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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 insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University
Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "The Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle and Carrefour Track Baby Milk
Another tracking and safety identification example.Nestle, Carrefour Extend Blockchain Tracking Effort to Baby Milk By Daniel Palmer in CoindeskNothing is more...
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Laser Pointers Can Hack Your Voice Assistant
Troublesome, but does require visual line of sight. Could the assistant detect the kind of energy being received and reject a transduced signal?Laser pointerby...
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IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting
Wondered Where IBM was Taking their big Weather Investment. I note that American Airlines is testing some of this.IBM hopes to change weather forecasting around...
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Censorship Evasion
Basically fooling the censors. Is this breakable? AI System Evolves to Evade Internet CensorshipUniversity of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Planctotuethis Squid
Neat video, and an impressive-looking squid. I can't figure out how long it is. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–November 2019
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair Several times over the past three years, I have mentioned ACM/ACM-W’s participation in the Gender Gap in Science project (https://gender...
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Should Customers be Paid for their Data?
From a retail perspective, below the outline, more at the linkShould customers just be paid for their data? by Guest contributorWise Marketer StaffIn light of...
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Foundational Barriers to AI
Interesting ideas from surveys by McKinsey. About value of AI at scale. Foundational changes to make it work. I take it somewhat differently. This was the...
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AI and Loyalty Marketing
A non technical look at the idea, with expert opinion.What does artificial intelligence mean for loyalty marketing? by Bill Hanifin with further expert opinion...
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Digital Twins in Maintenance and Manufacturing
Not a new thing, but a new thing done this systematically. Like to see it also attached to general process and use AI pattern recognition and broader analytics...
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Smart Speaker Stats
And much more stats at the link:Amazon sold 10.4 million smart speakers in Q3 2019, three times more than Google’s 3.5 million devices in Voicebot.AIAlibaba lead...
From Schneier on Security
TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors
Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted...
From insideHPC
Altair Teams with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
"Altair and Oracle have teamed up to help customers quickly expand their engineering and high performance computing (HPC) capacity in Oracle's cloud. Altair HyperWorks...
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Visualizing the World’s Largest Turbulence Simulation
In this visualization, LRZ presents the largest interstellar turbulence simulations ever performed, unravelling key astrophysical processes concerning the formation...
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Mellanox LongReach Appliance Extends InfiniBand Connectivity up to 40 Kilometers
Today Mellanox introduced the Mellanox Quantum LongReach series of long-distance InfiniBand switches. Mellanox Quantum LongReach systems provide the ability toMellanox...
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DDN Launches New Data Management Capabilities and Platforms for AI and HPC
Today DDN announced new infrastructure and multicloud solutions ahead of its return to SC19 in Denver. "We are adding serious data management, collaboration and...
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Enterprise Adoption of AI? Ask Watson.
A re positioning which is interesting. More at the link.IBM Pitches Watson for Enterprise AI Woes in InformationweekIBM says that Watson can help enterprises...
From insideHPC
The Use of High-Performance Polymers in HPC and Data Center Applications
"Polymer components in liquid cooling systems are attractive for several reasons: they are lightweight, typically less expensive than metal counterparts, and are...
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