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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Pollination Robotics
An example I had not seen before.Buzz Off, Bees. Pollination Robots Are Here.By The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2021Farmers have long relied on insects, windAcross...
From insideHPC
BMW Kicks Off Crowd-sourced Quantum Challenge with AWS; Sept. 24 Deadline
With hope of making quantum computing an automotive innovative engine, BMW today invited researchers, start-ups and companies from the quantum computing community...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Socially Reproduced Experiments
We must avoid becoming one Cropped from USA Today source José Altuve hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth against the Yankees on Sunday. He thereby...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Applicants- Networking Tour “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”
Are you a Ph.D. candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the field of artificial intelligence and medicine looking for a new opportunity? Are you interested in connecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Design Thinking
Interesting point. I say all systems, analytics, processes, management have a 'design problem', they need to be applied properly to provide value. All statistical...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. and IPQ Partner on Clinical Trials and Diagnostics Strategies
Leesburg, Va., July 13, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (OTCQB: QUBT), a company working to bridge classical and quantum computing, today announced a partnership...
From Schneier on Security
Colorado Passes Consumer Privacy Law
First California. Then Virginia. Now Colorado. Here’s a good comparison of the three states’ laws.
From Schneier on Security
China Taking Control of Zero-Day Exploits
China is making sure that all newly discovered zero-day exploits are disclosed to the government. Under the new rules, anyone in China who finds a vulnerability...
From Schneier on Security
Iranian State-Sponsored Hacking Attempts
Interesting attack: Masquerading as UK scholars with the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the threat actor TA453 has been covertly...
From insideHPC
Modeling on SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Reveals Findings on Pregnancy-related Hypertension
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preeclampsia, or pregnancy-related hypertension, occurs in roughly one in 25 pregnancies in the...
From insideHPC
Founder Institute, NASA Ames and MassRobotics Partner to Launch AI and Robotics Accelerator in Boston
July 13, 2021, Palo Alto, CA – The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, announces partnerships with NASA Ames Research Center and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning My nth Programming Language
They say that the second programming language is the hardest to learn. That’s mostly because one learns how to program using their first language but each language...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Game Playing Agents with ML
From the Google AI Blog. Below just the intro. Something we proposed wayback, but now have seem several interesting examples. Certainly you can consider anyQuickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Threats of Autonomous War
Will be attempts at strong regulation, but inevitable at all sorts of operational levels. Offensive and Defensive. U.S. Says Humans Will Always Be In Control of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems with Distributed Computing
Via O'Reilly. Reading these through, based on how they are stated, would state them more as cautions than always being wrong. It all depends upon the contextual...
From insideHPC
DOE HPC4EI Awards $3.7M for HPC Research at National Laboratories
July 12, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $3.7 million for high performance computing (HPC) projects that address key...
From insideHPC
LLVM Holds the Keys to Exascale Supercomputing
The recent proliferation of new hardware technologies has galvanized the high-performance computing (HPC) community and created the ability to deliver the nation...
From insideHPC
AMD Collaborates with EuroCC to Support HPC across EMEA
July 12, 2021 — The EU-funded EuroCC project, which has a goal to create a common high level understanding in the fields of HPC, HPDA and artificial intelligence...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Evolution of Squid
Good video about the evolutionary history of squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
From Schneier on Security