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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Discovery Cloud
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FBI to Cleanse Microsoft Exchange Servers
Somewhat unusual for FBI to take an effort like this, will see how well it can cleanse the servers. FBI launches operation to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft...
From insideHPC
Research Centers at Cambridge and Durham Universities Add Nvidia, Dell EMC HPC Resources
At GTC this week, Nvidia and Dell EMC released details of HPC installations at two UK academic supercomputing centers to accelerate computing resources at the two...
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Names Prof. Stephen Clark Head of AI
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. ClarkCambridge...
From insideHPC
UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson Awarded ACM Price for Work in Quantum
New York, April 14, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Scott Aaronson has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM PrizeUT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duplex Now Available in 49 States
Noted this, have seen Duplex demonstrated, but never used it. Concern rightly exists about its misuse. I am sure that Google is thinking through regulatory issues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Creates Own Digital Currency
Interesting to see how this could change payment, collection and monitoring activity. China Creates Its Own Digital CurrencyThe Wall Street Journal, James T.China's...
From insideHPC
SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance in Agreement on High Performance Data Center Infrastructures
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced an agreement to improve standards-based, open source management...
From insideHPC
dRISK Retrains AVs to Detect High Risk ‘Edge Cases’
London, 13 April 2021 — dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LiDAR Test Starts up Again
Am now finally getting into my LIDAR test, on a Apple 12 Pro phone for now. Using the package Polycam, which looks easy to use and is free for the initial testing...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS
LEESBURG, Va., April 13, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) today announced that QCI’s Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software...
From insideHPC
DDN and Nvidia Certified AI Channel Program for VARs and Distributors
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today launched a certified DDN and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks
Not surprising, language is communications. Between us and everything else. Spent lots of time trying to make that work.Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks Seen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
API's Again: Building Blocks for Transformation
The recent thing about the Supreme Court ruling in a 6–2 decision that Google's use of the Java APIs fell into fair use, made us think of API's again. Are they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Lifecycle for IOT
This issue of the process involved came up recently, here a good intro. Images provided are very The 3 Stages in Secure Product Lifecycle Management in IOTCentral...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration
Cyn Liu began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington in Fall of 2020. Liu is at the University of California...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods AI
Simple example of use of AI and automating paid search.Lingerie Brand Leverages AI for Automating Paid Search and Social Media Marketing in Emerj.comDaniel Faggella...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Deep Learning
Quite well put, thoughtful about neural nets. Much more at the link. Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking GeneralizationBy Chiyuan Zhang,Communications...
From Schneier on Security