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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
Shoshana Zuboff explains why you should care about privacy
In a wide-ranging interview with Lauren Jackson of the New York Times, the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” talks about why people should pay attention...
From Putting People First
[Book] Living in Data
In this provocative book, Jer Thorp brings his work as a data artist to bear on an exploration of our current and future relationship with data, transcending facts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IoT and Vision AI with NVIDIA AMA
Just brought to my attention:AI, Robotics, and IoT video with NVIDIA, here is one episode: Everything you needed to know about IoT and vision AI with NVIDIA AMA...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 22nd 2021)
Most computer chips today in flagship phones and computers use a process based on a 5 nm or larger resolution. Finer resolutions usually translate into lower energy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
500K Jobs in Cybersecurity
Seems a very large number. As I see it most of the jobs in this area today are broad and deep, and thus harder to fill. Depends on the definition. Perhaps they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Digital Twins
Interesting, often this means not only the twin but also the context of its use. Metadata and all. Like to see a full example.Advanced Technique for Developing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shape-Shifting Processor for Security
Now here is a kind of remarkable thing. Would it work post-quantum computing? Could it be used to ensure all kinds of threats are addressed? What re coding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting Fare Algorithms
This came up in discussion this week .. the algorithms are classic approaches. But the algorithms are adaptive, so I would expect them to be continually adjusted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Builds a Reader
Strangely and still only experimentally, Google has decided to unearth their RSS Reader. I was an early test user of Google Reader, and remember thinking howFeedly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany to Support Quantum Computing with €2 Billion
Germany to Support Quantum Computing with €2 BillionU.S. News & World Report, Michael Nienaber, May 11, 2021Germany's economy and science ministries announced an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing History: Looms and
Just a bit of history. Mostly pictures, at the link, but great if you were unaware of the background. BLOG@CACMCharles Babbage and the Loom By Herbert Bruderer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborating Robotic Teams
Continuing to look at this space, now that robotics is getting more advanced, the potential expands. We examined some very early warehouse management approaches...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings
Suppose that you give me two ASCII strings having the same number of characters. I wish to compute efficiently the number of matching characters (same position,...
From Schneier on Security
Double-Encrypting Ransomware
This seems to be a new tactic: Emsisoft has identified two distinct tactics. In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data...
From insideHPC
OLCF Releases Storage Specs for Frontier Exascale
A newly enhanced I/O subsystem will support the nation’s first exascale supercomputer, the HPE Cray Frontier system, and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility...
From insideHPC
Purdue University Seeing New Opportunities for Innovation with Cloud Technology Using Azure’s AMD EPYC™ Processor-based HBv3 Instances
In this sponsored article, Preston Smith, Director of Research Services and Support at Purdue University, discusses how Purdue University's community cluster program...
From insideHPC
International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC Returns to Cetraro, Italy July 26-30
May 20, 2021 – The International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC – State of the Art, Emerging Disruptive Innovations and Future Scenarios – which had to be cancelled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Public Interest Technologist?
I happened on this description and supporting information in Bruce Schneier's blog on security. Liked the idea. A related discussion had come up when some colleagues...
From insideHPC