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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 The Noisy Channel
Ranking vs. Relevance
Most folks who work on search worry about relevance. But it’s surprisingly difficult to find a useful definition of relevance.Defining RelevanceMerriam-Webster ...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage
SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship...
From insideHPC
GUC Tapes Out AI/HPC/Networking Platform on TSMC CoWoS Technology with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and 112G-LR SerDes IPs
Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 8, 2021 – Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Advanced ASIC Leader, announced today that it has successfully taped out AI/HPC/Networking CoWoS...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Margaret Martonosi Receives the 2021 ACM/IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced that former Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research...
From My Biased Coin
Machine Learning for Algorithms Workshop (July 13-14)
We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers. Announcement below, link at https://fodsi.us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Players Want to Play Semantics for Meaning
This precisely what we wanted to do, to let our systems understand the meaning of words, rather than just what the meaning they have been assigned by language....
From insideHPC
IBM Releases AI Toolkit for Deep Learning Uncertainties
Deep learning is smart and it knows it. It loves to show off its ability to connect dots no one else can see, to be the smartest in the room. But that’s when deep...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deepfake Picture Editing
“Markpainting” is a clever technique to watermark photos in such a way that makes it easier to detect ML-based manipulation: An image owner can modify their image...
From Schneier on Security
Information Flows and Democracy
Henry Farrell and I published a paper on fixing American democracy: “Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help Democracy.” It’s much easier for...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid Photographed off the Coast of Antarctica
Wow. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From insideHPC
Weka Claims 6 Records on STAC-M3 WEKAFS File Systems on EC2
CAMPBELL, Calif. – June 8, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Machine Learning in Supply Chain Logistics
Am a long time player in the space. Here a good overview of general example of work being done in supply chain with AI style approaches. Not enough detail, but...
From insideHPC
JPL Used Bright Cluster Manager for 2020 Mars Mission
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab used Bright Computing’s Cluster Manager to help manage the lab’s HPC cluster environment to produce trajectory correction calculations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scoping from Big Data to Big Knowledge
This was brought to my attention by the 'Windows Weekly Podcast' this week, in part because it dealt with conversations we had with Linkedin long before they were...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems
“If you think any of these systems are going to work as expected in wartime, you’re fooling yourself.” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demonstrating Quantum Advantage
Some description of how quantum computing can improve the performance of algorithms using sensors and classical methods. Here a short intro, much more at the link...
From insideHPC
DOE Honors 2 Early Career Lab Scientists
Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are recipients of the 2021 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research...
From insideHPC
TYAN Delivers AI and Cloud Optimized Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
TAIPEI, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, brings 3rd Gen Intel-Xeon...
From insideHPC
OCP Issues Call for Papers for 2021 Global Summit
The Call for Papers for the 2021 OCP Global Summit, November 9-10, 2021, is now open. These conference will includes keynotes, exhibits, expo hall talks and engineering...
From insideHPC