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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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Micron Acquires Machine Learning Startup from Purdue
Micron has acquired FWDNXT, a machine learning software and hardware startup that spun out of Purdue. Micron is integrating FWDNXT’s artificial intelligence hardware...
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New Paper: A novel error-correction scheme for quantum computers
By taking advantage of the infinite geometric space of a particular quantum system made up of bosons, the researchers, led by Dr Arne Grimsmo from the University...
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Podcast: Applying Deep Learning to Extreme Weather
"A research team from Rice University utilized three supercomputers (TACC’s Stampede 2, Wrangler, and Pittsburg Supercomputing Center’s Bridges system) to see if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Could We Forgive a Machine?
Still at the edge of real life considerations. It is really still an exploration. But even in the last era of AI, we looked at aspects of fault and liability....
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey: COVID-19: Implications for Business
Good, detailed piece about this, worth a look:COVID-19: Implications for businessMarch 2020 | Executive BriefingBy Matt Craven, Linda Liu, Mihir Mysore, and Matt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Powered Contract Management
Another example in the legal space, here specifically looking at contracts, and the management of related data. Much more at the link. Note machine learningExigent...
From Computational Complexity
The Importance of Networking
People skip conferences because of the coronavirus or for global warming or just because conferences are too expensive and time consuming. I'm certainly no fanMarch...
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Latest Release of Intel Parallel Studio XE Delivers New Features to Boost HPC and AI Performance
Intel Parallel Studio XE is a complete software development suite that includes highly optimized compilers and math and data analytics libraries, along with comprehensive...
From Schneier on Security
The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations
This is a big deal: Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the "safest place on the Internet," left years of users' most intimate confessions exposed...![[Book] The Psychology of Pandemics](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Psychology of Pandemics
This book describes the psychological reactions to pandemics, including maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and defensive reactions, and reviews the psychological...
From insideHPC
Schneider Electric Introduces Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling Solution
Today Schneider Electric introduced its first-ever first rack mounted data center cooling solution. The Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling 3.5kW, DX solution addresses...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Compile a Day
There is a lot of talk about teaching debugging going on there days. Amy Ko of the University of Washington did a podcast a short time ago on the subject. Amy Ko...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W March Wikipedia Campaign
To celebrate International Women’s day, we will start a Wikipedia campaign that will aim to add as many Wikipedia articles about women that are in computing, and...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Call for Hosting Proposals for womENcourage 2021
Wish to organize womENcourage 2021? Submit your Expression of Interest by 30 April 2020.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Blog Series: Reflections on womENcourage 2019
This month, we are hosting Gunay Abdullayeva, who got her master’s degree at the University of Tartu and specialized in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Neural Networks...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
womENcourage 2020 preparations in Baku, Azerbaijan are going full speed!
womENcourage 2020 will be held at 24-24th of September 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling up Digital and Analytics Results in Consumer Goods
Thoughtful formulation here.Solving the digital and analytics scale-up challenge in consumer goods in McKinsey" ... Many consumer-goods companies have entered the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for the Real World
Conceptually reinforcement learning should work well, but in practice it can be problematical. Like that it is being considered for business applications. Which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova. It is important for the computing research community...
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