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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Baby Steps
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step—Martin Luther King, Jr. Still from her IHES lecture Maryna Viazovska was the first person to...
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Deadline for XSEDE Undergraduate Program Is Oct. 29
An XSEDE-wide effort is underway to expand the community by recruiting and enabling a diverse group of students who have the skills — or are interested in acquiring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanding Chinese Courier Robotics
Makes sense. We need more to fulfill logistics. Note recognition of the need for collaboration.Pandemic Pushes Chinese Tech Giants to Roll Out More Courier Robots...
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NSF Funds $1.8M for Univ. of Michigan Research for Room Temperature, Controllable Quantum Nanomaterials
An effort to create quantum semiconductors that operate at room temperature has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation. The success of the...
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NVIDIA’s Huang to Unveil AI Technologies, Products at Virtual GTC, Nov. 8-11
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 — NVIDIA today announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO...
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Quantum Appoints Data Scientist Emily White to Board of Directors
SAN JOSE, Calif. — September 29, 2021— Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that Emily White has joined the company’s Board of Directors. White’sQuantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Seti, Can AI get us There?
A number of good questions are asked. AI Calling ET: How Artificial Intelligence Supports the Search for Extraterrestrial LifeBy Karen Emslie, Commissioned by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why do Digital Twins Matter?
Am a long term practitioner in simulation systems, now looking to understand how Digital Twins fit into the mix and can be better linked to broader context. Ajit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon also Poses an Indoor Drone Camera
See also that Amazon/Ring has announced an indoor camera drone for security applications. Announced at a much cheaper price than their rolling robot You have...
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AMD Targets HPC-AI for 30x CPU-GPU Energy Efficiency Boost by 2025
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators used in artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers
More details of operational information for agriculture. Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers Two IoT sensors from this year's ARPA-E Summit can help farmers make...
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Cambridge Quantum Open Sources TKET Software Development Toolkit
Cambridge, UK, September 29, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum (CQ) announced that the latest version (v.0.15) of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum...
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RENCI Named Partner in NSF Institute’s $15M Imageomics Effort
Sept. 29, 2021 — RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been named as a partner in a new effort to use...
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Rube Leung, Chief Scientist for Energy Exascale Earth System Model Project, Named a DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow.
Ruby Leung likes to ask questions. That started at her high school in Hong Kong, where she also became interested in science. “I was one of those kids in science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Does a Home Robot: Astro
A number of such 'friendly' ranging home robots have been around, none successful. I recall the Pepper robot. This is expensive. Notably it will not climb stairs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sciam Says Self Driving Cars Emergent
Scientific American takes a look at a self driving future'Self-Driving' Cars Begin to Emerge from a Cloud of Hype By Scientific American, September 27, 2021Although...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taulbee, Talent, and Trends: CRA Session at Upcoming DOE ASCAC Meeting
The Computing Research Association (CRA) will be represented by CRA staff (Betsy Bizot, Erik Russell, and Burçin Tamer) and CRA-WP Co-Chairs (Sandhya Dwarkadas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Is a Game-Changing Computing and Communication Platform
Very good piece on the topic from CACM. With some useful examples of VR uses beyond games. Have been skeptical about its general use, see key insights below...
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HPE Launches GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform for Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that the company said signify HPE’s entry...
From Schneier on Security