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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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Holograms Improved?
Seen a number of examples, never satisfying will this improve them? But note 'doodles of light', not full images. Possible applications interacting with health...
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Towards a Bionic Eye
As a means for providing new kinds of eye like sensors? Many efforts in this space. Computer Model Fosters Potential Improvements to 'Bionic Eye' TechnologyKeck...
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Los Alamos National Lab 1st to Receive Nvidia ‘Grace’ Arm CPU-based Supercomputer
April 12, 2021 – Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the first United States customer to receive a supercomputer based on Nvidia’s new “Grace” Arm-based CPU,...
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GIGABYTE Supports and Qualifies New NVIDIA GPUs
Taipei, Taiwan, April 13th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high performance servers and workstations, today announced testing and support for...
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Nvidia Partners with Schrödinger on Drug Discovery
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—GTC—April 12, 2021—NVIDIA today announced a strategic partnership with Schrödinger that harnesses NVIDIA DGX A100 systems to further expandNvidia...
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Supermicro Expands Its Nvidia Ampere Architecture GPU Product Line, Includes 5PF in a 4U Tier 1 AI Platform
SAN JOSE — April 12, 2021 — Server maker Supermicro today announced expansion of its Nvidia Ampere Architecture-based GPU-product line, including achieving 5 petaFLOPS...
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Melanie Mitchell on Munk Debate Podcast – “The Rise of Thinking Machines”
Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University, was recently on the...
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Nvidia Jumps into Data Center CPUs, Also Launches DPUs and DGX Superpod for HPC and AI
Nvidia announced a slew of new products today on the first day of its annual GTC conference, including a first-time foray into data center CPU that has pushed Intel...
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Dubai RoboTaxi Service: GM's Cruise Origin
More self driving, here a taxi service. More data and experience with the customers and concept.GM's Cruise will operate a robotaxi service in Dubai in Engadget...
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Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 12, 2021 — Cloudera, (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will integrate...
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Inspur Information Introduces 3 AI Servers to Support NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA A10 GPUs
SAN JOSE – April 12, 2021 – At NVIDIA GTC 2021, Inspur Information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, introduced three GPU servers (NF5468M6, NF5468A5 and...
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CIFellows 2021 Webinar Thursday, April 15th, 2:30 PM ET
Last week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2021...
From Putting People First
Towards an anthropology of data
Special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Whiff, A Scent Revolution?
I had cause to review the book "Whiff! The Revolution of Scent Communication in the Information Age", by C Russell Brumfield. A good overview the concept of...
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Detecting Emotion: Fundametally flawed?
We did long time tests with emotion reading, in retail starting with work using MIT 'emotion glasses', Was interesting for initial tests, but not spot on accurate...
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Shoppable Indoor Maps by Google
Not a new thing, we saw several examples of this in retail in the 90s. Put it in our retail experiments. Even Google was experimenting with the idea then. Though...
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LLNL’s Falgout named to 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Rob Falgout asLLNL...
From Computational Complexity
Is the following reaction to getting the first COVID shot logical?
Alice works at a charity that puts together bag and box lunches for children.They all wear masks and they are 12 feet apart and very careful, and nobody thereI...
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IBM to Install Quantum Computer at Cleveland Clinic
To include Hybrid cloud services and AI. And to be called an 'Discovery Accelerator' Cleveland Clinic will be IBM’s first private sector customer to install aBy...
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