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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 Eponymous Pickle
Free CERN Quantum Lectures and Course
Looks to be of interest, in particular includes D-Wave (who we connected with early on) and IBM implementations. Been asked to drop in on this and comment on its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dubber in the IBM Voice Cloud for Conversation Value
Ultimately voice is data, and that data needs to be converted into intelligence to create useful conversations of value. With logic, learning and AI. To create...
From insideHPC
Curating, Discovering and Disseminating HPC Research Elements Using iRODS
Data librarians currently manage far bigger data libraries and policy decisions regarding retention, quotas, file system performance, etc. require the consensus...
From insideHPC
ColdQuanta Raises $32M in Series A Funding
Boulder, Colorado – November 5, 2020 – ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, today announced it has raised $32M in Series A funding, with additional fundingColdQuanta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Heavy Machinery
Again, a means of creating a 'digital twin', or simulation, to prototype, operate in context or design some 'thing'. Here the object is heavy machinery. But...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Papers: Broad Computer Science
As part of the rollout of the 2020 Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
White Castle Fast Food Using Flippy Robot
Inevitable to see more of these robotic solutions for food preparation, here the most common example. White Castle Plans to Use Robot in More LocationsForbes, By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things that Quantum Computing will be Useful For
Thoughtful, but non-technical look at the question.6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For By Mark Jackson in SIngularity HubComputers don’t exist...
From insideHPC
Optical I/O Specialist Ayar Labs Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding
Santa Clara, Calif.– Nov. 5, 2020 –Ayar Labs has announced the completion of a $35M Series B financing co-led by Downing Ventures and BlueSky Capital. New investors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on Smartphone
Amazing how we can get advanced bioinformatics on a handheld. Open source too.App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on SmartphoneGarvan Institute of Medical ResearchResearchers...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Releases Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud HPC Application Platform
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — UberCloud has announced its next-generation HPC Application Platform, designed to support the way enterprises run HPC applications today. With...
From insideHPC
DHI Group Picks Bright Cluster Manager for Supercomputer Capacity Planning
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – Today, Bright Computing, maker of Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Contact Tracing Apps Talk to Each Other
Interesting look at these and comparison to other Tracing Apps in europe. Clear contribution to decrease in spread?UK contact-tracing apps start to talk to each...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battery Free Ocean Exploration?
Towards automation and empowering sensors in varying environments. Piezoelectronics always an interest too.An Underwater Navigation System Powered by Sound, MIT...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky at AAAI HCOMP 2020
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Just started to read, excellent overview. Will follow with more comments as it applies to my work.End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Hardcover – April 30, 2020 by...
From insideHPC
Child’s Play: Kid’s Book Author Named Q-CTLR Quantum Education Advisor
Call it counterintuitive reverse psychology. Q-CTRL, a startup that applies control engineering to development of quantum technology, today announced that its quantum...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Phishing Emails
Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“: Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be something they are not in order...
From Schneier on Security
California Proposition 24 Passes
California’s Proposition 24, aimed at improving the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed this week. Analyses are very mixed. I was very mixed on the proposition...
From insideHPC