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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
Private Computation of Aggregate Statistics
Better privacy from aggregate statistics (Technical)Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate StatisticsBy Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Dan Boneh...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, Google to Harness Phones for Virus Infection Tracking
Much going around about this now. Just taking a closer look. Can tech harvest the right data to leverage a solution? Privacy pushback? More to follow.Apple,Associated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) Solicitation
With input from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently published...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Operationalizing AI in Health
“Applying AI in real-world applications requires an understanding of operational realities and human workflows – especially in healthcare applications. My colleagues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Build a Network of Teams
We did this by constructing teams that included specific skills, making sure they could communicate. Also document results and directions.To weather a crisis, build...
From insideHPC
TYAN Boosts HPC and Storage Servers with New AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors
Today TYAN announced support for high frequency AMD EPYC 7F32 (8 cores), EPYC 7F52 (16 cores) and EPYC 7F72 (24 cores) processor-based server motherboards and server...
From insideHPC
Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems
Today Intel and QuTech published a paper in Nature demonstrating the successful control of “hot” qubits, the fundamental unit of quantum computing, at temperatures...
From insideHPC
Podcast: AI for Science
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the AI for Science program coming out of Argonne National Laboratory. "This is one of the biggest potential changes...
From insideHPC
Atos Supercomputer at Hartree Centre powers Coronavirus research
Today Atos announced that a BullSequana X1000 at the STFC Hartree Centre is providing supercomputing power to assist in global computational drug discovery efforts...
From insideHPC
Bursting into the public Cloud: Experiences at large scale for IceCube
Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at the ECSS Symposium. "I have recently helped IceCube expand their resource pool by a few orders of magnitude, first toBursting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI Making Decisions on the Fly
Intriguing direction making decisions like we often do, in a series to address changes in contextGoogle’s AI enables robots to make decisions on the fly By Kyle...
From Computational Complexity
Theoretical Computer Science for the Future
Guest post by the TCS4F initiative (Antoine Amarilli, Thomas Colcombet, Hugo Férée, Thomas Schwentick) TCS4F is an initiative by theoretical computer scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Effect of Privacy Notices
An example of behavioral response to alerting consumers,The Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfireby Aaron R. Brough, David A. Norton, and Leslie...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Stores use Robots During Pandemic
No unexpected, certainly many retailers will be investigating and testing the idea.Grocery Stores Turn to Robots During the CoronavirusCNN BusinessNathaniel Meyersohn...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
John Horton Conway 1937–2020
An appreciation Names for large numbers source John Horton Conway just passed away from complications of COVID-19. We are all saddened by this news, and we hope...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm being interviewed on "Hacking in the Public Interest" as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Planning For School in the Fall of 2020
This time of year I always start thinking about the next school year. Even though I don’t expect to be teaching (announced my retirement already) I can’t stop thinking...
From insideHPC
NERSC Rolls Out New Community File System for Next-Gen HPC
NERSC recently unveiled their new Community File System (CFS), a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacityNERSC...
From insideHPC
Project BreathEasy using Digital Twins of Lungs to Improve COVID-19 Patient Outcomes
OnScale and LEXMA have partnered to create patient-specific digital twins that may accurately predict oxygen and blood flow in a patient’s lungs, helping doctors...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog