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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
Deep Learning Hit a Wall?
Insightful piece. Have started to slow movement towards intelligence? I think it even more fundamental than that, we still cant provide complex context for the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) Interim Report- Public Conference Calls
Last week, we shared the National Security Commission on AI‘s Interim Report as well as details about the corresponding conference held on November 6, Strength...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard
We’re covering Classes and Objects in my Programming Honors course this week. Specifically we are learning how to program classes in C# and use them in programs...
From insideHPC
Cortical.io Demonstrates Real-time Semantic Supercomputing for NLU
Today Cortical.io announced the debut of a new class of high-performance enterprise applications based on “Semantic Supercomputing.” Semantic Supercomputing combines...
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in March
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has published a Call for Sessions for its 16th annual OFA Workshop. "The OFA Workshop 2020 Call for Sessions encourages industryCall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
France Starts Nationwide Facial Recognition
To do personal identification apparently. China is also underway. Note the linking to 'biometric identity databases'. Challenges are starting. Though they...
From insideHPC
Enabling HPC with Intel on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Services built on Intel technology offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Agents for Design
Intrigued by integration of Design and AI. Our early looks were at how to use a vast history of advertising to create new and effective marketing designs.AI agents...
From Schneier on Security
NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize...
From My Biased Coin
Allston : Students Should Speak Up
I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston....
From insideHPC
Cray and Fujitsu to bring Game-Changing Arm A64FX Processor to Global HPC Market
Today Cray and Fujitsu announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for the exascale era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for a Quantum Internet
A basis for a Quantum Internet? Once that contains and is driven by quantum devices? Technical paper linked to below.A new quantum data classification protocol...
From insideHPC
Intel showcases New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge
Today Intel unveiled new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. "In its key announcement, Intel demonstrated its...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Unrolling your loops can improve branch prediction
Modern processors predict branches (e.g., if-then clauses), often many cycles a ahead of time. When predictions are incorrect, the processor has to start again,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open Data
The following great innovative idea is from Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely from the University of Southern California. Kejriwal and Szekely were one of the Blue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold on Amazon's Success
From Bob Herbold's Blog:Amazon’s Secrets to SuccessPosted on November 12, 2019 The article on Amazon’s master plan for success that appeared recently in the Atlantic...
From insideHPC
Department of Energy to Showcase World-Leading Science at SC19
The DOE’s national laboratories will be showcased at SC19 next week in Denver, CO. "Computational scientists from DOE laboratories have been involved in the conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herman Miller Gets into Gaming
We actively worked with Herman Miller innovation, so used their office layouts in our innovation centers. So this is a bit of a surprise.Herman Miller is getting...
From insideHPC
ETH Zurich up for Best Paper at SC19 with Lossy Compression for Large Graphs
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich are working on a novel approach to solving increasingly large graph problems. "As the size of graph datasets grows larger, a...
From insideHPC