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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2022 Day 2
The morning keynote was by Barbara Ericson. She talked about a lot of her early work including some of her online books CSAwesome and her work with the free online...
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Singapore Healthcare to Acquire Nvidia Supercomputer
The Singapore healthcare service, SingHealth, and the Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NCSS) announced the acquisition of an Nvidia supercomputer during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Digital Infrastructure
Good overviewHow Do Digital Infrastructures Increase a Firm’s Value? by Irving Wladawsky-Berger“In the information age, the value of a firm rests fundamentally...
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HPC4EI Virtual Event: Focus on Materials on April 8
March 4, 2022 — The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will host a virtual event, “Focus on Materials,” on April 8, 2022 at 8 am PacificHPC4EI...
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On Vannevar Bush
Good piece on essential Bush, his work was influential to me. The Essential Vannevar Bush Quotes by G. PASCAL ZACHARYVannevar Bush was the first trained electrical...
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Exascale: Aurora Early Adopter Series March 30 – Data Parallel Python, Bringing oneAPI to Python
March 4, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold an online event on Wednesday, March 30 at 11 am Central Time as part of its Aurora Early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Fighting Cyber War too
Not unexpected, now and in the future. Ukraine says it is fighting first 'hybrid war' in the BBCBy Joe Tidy, Cyber reporterUkraine's cyber-security authorityThe...
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Validating Non-Fungible Tokens
Considerable detailed piece. Obviously key to their usage. Validating NFTs, By Keith Kirkpatrick, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 3, 2022The market for non-fungible...
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Joystick Immersion for VR
Better immersion in VR. For Better Immersion in VR: Flying JoysticksVia Informations dienst WissenschaftFebruary 22, 2022At Germany's University of Duisburg-Essen...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2022 Day 1
SIGCSE 2022 is my first in-person conference in over 2.5 years. It’s my first SIGCSE in a lot longer than that. It looks to be a great conference . There are 1518...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon EcoVistas
Like the idea that this is addressing a system rather than just one, or a few simplistic measures. Amazon EcoVistas to Guide Sustainable Dam SitingThe Engineer...
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IonQ’s Barium Systems Demonstrate Qubit Readout Performance
COLLEGE PARK, MD – March 3, 2022 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today published results from its new barium-based quantum computer showing its state...
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2022 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition: 12 Teams from HPCUs and HSIs
The 2022 Intersect360 Research Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is off and running, with 12 teams of students from Historically Black Colleges...
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Amazon and Whole Foods
Inevitable moves to make retail more labor efficient and error free. Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods, By The New York Times, March 2, 2022"Would...
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D-Wave, CaixaBank Group Collaborate on Quantum for Finance Industry
Valencia, Spain and Burnaby, BC, Canada – March 3, 2022 – CaixaBank, a financial group in Spain, and D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, softwareD...
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Hyperion Research Announces March 2022 HPC User Forum
ST PAUL, Minn., March 2, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced that registration is open for the HPC User Forum’s March 2022 virtual...
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More Biometric Doorbells
Expect more biometrics for security. In the Future, Amazon's Ring Doorbell Might Use Biometric Data to Surveil NeighborhoodsThe company has been awarded patents...
From Computational Complexity
REU programs in general, and two at Univ of MD this summer.
REU stands for Research Experience for Undergraduates. REU programs are funded by the NSF. The NSF website of REU programs is here. Univ if MD at College Park dept...
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Cyberwar: Microsoft Comes to Ukraine’s Aid Combating Russian Malware
“I’ve never seen it work quite this way, or nearly this fast. We are doing in hours now what, even a few years ago, would have taken weeks or months.” -- Tom Burt...
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