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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 …
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UK Says No to AI Patents
Contrary to the US it currently seems.UK decides AI still cannot patent inventions By Chris Vallance in the BBC, Technology reporterThe UK's Intellectual Property...
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Harvard Predicts Happiness
How specific or Even Specifically Useful?Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human HappinessTOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceHarvard Medical SchoolMachine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcome New Computer Science Teachers
Spring is an interesting time on social media. I help moderate a couple of CS teacher groups on Facebook and let me tell you, membership is booming! Why? Well,Computer...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Fallows of Medium Data
Who will curate less-prominent datasets? Presidential Biography src Samuel Fallows was a bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was born in 1835 and headed...
From Geeking with Greg
Making it more difficult to shill recommender systems
Lately I've been thinking about recommender algorithms and how they go wrong. I keep hitting examples of people arguing that we should ban the fewest accounts possible...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Cigdem Sengul selected as the next ACM-W Communications co-Chair
Cigdem Sengul, current communications chair and secretary of ACM-W Europe, will be the next Communications Co-Chair of ACM-W, effective July 2022. Cigdem is a Senior...
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Meta and Self Supervised AI
More Meta AI?Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward In the quest for human-level intelligent AI, Meta is betting on self-supervised learning BY ELIZA...
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Don't Fall for Quantum Hype: Hossenfelder
Another excellent short Youtube talk here: By Sabine Hossenfelder Don't Fall for quantum Hype https://youtu.be/b-aGIvUomTACheck out the physics courses that IWhat...
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Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Detail
Faster detail in photo microscopy. Note also use of sound. Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Unprecedented Detail By Duke Biomedical Engineering...
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Quadcopter Drone does Air, Water, Over and Under, Even Hitches a ride.
Expecting many more updates in drone autonomy, flexibilityA quadcopter that works in the air and underwater and also has a suction cup for hitching a ride on ...
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Cognitive Bias in Software Development
Intro to research paper in ACM, considerable, technical, worth understandingCognitive Biases in Software DevelopmentBy Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey...
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We are Training Much Faster Now
Faster, better training is here outlined and described. We’re Training AI Twice as Fast This Year as Last New MLPerf rankings show training times plunging By...
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Microsoft AI Spots Ransomware?
Have not heard much of this elsewhere.How Microsoft's AI spots ransomware attacks before they even get started in ZDNetMicrosoft is targeting human-operatedWritten...
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Wal-Mart Adds Cloud Capabilities
Wal-Mart Adds Cloud Capabilities and takes control ACM TECHNEWSWalmart Amps Up Cloud Capabilities, Reducing Reliance on Tech GiantsBy The Wall Street JournalRetailer...
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First CRISPR Gene Editing Drug
Pharma advances The first CRISPR gene-editing drug, designed to treat blood disorders, could be on the market by 2023. Here’s what it means for the future of drug...
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Using Makeup to Defeat Suveillance
Considerable and technical piece in the current CACM. Consider the implications. Short intro: Using Makeup to Block Surveillance By Esther SheinCommunications...
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Intel Announces Silicon Photonics
Quite interesting from IntelIntel announces silicon photonics advancement towards optical I/OArne Verheyde @witeken in VenturebeatIntel has demonstrated an eight...
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@HPCpodcast: At the HPC User Forum — A Frontier Visit, the State of Quantum and Supercomputing Center Staffing Woes
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast we focus on the HPC User Forum, run by industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and held last week at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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Kathryn Kelley Joins CASC as Executive Director
June 30, 2022 — The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) has announce that Kathryn Kelley has joined CASC as it’s new Executive Director. For more...
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