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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
Podcast: Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Honeywell’s Trapped Ion Quantum computing initiative. Quantum computing initiative. "Shahin gives us a good overview...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 25th 2020)
People’s muscles tends to become weaker with age, a process called sarcopenia. It appears that eating more fruits and vegetables is associated with far lower risks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Belgian Port Testing Virus Bracelets
Aimed at enforcing social distancing, while gathering data.Belgian Port to Test Virus Bracelets Amid Tech Tracing FearsAssociated PressMark Carlson; Lorne Cook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Data from Tracking Studies
Friend Kaiser Fung looks at some of the tracking data is being used in studies. Instructive about how data is being gathered and used. Extensive piece at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Graphs versus Property Graphs
This came in the mail, it had been asked in an interaction recently. Worth a look. We worked with TopQuadrant.New White Paper: Knowledge Graphs versus Property...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Your Chatbot Engaging?
Well yes, at least as it contributes to some goal. If I want a question answered quickly and accurately it requires a certain level of engagement, for exampleThat...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Mid-Career Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
"We are seeking an HPC Tools Software Engineers for our Engineering Support team on the HPC contract. Lockheed Martin provides High Performance Computing services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking and Tracing Pineapple
More food tracking and tracing as a key application. As part of the IBM consortium. The Dole Food Company has a five-year blockchain plan for stronger food safety...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Backlight Themselves to Communicate More Clearly
This is neat: Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizing Information in the Age of the Coronavirus
From the recent Webinar, has links to a version of the Covid Brain.Organizing Information in the Age of the CoronavirusCovid-19 Online Brains from TheBrain BigCheck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Helping Astronauts
Heard about this a while back. Uses IBM Watson AI. But what were they helping with? Specific micro tasks. Anticipating needs. Supporting technical conversations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Remote Does not Feel the Same
Interesting thoughts, mostly about the micro aspects, useful to think about during your next remote meeting. Like the thoughts about how conversations really work...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplemental Funding in Computer and Information Science and Engineering
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Legal Analytics: Contracts and Liabilities
Our recent looks at eDiscovery and related AI and analytics alerted us to this. Accenture's connection would seem to indicate seriousness of these efforts. It...
From insideHPC
Azure Looks to Real-Time Derivatives Pricing using Riskfuel AI Technology on GPUs
In this special guest feature, Ian Finder from Microsoft Azure writes that GPU VMs with Riskfuel's derivatives models based on artificial intelligence are muchAzure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Continues the Climb, with New Vulnerability
Looks to be something that can be easily patched once understood. Now that Zoom is under the microscope, this is a good thing.Zoom passes 300M daily users as...
From insideHPC
GTC 2020 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang Set for May 14
NVIDIA will post its GTC 2020 keynote address by CEO Jensen Huang on YouTube on May 14, at 6 a.m. Pacific time. "Huang will highlight the company’s latest innovations...
From insideHPC
TACC Powers Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 Analysis
Researchers are using TACC supercomputers to power the Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 analysis. More than 30,000 biomedical researchers run approximately...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New Elected Members Including CCC Council Member Ronitt Rubinfeld
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences recently announced that more than 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2020, including Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson