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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
CCC Quadrennial Papers: Core Computer Science
As part of the rollout of the 2020 CRA Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the first four papers around the “Core...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Releases ‘2020 Quadrennial Papers’ Focused on Illuminating Computing Research Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Four Years
The following has been reposted from the CRA Bulletin. Today the Computing Research Association (CRA) released the first of more than a dozen planned white papers...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Releases Motherboards for AMD Platform
Taipei, Taiwan, October 29, 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a high-performance servers and workstations company, today announced two new server motherboards...
From insideHPC
Cognite Collaborates with Microsoft to Transform Industry through Digitalization, Becomes Independent Software Vendor
OSLO, Norway— Cognite announced it is working with Microsoft to catalyze the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries. The Cognite Data Fusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Restock Kroger Proves it Worth in Pandemic
Quite some good details here.It took three years, but Restock Kroger is finally proving its worth.The grocery chain reported first-quarter revenue of $40.55 billion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Here Comes the No-Code Generation?
Been a long time follower of automating coding. What will it mean to the future? Hardly superpowers. In fact when it finally fully arrives, you will hardly...
From insideHPC
RMACC’s 2021 HPC Symposium Scheduled For May 18-20
BOULDER, CO – The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) has set May 18-20 as the dates for its 2021 High Performance Computing Symposium and forRMACC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brazil AI Center
Visited Brazil to outline their retail technology advances. Especially regarding food supply chains. Was impressed with their efforts. Now they have established...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Custom Live Data Drama in Excel
Though its now quite outdated, we used to do lots of things in spreadsheets, remember this could have been very useful. Drama? Well maybe. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Ram’s Horn Squid Video
This is the first video footage of a ram’s horn squid (Spirula spirula) . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Users on Waze
A security researcher discovered a wulnerability in Waze that breaks the anonymity of users: I found out that I can visit Waze from any web browser at waze.com/livemap...
From insideHPC
PRACE Opens Nominations for Ada Lovelace Award for HPC – Deadline: Nov. 26
From 22 to 26 March 2021, PRACE will organise the eighth edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays21 – as part of the EuroHPC Summit Week in...
From insideHPC
CoEC Targets Combustion Breakthroughs with Exascale Computing
Barcelona, 29 October 2020 – The European Union is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To reach this goal, there is a need for coordinated...
From insideHPC
Zero to an ExaFLOP in Under a Second
In this sponsored post, Matthew Ziegler at Lenovo discusses today's metric for raw speed of compute. Much like racing cars, servers do “time trials” to gauge their...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Making Global Progress Towards an #Internet4All | Universal Acceptance Local Initiatives
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair - 29 October 2020 Throughout the year, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) spearheads global projects that raise awarenessMaking...
From Computational Complexity
2020 Fall Jobs Post
My annual fall jobs posts, giving advice to PhDs looking for faculty positions, were getting repetitive. See last year's post for the usual stuff and feel freeTaulbee...
From insideHPC
PNNL’S CENATE Taps ML to Guard DOE Supercomputers from Illegitimate Workloads
Pacific Northwest National Lab sent along this article today by PNNL’s Allan Brettman, who writes about the advanced techniques used by the lab’s Center for Advanced...
From Putting People First
Videos online of the anthropology and technology conference
Videos are now available of last month's Anthropology and Technology conference, dedicated to socially-responsible AI.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Estimation Theory at Work
Rarely hear about this, we used it for retail analysis, it is useful to understand. Link to it below and a Wikipedia article definition. What makes a good estimator...
From The Eponymous Pickle