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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Amazon’s new ARM servers: Graviton 2
Most servers on the Internet run on x64 processors, mostly made by Intel. Meanwhile, most smartphones run ARM processors. From a business perspective, these are...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congratulations to the 2019 ACM Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2019 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s most prestigious member grade, which “comprise...
From insideHPC
D-Wave and NEC to Accelerate Commercial Quantum Computing
Today D-Wave Systems announced the company has signed agreements with NEC Corporation to drive development of hybrid services that combine the best features ofD...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan 2019
The Director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program is pleased to share the link for the updated Federal Cybersecurity Research...
From insideHPC
Developing Better Vaccines with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Researchers from the University of Bristol and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, teamed up with computer technology giant Oracle and vaccine innovator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Barcode Developer Dies
We were one of the earliest experimenters and users of the Barcode in retail, starting in 1994. In the BBC: George Laurer, the US engineer who helped develop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Goes More Local Yet
In a recent Google Blog entry, about local ads:The holidays are a critical time of year for your stores, as shoppers stop in to get an item quickly or see it in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Entities
Also a strong interest of mine, how close are we to building such systems and trusting them in every day life? Certainly too, in the near term such systems will...
From insideHPC
Innoviz to Accelerate AI for Autonomous Vehicles with WekaIO
Today WekaIO announced that Innoviz, a leading manufacturer of high-performance, solid-state Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors and Perception Software...
From insideHPC
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Sees Major Growth on Latest TOP500 List
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) reported the latest TOP500 List results show that HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based...
From insideHPC
NGD Systems Steps up with Arm Processors on SSDs at SC19
In this video from the Arm booth at SC19, Scott Shadley from NGD Systems describes the company's innovative computational storage technology. "In a nutshell, Computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustainability of LEDs
This came up in a project done during the earlier days of LED adoption. Good piece here that makes the case. Another landfill scenario?LED Technology Isn't All...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Battery Life for IOT
Waking up your IOT device when needed.Chips for IOT Battery LifeUC San Diego News CenterLiezel LabiosUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have...
From Schneier on Security
Extracting Data from Smartphones
Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Europe, December 2019
Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019), Barcelona The first conference on the Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019) was held in Barcelona...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Scholarships–December 2019
We are delighted to welcome the following new Student Chapters to ACM-W: University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Washington Bothell University of Illinois Urbana...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan to Use Blockchain Payments
Another indication of the wider adoption of Blockchain for tracking verified currency transfer.JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain payments platform looks to be expanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Autonomous Cars Arrive in the Car Chase
Dr. Lance Eliot spends considerable time and detail in examining how the autonomous car will be included in the classic California 'car chase'. Also points to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Trials AI Soccer Commentary
Note similarity to the Wimbledon video clip management example. As I commented there I would also like this done as real-time assitistive commentary to business...
From The Eponymous Pickle