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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 16th 2021)
The thymus is an important component of our immune system. As we age, the thymus degenerates and our immune system becomes less fit: emotional and physical distress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT and QCRI Deep Learning Predicts Traffic Accidents
And forecasting generalizes to multiple cities. Deep Learning Helps Predict Traffic Crashes Before They HappenMIT News, Rachel Gordon, October 12, 2021A deep learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trustworthy AI Blog
IBM Writes on Trustworthy AI in a new Blog:Financial services: Trustworthy AI’s promise and payoffIBM, Forrester, UBS, Regions Bank, and State Bank of India show...
From insideHPC
Damkroger Said to Be Out as Head of Intel HPC
Word is circulating that Trish Damkroger, vice president and general manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Group, will leave her position and be replaced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepfake Voices Fool Human, Smart Assistants
A Concern.AI-Generated Deepfake Voices Can Fool Humans, Smart AssistantsBy New Scientist, October 14, 2021Freely available voice-mimicking software can deceiveThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nissan Intelligent Auto Plant
A more intelligent robotic automobile plant at Nissan. Smart Robots Do All the Work at Nissan's 'Intelligent' PlantAssociated Press, Yuri Kageyama October 8,Nissan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LED Display of incoming Data Through Clothing
All the Information You Need Could Be in Your PocketUniversity of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science (Canada)October 12, 2021Researchers at the University...
From insideHPC
Appentra and Fujitsu in HPC Collaboration
A Coruña, Spain – Oct. 14, 2021 — Fujitsu and Appentra, maker of Parallelware Analyzer to boost the performance of C/C++ code, and Fujitsu have announced a framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What makes Quantum Computing so Hard to Understand
Yes, when I first took an advanced physics course I ran into this. Physics is a very strictly well ruled thing, with 'constants' of all sorts. So if you remember...
From Computational Complexity
A Young Person's Game?
When László Babai first announced his graph isomorphism in quasipolynomial time result, I wroteWe think of theory as a young person's game, most of the big breakthroughs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electromobility and the German Electric Grid
Having recently been reading about models of the US electrical grid, so made me think of how such mobility will be handled. How much more infrastructure? Learnings...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
Welcome to a new year of ACM-W activity! This promises to be a year of much transition and change on many fronts.
From insideHPC
2 Univ. of Minnesota Professors Win SC21 Test of Time Award
Oct. 13, 2021 — The annual SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) goes to George Karypis and Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota for their paper “Multilevel Algorithms...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Calling a dynamically compiled function from Go
Compiled programming languages are typically much faster than interpreted programming language. Indeed, the compilation step produces “machine code” that is ideally...
From insideHPC
Sandia Researcher Drew Kouri Wins Early-Career Research Grant
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Working to solve a problem, supercomputing researchers may encounter incomplete data or flawed programs. For both issues, Sandia researcherSandia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GoDaddy Wants to Help Small Businesses Compete Using AI
Interesting idea here, will it be effective? GoDaddy wants to help small businesses compete using AI by 7wDataGoDaddy may not spring to mind as a developer of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Psychology of Panic Buying
Good article here. In Fortune. There might be ways to integrate the notion of control in consumer decision making? Never heard it mentioned in this way.The...
From insideHPC
Kinetica Database Now on Azure
October 12, 2021 – Database company Kinetica is now accessible as a service on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, designed to give organizations real-time contextual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia Exluded from Ransomware Summit
Is it useful to do this? Hard to say, but I think so, with the carrot being later involvement. Russia excluded from 30-country meeting to fight ransomware andBy...
From insideHPC