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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 Schneier on Security
New Zealand Election Fraud
It seems that this election season has not gone without fraud. In New Zealand, a vote for “Bird of the Year” has been marred by fraudulent votes: More than 1,500...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Networks
Technical, hardware.Building a Quantum Network, One Node at a TimeUniversity of Rochester NewsCenter By Bob MarcotteA nanoscale quantum node fabricated from magnetic...
From Schneier on Security
The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substituting someone...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pandemic Research for Preparedness & Resilience (PREPARE)
Recently, the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a white paper called Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causality is Important for Machine Learning
Have always thought causal thinking and learning was a major consideration for the future of AI in general. Here a step in the right direction. But overall its...
From insideHPC
La Jolla Institute for Immunology Optimizes COVID-19 Research with Excelero
San Jose – Nov. 11, 2020 – Excelero, maker of software-defined block storage for AI/ML/deep learning and GPU computing, has deployed its solution for a new high...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Eight Unexpected Ways to Connect with ACM-W
by Bettina Bair, ACM-W Communications co-Chair Did you know that ACM-W has more than 40,000 ACM-W members, all over the world? I love looking at this map! It looks...
From insideHPC
IQM Quantum Raises €39M in Series A Funding
Espoo, Finland, 10th November 2020 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a European builder of superconducting quantum computers, today announced that it has raised €39M...
From insideHPC
IBM and AMD in ‘Confidential Computing’ Agreement for Cloud and AI Acceleration
IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year development agreement to enhance the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies. The effort builds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram and Etherium
Saw this late, but interesting.Investigating the Ethereum Gold-Bug and Blockchain in the Wolfram LanguageWolfram Blog by Christian Pasquel Blockchain was integrated...
From insideHPC
Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures
SAN JOSE – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) has announced a suite of NVMe SSDs for enabling data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the PowerGrid
We are much in need of better power grid simulations. PNNL is working on it. Note the broader look at multiple task modeling and improvement. Worth looking at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shaping Future Strategy with Wargaming
Early in my career worked in the DOD. We worked lots of simulated decisions for many operational reasons. More like you might see in classic gaming, than you...
From insideHPC
Quantum Expands Unstructured Data Management Portfolio
Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled an expansion of its portfolio to help customers classify, manage and protect video and unstructured data across itsQuantum...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Subscribe to the New NSF CISE Newsletter
The following blog was originally posted on the CRA Bulletin. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate...
From insideHPC
Micron Ships World’s First 176-Layer NAND
BOISE, Idaho — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), has announced shipment of what the company said is the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory, “achieving...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 2
In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Turns Six
Hard to imagine it, Voicebot.ai reports on the birthday and the future of voice assistance. A big step forward, but what are the other steps we need?Amazon Echo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyborg Cockroaches
Remain interested in small and very small robotic devices. And cooperating swarms. They don't need to be scarythough.A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives...
From The Eponymous Pickle