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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
Cars Hands Free Very soon?
This suggests only lane keeping approaches. Though they see to be seriously on the way. Seems to be less regulatory interference.Hands-Free Driving Could Be on...![[Book] AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience
The book explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI) through interviews with AI experts and explores AI history, product examples and failures, and proposes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling Quantum Chips
Implications of this as it matures? Scaling up the process of making real quantum processors Scaling up the quantum chipMIT engineers develop a hybrid processBecky...
From insideHPC
Veteran Argonne Supercomputers Help Convert CO2 into Ethanol
By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (1.75 terflops, stood up in 2017, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) and Blues (stood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quiet Ornithopter Drones
Clear surveillance will take a different angle soon. Their use of 'biomimicry' uses birds to some degree. Differences are interesting, they can point to changes...
From Putting People First
Why computing belongs within the social sciences
This article argues [that] the well-publicized social ills of computing will not go away simply by integrating ethics instruction or codes of conduct into computing...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Anthropology of Epidemics
Published before global movement drew largely to a halt, before the majority of the earth’s human population was shut indoors and before words like ‘virus’ and...
From insideHPC
I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About
In this sponsored post by Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions – Panasas, Inc., we look at what we are calling Research Cost of Ownership (RCO) and the...
From Schneier on Security
Copying a Key by Listening to It in Action
Researchers are using recordings of keys being used in locks to create copies. Once they have a key-insertion audio file, SpiKey's inference software gets to work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems from Data Intensive Science
Quite interesting thoughts. Basically managing data for many needs, motivations, coming from many directions. And please, consider too the metadata, brought us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loss of Jobs by Robotics, AI in the Pandemic
Can be expected as the virus drags on. More companies testing the ideas, and implementing them. Considerable piece based on surveys.Millions of Americans Have Lost...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast – ECP Leadership Discusses Highlights, Challenges, Impact
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is tasked with guiding the U.S. effort to build a “capable exascale ecosystem” by the early to...
From insideHPC
UNC, RENCI Part of NSF Grant for Cloud Testbed
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and its Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) are part of a research team that has secured a $10 million grant to extend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Coding: MSIM
Automatic coding should be here. This provides a simple approach, but where will it work best? Where the context and intent can be well determined. Automated...
From insideHPC
Intel and Accenture Support Neuromorphic Research Project for Wheelchair-Bound Pediatric Patients
Intel and Accenture today announced support for an Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) project led by the Neuro-Biomorphic Engineering Lab at the OpenIntel...
From insideHPC
UCSD’s Dr. Larry Smarr Named Tech Evangelist at Kazuhm
August 19, 2020—Kazuhm, a developer of technology and tools for maximizing IT efficiency, today announced that Dr. Larry Smarr will provide support to the Kazuhm...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What is the right information architecture for digital contact tracing?
The following is a guest blog from John Langford (Microsoft Research) and Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington) on finding the right information architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinode and Microsoft Teams
Just informed of this and taking a closer look. Polinode and its advances have been mentioned here many times. For more about Polinode, see here.Polinode Connects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Getting Lots more Detail
Makes Google Maps more powerful yet as a 'geography' experiment. Sort of like tracing with your fingers on a globe. A truly interactive means of exploring atGoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle