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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
And More Skin, Now for Health Monitoring
Argonne at work. Skin-Like Electronics Could Monitor Health ContinuouslyArgonne National LaboratoryJoseph E. Harmon, November 16, 2022Scientists at the U.S. Department...
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A Classic Difficult Problem for Robotic AI
If only, we saw an early demo of this. Robots that Can Feel Cloth Layers May One Day Help with LaundryBy Stacey Federoff, Carnegie Mellon,New research from Carnegie...
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Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics?
A possibility.Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics? in NewScientistAlgorithms can pore over astrophysical data to identify underlying equations. Now, physicists...
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Simulation Based Dynamic Virtual Prototyping
Simulation aided by selective AI Simulation-based and highly dynamic: virtual prototypingPress release / November 09, 2022The things that amaze us in everydayThe...
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Re Ambient Computing
Anytime, anywhere, data and computation delivered.Why the Future of the Computer Is Everywhere, All the TimeBy The Wall Street JournalOctober 31, 2022In the ambient...
From The Noisy Channel
What is Not Search?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...
From Putting People First
To understand uses of personal data in the present, people draw on the past and imagine the future
The collection and analysis of data about us now occurs across many aspects of everyday life, but how do people come to understand these complex processes? Drawing...
From Putting People First
Interviews in the social sciences – A Nature Reviews Method Primer
In this Nature Reviews Method Primer, Eleanor Knott, Aliya Hamid Rao, Kate Summers & Chana Teeger off the London School of Economics focus on the stages and challenges...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in data centers
Data centers are destroying the natural world, writes anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in Wired. But is the cloud an inherently unsustainable paradigm?...
From Putting People First
Nielsen Norman Group on the usability of AR
AR features in mobile apps are plagued by usability issues such as poor discoverability and findability of items with AR, low-visibility instructions, or vague...
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Alexa Failing?
How true re Alexa? Had heard of the layoffs. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year By Ron Amadeo 11/21/2022 7:32 pm Amazon...
From insideHPC
Get Ready for Ronnascale Supercomputing – and Quettascale Data Volumes
Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 1018, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers...
From insideHPC
Pre-proposals for Allocations of National Lab HPC Resources Due Nov. 28
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is now seeking proposals for the 2023-2024 allocation year. Pre-proposals are due byPre...
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AI Asking Questions, Getting Better Answers
Good thought: Note the Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE). Worth thinking about. AI Is Better at Answering Questions if You Get Another AI to Ask ThemBy New Scientist...
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Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect Data
Smart Sensors that store and processes data.Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect DataUniversity of Virginia Engineering...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022
The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances...
From Putting People First
No amount of hype and starry-eyed Metaverse proselytising can escape reality
The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems
From The Eponymous Pickle
3 Ways AI is scaling Helpful Technologies Worldwide
Google Posts AI progress BenefitsIn the Google AI Blog Decades of research have led to today’s rapid progress in AI. Today, we’re announcing three new ways people...
From Computational Complexity
A Celebration of Juris
On November 4th I travelled to my undergraduate alma mater Cornell for a Celebration of the Life and Career of Juris Hartmanis who passed away in July. The workshop...
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