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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 19th 2020)
The Flynn effect is the idea that people get smarter over time (generation after generation). The negative effect is the recent observations that people are getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Real Prblems
More advances in the quantum space.Tiny Quantum Computer Solves Real Optimization Problem By Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)December 18, 2020Researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Predictability of Elections
Well done with useful linksOn Predictability of ElectionsBy Irving Wladawsky-BergerA collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SANS Institute: SolarWinds Attack: What You Need to Know
Presentation: The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack: What you Need to Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3LQNsjKWwSANS Emergency Webcast: What you need to45...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Christmas Squid Memories
Stuffed squid for Christmas Eve. 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 bloghere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SpaceX vs Kuiper on Internet Delivery
Been following SpaceX for some time, and is use of multiple satellites to fill remote areas with high speed internet service. Now in limited test. And considering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Find the Warning Signals
A classic kind of problem we addressed in practice: can we find signals of, or predictive signals of future occurrence? Powerful idea. How possible is this, very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI to Control a Military Jet
As described a considerable application, combining autonomous signals and human decisions.In a First, USAF Uses AI on Military JetThe Washington Post By Aaron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solarwinds Intrusion Hack is Broadly Felt
Continued attacks and potential consequences, as indicated by Solarwinds intrusion. More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government...
From insideHPC
Arm Moves Production-Level EDA to the Cloud with the Help of AWS
The following is a blog announcement from Arm: Released in February, the Arm Cortex-M55 CPU became a milestone for the Arm ecosystem because it gave hardware and...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Launches AI, HPC Storefront on AWS Marketplace
Nvidia has issued a blog announcing the availability of more than 20 NGC software resources for free in AWS Marketplace, targeting deployments in healthcare, conversational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pythagorean Theorem Day Programming Project
I’ve been doing little programming projects for my own amusement. I thought about doing Advent of Code like the cool kids are (Looking at you Mike Zamansky who...
From Schneier on Security
NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Musings on the Goals of High School Computer Science Education
Recent conversations on Twitter and Facebook have had me thinking about the goals of teaching computer science in high school. There is no single goal and it probably...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Request for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) invites proposals for visioning activities that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing...
From insideHPC
DDN’s Storage Adopted for “AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure” Supercomputer in Japan
Chatsworth, CA — DDN, provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and data management software and hardware solutions enabling Intelligent Infrastructure, today announced...
From insideHPC
AMAX Extends Line of Workstations to Support Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs
Fremont, CA, December 15, 2020 – AMAX’s HPC and AI Solution Group announced that it is now offering a wide selection of AceleMax workstations for AI, renderingAMAX...
From insideHPC
Atos GPU-Accelerated Quantum System to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Dublin and Paris – 17 December 2020 – Atos today announces it will deliver its first GPU-accelerated Atos Quantum Learning Machine Enhanced (Atos QLM E), the world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Encourage Risk-Taking Behavior in Humans
Fascinating premise, but highly context dependent, would not go into a project with this idea strongly held. Has some relationship to the 'Media Equation' concept...
From insideHPC