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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 Schneier on Security
Paul van Oorschot’s Computer Security and the Internet
Paul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn a Single Image into a Looping Video: Uses?
Experimented with something like this. Took a single image of part of a machine or process, then applying some images of specific known maintenance issues, and...
From insideHPC
MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark
Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons released a new benchmark, MLPerf Tiny Inference to measure trained neural network AI inference performance for low-power...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind Learns Football from Motion Capture
Intriguing, with the implication that you can go from direct motion capture to broader contexts. Team work, which implies both individual skills, planning and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefining What a map Can be With New Information and AI
Google re-defining mapping. Very nicely done. Started with Google maps, and the ability to link in data as needed for usage contexts. And AI being used to...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights
In this recent interview, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inobtrusive Wearables Monitoring Health
Interesting out of Purdue, where we connected in the retail modeling world. Here it seems novel methods of self powering. We called it 'smart clothing'. Got...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting Algorithms
Algorithm, Malgorithm, Jalgorithm? Fairness in Judgement. Right, algorithm just means a standardized method. Like iany tool can be used or misused. Good piece...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Continues Grab-and-Go Rollouts
Amazon still thinks the 'Go' concept is a good one, perhaps with locational interests, now a roll out in London. Amazon will open the doors to a grab-and-go, checkout...
From insideHPC
Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks
This article describes the extensive evaluation testing of the optimal operational configuration for running Ansys RedHawk-SC Electronic Design Automation (EDA)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Excited for CSTA 2021
As a member of the CSTA Conference Committee, I attended the first of two presenter training sessions today. Wow! CSTA 2021 will be good. Now I have read most of...
From insideHPC
ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Open Sources Hyperledger
Had examined this sometime ago, seems IBM wants it and blockchain to succeed. This will promote it it be be better tested. IBM Donates Code Improvements to Open...
From Schneier on Security
VPNs and Trust
TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country...
From Schneier on Security
Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit
Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – June 2021
We’ve reached the end of another year of programming for ACM-W. And what a year it has been! In spite of the challenges we’ve faced, ACM-W activity worldwide continued...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thursday—June 17th—A Debate on Program Correctness
There are two ways to write error free programs; only the third one works–Alan Perlis Perlis on Coding Joy source Alan Perlis, the first Turing Award winner, summarized...
From insideHPC
Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC
Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an...
From The Eponymous Pickle