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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
Low Cost, Omni Purpose Robotics
Robust Robotics Solutions Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any ObstacleCarnegie Mellon University NewsAaron Aupperle, November 16, 2022Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Written by a Robot?
Automating text.Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?By The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2022Theres a good chance that some of what youve...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken: The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Look out the window at the human-made world. It’s full of hard, geometric shapes – our buildings, the roads, our...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Latina Computing Professionals Panel at Tapia 2022!
by Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Brianna Posadas, Wendy Roldan Latina women, historically underrepresented in computing [1], face additional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Quantum State of the Union
Good status info: An update on the IBM Quantum mission to bring useful quantum computing to the world, and to make the world quantum safe. Covering remarkableLed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UF Planning Invention Awards
From the University of Florida, one of my schools:Srinivasan and Nawari Awarded 2022 Invention of the Year Award by UF InnovateMore than 200 innovators and entrepreneurs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Sourcing Farm of the Future
First I had seen open sourcing in this domainMicrosoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkitJake Siegel, Oct 6, 2022FARMINGTON, Wash. – The gently rolling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asteroid Hits Earth Shortly After Discovery
With pictures at link. This happens often, but here apparently with a specific prediction.Asteroid hit Canada hours after discoveryPosted by, Kelly Kizer Whitt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Interplanetary File System
Idea is new to me.Why the Internet Needs the Interplanetary File SystemPeer-to-peer file sharing would make the Internet far more efficientYiannis Psaris, Jorge...
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New Brain Models
Alternative, competitive models are always good.A New Brain Model Could Pave the Way for Conscious AIA new model of the human brain.A new study presents a newGuillaume...
From Geeking with Greg
Experimentation and metrics
Since the early days of the Web, I've been a fan of A/B testing for promoting innovation and ideas. But A/B testing is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Law and Moderation Transparency
Happened on the Stanford Cyberlaw Center, and notably Transparency laws. Here an excerpt, which leads to more ... Had not taken a look there for some time. ...
From Putting People First
Climate change and human behaviour
This Focus of Nature Magazine, a collaboration between Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Climate Change, features a broad range of Review and Opinion content on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost Legged Robotics
Low cost, especially useful for testing out proposed uses, sounds good. Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any Obstacle By Carnegie Mellon University News, NovemberA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experts Making Complex Decisions
Note also my mention of 'process mining' which can lead to and simplify useful decision making. How Experts Make Complex DecisionsBy studying 200 million chess...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Mines Process
We worked with Microsoft to explore process mining: Was a good idea, Now they are further investing in the idea. See my links on the examination in this blog...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brains
Researchers have new evidence of how squid brains develop: Researchers from the FAS Center for Systems Biology describe how they used a new live-imaging technique...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Users Work Alongside Classical Supercomputers: An Interview with Travis Humble at Oak Ridge Lab
By Katie Elyce Jones, Editor, PillarQ As the high-performance computing (HPC) community looks beyond the brink of Moore’s Law for solutions to accelerate future...
From Schneier on Security