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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
Measuring Muscle Movement with Magnets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdDeRgAUsWoMIT Media Lab, 56.1K subscribersMagnetoMicrometryNearly all movement in the animal kingdom is driven by muscles, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Change Trajectory of Drones
Better speeds and paths for drones via optimization.Researchers Change Trajectory of Drones for the BetterUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAaron Seidlitz...
From Schneier on Security
Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Facing up to the problems of recognising faces #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
How the use of facial recognition technology caused a mistaken arrest.
From insideHPC
Mike Wall Named Verge.io Chairman of the Board
ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 25, 2022 — Verge.io, the company with a simpler way to virtualize data centers, today announced the appointment of Mike Wall as chairman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Duke Energy Smart Healing Grids
Been following this for some time, impressive results so far. Much more to be done. Duke Energy Florida's smart-thinking grid improves response, power restoration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss is appointed to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable
The Computing Community Consortium would like to congratulate the Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss, on her appointment to the National Academies’ Climate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Computer Science Professional Development Problem
Mike Zamansky is stirring up trouble again. OK not really his intent I’m sure but people can get defensive. I have to say that I agree in principle with most of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Upheld: AIs Cant Hold Patents
Recall we examined this for a Govt client, her some additional implications.AI NewsUS court upholds ruling that AIs can’t be patent holdersBy Ryan Daws | October...
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YouTube's Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations
Been following feedback aspects of YouTubeYouTube's Dislike Button Rarely Shifts RecommendationsBy The New York Times, September 21, 2022Mozilla Foundation researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Modalities Blog
This blog was brought to attention, by Russ Fein. examining further. Mention of companies involved. How up to date is as yet unclear. commentsBlog by Russ ...
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Shuffling Cards
Some time ago when doing simulation projects, we discovered some problems in code based random numbers. We even tested them vs some physical machines. To feed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi, Shares Concern Over Lack of Incentive Structure in Cybersecurity
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Advances or Creeping Madness?
Soo to be drones Everywhere? Casino Developers Want to Fill Times Square With Surveillance Drones"If the city makes this high-stakes bet on casino surveillance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chula Chatbot
ACM CAREERSChula Chatbot Serves As an Education and Career CoachBy Chulalongkorn University, September 26, 2022A chatbot developed by lecturers at Chulalongkorn...
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Space Mirrors a Good Idea?
Have my doubts, side effects still unknown. Why Not Space Mirrors? Rand Blog, by Emmi YonekuraOctober 19, 2022Given the potential consequences of climate change...
From Computational Complexity
Cheating in Chess and in Class
In the 24th move of the second game of the 1978 Chess Championship, a cup of blueberry yogurt was delivered to the defending champion Anatoly Karpov who offered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deidentification Methods
Privacy challenges continueCommon Deidentification Methods Don't Fully Protect Data PrivacyBy University of Chicago. October 13, 2022Even deidentification experts...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Similarity
I started writing about query understanding in 2016, working my way up from low-level concerns like language identification and character normalization to higher...
From insideHPC