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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 Schneier on Security
Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app. (Details, such as we have them, are here.) It's similar...
From Putting People First
Covid-19 and Social Innovation: Contactless sociability and hybrid communities of place
While some optimists think there will be a lasting positive change in our well-being model, with the quality of relationships and common goods at its centre, Manzini...
From Computational Complexity
John Conway Dies of Coronvirus
John Conway passed away on April 11, 2020 of the Coronovirus. He is the first person I knew (for some definition of `know') who has died of it. I suspect this is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking Down Service Prototyping
Upcoming Talk:ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series: Breaking Down Service Prototyping on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 11.00 - 11.45 AM US EDTIt is believed that a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Bet Big On a Smart Idea. Now It's Saving Lives
Not only in selling burgers, but also as a medical services model. The very first time I saw a crowded drive-through it made me think of by Queueing analysisMcDonald's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google releases API to train smaller, faster AI models
Interesting development, note small and faster. I assume to make them useful for edge devices.. Also with the ability to retrain quickly.Google releases API to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maintaining Energy Equipment
Very key thing in an industrial world. And a good analytical view of the risk involved.Maintaining the equipment that powers our worldBy organizing performance...
From insideHPC
Video: PHIDIAS project creates HPC data-powered services for the earth science data
This week the EU launched a new portal for PHIDIAS, a Horizon 2020 project for creating sustainable HPC data-powered services for the earth, atmospheric and marine...
From insideHPC
Flinders University targets COVID-19 vaccine with Oracle Cloud
Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 11th 2020)
Greenland sharks reach their sexual maturity when they are 150 years old and they live hundreds of years. Some living sharks today were born in the 16th century...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Metadata and Cooking
In almost every piece of work I have done in enterprises, there has been a need to deal with metadata. Metadata can mean a number of things .... like for example...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the spread of the coronavirus in busy indoor spaces
A joint project carried out by four Finnish research organisations has studied the transport and spread of coronavirus through the air. Preliminary results indicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sprayable User Interfaces
We saw this demonstrated, I believe at the MIT Media Lab,when we visited as a corporate sponsor, a long time ago. Apparent the work is still ongoing.Sprayable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braille Keyboard
Good to see additional efforts in this direction. Augmenting the senses. Passing the reference on to our friends.Google Launches Braille Keyboard for AndroidVentureBeat...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W India Regional Celebrations Report
The Regional Celebrations 2020 of the Association for Computing Machinery – Women’s Council (ACM-W India) was held at Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look at Technology For Remotely Teaching Computer Science
While I do believe that people are the most important part of emergency remote teaching, technology does have a serious role to play. One key piece of technology...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Amazingly Realistic Squid Drawings
The squid drawings of Yuuki Tokuda are simply incredible. I tried to figure out how to buy one of them, but everything is in Japanese. As usual, you can also use...
From Putting People First
Videos of Interaction20
The videos of the Interaction20 conference that took place in Milan early February are starting to become available. 20 are already online, including 7 of the 9...
From insideHPC