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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
Arena Scale VR
Location based experiences. Games, entertainment and beyond. At large scale. Will be be able to broadly participate in large scale games? Considerable look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Plan for Quantum Computing
Good thoughts on the new technology and its specific applications.A game plan for quantum computingFebruary 2020 | Article McKinseyBy Alexandre Ménard, Ivan Ostojic...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W North America News
ACM-W North America welcomes the newest ACM-W Student chapter, California State University at Chico! Shout out to Bryan Dixon (faculty sponsor), Tanya Bellen Bonilla...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's Tracking-Prevention Feature in Safari has a Privacy Bug
Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple's Safari web browser. Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a feature designed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why all Those Satellites?
Been watching all those Starlink satellite launches. 60 per launch. Being an observational astronomer ave been concerned about throwing all that stuff into orbit...
From insideHPC
KU Leuven in Belgium joins iRODS Consortium
The iRODS Consortium has welcomed KU Leuven as its newest Consortium member. As one of Europe’s oldest universities, Belgium’s KU Leuven boasts a long tradition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayer's use of Digital Twins, Decision Science
Another example of AI and Digital Twins being used to construct virtual models at major enterprises.Bayer uses digital twins to reshape business strategyBayer Crop...
From insideHPC
Distributed HPC Applications with Unprivileged Containers
Felix Abecassis and Jonathan Calmels gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. "We will present the challenges in doing distributed deep learning training at scale on shared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung's Imaginary Keyboard
A long time student of ways to efficiently communicate with machines. This not being sold yet,Samsung’s Latest AI Project Is an Imaginary Keyboard for Your Phone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neon Digital Avatars
Interesting in seeing Samsung involved in this, meaning unclear.Neon CEO explains the tech behind his overhyped ‘artificial humans’ in TheVergeNeon Genesis Evangelicalism...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 8th 2020)
It is often believed that radiations are bad for you. To the contrary, David et al. report that life expectancy is approximately 2.5 years longer in people living...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Simulating Galaxy Clusters with XSEDE Supercomputers
In this TACC podcast, researchers describe how they are using XSEDE supercomputers to run some of the highest resolution simulations ever of galaxy clusters. One...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Systems Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking Systems Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Our research effort is aimed at achieving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On AI Crisis of Confidence
More like a crisis of expectations. Understanding is good, useful, needed. But it is not the driving need. The failures that will occur will first be those...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Possibilities Created by 5G together with IOT
Some useful starting thoughts on the possibilities driven by the emergence of these technologies. Sill qite a bit to do to make this really remarkable, like data...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: An MRI Scan of a Squid's Brain
This paper is filled with brain science that I do not understand (news article), but fails to answer what I consider to be the important question: how do you keep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on Service Design from ISSIP
I am a long time member of the below:Upcoming Presentation from ISSIP: International Society of Service Innovation ProfessionalsHorrors and heroes of building design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
7 Eleven Experiments with No Cashier Store
Would imagine this concept would work best where speed is of the essence. Another test to watch.7-Eleven tries out an Amazon Go-like store in Retailwire by George...
From Schneier on Security
Security in 2020: Revisited
Ten years ago, I wrote an essay: "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. I think I did pretty well. Here's what I said back then: There's really no such thing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog