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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
Database and Theory
A dean of engineering Jennifer Widom was appointed as the Dean of Engineering at Stanford not long ago. No doubt her research in databases and her teaching played...
From Schneier on Security
More on the SolarWinds Breach
The New York Times has more details. About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update – a Trojan horse of sorts – that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Powers of Persuasion
The below was published in Foreign Policy mag.. Also in Schneier's blog here, which should have its own stream of comments. Consider implications for advertising...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 4
In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal Social Selling Platform
Some advances in Beauty care selling strategy.L’Oreal Invests in Social Selling Platform as Part of E-Com StrategyBy CGT Staff As part of its acceleration strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Homomorphic Encryption Environment
More on what IBM is doing in the space of 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption', which is now including 'quantum safe' capabilities. Here is a definition of that capability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Remote Work
From McKinsey: What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countriesThe future of remote work is likely to be hybrid in the wake...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccinated? Show us Proof.
In the NY Times, Interesting positioning. To travel, for work, for school? To get services? To Survive? Obvious, or chilling? Vaccinated? Show Us YourThe...
From insideHPC
Nimbix Announces First Multi-cloud HPC Platform with Arm Support
Dallas, Dec. 15, 2020 — Nimbix, the high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider, today announced support for the Arm architecture in its JARVICE XE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unrolling the SolarWinds Attack and Implications
The recent SolarWinds hack, started this March, and was apparently much more serious than expected, including many government and defense applications. I will...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Cognitive biases
One-sided bet: People commonly assume implicitly that their actions may only have good outcomes. For example, increasing the minimum wage in a country may onlyContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Mandating Vaccines
Been hearing some of inoculation undercurrent, and about making it a condition of employment. Are retailers facing a no-win decision in mandating vaccines for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC 2020 Highlights
The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Liz Bradley. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), like the rest of the world, had to shift our focus and restructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Roadside Assistance
Been examining some voice in car applications of smart home solutions. Extending the confines of the home. Here is one sent to me by Walter Riker.Alexa-enabled...
From Apophenia
The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO
If you look at the roster of the Biden-Harris transition team, it’s quickly apparent that the incoming administration is tech-forward. Given the systematic dismantlement...
From insideHPC
PRACE: Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 and EUDAT
The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning...
From Computational Complexity
Optiland
Many of you have heard of Russell Impagliazzo's five worlds from his 1995 classic A personal view of average-case complexity In short Algorithmica: P = NP orHeuristica...
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Computing Investing in Cybersecurity, Other Near-Term Quantum Solutions
Cambridge, UK, December 16, 2020 — Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a specialist in quantum software and quantum algorithms designed to leverage quantum hardware...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Store Privacy Nutrition Labels
Nice idea. How about also security nutrition labels? Too hard, too scary? Apple's Privacy Nutrition Labels, available now and good for business by Jonny Evans...
From insideHPC