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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Engineering Announces Newly Elected Members
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 foreign members. Several computing researchers are among those elected this year. They...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Pigenhole Principle
Mathematics is based on the application of simple ideas over and over: From tiny nuts do big trees grow. Jorgen Veisdal is an assistant professor at the Norwegian...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Uses Continual Learning
Forgetting in Neural Networks. Intro is good, well worth understanding the topic, then becomes technical.IBM Uses Continual Learning to Avoid The Amnesia Problem...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Technology’s 20 Years in Business
February 15, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded on Feb. 14, 2001, the company was originally billed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Swarming Satellites
Recall our interest in swarming cooperating solutions here.Robot Satellite Swarms Increase Communication Possibilities, By ZDNet, February 11, 2021 in ACMCarnegie...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Try Solving with Optimization
With all the talk about AI in the air, some of the other fundamental methods are being forgotten. I spent most of my career using and teaching direct optimization...
From insideHPC
Altran Collaborates With Qualcomm to Deliver 5G NR Software for Enhanced Public & Private 5G Network Solutions
New York – February 15, 2021 – Altran, part of the Capgemini Group, announced plans today for its pre-integrated and validated 5G NR (new radio) software offering...
From insideHPC
Spotting HPC, Exascale Bottlenecks with TAU CPU/GPU/MPI Profiler
Programmers cannot blindly guess which sections of their code might bottleneck performance. This problem is worsened when codes run across the variety of hardware...
From Computational Complexity
Two examples of Journalists being... Wrong. One BIG one small
Journalists sometimes get things wrong.This is not news, but it is interesting when you KNOW they are wrong. 1) Scott Aaronson has a GREAT example regarding an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready for the Next Pandemic
Lets do this without destroying the education of the current generation. A number of articles on the proposition that we will be ready. in IEEE SpectrumCOVID-19...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quality Assurance and IOT
Been involved in the testing and utilizing of many IOT devices for the smarthome, and in the process found many bugs in process and software, So quality assurance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Updated Look at No-Code/Lo-Code
A long time interest of mine: How do we make complex things with much less code ... with no code if possible? More productive. Making it more secure as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualized Quantum Computing
Nicely done, largely non technical. Visual look by an academicjust learning about the topic.:Visualizing Quantum Computation in TowardsdataScienceFrom Zero to...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
This month we feature ACM-W leadership team this month comes from Bushra Anjum, Standing Committees Co-Chair, with an interview about her involvement with Celebrating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Cyber Defense for Zero-Day Threats
Don't see how this works without lots of operational data to leverage. And might it not be thwarted by adapting the system in some way? And a good understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Driven 3D Printing
See images at the link. Improving speed and precision.Dynamic 3D Printing Process Features Light-Driven TwistBy Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering, ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 13th 2021)
Researchers make inexpensive transparent wood. Our cells produce energy using their mitochondria. Researchers show that you can efficiently enrich cells with mitochondria...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micrometeorites are Falling
Now for something completely different, from studies of mine long ago. Did you know that there is a near continuous shower of space dust falling down on us? https...
From The Eponymous Pickle