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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 …
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New 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Target HPC Workloads
Today AMD added three new processors to its 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor family. Targeted at HPC workloads, the new processors combine the balanced and efficientNew...
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Video: Fighting Wildfires with AI and IBM Systems
In this video, Michele Taufer from the University of Tennessee describes how AI enabled by HPC allows researchers to study wildfire propagation which enhances predictions...
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Supercomputing Ocean Wave Energy
We primarily used our simulation techniques to investigate inertial sea wave energy converters, which are renewable energy devices developed by our collaborators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuro Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Approved for Test
The intriguingly designed robotic grocery delivery system takes a step forward in testing. According to the article these are vehicles without direct human control...
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Contact Tracing Tracking: Privacy vs Valuable Data
More details on this, and how some descriptions about how it might proceed. Seems it has many positives for gathering information about the progress of the virus...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Now Leaking Stolen Documents
Originally, ransomware didn't involve any data theft. Malware would encrypt the data on your computer, and demand a ransom for the encryption key. Now ransomware...
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Will Distanced Shopping Push Robot Delivery?
Yes, it will push further consideration. Distinguish companies that have the ability. There remains the complexity of broad coverage and autonomy. Note the example...
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Data-Enabled Surveillance in Higher Education
Interesting and considerable piece on this in the CACM. Gathering such information can be of value to tailoring and improving the educational experience toThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Revisiting Old Coding Problem Friends
John Conway died the other day. He created the famous "Conway's Game of Life" that is familiar to so many programmers and computer scientists.I've recently decided...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment Fabrication
The following is a guest blog from Kristin Osborne, Communications Manager at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Washington...
From Apophenia
Teens Are Addicted to Socializing, Not Screens
Screenagers in the time of coronavirus. (This was originally written for OneZero.) If you’re a parent trying to corral your children into attending “school” online...
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AI and The Future of Technical Work
Useful thoughts about the state and future of automation. Will it all be described as professional?Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Professional Work...
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Analog or Digital Mechanisms of the Past
Excellent summary of what is known to date about of the Antikythera Mechanism, a 'computer' found in an ancient Greek shipwreck, over 2000 years old. Not technical...
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PASC20 Conference postponed to 2021
The PASC20 conference in Geneva has been postponed to 2021. The new dates for the conference – PASC21 – are July 5-7, 2021, at the same location – the University...
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Using Microsoft Teams
Now have been a user of several remote collaboration methods for some time. Noted below a piece talks about Microsoft Teams use. Have used it since its rollout...
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Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet?
Interesting, but technical. General implications for personal or enterprise use?Towards an Unhackable Quantum InternetHarvard University John A. Paulson School...
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HPCMP Supports the Fight Against COVID-19
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is using its supercomputing resources to support the federal response to theHPCMP...
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Podcast: Bright Computing forges ex3 at Simula Research Laboratory
The eX3 infrastructure allows Norwegian HPC researchers and their international collaborators to explore bleeding-edge hardware and software that will be instrumental...
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EPEEC Project Fosters Heterogeneous HPC Programming in Europe
The European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers (EPEEC) is a project that aims to combine European made toolsEPEEC...
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