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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 …
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Cambridge Quantum Open Sources TKET Software Development Toolkit
Cambridge, UK, September 29, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum (CQ) announced that the latest version (v.0.15) of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum...
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RENCI Named Partner in NSF Institute’s $15M Imageomics Effort
Sept. 29, 2021 — RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been named as a partner in a new effort to use...
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Rube Leung, Chief Scientist for Energy Exascale Earth System Model Project, Named a DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow.
Ruby Leung likes to ask questions. That started at her high school in Hong Kong, where she also became interested in science. “I was one of those kids in science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Does a Home Robot: Astro
A number of such 'friendly' ranging home robots have been around, none successful. I recall the Pepper robot. This is expensive. Notably it will not climb stairs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sciam Says Self Driving Cars Emergent
Scientific American takes a look at a self driving future'Self-Driving' Cars Begin to Emerge from a Cloud of Hype By Scientific American, September 27, 2021Although...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taulbee, Talent, and Trends: CRA Session at Upcoming DOE ASCAC Meeting
The Computing Research Association (CRA) will be represented by CRA staff (Betsy Bizot, Erik Russell, and Burçin Tamer) and CRA-WP Co-Chairs (Sandhya Dwarkadas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Is a Game-Changing Computing and Communication Platform
Very good piece on the topic from CACM. With some useful examples of VR uses beyond games. Have been skeptical about its general use, see key insights below...
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HPE Launches GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform for Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that the company said signify HPE’s entry...
From Schneier on Security
Check What Information Your Browser Leaks
These two sites tell you what sorts of information you’re leaking from your browser.
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European Exascale Chip Designer SiPearl Opens 5th Center in Grenoble
Maisons-Laffitte (France), Sept. 28, 2021 – SiPearl, whose mission is to design a high performance, low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Giant Falls
We lost a pioneer in cybersecurity last week: Donn B. Parker died at the age of 91. Donn's name may not be immediately familiar to current practitioners in the...
From Yoshua Bengio
The complexity of the climate change challenge
I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021 with a bunch of Mila folk and it got me thinking again and… L’article The complexity of the climate...
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DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee to Meet Sept. 29-30
The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the US Department of Energy Office of Science...
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Vint Cerf Examines Googles Misinformation
Short intro and link forward below. Via ACM NEWSHow Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Illuminated Google's Misinformation MessBy Fast Company,September 27, 2021In June...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Marconi Society Event Series- The Decade of Digital Inclusion
The Marconi Society, a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to bridging the digital divide, is convening some of the world’s most creative and innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccination Without a Shot
My own informal conversations with people would indicate that there is a fear factor involved, and anything that would decrease that would increase participation...
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Growth of Amazon Connect
Brought to my attention, from BusinessWire ...AWS Shares New Business Momentum Milestones and Announces Three New Capabilities for Amazon ConnectTens of thousands...
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Intel Moves with Chip Factories
More and faster chips needed ... Intel Starts Construction of Two Arizona Computer Chip FactoriesIntel broke ground on two new computer chip factories in Arizona...
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Hide My Email
In an email security application, Apple has included in their IPhone verision IOS 15, a method called 'Hide my Email', which constructs unique, random email addresses...
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