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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 26th 2021)
Reportedly, half of us own a smartphone. It is often reported that women or visible minority earn less money. However, ugly people are doing comparatively evenContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Does Quantum Data Link
This apparently uses 'quantum key distribution', a method we have also recently examined. Details are interestingly beyond limits we have seen.Quantum Data Link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Tires
Sensors and adapting AI to drive better maintenance. Smart Tires Hit the RoadBy The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2021Tire manufacturers Goodyear Tire & RubberGoodyear's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Contributing to Marketing
Some of our earliest work touched on this, but its hard. How Much Can AI Contribute to Increasing Efficiency for the Marketing Department? by 7wDataMany businesses...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is Picking a First Programming Language the Hardest Problem in CS Education?
All of a sudden the subject of the first programming language is getting discussed everywhere. OK, maybe not every where but it is in Twitter, Blogs, and Facebook...
From insideHPC
HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’
Since we last saw HPE at ISC a year ago, the company embarked on a strong run of success in HPC and supercomputing – successes the company will no doubt be happy...
From insideHPC
insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with ainsideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in AI Lecture
Of considerable interest, pointers to the future? "Deep Learning in AI," the Turing Lecture of Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton, describes the origins...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting, Recognizing Voices at a Distance
Hmm, talk about loss of privacy. Will this do it through a mask? Will we be wearing new kinds of 'voice' masks? Note the training data. Probably will be quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Verification
Not something we did formally in the enterprise, a couple of experiments with externally developed systems. but its high time it were included. Formal Software ...
From insideHPC
At Virtual ISC 2021: Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Talks ISC Highlights and the Virtuous HPC-AI Circle
At virtual ISC 2021, we talked with Trish Damkroger, Intel’s Vice President and General Manager, High Performance Computing about the state of HPC and Intel’s place...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causal Machine Learning
Another area we experimented with, causal elements in the AI knowledge being used. Would have liked to experiment with Alice. Microsoft Research PodcastEcon2:Published...
From Schneier on Security
NFC Flaws in POS Devices and ATMs
It’s a series of vulnerabilities: Josep Rodriguez, a researcher and consultant at security firm IOActive, has spent the last year digging up and reporting vulnerabilities...
From Schneier on Security
AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
News from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI...
From Putting People First
Top 10 books of everyday social anthropology
Gillian Tett, anthropologist and chair of the US editorial board of the Financial Times, has published - in the Guardian - her list of 10 books offering insights...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Software for a Critical Future
I am inclined to think the critical future will be Lo and No-Code rather than old languages and methods. Code as InfrastructureThe Next Critical Talent Shortage...
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One
Tokyo — June 24, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D Inc. today announced the launch of AXXE-L One, the company’s first server product....
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Addresses Exabyte-Scale Data Management with ActiveScale 6.0
SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced a new release of ActiveScale object storage software that reshapes the way organizations...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Collaborates with Supermicro on Object Storage Software
SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) is collaborating with global enterprise computing leader Supermicro to deliver object storage solutions...
From insideHPC