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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 insideHPC
KIOXIA Adds Thin Provisioning to KumoScale Software Suite, Increases Cloud Storage Efficiency
KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, has added thin provisioning to its KumoScale™ storage...
From Schneier on Security
New Research: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships"
I just published a new paper with Karen Levy of Cornell: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships." Abstract: This article provides an overview of intimate threats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Bytecast: Donald Knuth on Computing
From my earliest days doing coding, I was reading Donald Knuth's legendary texts. Now here is a free and open podcast interview with him. Will be following."The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UN: Global Computer Simulation Tool
Quite a considerable simulation is proposed. Would be difficult to do, depending on the breadth and context involved. Perhaps a realm where agent based modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise AI
This was needed to provide easier to use capabilities in the enterprise.Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of AI Open-Source Technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Thermal Imaging as Security
I was asked last week to explore the efficacy of using thermal imagery to determine if someone had increased body temperature and could that be used as indicative...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Europe June 2020 Report
On behalf of all of the ACM-W Europe, I would like to thank you for continuing to be you. Covid-19 has caused stress for many of us. We worry about our health,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Truth
What is the truth? Alfred Whitehead was a logician and philosopher, who had a student of some note. The student was Bertrand Russell and together they wrote the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Go compiler needs to be smarter
One of my favorite languages is the Go language. I love its simplicity. It is popular and useful in a cloud setting. Many popular tools are written in Go, and for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Small Robots
Small task specific robotics are a long time interest. With clear application for pharma delivery and other healthcare sensor and related work.Introducing theThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multifunction E-Glasses Track the Brain, Eyes, and More
Claim to considerable advances in sensor interfaces through a 'glasses style' interface. Consder how combining brain and vision sensor data would provide adaptive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CI Fellows 2020 – Application Deadline Extended to June 17
***June 4, 2020 – Important notice to all applicants: the application deadline has been extended by 5 days to Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 11:59 pm EDT in recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable Tech
Ultimately measurement of value.Verifying, Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable TechnologyBy Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringMay 28, 2020Duke...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Care Services
Experienced this recently, was nicely done. Though I would require at least some face to face and visual analysis as part of the care. Might this be done by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virus UnCertainty
McKinsey piece on restart, watching local businesses closely.Crushing coronavirus uncertainty: The big ‘unlock’ for our economiesTo safeguard lives and livelihoods...
From insideHPC
Veteran Technology Journalist Doug Black Named to Succeed Rich Brueckner as Editor of insideHPC
insideHPC Media has announced that veteran technology journalist Doug Black has been named editor-in-chief of insideHPC. Black succeeds the late Rich Brueckner...
From Putting People First
Reuters e-book about society after the pandemic
Humanity either learns key lessons from the pandemic, corrects course and becomes a more resilient species. Or it tears further apart and expands the divisions...
From Schneier on Security
Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
Zoom was doing so well.... And now we have this: Corporate clients will get access to Zoom's end-to-end encryption service now being developed, but Yuan said free...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills
Nice idea, have often found myself groping for some skill name. Should have been done sooner.Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills by Eric Hal Schwartz...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog