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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
Marketing Looks at Voice Assistants
Former colleague and correspondent Lou Killeffer of FiveMileRiver Marketing writes an interesting and cautious piece about voice assistants, AI and the future of...
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches New HPC Infrastructure Services with Digital Realty
Today Award-winning Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D announced an agreement with San Francisco-based Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced recently the selection of four grand prize and three meritorious prize winners for its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Way that Emerging Tech is Disrupting Business Strategy
Good piece from HBS Bus School in HBSWK, fairly obvious examples, but worth a look.Workig Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders6 Ways That Emerging...
From insideHPC
Microway powers Shared Research Computing Storage Project in Massachusetts
Powered by storage technology supplied by Microway, the Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) is changing the way Boston-area universities approach research data storage...
From Schneier on Security
Companies that Scrape Your Email
Motherboard has a long article on apps -- Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox -- that spy on your email by scraping your screen, and then sell that information to others...
From insideHPC
Whitepaper: Accelerate Training of Deep Neural Networks with MemComputing
"The paper addresses the inherent limitations associated with today's most popular gradient-based methods, such as Adaptive Moment Estimation (ADAM) and Stochastic...
From insideHPC
Using sound and light for ultra-fast data transfer
A research team of academics from the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham believes its has found a way of delivering ultra- fast modulation, by combining...
From insideHPC
Call for Posters: Women in HPC Workshop at ISC20
The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop has issued its Call for Posters. The half-day WHPC workshop takes place June 25 at ISC20 in Frankfurt, Germany.Call...
From insideHPC
Introducing HPC with a Raspberry Pi Cluster
Colin Sauze from Aberystwyth University gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. The motivation for this was to overcome key problems faced by new HPC users. "The talk will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla's Approach to Innovation
Been impressed, now how long will it last?Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to InnovationBy Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer in HBRFew companies have attracted as much scorn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Swarming Pods
A favorite topic, distributing tasks, combining to solve tasks.Autonomous Pods SWARM Together Like Bees in World-First DemonstrationUniversity of WarwickJanuary...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-Europe Blog: Reflections on womENcourage 2019
This month’s guest blogger is Elif Akeli, a PhD student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. “I started my professional journey six years ago. During...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Using Negative Nodes to Count
A deeper basis for generalized Tutte-Grothendieck invariants Via Psychology Today article Alexander Grothendieck peppered algebraic geometry with nilpotent elements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Will Build the Next Moon Rover?
A natural move forward:NASA wants the auto industry to build its next Moon rover in TNWWe've narrowed down who we think will win the contractASA earlier this...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
President’s Budget Highlights Need for Funding in AI and Quantum
Yesterday, the President released his FY2021 budget request. The request includes a significant increase in nondefense AI R&D compared to the FY 2020 Budget and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia 5G Tests with Connected Cars
Tests moving forward. Look forward to seeing how this will change the way we interact with automobiles, before and after they become autonomous. More detailsNokia...
From insideHPC
OnScale joins Revolution in Simulation community
Today OnScale announced their sponsorship of Revolution in Simulation, a collaborative community helping to increase the value of engineering simulation software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Large Classes The Answer To a Computer Science Teacher Shortage?
Another teacher reported on Facebook that they were going teach AP CS Principles and that this was the first time they are teaching computer science and their students...
From Schneier on Security