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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
Autonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go Slow
Somewhat obvious, but well examined suggestions hereAutonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go SlowSelf-driving vehicles can already work well on campuses where...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Will calling “free” or “delete” in C/C++ release the memory to the system?
In the C programming language, we typically manage memory manually. A typical heap allocation is a call to malloc followed by a call to free. In C++, you have more...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dyson as a Mathematician
With a lemma from 1947 that might be useful today? Cropped from article on his letters Freeman Dyson passed away last February 28th, one day short of the leap day...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Services for Utility Ecosystems
Upcoming Talk:ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series: Designing Services for the Future of Utility Service Ecosystem on Wednesday, March 4th 2020, 11:00 AM -...
From insideHPC
Mellanox to Acquire Titan IC for Security and Data Analytics
Today Mellanox announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Titan IC, the leading developer of network intelligence (NI) and security...
From insideHPC
Honeywell Ventures paves way for Quantum System from Zapata Computing
Today quantum startup Zapata Computing announced a strategic investment from Honeywell Ventures, the venture capital arm of Honeywell. The investment will fuelHoneywell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Fairness Gym
A considerable effort reported on here to experiment with the broad idea of fairness in machine learning, via the notion of a 'gym' to exercise choices and results...
From insideHPC
Intel Powers Fujitsu Supercomputer at Japan’s Meteorological Research Institute
Today Fujitsu announced the deployment of a new supercomputer system for the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency. The new system...
From insideHPC
Lockheed Martin makes Strategic Investment in Ayar Labs
Optical interconnect startup Ayar Labs has received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate the commercialization...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Join ACM-W on Twitter!
ACM-W is proud to announce that you can now @us! That’s right, our official Twitter account is now live, @OfficialACMW. Now, through Twitter (and still Facebook)...
From Putting People First
Five short papers on online privacy by Carissa Véliz
Carissa Véliz is a philosopher and ethicist who works on digital ethics, practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy
From insideHPC
Stepping up Efficiency for Exascale with FPGAs at the LEGaTO Project
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that European researchers have developed a framework to boost the energy efficiency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Answers Healthcare and Pharma Questions
Good aim at typical questions from the home. Maintenance, regulation and liability may prove a prove an issue.Amazon’s Alexa can now answer more questions about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trick forTeaching AI the Meaning of Language
More advances in machine language learning and understanding.Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of LanguageBy MIT Technology ReviewBaidu, Chinas closest...
From Schneier on Security
Wi-Fi Chip Vulnerability
There's a vulnerability in Wi-Fi hardware that breaks the encryption: The vulnerability exists in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom, the latter...
From Putting People First
The ethics of nudging
No “knockdown” objection has appeared to date that should make us reject the nudge approach overall. At the same time, serious ethical concerns have emerged that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fixing 3D Print
Instructive example, other applications?3D Print Jobs Are More Accurate With Machine LearningUSC engineers have developed AI that can make any 3D printer more precise...
From Apophenia
Joyfully Geeking Out
In 2015, I was invited to join the Commerce Department’s Data Advisory Council. Truth be told, I was kinda oblivious to what this was all about. I didn’t know much...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Cancels GTC 2020 Live Event due to Coronavirus
Due to the coronavirus, today NVIDIA announced that GTC 2020 is turning into a digital conference rather than a live event. "As the coronavirus situation is not...
From The Eponymous Pickle