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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 Putting People First
Human behaviour: what scientists have learned about it from the pandemic
Several Covid-19 policies have shown "just how deeply some governments distrust their citizens. As if the virus was not enough, the public was portrayed as an additional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inhalio: Digital Scent as a Service
Recently received an update of this. Previously had examined for retail scent oriented applications as part of our innovation spaces. Impressive new directions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones for Space Rocks
Many rocks fall, but relatively few are found. A solution? Meteorite-Hunting Drones Could Help Find Freshly Fallen Space Rocks By New ScientistA team of scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Safe Trust for Vehicles
Threats of Quantum Powered Cyberattacks, safety of vehicles and their data. A 2019 claim by Google AI on groundbreaking quantum computations, while welcomed by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Machine Learning and Quantum Computing
Experimenting with Quantum computers using Machine Learning IBM Releases Qiskit Modules That Use Quantum Computers to Improve MLVentureBeat, Chris O'Brien, April...
From Schneier on Security
More Russian Hacking
Two reports this week. The first is from Microsoft, which wrote: As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealingwrote...
From The Noisy Channel
Using AI to Understand Search Intent
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post advocating the use of AI for query understanding. I argued that holistic query understanding with embeddings and deep learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast food too Slow in Opening Dine-in?
An example of semi-permanent change from COVID? We certainly are doing far more drive through than before the pandemic. Been discussing dynamic for some time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copilot Assistant Coding
Actually did this in the early days, with human co-pilots, but it never took off. Now with secure code more of a necessity, could be useful. This could drive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Talent Mapping
Took a number of looks at advanced 'talent mapping' in the enterprise. Now is the time this could be very useful especially if we can measure talent well, predict...
From Schneier on Security
Insurance and Ransomware
As ransomware becomes more common, I’m seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Sujata Banerjee (VMware) and William D. Gropp...
From Computational Complexity
Intersecting Classes
If you have two complexity classes that have complete sets, the intersection might not, for example NP ∩ co-NP. The world of total-function classes acts differently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Cars Here Yet?
Depends how you define them. Right now the definition means they can be driven around like a car and then take to the air as needed. Such things have existed...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project and Exagraph: Applying Graph Algorithms
This podcast from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) examines the ExaGraph Project, an ECP co-design center, tasked with developing efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fintech AI Applications
AI and influence on financial moves, large and small.How AI is Helping Mastercard, Siemens, John Deere By AI Trends Staff AI is having an impact in business,Advantages...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing JSON: gzip vs zstd
JSON is the de facto standard for exchanging data on the Internet. It is relatively simple text format inspired by JavaScript. I say “relatively simple” because...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Members Rotating Off
Today marks the end of the following Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member’s time on the Council. We would like to highlight them once again and thank...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interaction of Law, Software, Evidence, Compliance
When software acts as evidence. And also when it further acts in conjunction with compliance-required data. Brought up as part of a study of compliance-based...
From insideHPC