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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
Job of the Week: System Administrator at DE Shaw Research
DE Shaw Research is seeking System Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mathematics of COVID-19
Its not just [ Sir Francis Galton by Charles Wellington Furse ] Francis Galton is a perfect example of a Victorian era scientist. Sir Galton, he was knighted in...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Squid
Makes sense; there's room inside a squid's body cavity: Latin American drug lords have sent bumper shipments of cocaine to Europe in recent weeks, including one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Flying Medications to Villages
Its been done before, but now we are having a significant part of a supply chain serviced.UPS to Fly Medications by Drone to Florida Retirement AreaBloombergByUPS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security and AI
We saw this dichotomy early, plusses and minuses simply stated here.AI and CybersecurityAI is changing everything about cybersecurity, for better and for worse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Public Speaking via Speaker Assistants
Clever idea for assistant speaker devicesAnxious About Public Speaking? Your Smart Speaker Could HelpPenn State NewsBy Jessica HallmanResearchers at Pennsylvania...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breathable Electronics
Advances in functional wearable tech from NC State'Breathable' Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable TechNC State NewsApril 30, 2020Engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Extends Jupyter for Data Science
Seems to indicate a seriousness for AI and data science enabled process.IBM Extends Jupyter Notebooks for AI DevelopmentBy George LeopoldIBM has released a newThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telehealth Here to Stay
Just scheduled by first telehealth doctor meeting.Telehealth booms amid COVID-19 crisis; virtual care is here to stayThe coronavirus pandemic that has erupted worldwide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Home Productivity
Interesting non-typical thoughts on this. via Walter RikerBoosting Work from Home Productivity with Amazon Alexa in AWS Amazonby Sandeep RaoHow I set-up my home...
From insideHPC
Bethany Goldblum from UC Berkeley to Receive James Corones Award
Bethany L. Goldblum, a nuclear scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2020 recipient of the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Survey on NSF CISE Departmental BPC Plans
The following is a guest post from Heather Wright, Associate Director of the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) at the Computing Research Association...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for SC20 Housing
Registration is now open for the SC20 conference. The event is scheduled to take place Nov. 15-20 in Atlanta. "SC20 has room blocks reserved at hotels in the vicinity...
From Computational Complexity
Predicting the Virus
As a complexity theorist I often find myself far more intrigued in what we cannot compute than what we can. In 2009 I posted on some predictions of the spread of...
From insideHPC
Appentra raises €1.8M for its Parallelware Analyzer software
Today Appentra announced that the company has raised €1.8M in new funding in a round led by Armilar Venture Partners and K Fund. Appentra is a Deep Tech globalAppentra...
From insideHPC
Accelerating vaccine research for COVID-19 with HPC and AI
In this special guest feature, Peter Ungaro from HPE writes that HPC is playing a leading role in our fight against COVID-19 to support the urgent need to findAccelerating...
From Schneier on Security
Me on COVAD-19 Contact Tracing Apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman...
From insideHPC
LUMI: the EuroHPC pre-exascale system of the North
The LUMI pre--exascale supercomputer will be the one of the most powerful and advanced computing systems on the planet at the time of its installation. The vast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Best Practices after Crises.
Good overview in APQC regarding management after and during crisis.Keys to Maintaining Best Practices in Supply Chain After a CrisisAs one-third of 2020 is behind...
From The Eponymous Pickle