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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
Friday Squid Blogging: 13-foot Giant Squid Caught off New Zealand Coast
It's probably a juvenile: Researchers aboard the New Zealand-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA) research vessel Tangaroa were...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My thoughts on how research funding is attributed in Canada to Computer Science
In Canada, most computer science professors seek funding with NSERC, the main Canadian funding agency for science and engineering. It is more or less the equivalent...
From Schneier on Security
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Short History of Ethereum
Ethereum provides an instuctive aspect of blockchains, including a more generalized aspect of smart contracts that is useful.Blockchain: A Very Short History Of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Few on Logarithms
Data viz expert Stephen Few on Logarithms. I recall very early in my experience in the enterprise, having to work with execs on this concept and how it could...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing adds more than 100 new customers In 2019
Commercial enterprises, research universities and government agencies are turning to Bright Cluster Manager to reduce complexity and increase flexibility of their...
From insideHPC
Big Compute Fireside Chat with Sam Altman from OpenAI
In this video from the Big Compute 2020 event, Sam Altman from the OpenAI research laboratory discusses artificial intelligence Shawn Hansen, COO of Rescale. "I...
From insideHPC
NOAA to triple weather and climate supercomputing capacity
The United States is reclaiming a global top spot in high performance computing to support weather and climate forecasts. NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce...
From insideHPC
Inspur Re-Elected as Member of SPEC OSSC and Chair of SPEC Machine Learning
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has finalized the election of new Open System Steering Committee (OSSC) executive members, which includeInspur...
From insideHPC
oneAPI: Single Programming Model to Deliver Cross-Architecture Performance
Bill Savage from Intel gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. "Learn about oneAPI, the new Intel-led industry initiative to deliver a high-performance...
From Schneier on Security
Policy vs Technology
Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting Short Course from The Edge
Quite interesting, free, have followed the concept for some time, but have yet to apply it. Videos embedded at the link. Good to see this followup. Is enough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Automation
Been thinking the topic late. Goals, risks, Results?Automation Maturity Still Woeful? Howard Sewell in CustomerthinkAlmost 5 years ago, our agency conducted...
From Schneier on Security
Internet of Things Candle
There's a Kickstarter for an actual candle, with real fire, that you can control over the Internet. What could possibly go wrong?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coronavirus Influences P&G China Business
My former employer reports. Would seem now that the prediction of epidemics and their influence needs to be added to supply chain demand. Some in-store demand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalization of Cyberattacks
Disconcerting news in thisThe New Attack Surface is Your Life in Andreessen Horowitzby Martin Casado a 19 minute talk and supporting Deck, NotesFrom business...
From insideHPC
Swiss Conference & HPCXXL User Group Events Return to Lugano
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will host the 11th annual Swiss Conference and bi-annual HPCXXL Winter Meeting April 6-9 in Lugano, Switzerland. "Explore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Event-Based Cameras
This was brought to my attention based on a project we addressed some time ago, the term 'event based camera' was brought up as a potential solution. To address...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Defender Expands
Been a user of Defender for some time now, as long as it has been available.. It seems to work, at least in the fact that no malware has gotten through recently...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP