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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
Industrial AI Enabled Devices
Informative look at AI uses in Industry.Which brought to my attention a number of companies involved in manufacturing. More detail at the link.SparkCognition and...
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Apparel Blockchain Tracking
The application here looks at tracking in the supply chain. Linking to RFID efforts is also interesting.Nike, Macy’s Run Blockchain Trial With Auburn’s RFID Lab...
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Responsible Virus Charting
Click through for an interesting links to data visualization of virus data:Responsible coronavirus charts via FlowingDataStatistical Visualization / coronavirus...
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Finnish researchers demonstrate how noise impacts quantum computing
A team of researchers from three Finnish institutions (CSC, Aalto University, and Abo Akademi University) and their collaborators from Boston University in theFinnish...
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Show Your Robots How to do Your Chores
The ultimate desire. Or perhaps have someone else show a robot how to do your chores better. And archive the results for use. Much like the inclusion of 'planning...
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ACM Tech Talk: Michael Jordan on Decision Making
Of particular interest to me, how do we integrate decision making with machine learning? Plan to attend.March 25 Talk on Machine Learning and Decision Making with...
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Transportation Updates
Bottom line, lots of work yet to do in completely autonomous cars. The number of miles driven in CA seems impressive.Some excerpts from Wired Transportation. At...
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Speeding up Programs with OpenACC in GCC
In this video from FOSDEM 2020, John Hanley from ECMWF presents: Speeding up Programs with OpenACC in GCC. Weather forecasts produced by ECMWF and environment services...
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Intel Demonstrates Industry-First Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch
Today Intel announced that it successfully integrated its 1.6 Tbps silicon photonics engine with its 12.8 Tbps programmable Ethernet switch. The co-packaged switch...
From Schneier on Security
More on Crypto AG
One follow-on to the story of Crypto AG being owned by the CIA: this interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth reading or listening to...
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Podcast: Slingshotting to Exascale
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Cray Slingshot interconnect that will power all three of the first Exascale supercomputers in the US. "AtPodcast...
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SETI Shuts Down
SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence) Have followed this effort for many years, even participated for a while in the 90s. Perhaps sad, but I have not...
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North Korean Cryptocurrency Money Laundering
Considerable detail in recent Technology Review Article. An indication of how carefully we need to examine and regulate these technologies. Much more at theThis...
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NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Announcing Creation of the Foundational Research in Robotics Program
Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation announces the creation of the Foundational Research in Robotics (Robotics) program as a program jointly managed...
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AI Used to Support the US Tax Code
Makes perfect sense to look for patterns and predictions based on complex rules. AI Comes to the Tax Code By The Wall Street JournalThe U.S. Internal Revenue...
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ORNL Enlists #1 Summit Supercomputer to Combat Coronavirus
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule...
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Autonomous Drone piloting
Could have used this for our forestry resource measurements, which required expensive and time consuming surveys by road or helicopter. Further doing this to determine...
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Physician Voice Assistant Suki
Have now seen several related system, it appears none of these have been successful.Physician Voice Assistant Startup Suki Closes $20M Funding Round Eric Hal Schwartz...
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Prof Simon See receives Singapore HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award
Prof Simon See from the NVIDIA AI Technology Center has received the Singapore HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award from SupercomputingAsia conference series. Dr. See...
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