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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 …
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Control of Genetic Behavior
Interesting linking to specific group behavior. What behavior would you want to influence? Then, thinking about if further, looks rather dangerous.Genetic Control...
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Considering the Length of Lists
Very nicely put pieee on the length of lists. Very true., good to have in the back of your mind when writing or speaking.Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3,...
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Aiming to put AI in Your Pocket
Mentioned this previously, now more in Singularity Hub on the topic:MIT’s Tiny New Brain Chip Aims for AI in Your PocketBy Jason Dorrier - Jun 11, 2020 in Singularity...
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Internet Archive Threatened with Suit
We used the INternet Archive early on to track the use of web sites and trademarks. But had not visited for a while. Now saw this controversy which had been...
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NorthWestern: Emerging Trends in Retail Robotics
Good in detail piece worth looking at:Emerging Trends in Retail Robotics, 24 pages, May 2020 Northwestern, Retail Analytics CouncilIntroduction:Robots are increasingly...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Human Cells with Squid-Like Transparency
I think we need more human organs with squid-like features. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From insideHPC
Frontera at TACC Reveals COVID-19 Molecular ‘Sugar Coating’ that Camouflages Virus
Researchers using the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have uncovered the atomic makeup of the sugary shield on the coronavirus...
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Will Amazon Change its Retail Model?
Interesting examination. in HBSWK. Likely but only to the extent it can continue to provide value. Here too an examination of the state of its work.Will Challenged...
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NSF Seeks to Improve Smart Some Security
Useful direction.Scientists want to fix our notoriously insecure smart home devicesThe National Science Foundation wants to boost consumer trust in the Internet...
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Cisco's Ava Telepresence Robot
Saw something similar demonstrated at the Cisco smart home innovation center in the late 90s. Somewhat surprising that this coming for them now, would like toWebex...
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Nokia Research on 5G
Indications of the importance of emerging 5G:In Global newswire:SomeindNew Nokia research reveals biggest 5G drivers for enterprise IT and OTPress Release New Nokia...
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Seeing Through Walls
Had seen this before, fascinating example of how more and richer signals can be leveraged into new kinds of imaging. Here a kind of fabulous example, seeing through...
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Virtual Metabolic Human Models
Considerable complexity in such models, but they at least will point to the kinds and amounts of data and predictions that will be necessary to provide computational...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance...
From insideHPC
AWS: GA of Arm-based Instances Boost Price/Performance 40% for HPC, Inferencing Workloads
Claiming 40 percent better price/performance over current x86-based instances, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of its sixth generation...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Standing Committees Chairs’ Report – June 2020
Arati Dixit and Bushra Anjum, as ACM-W Standing Committees chairs, have been overseeing four committees for about a year now. These four vibrant pillars are the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Guidance for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Proposers to the Faculty Early-Career Development (CAREER) and CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Programs
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
From insideHPC
CMU’s Jerry Wang Wins 2020 Frederick Howes Award
Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor Gerald “Jerry” Wang has been named the 2020 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science for his work in nanoscale...
From Yoshua Bengio
Science and innovation in times of a pandemic
Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19. While… L’article Science and innovation...
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