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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
Nov. 4 Chicago Quantum Summit to Focus on Quantum Ecosystems
CHICAGO — Experts in quantum science and technology from around the globe will gather tomorrow, November 4, both virtually and in person, for the fourth annual Chicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual roundtables to initiate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Edge Computing and Healthcare
Many applications and emerging possibilities.How Edge Computing is Transforming HealthcareBy Vanessa BraunsteinWhen analyzing healthcare and life science data from...
From Computational Complexity
A Complexity View of Machine Learning?
Complexity is at its best when it models new technologies so we can study it in a principled way. Quantum computing comes to mind as a good relatively recent example...
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research
Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corporations!
As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Words vs Images?
Considering WorthNot Worth a Thousand Words By Bertrand Meyer October 12, 2021Three minutes into my talk at my first meeting of the IFIP working group on programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Businesses Offerred OpenAI By Microsoft.
Microsoft built an API for its use. Seems it needs some cautions due to liability.Microsoft is giving businesses access to OpenAI’s powerful AI language model...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Proposal Deadlines: Small Businesses
Proposals for Phase I and Phase II of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s (CISE) Small Business Innovation...
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Registration Open for Hyperion Research HPC Market Update Nov. 15 During SC21
Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update (virtual) session, held in conjunction with the SC21 conference. The event will take place...
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IBM and NeuReality in AI Inference Platforms Partnership
Nov. 2, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, said they will develop a high-performance AI inference platforms...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Trick or Treat
Are crazy quantum walks fact or fiction? NOAA src Lesley Smith is a climate researcher at the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental...
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DOE’s HPC for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Fall Solicitation
Nov. 1, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative will issue a fall 2021 solicitation in November...
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TACC Deploys Dell HPC System ‘Lonestar6’
Lonestar6, a Dell Technologies HPC system designed and deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, is intendedTACC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mixed Reality in China
Considerable piece in the CACM, below the intro.The Present and Future of Mixed Reality in China in CACMBy Guofeng Zhang, Xiaowei Zhou, Feng Tian, Hongbin Zha...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Need for Common Sense
Good piece in Wired on the need for 'common sense' reasoning to bring human Intelligence to AI. Even a mention of CYC, and the years of work it has used to include...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Third National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force Meeting and CCC Response to the NAIRR Implementation Plan
The National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force convened its third virtual public meeting to further develop a vision and implementation...
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ML Startup MindsDB Raises $7.6M Seed Funding; Partners with Snowflake, SingleStore and Datastax
San Francisco – November 1, 2021 – MindsDB, the open-source machine learning (ML) startup that brings ML to the database, today announced an investment from Walden...
From The Noisy Channel