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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
What Virus crisis Means for Business
Another short thoughtful piece on this topic, with some short 'answers' and links. Worthwhile to spur possible work ...What the COVID-19 Crisis Means for Businesses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Banking
Useful survey of AI uses in Banking..Notable use of BPM.Barclays Innovating in use of AI in BankingBarclays Bank is emerging as an innovator in the use of AI in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Getting Computing from Datacenter Walls into Live Cell Walls
The following is a guest post from Karin Strauss from Microsoft Research and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington. The ability to automate computation has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For case-insensitive string comparisons, avoid char-by-char functions
Sometimes wew need to compare strings in a case-insensitive manner. For example, you might want ‘abc’ and ‘ABC’ to be considered. It is a well-defined problem for...
From Schneier on Security
Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing...
From insideHPC
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power Oracle Cloud E3 Platform
Today, AMD announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are powering the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform, bringing a new level of high-performance...
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech Collaborates with Intel on HPC for Healthcare
Nor-Tech is collaborating with Intel to offer HPC technology for healthcare organizations. This technology delivers powerful performance and fast results. Nor-Tech...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Jennifer Rexford Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced yesterday the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...
From insideHPC
Video: Preparing to program Aurora at Exascale – Early experiences and future directions
Hal Finkel from Argonne gave this talk at IWOCL / SYCLcon 2020. "Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility will be home to Aurora, our first exascale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Smart Assistant: Josh.ai
A new offering in the space, has been a while since seeing that. Is it a time when people will want to invest in bew infrastructure?Smart Home Voice Assistant...
From insideHPC
French supercomputers help European scientists fight COVID19
Two of the most powerful supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie at CEA and Occigen at CINES are providing urgent computing access to large computer resources to...
From insideHPC
Rambus Launches 800G MACsec Multi-Channel Engine
Today Rambus announced its 800G MACsec (Media Access Control security) solution for next-generation networking infrastructure. The 800G MACsec solution delivers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Piloting Robots with Muscle Signals
More in free handed control and piloting, here with muscle signals.Lead author Joseph DelPreto controls a Muscle Signals Can Pilot a RobotMIT NewsBy Rachel Gordon...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fairness and Machine Learning
Contributions to this post were provided by Alexandra Chouldechova (Carnegie Mellon University), Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania), and Aaron Roth (University...
From Schneier on Security
How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
This is interesting: Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Patent Office Says AI Cannot be an Inventor
Relates to some work underway.US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventorOnly ‘natural persons’ need apply By Jon Porter@JonPorty...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Spack Helps Automate Deployment of Supercomputer Software
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Todd Gamblin from LLNL describes how the Spack flexible package manager helps automate the deployment of software on supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Blender Chatbot Does Open Source
Anything that can make a chatbot more conversational, and have the ability to use and update contextcontinually is good. Facebook releases its 'Blender' chatbot...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Powers Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
Today Supermicro introduced multiple systems tailored to work with a leading open, hyperconverged software offering, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Supermicro...
From insideHPC