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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 insideHPC
Lenovo Launches Storage Array, Data Management Solutions
Lenovo Data Center Group today launched edge-core-cloud data management solutions with a single set of tools and capabilities. Part of the Lenovo DM Series of storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google General Voice Accessibility
In the Google Blog, a means of more general voice accessibility via voice on the android phone. Now updated. ACCESSIBILITYUse Voice Access to control your Android...
From Schneier on Security
Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software: First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using VisiRule to Create Chatbots
Had been looking for an easy way to create chatbots that include FAQ's. Recalled a company called VisiRule that supported rule-based expert systems. VisiruleChatBot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alphabet's Loon Balloons for Internet Connectivity
Application of the general idea is expanding. Here with autonomous navigation. Alphabet's Loon Balloons in Internet ConnectivityAlphabet’s Loon hands the reins...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
womENcourage 2020 Took Place Online, 24-27th September
We are delighted to host guests on ACM-W Europe blog, and this quarter we had fantastic contributions.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Updates on ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences
Yelena Mejova is a Senior Research Scientist at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy, a part of the Digital Epidemiology Group. Her research concerns the use of social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Scientific Conflicts of Interest
With other kinds of application in compliance. But see the note about subjective aspects. Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find...
From Computational Complexity
Chess is Back
Back in 2005, I wrote a post titled Chess and Poker. Not really comparing the two but noting that Chess had lost its mojo while poker had high-stakes prime time...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Resources for Teaching and Learning about Artificial Intelligence
Earlier this week I was a guest speaker in a computer science class (via Zoom of course). It was fun to be back into a class and interacting with students. Thehttps...
From insideHPC
Smaller, faster and cooler: Innovations in Dell Precision mobile workstations surmount the latest thermal challenges
This white paper, “Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t,” explains how Voxeleron, a leader in delivering advanced ophthalmic image analysis and machine learning...
From insideHPC
After Virtual SC20: Inspur Update Focuses on Staying Ahead in HPC and AI
In this interview, Inspur’s Global AI and HPC Director Vangel Bojaxhi sat down with us after virtual SC20 to give us an HPC- and AI-oriented update on the company...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Too Long, Didn’t Read
How to summarize papers Isabel Cachola, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan, Daniel Weld are the authors of a recent paper on summarizing papers. They are all connected in various...
From insideHPC
After Virtual SC20: Mellanox’s Gilad Shainer Talks New-Gen InfiniBand’s Performance and Growing Top500 (and Top10) Presence
From the perspective of Nvidia-Mellanox’s Senior Vice President Marketing, Gilad Shainer, virtual SC20 “for us was a great week.” In this video, Shainer discusses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Likelihood of Suicide
Have consulted and spoke at the Veterans Administration. Here is another pattern recognition type problem of interest. Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?The New...
From Schneier on Security
Impressive iPhone Exploit
This is a scarily impressive vulnerability: Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bugbuffer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congratulations to Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows
IEEE recently named its 2021 class of newly elevated Fellows. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS: Four Principles of Analytics
As usual, SAS does a good job of precisely outlining analytics. Here including AI and Big Data with statistics. It's no secret that technology's changing. A change...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Battling AI
Had always thought it would come to this. Mentioned it in a talk I gave in the 90s. But how well and how soon? As long as there are malicious developers out...
From The Eponymous Pickle