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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Assured Autonomy Workshop Report Release
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of the Assured Autonomy report, titled Assured Autonomy: Path Toward Living With Autonomous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behold the Openbot Smart Phone
A curious and interesting thing. Strap a smartphone to some wheels and sensors, and you have an OpenBot. Is it a toy, a test platform, an indication where Intel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Made a Mistake with Whole Foods?
In Bob Herbold's blog, a strategic error by Amazon acquiring whole foods? Used to go to these, not much anymore. Yes, can see the 'cultlike' tag for its customers...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: NERSC’s Jeff Broughton on the End of the Top500 and Exascale Begetting Petaflops in a Rack
NERSC’s Jeff Broughton career extends back to HPC ancient times (1979) when, fresh out of college, he was promoted to a project management role at Lawrence Livermore...
From insideHPC
SC20: IDEAS Productivity Team Announces Software Events
The IDEAS Productivity Team and others in the HPC community are organizing software-related events at SC20, Nov. 9-19. IDEAS is a family of projects supported by...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Vast and Tiny Breakthrough
Christofides bound beaten by an epsilon’s idea of epsilon src1, src2, src3 Anna Karlin, Nathan Klein, and Shayan Oveis Gharan have made a big splash with the number...
From Schneier on Security
Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard...
From insideHPC
RISC-V International Announces Agenda for the 3rd Annual RISC-V Summit
The RISC-V International Association has announced the online program for the RISC-V Summit 2020 to be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 to Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Here’s a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Defends Its Waters against Chinese Squid Fishing Boats
Squid geopolitics. 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 blog posting guidelines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Adding End-to-end Encryption
Been following this for some time. I like Zoom, my favorite to date of the half dozen commonly in use methods I know of. Now even free users can turn on advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Impacting the Bottom Line
Yes, well done, it always has. And further methods like AI, a kind of analytics, does the same. Been doing it for a lifetime. Interesting numbers below.How ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming ACM Talk: Deep Learning and Software Engineering
Plan to attend this ACM talk:VIP Reminder: Nov 2 Talk with fast.ai http://fast.ai/ Co-Founder Jeremy Howard on Applying Software Engineering Practices to Deep....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 29 – Digital Learning with Peter Mirski
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast is taken from a video interview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding a Brain to a Robot
Sounds obvious, but what are the form and function and challenges of such a brain? To be more human, more creative, more engaging? Made me think.How Giving Robots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistants and Health Care
Thoughtful and considerable piece with statistics. Below an intro, much more at the link.How AI Voice Assistants Can Revolutionize Health in TowardsAi by Alan...
From insideHPC
Practical Hardware Design Strategies for Modern HPC Workloads – Part 3
This special research report sponsored by Tyan discusses practical hardware design strategies for modern HPC workloads. As hardware continued to develop, technologies...
From Schneier on Security
IMSI-Catchers from Canada
Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers (and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow) to local governments...
From Computational Complexity
Do not become obsessed with the Polls unless...
I know someone who checks the polls 3 times a day to see who looks like they will be elected prez. She cares A LOT about the election. It is irrelevant to this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fooling Self Driving Autopilots
Had seen this mentioned before, good overview in Schneier. As usual the discussion in the comments there is the most interesting, with experts in the field chiming...
From The Eponymous Pickle