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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alan Selman
A special journal issue in his honor Elvira Mayordomo, Mitsu Ogihara, and Atri Rudra are going to be the editors of a special issue of the journal Theory of Computing...
From insideHPC
QCI Launches Qatalyst, Quantum Computing Application Accelerator
LEESBURG, VA – February 17, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), whose mission is to bridge classical and quantum computing, today announced the commercial...
From insideHPC
Pure Provides New Levels of Performance, Flexibility, and Protection to Make Data Management Easier than Ever
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 16, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), specialist in storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced updates to its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Ethics of AI
Concise piece on the topic from CiscoAnalytics & AutomationEthics of Artificial Intelligence in Cisco BlogUtkarsh SrivastavaIntelligent machines have helped humans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GIS Data for Covid Vaccination Distribution
Off to get my Covid vaccination this morning and saw this:How GIS Data Can Help Fix Vaccine Distribution in Information WeekEsri Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty...
From insideHPC
Fugaku Leverages AI for Tsunami Flood Prediction
February 15, 2021 – A new AI model that harnesses the power of the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, is targeting tsunami flooding prediction in coastal areas...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Partners With Veeam on Ransomware Protection
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 16, 2021 — Quantum Corporation. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced its ActiveScale S3-compatible object storage system has achieved Veeam Ready...
From insideHPC
PSC’s Big Data and AI Supercomputer Replaced by New Bridges-2 Platform
February 15, 2021 — From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM on AI Explainability
Think of how humans interact in a conversation. We require an appropriate in-context level of explainability to support and trust what we hear. We would expert...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Musk and Computer-Brain Interfaces; Oracle Adds Arm Servers to its HPC Cloud
This week Jessi, Henry, and Dan discuss computer-brain interfaces and how Elon Musk’s Neuralink has recently done this with a pig. Surprisingly, we have some concerns...
From insideHPC
ORNL Employees Recognized with DOE Secretary’s Honor Awards
Feb. 5, 2021 — Thirty-two Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees were named among teams recognized by former U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS 2021- Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point
Significant contributions were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas. The virtual AAAS 2021 meeting took place February 8th – 11th, 2021 and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Cyber Command
I did training at Ft Meade. Have not taken a look at the US Cyber Command site for some time. Note their new training platform. Worth following. https://www.cybercom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Behind in Recognizing Emotions
Fairly clear, and also in our experience when the motion was of the 'satire' type. Faces could be used to signal opposite emotions as wellArtificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Inbound Sales
This happened to come up in a conversation last week. Good summary below and more detail at the link.4 Behaviors that Boost Inbound Sales by Matthew Dixon, Ted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post-Quantum Crypto
Will Quantum be able to cut through Crypto? Effects on other solution expectations?The Scramble for Post-Quantum CryptographyBy Samuel Greengard, Commissioned...
From insideHPC
Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager
This whitepaper, "Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager," from our friends over at Bright Computing discusses how hybrid cloud infrastructures allow organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Lineage Platform
First I had heard of this kind of platform, we had used semantic web models. to create models of enterprise data. Can this be used in conjunction with semantic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Infrastructure Attack
Broadly reported last week. Was later pointed out that such local systems are universally poorly funded and protected. And this is unlikely to be improved given...
From Schneier on Security