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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Computer Science Teachers Should Read Books
Since I retired I have been reading more computer science related books. You may have read my book reviews on Humble Pi, Weapons of Math Destruction, or Computer...
From insideHPC
Altair Acquires HPC Workload Management Specialist Univa
Altair has acquired Univa, an enterprise-grade workload management, scheduling, and optimization solutions company for HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) on-premises...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches on AWS Outposts for File Storage and Data Management
SEATTLE – Sept. 15, 2020 – Qumulo, a cloud file data platform that helps organizations store and manage file data, today announced availability on AWS Outposts....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Robotic Chemistry
Better, faster, cheaper are the claims being made, with links to previous IBM work in the space. Worked with a company analysis lab, and know the time and complexity...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Ships Multi-Function Telco Accelerator Card for 5G O-RAN Virtual Baseband Unit Markets
SAN JOSE, Sept. 15, 2020 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the T1 Telco Accelerator Card for O-RAN distributed units (O-DUs) and virtual baseband units...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ken Regan Turned 61
Happy birthday to Ken Ken Regan is of course my partner on GLL. He is faculty in the computer science department at the University of Buffalo. His PhD was in 1986...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Failure Detection, Prediction and Risk Analysis
We did related work which included risk analyses on solutions of many types, including AI machine learning and classical analytics. Even those that could be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inconsistent Benchmarking Found
Important finding. Further classification of form of inconsistency would also be useful for later pre checking new papers.. Researchers find ‘inconsistent’ benchmarking...
From Schneier on Security
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
This sounds like a bad idea.
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
Matt Blaze discusses an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of...
From Schneier on Security
New Bluetooth Vulnerability
There’s a new unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability: The issue is with a protocol called Cross-Transport Key Derivation (or CTKD, for short). When, say, an iPhone is...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Foundation Unveils IBM Hardware/Software Contributions at OpenPOWER Summit
Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, IBM announced it is contributing two technologies to the OpenPOWER community: the A2O Power processor core, an “out-of-order” follow...
From insideHPC
The Race for a Unified Analytics Warehouse
This white paper, "The Race for a Unified Analytics Warehouse," from our friends over at Vertica discusses how the race for a unified analytics warehouse is on....
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Cybersecurity Law & Policy Scholars Virtual Conference on September 17, 2020...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radar Trends
See the O'Reilly Radar Trends. Very nicely done, brought up a number of interesting surprises. But many have been on my list for sometime. Its now on my on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Fails If it Looks too Good to be True
Not sure if I completely agree. Have seen very good results come out of an analytic solution. I agree that if it makes recommendations very different from current...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing the 2020 Computing Innovation Fellows
This past spring, when hiring practices were rapidly changing due to COVID-19, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC)...
From insideHPC
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund Adds 18 Institutions and 5 Petaflops of Supercomputer Processing Power to Assist Researchers Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sept. 14, 2020 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a second round of high-performance technology contributions to assist in the global fight...
From Computational Complexity
An interesting serendipitous number
Last seek I blogged about two math problems of interest to me here.One of them two people posted answers, which was great since I didn't know how to solve them...
From The Eponymous Pickle