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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 Schneier on Security
Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Public Listening Sessions on Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking
As part of efforts to improve scientific integrity, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Scientific Integrity Task Force are organizing...
From insideHPC
Enhancing Security with High Performance AI Capability Deployed at the Rugged Edge
In this sponsored post from One Stop Systems, we see that whether surviving in a fast-moving battlefield situation, protecting sensitive industrial or transportation...
From insideHPC
NREL Scientists Find Synergy in PET Plastic-degrading Enzymes Using TACC, SDSC HPC Resources
Plastic waste is a big problem in the environment. About 300 million tons is produced every year, according to the United Nations. Much of that is polyethyleneNREL...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Reach of Dichotomy
Congratulations on the 2021 Gödel Prize Composite including Richerby’s talk at STOC 2021 Andrey Bulatov, Martin Dyer and David Richerby, and Jin-Yi Cai and Xi Chen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweat Powering Wearables
Given current power needs, would be much less than a typical smartphone needs. Perhaps a small IOT. Your Sweaty Fingertips Could Help Power the Next Generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
I have been subscribing to this monthly report for some time, worth a look. Below the most recent.Your guide to AI, By Nathan Benaich, Air Street CapitalMonthly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Live 2021
Attended some technical portions of this, was informative. Here a followup of things presented, announced.Everything new announced at Amazon Alexa Live 2021By Michael...
From insideHPC
Drop in Intel Earnings Expected Today
Pat Gelsinger’s got one foot on a tiger, the other on an aircraft carrier – one side is a rough, volatile ride; the other plows a course set years ago, hard toDrop...
From Putting People First
The Incompatibility of Nudge and Co-Design as Tools for Policymaking
The use of nudge theory to inform policy interventions in response to COVID-19 has re-opened debates over the politically paternalistic nature of governing by ‘nudges’...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing the 2021 Computing Innovation Fellows
This past spring, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced funding for a cohort of Computing Innovation Fellows...
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum: Algorithm Solves Combinatorial Optimisation Problems Faster
Cambridge, UK, July 22, 2021 – In a development the company said “is likely to set a new industry standard,” scientists at Cambridge Quantum (CQ) have developed...
From insideHPC
Registration Open for LLNL-sponsored Industrial ML Forum
Registration is open through July 29 for the first Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I), a three-day virtual event starting Tuesday, Aug. 10. The event is...
From insideHPC
The Whole World Is Watching: ORNL’s Bernholdt & Programming Environment Team Prepare for Frontier and Exascale
The world’s fastest supercomputer comes with some assembly required. Frontier, the nation’s first exascale computing system, won’t come together as a whole until...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Helping Demystifying Networks
Interesting, but don't understand it directly. But thinking it. Boolean models are easy.Algorithm May Help Scientists Demystify Complex Networks By Penn State...
From Schneier on Security
Nasty Printer Driver Vulnerability
From SentinelLabs, a critical vulnerability in HP printer drivers: Researchers have released technical details on a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hard-Rock Mining
Once consulted in this space. McKinsey talks the underlying economic processes of mining.Digging deeper: Trends in underground hard-rock mining for gold and base...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Brain Computer Interfaces
Back to the classic problem of machine human interfaces.Scientists Warn of 'Bleak Cyborg Future' From Brain-Computer InterfacesBy SciTechDaily, July 20, 2021Surpassing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon Hacks Itself
A former employer of mine tests a by now classic approach. Note aiming at AI efforts here in particular. The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by HackingBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle