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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 Eponymous Pickle
Banning Facial Recognition
What I have been thinking. Specifically, not generally accountable. Even if the major players stop doing this, others quickly will.Bans on Facial Recognition...
From Schneier on Security
Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
Google has removed 25 Android apps from its store because they steal Facebook credentials: Before being taken down, the 25 apps were collectively downloaded more...
From insideHPC
New, Open DPC++ Extensions Complement SYCL and C++
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how accelerated computing has diversified over the past several years given advances in CPU, GPU, FPGA, andNew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Columbus Connects Everyday Vehicles
Yet another example of using more sensors and connections to build intelligent management of vehicles within large systems. Just underway.Pilot Test Begins for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers, Quantum Sensors
Sensors gather measurement data, which is crucial to learning hypothesis about complex systems. Here an introduction to the concept of a quantum sensor.Quantum...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Taking a Problem Down a Peg
By blowing up its objects Composite crop of src1, src2 Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb proved last month that every smooth Jordan curve in the plane and real , there...
From Computational Complexity
Can you name a famous living Chemist? Can anyone?
I was re-watching the Greatest-of-all-time Jeopardy championship and the following happen (I paraphrase) ---------------------- Alex Trebek: The category isBreaking...
From insideHPC
Thomas Sterling Eulogizes Rich Brueckner, Ann Redelfs, Steve Tuecke, Lucy Nowell: 4 Leaders Lost to the HPC Community
At his annual keynote address closing out the ISC 2020 conference, Thomas Sterling, Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the University of Indiana, eulogized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Devices in the Hotel Room
Intriguing aspects of IOT in hospitality. Has been less in the area of assistants than I expected.Shedding Light (and Sound) on Hidden IoT Devices in Your Next...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers’ Response to NSCAI’s First Quarter Recommendations
Contributions to this post were provided by members of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Fairness, Accountability, Disinformation, and Explainability (FADE)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 25 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 3)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 3 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr....
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Consortium for Confidential Computing
Intriguing new effort:The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) brings together hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Apps Stealing Clipboard Data
iOS apps are repeatedly reading clipboard data, which can include all sorts of sensitive information. While Haj Bakry and Mysk published their research in March...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Brain Like Synapses
And related to the last post, some work is progressing on doing functional mimicry:Engineers design a device that operates like a brain synapseIon-based technology...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report: Citizens Benefit from Public/Private Partnerships – Part 3
This special report sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes a look at how now more than ever, agencies from all levels of government are teaming with private Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Neural Nets More similar to Brains than We Thought
In our earliest uses of neural methods we actually worked with some brain scientists. And they were quick to point out that neural methods, though inspired byArtificial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Honeycode: Nocode App Builder
Expect to see more NoCode and visual app building to drive more applications.AWS Launches a No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder in Beta: Amazon Honeycode by Steef...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchains for Clinical Data
Example of blockchain use in healthcare data applications.South Korean Government Turns to Blockchain Tech to More Reliably Store Clinical Diabetes DataJun 29,Coindesk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Disinfecting a Food Bank
Would seem to be a very efficient use of robotics. Considerable detail and video about the process at the link.CSAIL robot disinfects Greater Boston Food BankUsing...
From The Eponymous Pickle