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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 My Biased Coin
Postdoc call for FODSI
As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for data science), I'mhttps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by Supercomputers
No mention of AI here, just computational speed. Likely in the detail.Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by SupercomputersBy University of Portsmouth (U.K.)November...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Money is Hard in Programming
Last week I wrote about the making change for a dollar project. It got me thinking about how hard dealing with money in programming really is. The problem with...
From Computational Complexity
Reflections on Trusting ``Trustlessness'' in the era of ``Crypto'' Blockchains (Guest Post)
I trust Evangelos Georgiadis to do a guest post on Trust and Blockchain. Today we have a guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis on Trust. It was written before Lance's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Computers learning Morals
Yes, but Whose Morals?Machines Learn Good From Commonsense Norm Bank New moral reference guide for AI draws from advice columns and ethics message boards CHARLES...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Goes Tactile
Been surprised by directions Facebook is taking, Giving AI a bad name? In Spectrum IEEEWhy Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots Durable and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phases of Analytic Evoloution
Been a while since I looked at KelloggInsight4 Phases of Analytics Evolution: From Spreadsheets to AI WorkbenchesWhat lies ahead for business leaders looking to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Using Gaudi Acceleration
This was brought to my attention some time ago. Here an overview of what Amazon is doing there. Technical. Looking up some notes on gaudi generators, Know of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Take Bitcoin? .... NO!
Having worked with Kroger was stunned by this earlier today, consider the implications. But no was a hoax. To influence share prices? Walmart had earlier been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Holograms?
Ever since seeing early versions of holographic images ay Disney World have thought of their uses, both in interaction with consumers, and as a means to graphically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Some optimistic views but challenges still exist, good overview.Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality, By Samuel GreengardCommunications of the ACM, November 2021...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tales of Grace Hopper
Told of my own minor interactions with Grace Hopper at the Pentagon, towards the end of her career, here is more:Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Ways to Make a Dollar
I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I know do use it. Simply...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Register for This Year’s Final Departmental BPC Plan Working Session
The BPCnet Resource Portal is an initiative by the Computing Research Association with support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Example of Key Health IOT
Have become educated in advanced BP measurement lately which led me to note this IOT example. And the need for it. Note this is something in progress, as yet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of Covid on Automation
Wladowsky-Berger does a good job in covering the topic:Impact of Covid-19 on Job Automation“Why are there still so many jobs?,” asked MIT economist David AutorAs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech Careers From TV, Not SchoolZDNet, Liam Tung, August 6, 2021(Note this is about careers, not the tech itself, Assume its...
From My Biased Coin
HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here. I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection...
From insideHPC
SciDAC: DOE Funding $30M Opportunity Using HPC for High Energy Physics Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million for research in computation and simulation techniques and tools “to understand the universe via...
From insideHPC