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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
Personality Key for Open Source Contribution?
Depends if we can really detect useful personality measures of this type, and if they will be stable under differing contexts and goals.Personality Key in Whether...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defending Retail Against the Coronavirus
Useful approaches outlined.Defending Retail against the CoronavirusCompanies can brace themselves for lasting changes to the sector even as they grapple with short...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
The National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)...
From insideHPC
Student Teams Encouraged to Join the 3rd APAC HPC-AI Competition
Student teams are encouraged to apply for the 2020 APAC HPC-AI Competition. Continuing the success of the previous competitions, student teams will square off against...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing the Coronavirus on Frontera
Scientists are preparing a massive computer model of the coronavirus that they expect will give insight into how it infects in the body. They've taken the first...
From Putting People First
Four possible scenarios of how the corona crisis can transform the world
How will the pandemic change the way we live and do business? In this whitepaper the Zukunftsinstitut describes four possible scenarios of how the corona crisis...
From insideHPC
Timelapse Video: Sawtooth Supercomputer Assembly
In this video, technicians install the Sawtooth supercomputer at Idaho National Laboratory. "Named after a central Idaho mountain range, Sawtooth arrived in December...
From insideHPC
The Role of Middleware in Optimizing Vector Processing
A new whitepaper from NEC X delves into the world of unstructured data and explores how vector processors and their optimization software can help solve the challenges...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 8–Online Teaching Stations
We sure are learning a lot about online classes these days. Teachers at my school are using Google Meet and Zoom in about equal numbers. This means that students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tires Get Embedded Tech
As the article suggests, a bit unexpected, but its where the system and its uses meets the real world, and its useful to know what is being sensed, in real time...
From Schneier on Security
Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks
The Chinese facial recognition company Hanwang claims it can recognize people wearing masks: The company now says its masked facial recognition program has reached...
From insideHPC
European HPC ecosystem supports the fight against COVID-19
The European PRACE initiative has released a list of partner activities and initiatives to help conbat COVID-19. While medical professionals are working aroundEuropean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Launches Blockchain Network
Decreasing costs and increasing the ease of blockchain application building. Seems a considerable effort. China to Launch National Blockchain Network in 100 Cities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 7
Well this is the new normal I guess. We had snow last night and several students missed homeroom this morning. I am assuming it is because of power outages in the...
From insideHPC
Video: OSS Showcases AI on Fly at GTC Digital
In this video, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems gives a tour of the company's virtual booth at GTC Digital. "OSS is the leader in specialized high-performanceVideo...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Population
As the global population continues to grow, and climate change and pollution lead to environmental degradation, ensuring the future of agriculture and food production...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Accelerates AI and Deep Learning with NGC-Ready Servers
Today Supermicro announced the industry’s broadest portfolio of validated NGC-Ready systems optimized to accelerate AI and deep learning applications. Supermicro...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing
The 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 24 - 28 in Warsaw, Poland in conjunction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Approach of Running Simulations to Train Analyses
We did versions of the same thing to get data that would create more detailed and thus useful models of industrial scenarios. Especially useful if it hard to...
From insideHPC