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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 insideHPC
OpenACC Names ORNL’s Jack Wells President, Updates OpenACC API
Jack Wells, director of strategic planning and performance management at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named president of OpenACC, a nonprofit dedicated...
From Schneier on Security
Cyber Public Health
In a lecture, Adam Shostack makes the case for a discipline of cyber public health. It would relate to cybersecurity in a similar way that public health relates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Running Your Meetings
Well not quite yet. But in our current situation there are lots of opportunity to test out exactly this idea. And startups are establishing the first part,AI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capturing Words from Silent Speech
An Indication of how AI can become very powerful, even replacing the need for actual speech with mouthed muscle activity. A kind of pattern recognition.UC Berkeley...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Using Human Cognitive Limitations to Enable New Systems
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Vincent Conitzer, Kimberly J. Jenkins University Distinguished Professor of New Technologies Professor of Computer Science...
From insideHPC
Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t
This white paper, "Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t," explains how Voxeleron, a leader in delivering advanced ophthalmic image analysis and machine learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Truck Alliance: Uber Trucking
Full Truck Alliance, a Chinese startup which provides an Uber-like service for the trucking industry, raises $1.7B, source says at a ~$12B valuation (Lulu Yilun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
StoryFit Analyzes Stories for Understanding
Again links to work we did for large advertisers using language analysis for marketing goals. Brought to my attention in a recent podcast on Artificial Intelligence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on How to Build Resiliency to Disinformation
Nadya Bliss, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI), was recently interviewed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adapting Kiosks for the Pandemic
Another are we addressed in the innovation centers, kiosks. Here a good article about how the Pandemic is making us think more about their useful operation.How...
From Schneier on Security
On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remote Work, Example in Film Production
New changes in remote work, an example:The film crews being directed from a continent away By Richard Baimbridge Business reporter BBC In a production studioSome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo Taxis are Coming
More autonomy to be seen on the roads. How soon will we see applications in broad use?Robotaxis get the green light for paid rides in CaliforniaThe state’s public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAF Tests Robotics Security, Surveillance
Another inevitable move, for surveillance and implied force available. As I have mentioned for other security examples of use, the robot-dogs look scary. US Air...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads
In this insideHPC technology guide, "insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,"as we’ll see, by relying on open source software...
From The Noisy Channel
Facets of Faceted Search
Faceted search is a fascinating topic. It’s a standard feature of site search, and one could write an entire book on the subject. In this post, I’ll focus on some...
From Computational Complexity
Fun with birthdays, inspired by Nov 20
On Nov 20, 2020 the Google Doodle was of Benoit Mandelbrot for his 96th birthday. Why have a Doodle on his 96th bday? Anyway, the Doodle is here. On Nov 20,here...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Making of a Computer Science Teacher
There is quite the conversation going on in the private Computer Science Educators group on Facebook about teacher preparation for CS educators. This is a veryhighly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Long Horizon Planning
Another interesting piece from Berkeley - BAIR. Now looking at more complex planning. Long range planning that machines are not necessarily good at. But humans...
From Schneier on Security