Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Connections from AI to the Pandemic
Increasingly deep applications, in AITrendsUpdates on How AI Being Employed to Speed COVID-19 Treatments and ManagementJune 4, 2020 1109Medical researchers are...
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Upcoming $10M Delta System to Expand Use of GPUs in Scientific Workloads
Delta, a new supercomputer to be deployed before the end of 2021 at the National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA), has as part of its mission theNCSA...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Doomsday Argument in Chess
Framing a controversial conversation piece as a conservation law Snip from Closer to Truth video on DA John Gott III is an emeritus professor of astrophysical sciences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Looks at Data and Analytics Trends
Things that are useful,have the most business impact.Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019Augmented Analytics and Artificial Intelligence...
From My Biased Coin
CATCS Visioning Workshop
Reposting an important call -- these events have had big impact in the past! The CATCS will be hosting a virtual “Visioning Workshop” the week of July 20 in order...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualizing Mass Production
Seems a powerful idea, The data is all there, so to what degree and for what products can this be applied and scaled for manufacturing production? ProposedMass...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 6th 2020)
A small number of people are responsible for a disproportionate number of inventions and innovations. Why are these people different? Using neuroimaging techniques...![[Book] Slowdown](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Slowdown
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its about Common Sense
Have repeated this many times, it was clear in the late 80s when we built systems that could solve a problem, but not implement it among decision makers. ForAllen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Skill Discovery
Can skills be dsicovered. That is, a means to find better behavior that leads to prescribed real-world goals? Here in the Google Research blog, addressing the...
From insideHPC
San Diego Supercomputer Center Leverages Bright Cluster Manager in New Expanse Supercomputer
Bright Computing, a global leader in Linux Cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced that the San Diego Supercomputer Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building A More Resilient Data-Driven Economy
Building a better economy:Irving Wladawsky-Berger's BlogA collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership...
From Putting People First
[Book] How to Future
How to Future is a guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and practices that illuminate new strategic pathways.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Status Checker App Asks for Physical Symptoms?
Trial implies actually blocking campus access based on stored information. Predictive? Seems some of the information us based on simple query. Implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
South Korea Testing an Elderly Assistant
Hard to follow the depth and breadth of this precisely, but seems to be an assistant oriented to interact with lonely elderly. Prompted by recent pandemic pressure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UF Acquires NVidia DGX System
Notable former connection working with new Nvidia System. UF becomes first U.S. university to acquire cutting-edge NVIDIA DGX A100 system, advancing its artificial...
From insideHPC
TACC’s Frontera Supports Investigation of Subatomic Protons – ‘the Origin of the Mass of Objects’
A team of researchers are using the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to crack open the proton, a fundamental building blockTACC...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Shark vs. Squid
National Geographic has a photo of a 7-foot long shark that fought a giant squid and lived to tell the tale. Or, at least, lived to show off the suction marks on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Threats in Intimate and Personal Relationships
Fascinating thoughts on the topic, true is too little discussed. Though I would think divorce lawyers have seen it all.Privacy threats in intimate relationships...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog