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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 insideHPC
Nominations Open for SC 2025 General Chair and Steering Committee Openings
May 4, 2022 — The SC Steering Committee is seeking future leaders for the SC Conference Series. Nominations for the SC25 general chair are now open and will close...
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Post-Exascale Fabric: NNSA Awards Cornelis Networks $18M for High Performance Network R&D
Those who gave up for dead Intel's Omni-Path fabric, which Intel began working on 2012 and stopped supporting seven years later, may want to re-think that. Cornelis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Platforms vs Users
Obviously, but worth a thought:Platforms Need to Work with Their Users – Not Against Themby Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Andrew Hall, May 04, 2022 in HBR.orgAs...
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Etna Volcanology with Fiber Optic Cables
Fraunhofer work on Etna Sensors Scientists Spy on Mount Etna with Fiber-Optic CablesWired, Matt Simon, April 8, 2022Scientists at the German Research Center for...
From Computational Complexity
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
I don't mention it that often in this blog, but I fell in love with opera in the 90's and watch as much as I can, often fitting opera into my travels or vice-versa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Library Inventory
Inventory taking and misplaced items.Robot Takes Stock of Books at Akita Public LibraryThe Asahi Shimbun (Japan)Tsutomu Yamatani, April 12, 2022The loan and return...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Sedgewick to Emeritus Status
Retire from your job, but never retire your mind. Bob Sedgewick is becoming an emeritus professor: When Faculty transfer to emeritus status and retain a professional...
From Putting People First
Privacy is a collective concern
It’s easy to assume that because some data is “personal”, protecting it is a private matter. But privacy is both a personal and a collective affair, because data...
From Putting People First
Radical user-centricity, a key RegTech success factor
One of the key success factors of Regulatory Technology ("RegTech") is a commitment to radical user-centricity, according to a new white paper by the World Economic...
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Tachyum Prodigy FPGA Running Applications in Linux Interactive Mode
LAS VEGAS — May 3, 2022 –Tachyum Inc. today announced it is running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)...
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Composable Memory within CXL 2.0 Protocol Shown by Liqid, Samsung, Tanzanite
The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium is chasing the utopian tech dream, now being realized in an increasing number of high performance servers, of a high-speed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metals Use and Availability: Nickel
Brought to my attention in another study. Am a follower of materials use and supply chain of need and availability. Here as it related to electric vehicles...
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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate Students
May 3, 2022 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student...
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Sustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO Transition
Amsterdam – May 3, 2022 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announced Ronald Monster is stepping into the position of CEO following a milestone with a newSustainable...
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NSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement Funding
Work of a computer program to improve predictions of the physical behavior of industrially important materials, designed with leadership from Pittsburgh Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts of Mining Asteroids
Was also involved in an analysis of making this possible. Still difficult thing to do if we cannot easily determine the value of resources there. Not tooNASA...
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Neural Nets Speed Simulations
Very interesting piece, Often the speed of complex simulations can be key. Below an introductory text, makes a good case. More at the link.Neural Networks Learn...
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VR Relieving Pain
Recall this being studied some time ago. Seeking study.Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearview and Facial Recognition.
Remain intrigued by facial recognition. consider the similarity of its emergence to fingerprint techniques. A comparison is useful. Can having enough data ultimately...
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