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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Art as Math that Meets Crochet
Gabriele Meyer is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of Mathematics, at the University of Wisconsin. She creates beautiful art by crocheting mathematical...
From insideHPC
Atos Wins £24M Settlement over UK Met Office Weather Supercomputer Contract
The Financial Times reported today that the government of the UK has paid a £24 million settlement to Atos over an £850 million contract awarded to Microsoft for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window
Scaling Solutions, Quantum Supremacy?New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy WindowRandom circuit sampling, a popular technique for showing the power of quantumBy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congratulations to the New 2023 Class of IEEE Elevated Fellows
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past...
From Computational Complexity
Martin Davis Passed Away on Jan 1, 2023
As you probably already know from other sources, Martin Davis passed away on Jan 1, 2023, at the age of 94. His wife Virginia died a few hours later.He majoredOccasionally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Criminal Purpose Implied, Detected Via Cellphone Location
Bruce Schneier mentions .... And questions constitutionality ... Useful at the link.Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location DataThe two people who shut down...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Words
Seems odd, but can make sense, especially if you have to do many variants. And, of course they can be just starting points for editing in more complex details...
From The Eponymous Pickle
We did some Critical Path Work in the Enterprise
We did some Critical Path Work in the Enterprise, so this was of Interest, but we did not include many latency aspects. Technical, but worth a look. Distributed...
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Search Classes
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you.Are you excited to kick off the new year by learning more about search?If so, you’re in luck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on ChatGPT
McKinsey comments on this, with more at the link. I say we are about to get a big new flow of such products, and will have to quickly adapt. Generative AI is here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards 'Reality' OS
Retagging our Reality:In Engadget: By Mariella Moon|@mariella_moon|December 2, 2022 8:05 AMApple has internally changed the name of its upcoming mixed reality headset's...
From Putting People First
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
To live up to its mission of understanding the representational and computational capacities of the human mind, cognitive science needs to broaden the linguistic...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This is the interesting part: Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management
Gary Starkweather (9 January 1938 – 26 December 2019) invented and developed the first laser printer. In the late 1960s he was an engineer working in the US for...
From insideHPC
Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M
January 9, 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics announced it has raised £30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swiss Robotics Research and Results
It can all go back to the example of the complex WatchOn Robotics in SwitzerlandMarc-André Miserez, Other languages: 7The move into robotics has been a naturalTo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dense Visual Representations and More for Robotics
Quite an interesting podcast I am about to listen to ... ideal applications?.ACM OPINIONDense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for RoboticsBy The Gradient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural Disasters
Increasingly becoming an ideal application for these techniques.Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural DisastersThe Japan Times, December 31, 2022A growing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stoke Space
Looking Outward ...Stoke Space aims to build rapidly reusable rocket with a completely novel design"We took a leap of faith and jumped off a cliff."Stoke Space....
From The Eponymous Pickle