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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
Views of Future Risks
We rarely look at risks well. Thoughts and directions. A Holistic View of Future Risks By Peter G. NeumannCommunications of the ACM, October 2020, Vol. 63 No...
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Future of Grocery is Omnichannel
Clearly, but the how the sculpted elements of the supply chain, from supplier to store to door will require much technology and behavioral experimentation.The ...
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Rolling Newspaper Delivery Drones in Tokyo
More advances in navigating street and sidewalks for automated delivery. Lifting of restrictions on autonomous systems will also be key.Japan Post Delivery Robot...
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Getting Serious about Data Science
Fairly obvious, seen many of these situations occur over the years in analytics and data interactions. And how they are linked to business results. Good checklist...
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Comparing Human vs Computer Viruses
Interesting view with potentially useful comparisons.Protecting Computers and People From Viruses By Robin K. Hillin in ACMCommunications of the ACM, October...
From insideHPC
Report: AMD in Xilinx Acquisition Talks
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that AMD is in “advanced talks” to buy FPGA chip maker Xilinx, a deal valued at approximately $30 billion that would...
From insideHPC
DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar’s Exascale Update: Frontier to Be First, Aurora to Be Monitored
As Exascale Day (October 18 [1018]) approaches, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar has commented on the hottest exascale question...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-like Nebula
Pretty astronomical photo. 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...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Saving the Humboldt Squid
Genetic research finds the Humboldt squid is vulnerable to overfishing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing Near the Galapagos
The Chinese have been illegally squid fishing near the Galapagos Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation Anywhere Digital Assistant lets humans and Bots Interact
Seems quite an advance, allowing Bots and Humans to effectively Interact. But we did a similar thing when we allowed our Mr. Clean bots to talk to human experts...
From Computational Complexity
Revisiting the Continuum Hypothesis
I have been thinking about CH lately for two reasons1) I reread the articleHilbert's First Problem: The Continuum Hypothesis by Donald Martin from Proceedings of...
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Accesibility Update of Google Assistant
Looks to be interesting, will do some testing on my devices. Such advances ultimately add to accessibility for everyone.New updates make Google Assistant even ...
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Voice AI Business Services
Voice based and AI assistant business services have been proposed for some time, we tested several. links to voice analysis and phone management. Here a newEnterprise...
From insideHPC
Verne Global Announces Dell Technologies Platinum Partner Status
London – 8 October 2020 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for HPC, today announced it has achieved the exceptional status of Platinum...
From insideHPC
Nearly 1000 AMD GPUs Added to NNSA’s ‘Corona’ Cluster for COVID-19 Research
AMD and Supermicro have upgraded the “Corona” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for COVID-19 drug discovery and vaccine research. The addition of...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches the Rack DLC CHx200 CDU
Calgary, AB. Oct 7, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, Inc. (CoolIT), maker of energy efficient liquid cooling technologies for HPC, cloud and enterprise markets, has expanded...
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MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
Very interesting, in ACM. Thinking this further.MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart ContractsBy Neville Grech, Michael Kong, Anton Jurisevic, Lexi...
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Legal Tech Startups
Recall our continuing look at 'smart contract' efforts and implications.6 LegalTech Startups Disrupting the Legal Industry in PRNewswire“Lawyers are the only...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog