October 8,Nissan...
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LED Display of incoming Data Through Clothing
All the Information You Need Could Be in Your PocketUniversity of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science (Canada)October 12, 2021Researchers at the University...
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